Sustain Pedal Perc by Sage Reynolds

Description

One day, while moving gear in my home studio, I accidentally kicked the sustain pedal for one of my keyboards, producing a pleasant ringing note from the object.

This inspired me to record the sound of the pedal being struck with a mallet, using a close mic (dynamic, Shure SM57) and a matched pair of stereo room mics (condenser, RØDE M5). Ten samples were chosen at progressive velocities, before being processed two different ways. The first set was left Dry while the second set, named Recall, has reverb and a subtle loop when controller keys (or your sustain pedal) are held down.

Sustain Pedal Perc (the first sample instrument Sage ever created) has a cute, textured, marimba-ish sound and has been used for composition and sound design projects. With reverb, it can sound like a sonar ping…. bloop.

Features:

• Dry group and Recall group (looped, reverb added) blended using CC1 (Blend). 
• Volume/Expression (Expr.) mapped to CC11. 
• Low Pass Filter (LPF) control mapped to CC21. 
• Reverb control. 
• AVack, Decay, Sustain, and Release (A, D, S, R) controls.
  

Audio Demos:

Sage’s Website: https://sagereynolds.ca