REQ: Electric Himalaya The Player for TAL J-8

‘The Player’ is a set of 165 presets for TAL-Audio’s Jupiter 8 emulation softsynth.
A luxurious collection of dynamic, beautifully playable presets for the discerning musician.

This sound set focusses on playability with super practical presets suitable for all maner of music styles. A bumper collection of keys sounds, plenty of playable ‘synths’, lovely bells made with X-Mod, round bass sounds perfect for Pop and Funk, the ubiquitous and yet irresistible brass patches, plus lush pads, leads and plucks.

A special feature of this sound set is the new sound category: ‘LA’.
'LA' stands for ‘Linear Arithmetic’ which was a synthesis type introduced by Roland in their iconic D-50 synthesiser. The basic idea behind LA synthesis was to mix a short sample with a traditional oscillator. This provided lovely natural attacks (thanks to the sample) with synthesised sustains. Imagine a mallet sample layered with a pad.

The LA presets in the set are inspired by this idea. They use the dual-layer design of J-8 to create similar sounds, where layer one could be a strong attack forming a mallet, an EP, a pluck, and the second layer provides a pad, or some sustain that follows on from the initial attack. In all cases the two layers are made up of contrasting sounds.