Subtersonic has released a free sample pack featuring the sounds of a 1960′s era Brother typewriter.
I have released another free sample pack — a vintage typewriter! It’s a retro, blue, steel affair that smells like 50 years worth of cigarette smoke. I’d like to imagine that a frustrated news jockey sat before it while giving himself a black lung.
I sampled numerous mechanical sounds this typewriter produces during operation. The sample pack can be used for foley, sound fx, musical composition, and anything else that may come to mind. They were recorded dry as mono 16 bit 96khz .wav files using Audacity, a Shure SM-57 and a Behringer mixer.
The sample pack is a free download at Subtersonic.
More information: Subtersonic
Rhythmic Robot has released Typewriter, a sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.
Typewriter is a sampled version of a 1920s Imperial wide-carriage typewriter. It includes a pool of randomly-selected keystrikes, plus a host of carriage-return, bell, platen wind, spool wind, shift, tab and other mechanical noises. Keystrikes can be “played” with one hand from a MIDI keyboard’s white notes while shift, tab, carriage return and so on can be added at will via the black notes.
Typewriter is ideal for special effects, stutter-type glitches, foley effects or sound design. It is being released in time for Valentine’s Day so users can “write love letters straight from their heart… in style”.
Typewriter features
- 21 randomly-selected keystrike samples: no machine-gunning.
- Mechanical noises, platen winds, tabs, shift up and shift down, space bar etc.
- Mapped so as to be “playable” from a MIDI keyboard: type from your synth.
- Requires Kontakt version 4.2.3 or later (including Kontakt 5).
Typewriter for Kontakt is available to purchase for £1.50 GBP.
More information: Rhythmic Robot / Typewriter
Knobster.org has released Keywriter, a freeware VST instrument for Windows PC.
Keywriter is a rompler that reproduce the sounds of a German typewriter «Erika». Can be used as a unusual rhythm machine, and as a tool for special effects.
Keywriter features
- Full range of typewriter sounds.
- Stereo control.
- Drive control.
- Low CPU usage.
Visit Knobster.org for more information and a link to download Keywriter.
