Spent All Your Money on a Moog Muse? Get Free Sounds For It Here! – Sounds and Presets
Plus sounds for the OG JP8000 hardware
We’ve got free sounds for your Moog Muse, a new bank of patches for Xils Labs excellent ‘The Eighty’, and an excellent sound pack for the KORG multi/poly.
Who doesn’t like free patches? Well, if you’re a Moog Muse owner, this week we’ve got you covered. We’ve also got some great new multi/poly patches from Limbic Bits and some beautiful sounds for ‘The Eighty’ from Xils Labs.
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Free Moog Muse Patches by Allen Michael
Unashamedly 80s, this bank of free patches by Allen Michael takes 2024’s Moog Muse and dresses it up in red Levi jeans, Ray-bans and a college jacket to deliver that retro sound to your newest polysynth.
You’ve got sparkling arpeggios, soft, brassy pads and chunky bass lines that you can prop up your DeLorean’s slightly dodgy gullwing doors with. Making excellent use of Muse’s Diffusion Delay, these patches really do sound authentic.
Check out the video demo for yourselves if you don’t believe me. The retro vibe is strong with this one, from the loafers to the pastel pink sweater, I’m not sure if Allen’s playing is deliberately off-kilter or not, but it makes for a very authentic vibe.
As I said, these are free patches in as much as you pay by supplying Allen with your email address. So if you’re cool with that, you can have this bank in your Muse quicker than saying, “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads…”.
Head over to Allen Michael’s site, enter your email addy and grab these sounds now!
Parallax for KORG multi/poly by Limbic Bits
KORG’s multi/poly has been a rip-roaring success, and deservedly so. Dan Phillips R&D team knocked it out of the park with this synth and has fast become one of the most popular of their Raspberry Pi-based instruments.
Limbic Bits has now added a brand new bank of sounds to go along with their other KORG patches for modwave and opsix. As always, you get a healthy mix of sound types which occupy 64 new performances and 85 new programs.
Mr Bits says that this particular bank is especially suited for making modern electronic music as well as scoring, with a focus on pads and textures. All the performances employ multi/poly’s wide range of performance controllers, including the macro knobs and Kaoss XY pad.
And yes, this bank will work on both hardware variants of the multi/poly as well as the native software version. The bank comes with a detailed installation guide for both hardware and software. So feed your multi/poly with an excellent collection of new sounds, available directly from the Limbic Bits website for a mere £24 of your Great British Pounds!
Analog Explorations Soundset for Roland JP8000/8080 by Roberto Macrì
Arturia’s recent addition to its V Collection included the JUP-8000 V, their take on the classic virtual analog modeller from Roland that went on to find its way onto almost every trance and techno record at the turn of the century.
Those of us who missed out on the original rejoiced at this news, with owners of the original hardware asking why it took someone so long to clone this veritable classic. But those original owners need not feel left out as there is a brand new bank of sounds for the JP-8000, which are also compatible with its rack-mounted sibling, the JP-8080.
Expect extensive use of the legendary and unmistakable sound of the JP-8K’s Supersaw oscillator and beyond. Don’t think this is a Trance-soaked bank of sounds as sound designer Roberto Macrì pushes this synth in new and exciting ways.
There’s something for everyone here amongst the 64 included performances with the developer claiming to breathe new life into this almost vintage classic. You can buy Analog Explorations for just €29.95, direct from Roberto’s website now.
Organic Sounds for Xils Labs ‘The Eighty’ by Nori Ubukata
Just the other day, I was in the amazing Synthesizer Museum Berlin, housed in the former Schneiders Laden store in Kottbusser Tör, playing an immaculately preserved Yamaha CS-80. I remarked at how, at that time, all the big synth manufacturers labelled their presets as acoustic instruments.
As we all know, they were mostly wide of the mark and sounded nothing like the brass, strings or pianos they claimed to be. And the Yamaha CS-80 was no exception. However, what the CS-80 had was not only a unique tone, but also a fantastic degree of expression. These things in turn, made the CS-80 quite unique and in demand.
Released alongside a 1.0.2 update to their ‘The Eighty‘ plugin, one of the closest emulations we’ve heard yet of this much sought-after synth, Organic Sounds aims to use the Eighty’s accurately modelled synth architecture to deliver sounds much closer to the real thing than the original CS-80 could dream of.
These sounds have been designed with both keyboard and wind controllers in mind, and just by listening to the demo, you can really appreciate the skill and effort used to make these sounds mimic the real things that inspired them.
‘The Eighty’ users will need to install the free 1.0.2 update to take advantage of these sounds, which can be bought directly from the Xils Lab website for a special launch offer price of €14.90, rising to €29.90 when the launch promotion ends.
Nocturne Electric Piano for Kontakt by Sonora Cinematic
Necessity, so they say, is the mother of invention. And that is especially true of our final sound library this week. Sonora Cinematic acquired a Hohner Pianet M last year, which then promptly rewarded them for their purchase by bursting into flames!
Far be it from being a rare case of spontaneous combustion, its demise lay in its old circuitry. I say old… this instrument was likely younger than me, to be fair! Ok, so I’m old! So the SC gang sought out a replacement, having fallen in love with the original’s tone, pre-bursting into flames.
Once acquired, the very first thing they did was to sample it to the nth degree, and this forms their new instrument, Nocturne Electric Piano. Deliberately built with a simple interface to mimic the original hardware, Nocturne has some cool tricks up its sleeve to make it quite an enticing library.
Aside from delivering four distinct and different signal paths, including direct output, a guitar amp, mechanical noises and tape echo reverb, Nocturne uses round-robin sample playback in an interesting ‘Double Track’ mode that accentuates the inherent imperfections of the original hardware.
Nocturne comes with a mood selector as well as a nice range of reverbs and presets, all delivered in a minimalist, yet functional, user interface. Nocturne requires NI’s Kontakt or Kontakt Player 8.1 and above and can be bought with £10 off, for £29.00 today.
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