World's largest natural sound archive is now online

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Vivo
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World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by Vivo » Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:39 pm

After 12 years of work, Cornell's Macaulay Library archive, the largest collection of wildlife sounds in the world, is now digitized and fully available online.

"In terms of speed and the breadth of material now accessible to anyone in the world, this is really revolutionary," said audio curator Greg Budney. All archived analog recordings in the collection, going back to 1929, have and can be heard for free online.

http://macaulaylibrary.org/

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by Machinesworking » Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:34 pm

..and I just bought a bunch of granular synthesis plug ins. 8)

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by H20nly » Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:43 pm

Machinesworking wrote:..and I just bought a bunch of granular synthesis plug ins. 8)
i like where you're going with this.

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by Vivo » Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:45 am

Machinesworking wrote:..and I just bought a bunch of granular synthesis plug ins. 8)
Get on it :P

http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/127299

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by stringtapper » Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:48 am

This + iZotope's Iris = :twisted:
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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by nathannn » Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:17 am

I like the natural reverb thats happening in the coyote clip. it makes me want to make impulses of a forest.
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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by Machinesworking » Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:34 am

Vivo wrote:
Machinesworking wrote:..and I just bought a bunch of granular synthesis plug ins. 8)
Get on it :P

http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/127299
That's amazing, but what is there to change? you could use that call as it is unprocessed and people would be asking you how you did it!
Grabbing it for sure, thanks.

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by Machinesworking » Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:36 am

stringtapper wrote:This + iZotope's Iris = :twisted:
have you picked Iris up yet?
Bought it off of a guy over at KVR, simple, but pretty cool for sound design!

Seriously went nuts and bought Iris, Granite and Machfive 3 recently.
Between those and Metasynth I'm covered. 8)

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by oblique strategies » Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:25 am

Fantastic. Thanks for the link.

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Post by andydes » Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:50 am

And so we witness the birth of a new genre.

Always joked that I play with bleeps, drums and monkey noises, but so far I've never actually used a monkey sample. This will change soon.

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by stringtapper » Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:48 pm

Machinesworking wrote:
stringtapper wrote:This + iZotope's Iris = :twisted:
have you picked Iris up yet?
Bought it off of a guy over at KVR, simple, but pretty cool for sound design!

Seriously went nuts and bought Iris, Granite and Machfive 3 recently.
Between those and Metasynth I'm covered. 8)
Yes! I use RX for restoration work and have often used it for sound design on the side, so Iris is exactly what I needed since it's just the RX engine inside of a sampler. Endless possibilities with that thing. Highly recommended.
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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by Timbeaux » Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:51 pm

#reminder

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by Vivo » Tue Feb 05, 2013 7:44 pm

Machinesworking wrote:
Vivo wrote:
Machinesworking wrote:..and I just bought a bunch of granular synthesis plug ins. 8)
Get on it :P

http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/127299
That's amazing, but what is there to change? you could use that call as it is unprocessed and people would be asking you how you did it!
Grabbing it for sure, thanks.
Your welcome.

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Re: World's largest natural sound archive is now online

Post by Machinesworking » Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:32 pm

stringtapper wrote: Seriously went nuts and bought Iris, Granite and Machfive 3 recently.
Between those and Metasynth I'm covered. 8)
Yes! I use RX for restoration work and have often used it for sound design on the side, so Iris is exactly what I needed since it's just the RX engine inside of a sampler. Endless possibilities with that thing. Highly recommended.[/quote]
Agreed, It's sort of a one trick pony, but the trick is very unique.
It's definitely a 1.0 release though. The fact they made the filter universal instead of one for each of the three samples and the sub is a huge oversight, or a way to get you to upgrade to Iris 2.0 :x

In a similar situation MOTU's Machfive 3 incorporates IRCAM granular, time/pitch technology. So you get some of the same features as Metasynth's granular engine in a sampler. Definitely my two favorite purchases of the last couple months!
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