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echo | collective

echo | collective

echo | collective is the label under which the guys at Dallas Audio Post release sample libraries and Kontakt instruments for use in film, music and games.

Our need for unique and interesting sounds has us constantly updating our libraries and databases. We love making noises, bending sounds and recontextualizing things into shapes and forms they were never really meant to take.

Under echo | collective our custom sounds are available to the world at large. Feel free to take a look around, listen to the demos, watch the videos and then pick up some sounds. You can follow us on twitter @echocollective

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    Environments & Ambiences Pro Hockey Ambiences Play Track 500+ sounds included, 240+ mins total From: $95

    Ths library delivers a huge collection of quadrophonic hockey crowds from every perspective. And hockey crowds are different from other pro sporting crowds:

    The NHL mandates that the music has to stop during play, which leaves every gasp, oh, and cheer free and clear of PA induced pollution.
    This wrinkle in the rules of play means that pro hockey games are the ideal setting for recording arena crowds for any situation.

    Our hockey crowds were recorded over the course of an NHL season and were done with unprecedented access. Entire games were recorded from various locations including:

    – on the camera platform
    – in the upper level seats in the hallway
    – outside the doors pre and post game
    – in the platinum level bar
    – under the bleachers
    – from the top of the penalty boxes

    Each location was recorded in beautiful dual ORTF or double MS quad.

    The end result is an immersive sound set that has been carefully edited and fully tagged with metadata. Finding the elements you need is simple and direct.

    Pick this library up today and cover your arena crowd needs in style.

    Two versions available:

    Pro Hockey Ambiences – Lite
    • 24 bit, 48 kHz interleaved wav files
    • soundminer and bwav metadata tags
    • photography
    • more than 4 hours of recordings

    Pro Hockey Ambiences – Full
    • 24 bit, 96kHz quadraphonic split wav files
    • Soundminer and bwav metadata tags
    • Photography
    • Over 17 Gigabytes of sound
    • More than 4 hours of recordings

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  • Instruments Swell Play Track 500+ sounds included From: $18

    Swell is a performable Kontakt instrument and sound effects library designed to create natural sounding cymbal swells with a variety of different cymbals and performances. Cymbals include gongs, orchestral suspended cymbals, crashes, chinas, sizzle ride, and others.

    Swell is divided into 2 parts: natural and designed.

    The natural collection has recordings that are unaltered from their original performances and was created to produce clean, musical, natural sounding swells.

    The designed collection uses samples based on the natural recordings that have been transformed into entirely new and different sounds using heavy processing and layering. It was created to produce interesting design and transition sounds quickly and easily. Swell includes over 200 fully designed rises.

    In addition to the carefully recorded sounds we have created a truly useful and flexible Kontakt instrument. This instrument ties the mod wheel to an entire matrix of effect parameters that you can manipulate in real time for instant complexity.

    Swell is available in two versions

    Key features for the Swell Lite Collection

    • 70 unique recordings
    • full res total coverage of the Zildjian A Custom 18″ cymbal
    • fully functional kontakt instrument for the Zildjian A Custom 18″ cymbal
    • 25 designed cymbal swells with Kontakt instrument
    • option to upgrade to the full collection at any time for the difference in price
    • .nki files require full version of NI Kontakt 5.3 or higher

     
    Key features for the Swell Full Collection

    • 500+ unique recordings
    • The entire “Natural” collection
    • The entire “Designed” collection
    • 6.5 GB total
    • 12 Kontakt fully programmed unlocked .nki files
    • .nki files require full version of NI Kontakt 5.4.3 or higher

    Note: Can be used without Kontakt too!
     All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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  • Hum, Buzz & Glitch Sound Effects Squelch Play Track 100+ sounds included $18

    The Squelch sound library is a collection of 6 radios, walkie talkies, and CBs recorded both through the speakers and in some cases through the line outs.  Each device served up a broad palette of static, beeps,  clicks, squelches, and random idle chatter.

    Comes with 93 recordings with hundreds of individual sounds + one Kontakt instrument (instrument requires the full version of NI Kontakt 4 or higher).

    The Kontakt instrument is a unique performable radio device designed for experimentation and discovery of the broad palette of sounds. It also includes a classic spring reverb unit with a custom interface created from a Pioneer SR202W. See the Kontakt interface here.

    These authentic radio recordings are useful in sound design/film applications and can be twisted out into musical and sound design effects.

    Note: Can be used without Kontakt too!
     All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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  • Other Instruments Little Boxes Play Track 1000+ sounds included $54

    Little Boxes is a curated collection of four unique sound sets designed to compliment one another sonically and texturally. These textures move from acoustic to electroacoustic to analog synthesis – all programmed into beautiful Kontakt 4 instruments (full NI Kontakt
    4.2.3 or later required).

    Comes with the following four boxes:

    Box 1. Earthquake Detector:

    littleboxes earthquake detectorA small device meant to be hung flat on the wall, the balls will swing and strike the strings if the ground begins to move.
    This box was shaken, plucked, strummed, performed and ebowed to produce a beautiful palette of acoustic string textures.
    In Kontakt those sounds evolved into a group of instruments that ran from folksy, zither like patches to lush, shimmering pads.


