Spitfire Audio Oliver Patrice Weder - The Pool Project

A Toolkit of Transportive Textures

Breathe new life into your compositions with this versatile toolkit of unique timbres, created by contemporary composer, Oliver Patrice Weder.

For his second sample library, the expert sound curator has recorded a wide variety of instruments and techniques in the remarkable setting of a reverberant pool house - surrounded and inspired by nature.

The sounds range from contemplative solo and trio vocal chants and breathy woodwind swells to personalised piano sounds, delicate percussion and shimmering organic and electronic loops - carefully sculpted to blend together seamlessly and complete with a range of bespoke controls, effects and reverbs.

Adding a much sought-after human quality and fragility to your music, these transcendental textures are suited to intimate film scores and contemporary classical or ambient tracks alike.

"As I stepped into the pool house, I immediately knew I had to record in there. The natural reverb is the perfect length and size, and placing a microphone in the centre above the water created a spring reverb quality, allowing me to capture and reflect the peacefulness I was surrounded by. The voices were my first choice, as to me, they are the closest sound to nature." - Oliver Patrice Weder, Composer

While Weder's first sample library and record, OPW, was inspired by constant movement and travelling, The Pool Project is a tribute to peace and stillness.

At the core of the library are male vocal swells, longs and vowel sounds performed by Madrid's Club del Rio, which blend beautifully with woodwind duo Zopli2's breathy alto flute and bass clarinet swells and visceral playing techniques, including circular breathing.

This is accompanied by Weder's very own personalised double felted and tape piano sounds, synthesiser loops from his Juno 6 fed through various pedal effects and electronic manipulations, and a unique selection of toys and percussion hits and loops, providing gentle rhythm and momentum, including the steel tongue drum, toy piano, recorder, and kaval (a Bulgarian flute).

The specially curated controls, effects and IR reverbs invite you to tailor the sounds to your specific production needs within the plug-in, with the Distort setting taking the organic recordings to a completely new place.

Features

• Available in Spitfire Audio's award-winning, dedicated plug-in
• 40 exclusive presets: Vocal Trio (6), Gentle Breeze (6), Solo Voice (7), Pianos (Double Felt & Taped), 'Toys' (5), Percussion (4), and Synth Loops (10)
• A range of specially curated in-built effects and controls, providing a wealth of complex sonic possibilities to drastically control and manipulate each of the presets - Dynamics, Expression, Attack, Release, Reverb, Stretch (controlling the speed of the sample playback), Distort (taking the organic samples to a completely new place), Variation (to switch between different variations of the sound), as well as Key Release and Pedal controls on piano presets
• 13 specially curated IR reverbs
• Dynamics fader moves the signal from Close to Room on the organic patches, and controls the arpeggiator speed on the synth patches
• Two stunning piano sounds created from a mellow 60s Petrof, treated with felt and tape
• Each sound is velocity sensitive for varying tones

Patches

Vocal Trio

• Aah Drone
• Aah Swells
• Meditation Trio Chant
• Mhm Drone
• Mhm Swells
• Nana Swells

Gentle Breeze

• Airy Longs
• Airy Swells
• Circular Breathing
• Meditation Longs
• Pulsing Swells
• Swells

Solo Voice

• Aah Longs
• Breathy Ooh's
• Eee Longs
• Meditation Chant
• Mhm Aah's
• Mhm Longs
• Nana's

Pianos

• Double Felt Piano
• Taped Piano

Toys

• Harmonica
• Kaval Flute Longs
• Kaval Flute Experimental Longs
• Recorder
• Toy Piano

Percussion

• Drum Machine
• Jawbone
• Travelling Shaker
• Organic Loops

Synth Loops

• Forest Glade
• Lala
• Wild Cicada
• Maximum Magic
• Last Sun
• Comfortable Blizzard
• Night Ride
• Complex Ant Burrow
• Coloured Rain
• Pollination Dance