… Plucker VSTi preliminary idea …

A few years back I recorded a series of chromatic cello samples played in a number of different styles. I used two PZM microphones and some Oktava MK-012s into a modified PAIA tube preamp. I cut up the samples and used them to create the soundtrack for a short film called “Ring! Ring!” (yet to be blogged about).

My favorite part of the session was when I had the cellist (Topu Lyo) play some pizzicato scales. A couple of years later, I worked these sounds into a Misadventures of Two song called “Fielding”. They added a sort of “Early Sixties Claymation Christmas Special” sound to the song.

Fielding
by The Misadventures of Two

You can really hear the strings in the beginning of the song and during the break at 1:50.

I am considering making these samples into a VSTi with some tweakable parameters such as the usual ADSR envelope for amplitude, some distortion, reverb and a bit/sample crush for the mentally disturbed.