Konkrete 3 Live Pack

The kits are the foundation that gives Konkrete 3 its unique sonic range and power. A vast array of techniques, recording sessions, synths, gear and tools were used to create this unrivalled sonic palette - featured among the sounds you'll find : Buchla 200e synth | Metal playground | 9ft grand piano | Telemark synth | ebay drum kit (smashed) | Broken soviet drum machine | Circuit bent samplers | a Guzheng | Liepzig synth | Culture Vulture distortion unit | Rhodes Stage 73 | Contact mics | Physical modelling algorithms| Mobile phone codecs | Thunder Drum | Epson printer | Acoustic guitars | Washing Machines | Vaccum Cleaner Tubes | SledgeHammers | Vintage Phono Pre-amps | wire brushes | and many more..  

Here are some details of a few of the kits included in Konkrete 3 LivePack :  

Xtended Piano: Created inside a 9 foot grand piano, this kit includes seriously meaty low kicks and thuds, plus piano string scrapes, body smacks and resonant boings. Ideal for suspenseful beats & soundscapes or other cinematic-influenced beats.  

Buchla Percussion: Created by jamming on a Buchla 200e modular synth, this impressive bag of atonal clangs, metallic thwacks and hang-drum tonalities is a packed toolkit for the more experimentally-minded.  

Guzheng Kit 1 + 2: A delicate chinese zither is mic'd up, and micro-mined for hits; flicks, scrapes, echos. An organic set perfect for chilled breaks.  

Smash kit: We bought an old Hohner drum kit on eBay. We had to pick it up from a scary lock-up garage near a seaside town in England. Then we took it into the studio AND HIT IT WITH SLEDGEHAMMERS. We remembered to mic it up first, though. Snares like car-crashes.  

EP73 Kit: The delicate, vintage insides of a Rhodes Stage 73.. hooked up to contact mics, with the gain cranked right up. Small metallic knocks and resonant tails build up into one of the dubby-est sounding kits in the collection.

Codec Kit : Digital cell-phone compression pushed to the edge for drum-sound design. Half-formed vocals are warped into percussive hits using some of the nastiest audio algorithms out there.  

Evil Robot Kit : The sound of Optimus Prime with his balls caught in a trash compactor, but like drums.  

Epson Kit : Jam paper-clips into those intricate moving printer-mechanisms until it shouts, spasms and shakes. Record. Chop into hits.   Wave Kit : A kit fully synthesised in Live, using a wide variety of sustained synth waveforms. These sounds can be fully reshaped using amp and filter EGs and other subtractive techniques.  

Physik Kit : The clinical sound of physical modelling synthesis, pushed into slightly strange sonic areas. Minimal and futuristic.  

Discrete Kit : The sound of discrete analogue synthesis, pushed into percussive distortion by a sound designer desperate for ever harder drums. A 24 pole ladder filter knocks and squalls in tightly controlled bursts.  

Vulture Kit : Growling tape-distortion hits, built up layer on layer using tape machines and old delay units.  

Inside the Kick and The Snare Kit : An acoustic kick and snare drum were taken into a forensically quiet studio and had tiny high-definition mics inserted into their shells. Tiny percussive actions were then performed on the skins and drum bodys, to capture a perspective from acoustic drums that you don't usually hear. Very dry, arid and upfront sound hits.