The audio demo above only uses instruments from this pack. No melodies or MIDI patterns are included, and no games were sampled.
8-Bit Arpeggios
Arpeggios are an integral part of chiptune music, and the 8-Bit Arpeggios pack is a large collection of 8-bit sample instruments with all of the basic arpeggio types, including:
- Major, Minor, Perfect 5th & Octave Arpeggios
- Square, Triangle, and 2 Pulse Width Variations
- Fast & Slow Variations
- various Chord Intervals and Arpeggio Directions
Each instrument also has two patches, one for sustained notes and one for stabs. Both instruments use the same samples but have different volume envelopes. These envelopes can easily be changed within the software samplers.
This pack contains:
- 5256 8-Bit Arpeggio Samples
- 144 Arpeggio Instrument Patches (72 Sustained and 72 Stabs) for Native Instruments Kontakt, Ableton Live, Maschine, Logic Pro EXS24/Sampler, FL Studio, MPC Expansion Pack, and TAL-Sampler
- 24-bit, 44.1 kHz WAV files
- 1.1 GB
Due to the rhythmic nature of arpeggiated sounds, every single note within the playing range has its own sample, and therefore every instrument has 73 samples. And with 72 instruments, this adds up to over 5000 8-bit arpeggio samples.
The audio demo above only uses instruments from this pack. No melodies or MIDI patterns are included, and no games were sampled.
Due to the limitations of the original sound chip, arpeggios were often used as a replacement for chords. With only three tracks available for melodic notes, in order to simulate having chords while also having a melodic lead on one track and a bass line on another, composers used fast arpeggios to 'trick' the brain into hearing chords. As they were not truly chords in the sense of playing several notes simultaneously, arpeggios also had the effect of adding a lot of movement and energy into the music, making them popular to include in compositions.
Instrument Patches:
- 64 Major 8-Bit Arpeggio Instrument Patches
- 48 Minor 8-Bit Arpeggio Instrument Patches
- 24 Perfect 8-Bit Arpeggio Instrument Patches
- 8 Octave 8-Bit Arpeggio Instrument Patches
Sample List:
- 2336 Major Arpeggio Notes
- 1752 Minor Arpeggio Notes
- 876 Perfect Arpeggio Notes
- 292 Octave Arpeggio Notes
Instrument Formats & Required Software:
- Kontakt Instrument Patches (.nki), Kontakt 4+
- Maschine Expansion Pack (.mxsnd), Maschine 2+
- Ableton Live Pack (.adv), Live 9+
- FL Studio DirectWave Patches (.dwp), FL Studio 12+
- MPC Expansion Pack (.xpn), MPC Software or MPC Beats
- EXS24/Sampler Instrument Patches (.exs), Logic Pro 9+
- TAL Instrument Patches (.talsmpl), TAL Sampler 3+
- Single WAV files (.wav), usable in any DAW or audio software