Americana Granular Pad
Pads and textures created through manipulation of a pedal steel guitar and a fiddle.
ByJoshua Meltzer
The story
As a composer, one of my niches I specialize in is Americana and Roots music. I play a lot of those kinds of instruments but as far as Virtual Instruments I am always looking for more options. Ahem… Spitfire, how about giving it a go? On this one I blended the Pedal Steel guitar and a Fiddle playing some raw scratchy harmonics. I processed them all using some granular time stretching, reversing and various effects.The Pedal Steel is a long phrase that keeps adding new colors. You can hear it evolve when using in low registers as a single note drone. Hopefully it gives you an organic/rustic option for some pads and textures.
Reviews
Organic and warm pad!
Absolutely beautiful. It has such an organic atmosphere and the sound is very inspiring!!! I am sure I will be using this a lot going forward.
Smaller Collection from Joshuas Hybrids
This is a few patches from the much expanded Joshuas Hybrids which i already gave a 5 star review so i won't say much here. Amazing, interesting and evolving sounds. Sound very organic and perfect for ambient
Blade runner comes to Appalachia
Yes another brilliant ambient "texture pad" from Joshua. Instant Ridley Scott. Both pad - more musical - and harmonics - more atmospheric - are great but the multi is where it really comes together and shines for me. Not much more to say really, if you can't get inspired by this then change professions; assuming you want to write cinematic film scores that is...