Cupwise CupTone vol. 3 Tone+Distortion Nebula Library-ARCADiA

CupTone Vol. 3 是 Cupwise 推出的第三套 Nebula 音色与失真库，本次内容全部为全新采样，涵盖多款极具特色的复古前级、调音台、电平器、压缩器以及饱和设备。整体核心围绕“音色塑形 + 真正可用的模拟失真”展开，不仅包含细腻的谐波增强，还特别重构了采样方法，使部分程序能够实现真实的模拟级失真效果。35 个 Tone 程序中有 10 个具备明显失真能力，其余 25 个则专注于音色雕刻与微妙的谐波润色，同时还额外提供 12 个用于重现设备过载时非线性动态响应的程序，总计 47 个程序，采样自 22 种不同硬件设备。

本库支持 44.1、48、88.2 和 96 kHz 四种采样率版本，购买后可获得全部规格。相比前作，本版本在驱动和失真表现上更加激进，既能为鼓组和铜管带来厚重粗粝的模拟质感，也能在吉他、贝斯等素材上塑造极具个性的饱和音色。同时附带 JPN 设计的皮肤界面，可通过按钮快速切换不同程序，大幅提升工作流程效率，是一套兼顾音色细节与创造性破坏力的 Nebula 扩展库。

Cupwise CupTone vol. 3 Tone+Distortion Nebula Library-ARCADiA

Team ARCADiA | Nebula Library | 452.05 MB

This is volume 3 of my CupTone series, and everything in it is new. There are a lot of really interesting tone programs here, with many of them coming from some very unique, vintage preamps. Other programs are from mixing consoles, outboard equalizers and compressors, and a saturation device. Some have an adjustable EQ band.

A major focus with this release was sampling and recreating not just subtle harmonics, but actual distortion. To that end I spent a lot of time rethinking how I make my programs, and came up with a method entirely different from anything I’ve ever done. 10 of the 35 tone programs are capable of producing distortion. The other 25 programs are great for tone sculpting and some subtle harmonic enhancement, just like the programs in my Cuptone 2 release.

There are also 12 programs for recreating the non-linear dynamics that occur when some of the sampled gear was driven into saturation. In total there are 47 programs (for each sample rate), sampled from 22 different types of gear.

This library is available in 44.1, 48, 88.2, and 96khz sample rates (you get all 4 sample rates when purchasing).

This release has a couple of skins by JPN, which allow you to switch between all of the available programs by clicking buttons, quickly and easily.

DEMO VIDEOS:

Here I’m showing off some of the distortions possible, first with some drums, then a short brass clip. You hear both dry (no processing) first, then I’m switching through various distortion programs (both for the dynamic and tone instances), and with different combinations of settings, which can result in different sounds even from the same program.

Same as the previous video, but this time with an acoustic, then bass guitar. You wouldn’t normally want to distort such a nice acoustic guitar, but I’m just trying to give you an idea of what these distortions can do!

Last, here’s a video that shows you how to get distortion, using the Dist programs in Cuptone 3.