Free Roland TR-606 Sample Pack – BPB Cassette 606 | Kontakt Libraries

I’m thrilled to announce the discharge of BPB Cassette 606, a free assortment of Roland TR 606 analogue drum machine samples with a further set of drum hits which have been recorded to after which re-sampled from an audio cassette.

The clear Roland TR-606 recordings have been supplied by anderson303. He sampled his modded TR-606 previous to promoting it, doing an incredible job at capturing all of the totally different sounds this drum machine can produce. The sampled machine was really the Exfade mod model of the instrument, which made it doable to tweak the pitch of every drum hit.

The uncooked takes offered by anderson303 had been then recorded to my trusty outdated cassette deck and re-sampled again to digital format. I recorded the samples to a CrO2 audio cassette at two completely different achieve settings. The primary take was recorded at medium acquire, including a little bit of noise and crunch to the unique sounds. The second take was actually scorching and a bit excessive, including numerous distortion to the sound and leading to a wide range of meaty kicks and punchy snares.

The ultimate product comprises each the clear recordings and the tape processed samples which have been organized into two separate drum kits. I’ve additionally added three Poise drum equipment mappings to the pack. A set of SFZ mappings for the equipment may be added in close to future, nonetheless the truth that the obtain incorporates particular person WAV recordsdata means that you would be able to rapidly load up the samples in your favourite drum sampler.

A giant thanks goes out to anderson303 for creating the uncooked Roland TR-606 recordings and letting me use them because the supply of fabric for this free pattern assortment.