     
    Box 2. Folktek Microgarden:
    micro gardenA handmade DIY electroacoustic device, this box is built by Arius Blaze at folktek and features a uniquely electric sound while still allowing for very expressive performances.
    Capable of percussion, pads, boings and buzzes, this is a unique and versatile box.
    In Kontakt the sounds evolved into an exotic group of instruments ranging from synth pads and percussion kits to vintage otherworldly sonic spectra.
    a truly unique piece.

     
    Box 3. MFO Weird Sound Generator:weird sound box
    A DIY analog synth built from a kit, this box yields a broad palette of thick, dynamic, chunky synth tones and evolving textures.
    After tweaking knobs and rolling for hours, each chunk of sound that made the cut was carefully edited, tagged, and then further sculpted to achieve its final state.
    In Kontakt a broad palette of luscious pads, thick warm basses, and polyphonic instruments emerged from the source textures.

     
    Box 4. Dementia Labs optical theremin:
    thereminA DIY circuit bent one-off custom theremin, this one features an elaborate unlabeled patchbay, a bunch of unlabeled knobs, and a light sensor as a modulator.
    This box yielded tons of static and crunchy textures, as well as some very retro sounding musical pads.
    The Kontakt patches turned into a pile of far out synths, analog crackles, and fuzzy goodness.

    Note: Can be used without Kontakt too!
     All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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  • Mechanical Sound Effects Antique Accordion Play Track 570+ sounds included $36

    A killer antique accordion full of paper crinkles, key clacks, sick sounding wheezes and old wood creaks. The antique accordion was rescued from a local antique shop. It has a hole in the bellows that creates a distinct wheezing sound, and it is loaded up with strange squeaks, pops and paper textures.

    We rolled on this instrument for about an hour, and did everything from flicking the keys to dropping and pounding it. The accordion took some abuse, but in the end what it gave back was a wealth of old sounding textures you can’t fake.

    This instrument was recorded at 24 bit 96k, in dual mono – with an AT4050 for a wide perspective and a Schoeps CMC6.MK4 for a close perspective. Comes with 57 .wav files and 19 Kontakt .nki files (the .nki files require the full retail version of NI Kontakt 4.2.3 or later)

    Note: Can be used without Kontakt too!
     All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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  • antique typewriter sound effects
    antique typewriter sound effects
    Mechanical Sound Effects Oliver Typewriter Play Track 450+ sounds included $30

    3 mic perspectives give full coverage on an antique typewriter in good working condition.  The typewriter had a loose front plate and we clacked, hit and dropped it for a wide range of cool typewritery sounds. The Kontakt instrument presets requires the full version of NI Kontakt 4.2.3 or later.

    Note: Can be used without Kontakt too!
     All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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  • forgotten zither sound effects
    forgotten zither sound effects
    Drones & Mood Sound Effects Forgotten Zither Play Track 800+ sounds included From: $24

    800+ sounds from one of the most complex and varied sounding instruments that we’ve come across in our junk shop travels. Broken strings, creaky wood and a great resonant cavity gave us a massive collection of sounds ready to be bent and twisted.

    This is a fretless German harp zither, which differs in quality significantly from concert zithers, which have several strings with fretted necks beneath them. This version was manufactured by Friederich Menzenhauer, the father of the zither in the US. Zithers of this kind are notoriously difficult to identify because they contain no distinguishing marks on the bodies themselves, and the only branding is on the paper label deteriorating inside the soundhole.

    Our version had been worn beyond all repair through decades of age and neglect. Broken strings, creaky wood and a great resonant cavity gave us a massive collection of sounds ready to be bent and twisted.

    We did much more than just throw a couple of mics up and pluck – this instrument was recorded with a stethoscope mic, a lav inside the cavity, overhead xy, room mics, and more. We banged, scraped, bowed, ebowed, and thumped every last noise out of this one in three separate sessions. The end result was a collection of about 5 Gb of edited stereo 24 bit 96k sound.

    The Kontakt instruments are where the real magic happens with this instrument. There are presets for horror string hits, angelic and demonic pads, old creaks and more. The zither barely survived, but it gave us an array of sounds that are very different from what you’ll get from a properly tuned and maintained instrument. It is the uniqueness of the decay that gives our zither its character.

    Forgotten Zither is available in two versions

    Key features for the Forgotten Zither Limited Collection

    • 88 unique articulation groups
    • 10+ performances per articulation
    • photographs and video stills

     
    Key features for the Forgotten Zither Full Collection

    • 88 unique articulation groups
    • 10 + performances per articulation
    • 29 Kontakt unlocked .nki files
    • .nki files require full version of NI Kontakt 4 or higher
    • photographs and video stills

    Note: Can be used without Kontakt too!
     All Kontakt instrument libraries include fully unlocked and accessible metadata tagged .wav files. You don't need any version of Kontakt to use these files as a standalone sample library.

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