Instruments
“I strummed on the old acoustic, waiting for the computer to unfreeze. When I put it down, the machine sang back to me: a digital lyre bird performing the symphony of its own vibrant forest.”
The Witness
NB-GTR
- Aggressive Stereo Guitars
- 80MB, 15 Round Robins
- Outputs a DI Signal for Reamping
NB-BS
- Aggressive Picked Bass
- 30MB, 15 Round Robins
- Outputs a DI Signal for Reamping
Built for Rhapsody
NEATBrain Instruments are an extension of the free Rhapsody Player, available for VST & AU for Windows, MacOS & Linux.
Rhapsody is fast, stable, open source and supported by most major DAWs.
Support Development
NEATBrain Instruments are free, for everyone, forever.
If you find them valuable and can afford to do so, please consider supporting future instrument development by subscribing to one of the Patreon Tiers.
Installation
- Download and extract the .ZIP Archive, place both .LWZ files in a single chosen directory (keep them both in the same folder, do NOT extract their contents).
- Download & Install the free Rhapsody Player (VST & AU).
- Open Rhapsody (sign-in optional), click “Add Product” -> “Manual Install“.
- Click the Folder Button -> Navigate to one of the downloaded .LWZ files.
- Choose a location to install the Samples -> Click “Install“.
System Requirements
- Digital Audio Workstation with VST or AU support (AAX Not Supported).
- Rhapsody Player (Free)
- Up to 200MB for Download & HDD Space per Instrument
- Modern Intel/AMD/Apple Silicon Native Processor
- 8GB System RAM
The NEATBrain Engine
NEATBRAIN GIF GOES HERE
NEATBrain is the successor to the now deprecated NEAT Player. It is an extension of the free Rhapsody plugin, available for VST & AU, and uses advanced spectral decomposition, digital waveguide synthesis and residue sampling to accomplish things traditional Sample Libraries are incapable of.
NEATBrain first reconstructs the Modal Representations of a set of recorded samples using the Reassigned Bandwidth-Enhanced Additive Sound Model. It then repitches these Modal Representations across the keyrange and truncates them, resulting in perfectly tuned, tonally consistent Digital Waveguides.
These Waveguides are then looped with a single cycle-length Sampler, making use of up to 15 (or more) Round-Robin variations, and processed further to recreate the natural decay of the original samples. The atonal or noisy section of the signal, known as the Residue, is then played alongside these Waveguides to fully reconstruct the original sound of the instrument.
Because the primary elements are separated, they can be processed individually to modify the timbral characteristics of each, as well as introduce non-linearities like Pitch Randomization, Frequency Dampening and Envelopes.
The final instrument sounds better than a typical Sample Library, has exposed synthesis parameters for the end-user to sculpt the sound, AND uses 1/100th the Memory and Disk footprints.
It’s also free, for everyone, forever.
NEATBRAIN INSTALLATION VIDEOS GO HERE