Mora - faded, cinematic melancholy

mora - a moment.

A pivot point, a tiny slice of time between

What went before and what is yet to come

A statement of intent, a cautious return

A spark, a first step towards

Whatever this, will, be.

mora is based on a set of samples recorded from my small Tangible Waves modular system and a Novation Summit, processed & sampled using Elektron Octatrack and Tonverk samplers. Additionally a few field recordings captured with an old Sony tape dictaphone and a Sony PCM-D50 digital recorder. A great deal of character and imperfection is present in the samples and brought out further within TAL Sampler.
As usual for my packs the samples are quite long. With this and the modulation possibilities in TAL Sampler the results are alive, expressive, dynamic instruments which avoid that inherent static, repeating aspect that can afflict sample-based instruments.

The samples are included in WAV format so you can use them in any sampler or DAW.

All presets have velocity & mod wheel mapped, some with aftertouch. All presets have the Param knobs P1 & P2 mapped to allow macro tweaking of timbre, noise, layer balance, degradation, crushing etc. on the fly without digging into the patch structure, these can also be automated in your DAW.

The patches are rusty, imperfect, liminal, melancholic, hopeful. Cinematic, dark, bright, warm, thin, analog, digital. Tired, faded, like memories. