The ÓPIA Glitch Toolkit
A collection of different glitchy instrument created by the OPIA discord community....
ByHeikki Ketola
The story
Its not an instrument – its a lot of them.
On a rainy day, the Discord community of Ólafur Arnalds gathered together for the community competition stream, hosted by the man himself. The stream started lagging and created a new remix of the songs being presented – which gave me the idea of making an instrument from these cool glitches. It started with some simple sampling of glitchy sounds and the songs, but then the project got out of hand and more people joined to create the biggest and most delicious community instrument ever.
Different people submitted samples and instruments and created a massive 2GB collection of different creative sounds and instruments. The list of instruments contain pianos, pads, percussion, textures, glitches, guitars, my girlfriend trying to open a jar of jam and other stuff we don’t even understand.
So embrace the glitch and get composing with The OPIA Glitch Toolkit, the largest instrument at least spiritually on Pianobook!
Contributors:
Heikki Ketola Project lead, sampling
Ben Berkenbosch Sampling, demos
Paul-Edouard Lacolomberie UI design, sampling, demos
Miloslav Burda Scripting, demos
Paul Claypool Sampling
Ben Whitfield demos
Ólafur Arnalds Meme supplements
Patch list:
Arnihilator Guitar
Arpnalds 120bpm
Bellicious
Beyond Ice
Birds Guitar ensemble
Davy Jonasson
December Morning Car
Deep Waters
Dirty Swell Embraced
Earth
Fjord Guitar
Freddy The Egg Piano Burned
Freddy The Egg Piano Clean
Glitchmas
Glitchy SFX
Hensonance
Human Opening Pad
Human Polysynth
Human Soft Synth
Icelandic Winds
Olafurious 100bpm
Orthis 120bpm
Piano Model O
PianoBOOk
PianoTick
Re_Actor
Self-dying Piano
Some Kind of Glitch
SpitfireHireMe
Splinkitof drumkit
Squids
The Jam Jar
The Random Piano
Unnamed But Very Cool DRY
Unnamed But Very Cool
Vikingngngng loop 120bpm
Vikingngngng Piano
Yolkiator
Official Demo 1 Ben Whitfield
Official Demo 2 Ben Berkenbosch
Interface
Reviews
For the person who thought they had everything!
Such a broad range of sounds here - great designs that may fit that very specific niche - or maybe inspire a whole track or album. Deep Water and Beyond Ice my favourites so far. Great work ÓPIA team!
RIDICULOUSLY amazing
OH MY GOD I have no words to describe how good this is. There are 37 single patches to be explored here, and each one offers a completely different sound signature - from well crafted and wholesome lead sounds, to ridiculous SFX! On top of that, everything sounds super interesting and unique, with a GUI that gets a 6 out of 5, hands down. My favourite patches have to be Birds. Re_actor, Self-Dying Piano, Unnamed but very cool, and of course, The Random Piano!
Amazing for when you have no idea what you want.
This was definitely one of those "out there" libraries, but this is executed really well!
Works really well as a motivation source when browsing through some of the more odd sounds in there.
I'll probably end up using it more often for some ear candy and texture in my songs.