Sanitarium
$34.99 plus shipping/distribution, $24.99 for existing customers
Spirit Canyon Audio is proud to announce Sanitarium, a library of dark and twisted
impulse responses geared towards more aggressive and exotic forms of electronic music.
Sanitarium is the first themed Spirit Canyon Audio library and is aimed at
creating dark textures, deep ambient backgrounds and harsh reverberations.
Sanitarium takes the user on a tour through a strange, and somewhat sinister,
early 20th century asylum for the mentally impaired, providing a wide range of
impulse responses to capture various aspects of such an establishment. The impulse
responses in the Sanitarium library can achieve many varied effects and can be
used on virtually any sound to create deep, dark drones, harsh rhythmic
reverb, and many other effects. All of the impulses responses are in full 24-bit
resolution.
The breadth of Sanitarium's uses are virtually limitless. With this collection,
you can do all kinds of unusual things to your audio:
- Place instruments over deep textures impossible to duplicate with traditional reverb processors
- Add harsh slap-back style delay effects to percussion
- Morph and blur audio tracks to an extreme degree
- Bury traditional instruments behind layers of ambience
- Dement, mangle and distort sound beyond recognition
- Create new ambient textures from even the most simple sounds
- Alter the spectral balance in ways you never thought possible
- Add a range of flavors - metallic, electric, fluid and more - with exceptional ease
Targeted primarily at dark ambient, industrial, noise and abstract musicians,
Sanitarium transforms your favorite convolution engine into a general-purpose DSP
processor. But musicians and sound designers from all walks of life may find
use for Sanitarium's powerful capabilities:
- Transform any sound into an organic ambient backdrop
- Create pseudo beat-synced effects on percussion and sequencer lines
- Mangle leads into a sonic assault that will tear apart your mix
- Add layered effects to solo instruments
- Fill sparse mixes with a rich, full ambience while maintaining mix clarity
- Morph vocals into wild textures
- Add lush character to guitars and synthesizers
- Create wild sound effects for use in a variety of applications
- The list goes on and on...
If you're interested in more specific information, the manual
can be downloaded here. Also be sure to see the known compatibility
list.
Download A Demo Version
Also give a listen to the following demos, which show just a few of the ways
that Sanitarium can be used. For all demos, only one
impulse response was applied to each iteration; no stacking was used.
And naturally, only Sanitarium was used to process the sounds,
including the stereo pan.
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Vocals
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Vocal samples from Julie's Scats collection are mangled in numerous ways using Sanitarium.
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Drums 1
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A simple, uninspiring drum line is twisted into something interesting by Sanitarium.
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Piano 1
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A slightly twisted piano melody is rendered totally spooky using Sanitarium's inherent creepiness.
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Dance Lead
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Shows how a simple dance lead can be transformed into something lush and slightly scary.
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Bass Line
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A relatively straightforward bass line can be utterly mutilated using these impulse responses.
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Guitar
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Simple strummed guitar chords become animated, evolving washes of sound using Sanitarium.
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Piano 2
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Demonstrates how any sparse sound can be filled out with luscious ambience ... or buried in it.
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Pads
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A lush string pad is mutated into something more aggressive and ambient using Sanitarium.
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Drums 2
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Drums never sounded so dirty before. An upbeat percussion line is taken to new
extremes with the application of a Sanitarium impulse response.
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Violin
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Even something as mundane as an acoustic violin lick can take on a totally original
sound with some quick work from Sanitarium.
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Remember, each sound was processed only once, and using only Sanitarium.
System Requirements:
- CD version requires a CDROM drive for product installation.
Compatible with any Windows or Macintosh system, and with any Unix
system capable of mounting ISO CDROMs
- Compatible with nearly any convolution reverb that can load stereo WAV files.
See the compatibility list for more information.
Specifications:
- All impulses are in pristine 24-bit 44.1KHz stereo WAV format
- Over 500 individual impulse responses
- Over 650MB of data
- Very reasonably priced, at only US$34.99 + shipping/distribution
The fine print: All content copyright © 2004-2005 Spirit Canyon Audio.
Please read the license agreement before
purchasing. Product will be shipped promptly via USPS or related airmail. All impulses are royalty-free
for use within your music.
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