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A toolkit of transportive textures
Breathe new life into your compositions with this versatile toolkit of unique timbres, created by contemporary composer, Oliver Patrice Weder. For his second sample library, the expert sound curator has recorded a wide variety of instruments and techniques in the remarkable setting of a reverberant pool house — surrounded and inspired by nature. The sounds range from contemplative solo and trio vocal chants and breathy woodwind swells to personalised piano sounds, delicate percussion and shimmering organic and electronic loops — carefully sculpted to blend together seamlessly and complete with a range of bespoke controls, effects and reverbs. Adding a much sought-after human quality and fragility to your music, these transcendental textures are suited to intimate film scores and contemporary classical or ambient tracks alike.
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Listen to Oliver Patrice Weder — The Pool Project
Pool Project Trailer - Lucie Treacher
Sorry, No Cub - Daniel Gadd
Dive In - Lucie Treacher
Daffodils - Leo Wyatt
Pool Noodle - Snorri Hallgrímsson
Gossamer - Louis Rugg
The Making of The Pool Project
As I stepped into the pool house, I immediately knew I had to record in there. The natural reverb is the perfect length and size, and placing a microphone in the centre above the water created a spring reverb quality, allowing me to capture and reflect the peacefulness I was surrounded by. The voices were my first choice, as to me, they are the closest sound to nature.
Oliver Patrice Weder, Composer
While Weder’s first sample library and record, OPW, was inspired by constant movement and travelling, The Pool Project is a tribute to peace and stillness. At the core of the library are male vocal swells, longs and vowel sounds performed by Madrid’s Club del Rio, which blend beautifully with woodwind duo Zopli2’s breathy alto flute and bass clarinet swells and visceral playing techniques, including circular breathing. This is accompanied by Weder’s very own personalised double felted and tape piano sounds, synthesiser loops from his Juno 6 fed through various pedal effects and electronic manipulations, and a unique selection of toys and percussion hits and loops, providing gentle rhythm and momentum, including the steel tongue drum, toy piano, recorder, and kaval (a Bulgarian flute). The specially curated controls, effects and IR reverbs invite you to tailor the sounds to your specific production needs within the plug-in, with the Distort setting taking the organic recordings to a completely new place.
Features
- Available in Spitfire Audio’s award-winning, dedicated plug-in
- 40 exclusive presets: Vocal Trio (6), Gentle Breeze (6), Solo Voice (7), Pianos (Double Felt & Taped), ‘Toys’ (5), Percussion (4), and Synth Loops (10)
- A range of specially curated in-built effects and controls, providing a wealth of complex sonic possibilities to drastically control and manipulate each of the presets — Dynamics, Expression, Attack, Release, Reverb, Stretch (controlling the speed of the sample playback), Distort (taking the organic samples to a completely new place), Variation (to switch between different variations of the sound), as well as Key Release and Pedal controls on piano presets
- 13 specially curated IR reverbs
- Dynamics fader moves the signal from Close to Room on the organic patches, and controls the arpeggiator speed on the synth patches
- Two stunning piano sounds created from a mellow 60s Petrof, treated with felt and tape
- Each sound is velocity sensitive for varying tones
The Pool Project
The Pool Project is made up of two complementary elements — the sample library, and Weder’s sophomore album. With a range of controls and effects, the sample library concept is an invitation for musicians and producers to reimagine, recreate or completely pull apart the sound palette of an artist to facilitate their own vision.
This record and sample library have a very clear sound palette — I was working towards a timbre, rather than songs. Above all else, I was in search of “the sound” that would reflect my feelings, surroundings and imagination.
Oliver Patrice Weder
Oliver Patrice Weder
Contemporary composer, producer and artist Oliver Patrice Weder discovered his love of keyboards after hearing the sound of Ray Manzarek (The Doors), and spent his formative years playing classical and jazz piano in the rainy foothills of the Alps. After recording and touring across Europe with various bands, including psychedelic rock band Time for T, he studied at Valencia’s Berklee College of Music, where he established his passion for film music. As well as composing for the BBC, Oliver is the lead composer at pioneering British music technology company, Spitfire Audio.
His unique musicality has been heavily inspired and shaped by exploring different places and cultures, including Brazil, Africa and the USA, as well as his experiences making a home in various European countries. In 2018, Oliver relocated his studio to the canals of Amsterdam, and is now based just outside of Madrid, where he created The Pool Project. This sophomore album and sample library follows Oliver’s deeply personal debut album, OPW, released by SA Recordings in October 2019 and described by A Closer Listen as “a brisk and hopeful set that bounces from one idea to the next with a finesse unusual in debut releases".
What's Included
Vocal trio
- Aah Drone
- Aah Swells
- Meditation Trio Chant
- Mhm Drone
- Mhm Swells
- Nana Swells
Gentle breeze
- Airy Longs
- Airy Swells
- Circular Breathing
- Meditation Longs
- Pulsing Swells
- Swells
Solo voice
- Aah Longs
- Breathy Ooh's
- Eee Longs
- Meditation Chant
- Mhm Aah's
- Mhm Longs
- Nana's
Pianos
- Double Felt Piano
- Taped Piano
Toys
- Harmonica
- Kaval Flute Longs
- Kaval Flute Experimental Longs
- Recorder
- Toy Piano
Percussion
- Drum Machine
- Jawbone
- Travelling Shaker
- Organic Loops
Synth loops
- Forest Glade
- Lala
- Wild Cicada
- Maximum Magic
- Last Sun
- Comfortable Blizzard
- Night Ride
- Complex Ant Burrow
- Coloured Rain
- Pollination Dance
FAQs
How do I add this library into Kontakt?
You don’t! The Pool Project is a dedicated, free to use plugin available as VST2, VST3, AAX and AU, so it can be used directly in your favourite DAW.
What software will I need to install?
You will only need the Spitfire Audio App which you can download here.
What software will I need to run this library?
We provide a VST2, VST3, AAX and an AU, so as long as your chosen DAW supports one of those plugin formats, you’re good to go.