The Crow Hill Co. have released Venom, available at the intro price of £79.00, increasing to £99.00 after the promotion.
Venom is a close collaboration with Los Angeles, CA, USA-based self-styled Death beats recording artist and sample pack producer Snakes Of Russia (a.k.a. Joseph Holiday) who took techniques honed over decades to present a biting beats and breaks drum library like no other, one which allows users to create drum parts tailored to their music without the need for loops or pre-performed rhythms.
Unlike many sample-based libraries, Venom does not simply mix signals, add layers, and modulate signals — hence The Crow Hill Company equating this all-new way of working to ‘poisoning’. After all, each process applied will have an adverse effect on the ‘nervous system’ of beats, breaks, and rhythm parts created by the user. Ultimately, rhythms will appear to subdivide and multiply into different degrees of complexity due the pushing and pulling of different signals, chains, and paths.
It is not for nothing that the eye-catching main operational screen allows users to effectively choose their poison (read: alternative signal paths of their selected kit/bass running in parallel with the original sample set) — namely, DOLL’S EYES (crushed tape… using the damaged stuff to get the ‘tapey-ness’ out of tape, as it were); ARROW TREE (amplified… through some beasts at Seahorse Sound Studios, a full-service digital/analogue multi-space and multitrack recording studio located in downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA); WOLFSBANE (intimate space… real rooms duplicating the signal through early reflections, not just reverb); CORNCOCKLE (distant room… re-amped into the intimate space, but then mic’d from a distance for increased decay); SNAKEROOT (vintage plate… traditional reverberation via devices at Seahorse Sound Studios); SKYFLOWER (rusted spring… does what it says on the tin; try oxidising the signal with this poison). And an equally striking set of macro controls allow access to a 24dB bi-directional filter, waveshape distortion control, overall compression, and volume envelope of the instrument in question. Eventually experimentation and exploration will take anyone’s music down a much darker road. Try toggling directly to the effects screen — itself divided into five distinct regions: REDUX (lo-fi bit-crusher), DIRT (bespoke waveshaping engine), (algorithmic) REVERB, (modelled) DELAY, and SMASH (master multi-band compressor to smash even the most polite of sounds) — for additional control over the biting beats and breaks drum library’s badass sound.
Featuring 33 fully-analogue drum kits (including carefully captured analogue repetitions), 33 teeth-shattering analogue bass synths, and six re-amped and processed signal paths
Venom is available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX) and requires installation of The Crow Hill App..
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