Today I want to walk you through stonewire. What it is, what it does, what you could get out of it, and some of the different features that I think are are pretty interesting.

I worked really hard on them.

So, you know, I have a little bit of an attachment to it.

But anyway, let's dive in. So what is stone Wire?

It is a big pack of foley samples that are recorded at a large American hardware store, we'll call it.

I went walking around and just started hitting things together and seeing what interesting sounds I could get out of the place.

So what that got me was the core sample pack.

When you download this, you're going to get four different things.

You're going to get the main sample back.

You're going to get an Ableton session for the Ableton people, because that's what I use a lot of.

You're going to get a pack of loops and a pack of one shots, and I'm going to walk you through what each of those look like.

So the what I would call the core part of the sample pack is all the Foley sounds that are unprocessed.

So if you open up these folders, you can take a listen to them.

Like I said, there's just some different categories.

Is the rhythms.

One, this is all metallic sounds.

This is crunchy sounds, for lack of a better way to describe them.

And I really love working with these kinds of sounds because they add so much texture to things very effortlessly.

And that's something that it always feels good using it in a loop just on its own.

Or you can layer it with like a synthesized kind of sound from a drum machine or, you know, or just a different Foley sound.

You can stack them up and things will get just a lot of texture and very thick very quickly.

And like a lot of people, I love the how organic they feel.

Something about it is just different than when you're working with synthesized types of sounds or even traditional drum sounds for that matter.

The Foley stuff is really its own, its own thing.

And it's it just is awesome.

Now what I then went and did is I took all those sounds and I pulled them into an Ableton session that I'm going to walk you through in a second for the Ableton people.

But I composed a bunch of loops which you can find here.

And you, like I said, you can do whatever you want.

You can just drag them into your DAW of choice.

It does not have to be Ableton and you can you can use these as is.

You can chop them up.

You can really it's really your question or really your your choice, not your question as to how you want to use these because they're all royalty free.

So go nuts. now some of the since I made these in Ableton there were some concerns like,

oh well what about the people who don't have Ableton?

So what I did is I actually took all of the kits I had and all the sound design, and I rendered those out as one shot samples.

I had some fun with the file names to so it's just a few of them from the alien folder of course.

So yeah, there's, there's just this one shot folder is like 220 something sounds.

The core sample pack is 1300 Foley sounds.

So just in terms of WAV files, there's a ton to work with right here.

But then, okay, so for the people who do have Ableton, if you open up the session here, which I believe this is the right one.

Yeah. No, no. Excuse me.

That's the lessons which you’ll see in a second Okay?

So if you open the Ableton session that comes with this thing, there's a couple of built in lessons.

First of all, so this all just takes you through the pack.

It shows you where things are.

This one has some suggestions as far as how to save them and how to organize them.

If that's something you haven't
really done before, if you're newer. and then there's also you see here there's some things about the drum racks just where they're stored.

There's the Karplus-Strong device made.

I'll show you that in a second.

All the controls for that.

But yeah, so there's some built in lessons that just help you get the most out of it.

But I'm going to also walk you through that.

Obviously it opens up with the track and all the loops I just showed.

You are loaded up and ready to go if you want to do something with that or save them somewhere, whatever you want to do.

But also if you come into these folders, there's also a folder with these audio loops as Ableton clips So there quick to grab next time you're looking for them.

Then there are these drum clips which if you drag one of these in, you will be able to see.

First of all, let me just show you this.

You'll be able to see the MIDI and have access to the MIDI that I used to make all of these audio clips.

But then also you'll be able to see how the sound design was done.

So if we come here, you can see this is the original sample, the short metal toe, short metals, 25 that came out of the core, the library.

And then you can see all the devices.

I'm using to process it and you can look around inside the sampler and see all of my settings so you can see how the sound design was achieved.

And if you want to actually turn these things off one by one and click through to see how we got from start to finish, you can, you can do all that.

So yeah, these, all these loops give you that you have MIDI and then the actual drum racks.

now if you prefer to start with a blank drum rack, there's another folder just called drums if you drag this in.

Let's give it a second open.

Then you just have a blank drum rack
that you can, you can sequence or map to a controller or whatever you want to do.

And then This is the device.

I wanted to show you this Karplus-Strong thing.

And if I click over, there's a lesson that explains that Karplus-Strong is just an algorithm for synthesizing stuff so you can hear.

And basically what's happening here

is we're using Karplus-Strong as synthesis and we're exciting.

It works off of a feedback circuit without getting too deep into it, but we're exciting that feedback circuit with the stone wire samples.

And if you want to swap out that sample for one of your own or one of the ones from the pack, what you can do is you just drag one and where it says, drop a sample here.

Except don't do this.

See how the whole sampler device is highlighted that will replace it and break a bunch of the macros.

You want to drop the sample in here and then all the macros will be intact.

So that's just an important note.

But then if you come over here and you want to play around with the different settings, you can change how much of the sample gets blended in with the Karplus-Strong sound and how powerful the Karplus-strong responds by playing with these two in particular, the pitch time and pitch filter that can really do a lot.

And if you want to know more about what each of these macros do, yeah, it's on the sixth page of the lessons there's an explanation for each of the controls so you can see what stuff is doing and you can poke around and see what is mapped to what and get an idea of it.

So anyway, that about wraps it up.

That's what you get with Stone Wire.

Like I said, it's four basically four folders.

There's a bunch of one shots, there's loops, there's the Ableton session for the people who want to get really deep under the hood for how we made this stuff.

And then of course, there's the giant foley pack of the core samples of this thing altogether.

It's I believe, over 1500 sounds.

And then there's the Ableton Devices and stuff.

So have fun with this. If you have any questions or feedback.

Our information here, it's at the end of the lessons.

You can send us a DM @GlitchMagic on Instagram or you can email us.

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So let us know what you think and have a lot of fun with this.

Thanks.