Westgate Sounds - Dark Sounds for Dark Times

Anomaly

The Anomaly series:

This began with drum samples provided by DangerousBear.com.

I had an idea in my head to take drum samples and turn them into FX/atmospheres....

So Anomaly Volume 1 was born - Dark FX, Strange Atmospheres...

This was originally meant to be a single library for the Wusikstation vsti. But after making the FX for the first Volume, and then making presets for it in other formats, it began to take on a life of its own. I discovered that by taking these sounds into different virtual instruments, such as Absynth, Kontakt, Dimension Pro and others, I could get vastly different sonic results. I also discoved that I wanted other sounds to combine with the FX... But always with the general idea behind the first library - dark atmospheres, strange visions, ethereal and brooding aural ambience.

The Anomaly series is composed of 6 Volumes:

Anomaly - Dark FX, Strange Atmospheres
Anomaly 2 - Drones
Anomaly 3 - Pads
Anomaly IV - Wasteland - Textures
Anomaly V - Voices of the Dead - haunting whispers and Enochian
Anomaly VI - Textures

The idea behind the complete Anomaly series is to have a set of sounds that can create subtle, haunting, mysterious, evocative and even sometimes harsh sounds which you can intertwine to create any kind of atmosphere or sound bed with.

Each soundset, from Volume 2 onward, comes with two different batches of presets. There will be one batch that uses the sounds only from that particular soundset. And there is a second batch that uses sounds from that soundset and all previous Volumes....

Current formats include:

Universal .SFZ and .WAV which comes with presets for Wusikstation, Absynth, Kontakt, Dimension Pro and Rapture .

.SF2 (soundfont)

.SFZ and .WAV files for BigTick Audio's Rhino

Dreams and Nightmares

After working on Anomaly, which started as beat samples kindly provided by John at DangerousBear.com and then turning them into all kinds of different things.... I wondered what would happen if I started with taking some synths that used basic sine, saw, square and triangle waveforms and seeing what I could turn them into.....

So I started making quick, test presets in a variety of VSTi's that used those basic waveforms as a sound source. Those that used more complex waveforms - I only used the other waveforms as FM modulators....

Over time, this experiment built up to where I had many stages of sampling and then taking those sounds and doing weird and disturbing things to them, and then taking them into instruments that used samples as sources and combining them to make presets that were again sampled.....

I did this over and over again until I arrived at a decent amount of what I call "seed sounds", which I finally combined using a variety of instruments to make the final sounds....

Dreams and Nightmares currently is at 3 Volumes and the available formats are:

Universal .SFZ and .WAV with presets for Wusikstation, Dimension Pro, Rapture, Absynth and Kontakt.

.SF2 (soundfont)

Volume 1 is also available in .vfs format for BigTick Audio's Rhino.

What people are saying:

"Very good sounds there, congrats. :-) I was actually looking for something like this, so you really nailed a sound that didn't exist on the market."

"A really fantstic sound set. Thank you very much!"

"I finally got around to try Anomaly, some dark stuff and brooding moods in there..."

"Ok, having tried out all of the Anomaly sounds, I will say this.......this soundset is f**ckin' great! If you like dark ambient and experimental music, this is a must have....many of these sounds are just dying to be fed through even more effects. If you like making pretty and happy tunes, stay far away from Anomaly. But if you're like me and prefer your music to be creepy and twisted, then by all means get this!!!"

"thanks for this Sf2-set with really amazing waveforms inside!"

"Volumes 1 and 2 are incredible! I'm not sure if you guys are geniuses or madmen but I've never heard sounds like that before. It's as if someone translated the deepest, darkest thoughts of some fear-crazed lunatic and turned them into sound! They would make the perfect soundtrack for a Cthulhu film! H.P Lovecraft would be proud.

Well done guys!

p.s. I was checking out some of the presets and my 13 year-old daughter was begging me to stop. "You're scaring me!"..."

" The last one I tried was Anomaly and it's the reason why I only had 3 hours sleep last night... The sounds in this thing are f**cking unbelievable. I spent hours upon hours listening to the demo's, and thinking of ways I can use the sounds."