Diego Stocco is one of the most creative sound designers around – whether he is creating sounds for OmniSphere, scoring films, building his own orchestra or finding inspiration in strange places.
Now he wants to teach you how to use a squirrel for a reverb.
Stocco has released Rhythmic Convolutions 2, a set of 200 rhythmic Impulse Responses specifically designed for the processing of beats, synths and instruments with a percussive timbre.
But these aren’t your typical reverb impulse responses. In this preview video, Stocco gets his sound design superfreak chops on, demonstrating how to use a squirrel as a reverb:
Rhythmic Convolutions 2 is an impulse response library, featuring 200 rhythmic Impulse Responses from unusual sources, custom built devices and sonic events. It’s available for 48 hours for US $27, normally US $29.99.
As a 21st century vegan, there’s no way I can stand for this cruelty 😉
As a 21st century vegan, I think it’s time to go record some squirrels eating walnuts 😉
As another 21st century vegan there’s a lot I don’t understand about other vegans.
Interesting concept. I think I should try convolving with the rythmic noise from the couples next door.
How many couples next door are there? You live next to an Airbnb being rented out for a porn shoot?
If you do, leave out the parts where I’m screaming your mom’s name.
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Yeah, I wonder what the Russian revolution would sound like in convolution :)) Or Hitler’s speeches :))
Nice tries!
Love to see anything that Diego Stocco does – always incredibly imaginative!
i think you are all nuts
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Got it and using it with NI FLESH. Great way to add even more sonic fun. Highly recommend both.
Another fun one to use Rhythmic Convolutions 2 with is Native Instruments Kinetic Metal.
USING A ****ING SQUIRREL FOR A REVERB. ****ING AMAZING.
This has been done for at least TEN years now. How is this considered new and sooo creative all of a sudden?!
Because you and others did not do it with the creativity and humor or Stocco?
Exploring convolution processing for the purpose of creating complex rhythms is a newer approach and before my “Rhythmic Convolutions” set (that I released last year) there wasn’t any specific rhythmic IR library out there.
I was too already using convolution with impulse responses different than reverbs 10 years ago, made tracks for trailers, ambiences, drones.. but it was only recently that I noticed how convolution could be used for rhythmic processing. I spent time refining this approach to make it work effectively and that’s what you can hear now in my video.
Aside from this.. since music existed for thousands of years already, should we all give up? : )