Timur Arynov (aka MyOSS) has announced the release of saturn cIRcles, a free collection of intentionally artificial and weird sounding reverb impulse responses for sound mangling.
I’ve made this impulse responses for adding some unnatural and weird dimension to any material and they don’t sound like usual reverb. This pack is suitable for any kind of music especially when you want to add some texture to it. All you need is convolution reverb plug-in to load stereo IRs, also you can use them as samples.
The idea behind this reverb IR collection is to offer a set of unusual reverb responses which can be used to ad unnatural textures to your sounds. The included impulse responses are sorted into five separate folders, by type:
- 01_Stretched – time-stretched IRs;
- 02_Pitched_Sperctral – layered pitched IRs with spectral processing;
- 03_Chooped_Reversed – IRs with some chaotic frequency filtering, like S/H in synth;
- 04_Distorted_LoFi – distorted IRs;
- 05_Resonated_Physical – IRs with metallic resonance.
Of course, you’ll need an impulse response loader in order to use the provided files. My go to piece of freeware for this purpose is Reverberate LE by LiquidSonics, a nice and polished convolution reverb plugin for Windows based DAWs.
The impulse responses provided in this pack are completely free for commercial use! You can use them in your commercial music projects, however you are not allowed to re-distribute them.
These impulses sound very cool when applied to percussive tracks and drum loops. You can get some very nice dark textures with them, suitable for industrial beats. They also work very well on pad sounds!
Audio Demo
Check out the saturn cIRcles audio demo:
Download
saturn cIRcles is available for free download via Bandcamp (ZIP archive, 24-bit WAV format).
Click the Buy Now button on the page linked above and enter zero as the price to get the impulse responses for free. You can also enter any amount of money in order to make a donation to the sound designer.
