transmutation

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The full pack is one 3.3 GB zip. If you only want part of it, take a folder on its own: ARP · BASS · CHORD · DRUM · GTR · PAD · TEXTURE. The torrent is the kinder option for the archive and usually the faster one for you. The WAVs carry no embedded tempo, so your DAW won't stretch them on import.

Contents

	folder	prefix	what's in it	files	size
🜍	ARP	ARP_	Arpeggiated loops	22	139 MB
🜁	BASS	BASS_	Bass loops	30	123 MB
✺	CHORD	CHD_	Chord loops	32	280 MB
🜂	DRUM	DL_ DO_	87 drum loops and 104 one-shots: 31 kicks (BD), 29 hats (HHT), 29 snares & claps (SD), 15 misc percussion (M)	191	378 MB
🜅	GTR	GTR_	Guitar-based loops and atmospheres	10	71 MB
🜄	PAD	PAD_	Pad loops	36	517 MB
🜃	TEXTURE	TXT_	Tonal and atonal atmospheres, drones and noise	66	1.8 GB
	seven folders			387	3.3 GB

Naming

[PREFIX]_[NAME]_[BPM if it has one]_[KEY if it has one]

ARP_TRANSMISSION_120_Cm      →  arp loop, 120 BPM, C minor
CHD_BEDSHAPED_80_A#          →  chord loop, 80 BPM, A# major
TXT_HOMUNCULUS               →  texture, no tempo, no key

DL_[NAME]_[BPM]               →  drum loop        DL_ALLFOURNOTHING_130
DO_[BD|HHT|SD|M]_[NAME]       →  drum one-shot    DO_SD_ARID

Keys

Everything is written with sharps, never flats. D# and Eb are the same note; I picked one and stuck with it. A bare letter is major, a trailing m is natural minor, and a three-letter suffix names a mode:

—	Ionian (major)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
dor	Dorian	1 2 ♭3 4 5 6 ♭7
phr	Phrygian	1 ♭2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7
lyd	Lydian	1 2 3 ♯4 5 6 7
mix	Mixolydian	1 2 3 4 5 6 ♭7
m	Aeolian (minor)	1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7
loc	Locrian	1 ♭2 ♭3 4 ♭5 ♭6 ♭7

The key names the root the loop sits on. What hangs over that root is Phrygian more often than anything else; the flat second is the sound of this pack. Some samples are not in the key or tempo the filename claims. That is the ignorance and/or impatience of the creator. Apologies, and tell me if you find one.

Licence

Released under CC BY 4.0. Use the sounds in anything, commercial or not, and credit a kind of likeness somewhere a listener could find it. Please don't repackage the pack itself, or large parts of it, as a sample library.

Thank you for sculpting these sounds.