BALTIC SHIMMERS
Organic Pads and Drones
An incredibly expressive collection of ambient sounds. Baltic Shimmers is an instrument with very characteristic timbre. It was inspired by the sea itself which you can immediately hear while playing its “Shimmer” type of sounds. They can be almost static like calm sea. They can move like waves and eventually turn into foam like shimmer, which spreads and fade away in time. Baltic Shimmers it’s not just a soundset it’s a sample library made with organic sounds: sea, birds, acoustic and electric musical instruments. It was designed as film and game scoring tool, especially to work as additional color in complex pieces, but it can be also used solo in minimalistic way.
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Demos:
Crevasse by Michał Korniewicz – 2:44
Into The Depths (dressed with SFX) by Damian Czajka – 3:35
Zona Vidchuzhennya Pripyatskaya by Marek Domagała – 4:43
Time on the Shore by Adrian Gallagher – 4:21
WE MADE IT OUT OF LOVE TO THE SEA
We recorded very long organic textures, irregular electric cello tremolos, ukulele tremolos or glockenspiel random notes, to name a few. We processed all sounds and often combine them with sea waves or seagulls, to get original, moving and evolving sounds. We crafted every single sample carefully using creative effects and outboard. It was long process since we processed and curated hours of recordings just to select the best sounding textures and place them in Baltic Shimmers collection.
Most of our samples went through tape and after slowing down, were recorded again digitally. This process added truly organic feel and imperfection to our sounds. You get most of Baltic Shimmers by playing very long notes. Most of samples are very long and in combination with clever modulation onboard you may play single note for few minutes and it will constantly evolve. Some movements are very subtle while others can turn from even and static to detuned, wobbly and randomly changing timbre.
GUI:
THE OVERVIEW PANEL
Baltic Shimmers instrument has 3 types of sounds: Shimmers, Pads and Drones. Each has its own unique functions and GUI. Shimmer type has 3 stages which can morph from static, through wave into foam or as We like to call it “shimmer”.
Pad type on the other hand is more traditional but built from 3 atoms. Every atom is a unique sound. Atom 1 and 2 is always a long textured played forward or backwards, while atom 3 is a sea noise which is always triggered on key release. This way you can make play music like every note is a sea wave. You change volume of every atom so you can completely change or even mute chosen parts.
PATCH LIST:
Drone – Agony
Drone – Blind Heading
Drone – Broken Radar
Drone – Calm Night
Drone – Dark Sea
Drone – Disturbing Course
Drone – Dreadnought
Drone – Engine Clatter
Drone – Enigma
Drone – Falcon’s Motor
Drone – Heavy Machinery
Drone – Hull Breach
Drone – Lost in Fog
Drone – Lowering The Anchor
Drone – Monsun
Drone – Narrow Isthmus
Drone – Northen Mirage
Drone – Overloaded
Drone – Saukko Damaged
Drone – Schleswig Holstein
Drone – September Dawn
Drone – Silent Enemy
Drone – Squadron over Clouds
Drone – Starless Night
Drone – Storm Clouds
Drone – Submerged Hunter
Drone – U-Boat
Drone – Unidentified Signal
Pad – Baltic Sea Anomaly
Pad – Baltic Spring
Pad – Baltic Sunrsise
Pad – Birds of Reval
Pad – Bornholm Clouds
Pad – Calm Bay
Pad – Choir of Abyss
Pad – Dim Horizon
Pad – Distant Voices
Pad – Dust over Westerplatte
Pad – Fallen Hussar
Pad – Foreign Waters
Pad – Frozen Dust
Pad – Ghost Ship
Pad – Gliching Waves
Pad – Gulf of Bothnia’s Mystery
Pad – Gulf Spin
Pad – Hel’s Dream
Pad – Icy Wind
Pad – Impossible Waves
Pad – Invisible Threat
Pad – Last Cruise
Pad – Lighthouse
Pad – Night Glare
Pad – Night Lights
Pad – North Glaze
Pad – North Harbor
Pad – Outflow
Pad – Riurik
Pad – Rusty StringS
Pad – Sand Gale
Pad – Sea Horns
Pad – Seasickness
Pad – September 1st
Pad – September Wind
Pad – Sinking Franken
Pad – Siren’s Violin
Pad – Soaring Birds
Pad – Spark of Life
Pad – Storm Ahead
Pad – Summer Night
Pad – Unstable Fifth
Pad – Wandering Souls
Pad – Whispering Fifth
Pad – Whispers of Sopot
Pad – Wind from Chernobyl
Pad – Wind Scream
Pad – Wind Song
Pad – Winter Gospel
Pad – Winter Night
Shimmer – Baltic’s Chimes
Shimmer – Baltic’s Mistery
Shimmer – Baltics Gem
Shimmer – Before Dawn
Shimmer – Blind Drift
Shimmer – Breeze
Shimmer – Broken Glass
Shimmer – Buoys Choir
Shimmer – Difficult Decision
Shimmer – East Rain
Shimmer – Floating Pieces
Shimmer – Frozen Sparkles
Shimmer – Ghost in the Wind
Shimmer – Hidden Treasure
Shimmer – Hollow Wind
Shimmer – Ice and Whistle
Shimmer – Inconspicuous Beauty
Shimmer – Lost Crickets
Shimmer – Lost in Mist
Shimmer – Lower Decks
Shimmer – Night Dust
Shimmer – Night Wind
Shimmer – Point of Return
Shimmer – Reverse Course
Shimmer – Sea Organ
Shimmer – Sea Talks
Shimmer – Seagulls
Shimmer – Sparkles Night
Shimmer – The Sea
Shimmer – Wave and Bow
Shimmer – Whispering Stars
Shimmer – Whispers
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- This library works in free Halion Sonic SE 3.4 sample player (Download Halion Sonic SE 3) as well as Halion 6 and Halion Sonic 6.
Watch our installation guide on YouTube - Halion Sonic SE is a Steinberg’s software (We recommend trying Halion Sonic SE with our free Novel Piano if you are new Steinberg user)
- Runs as host or stand-alone application, VST®
- Baltic Shimmers requires 1.2 GB of HDD/SSD space
- Sample resolution: 48 Khz / 24 Bit stereo .wav format (losslessly compressed)
- Check Halion / Halion Sonic SE 3.4 requirments on Steinberg’s website
| MAC OSx – Requirments* | Windows – Requirments* |
|---|---|
| macOS 10.12 / 10.13 / 10.14 / 10.15 | 64-bit Windows 8.x/10 |
| VST 3 | VST 2, VST 3 |
| 64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core processor (Intel i5 or faster recommended) | 64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core processor (Intel i5 or faster recommended) |
| 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) | 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended) |
| 1366 x 768 display resolution (1920 x 1080 recommended) | 1366 x 768 display resolution (1920 x 1080 recommended) |
*Halion Sonic SE System requirements are based on Steinberg’s official website.
