One of my all-time favorite tracks is Amadeo Tommasi’s Protozoi, and recently I have been attempting to cover old tunes in VCV. I would love to try to synthesize the sound of the celeste in order to do a simple cover of this beautiful piece.
The celesta is a piano-like instrument with hammers hitting metal bars that are suspended above wooden resonator bars. the sound then reverberated inside of the wooden piano case-like structure. the video above gets bonus points for 70s grit and distortion in the recording. if there are any ideas on that those are welcomed too.
I have these two presets for Plaits that sound a bit similar to that. You can get the distortion with something like Vacuumba, and the surface noise with Crackle and/or Dust from Hetrick.
Hello existentia and 123keaton,
Don’t want to hijack this post! I have downloaded the presets for Plaits and used Palette as well with the presets. Used Palette with Grande’s Microtonal notes and got a nice growly bass organ and a squeaky Celesta. Would you both care to hear what I have produced?
If so I will upload to Soundcloud and Patchstorage.
Thanks for listening.
OK, give my a bit of time to upload to Soundcloud and Patchstorage, be very interested in what you think! I believe I played too many high tones on the Celesta section myself.
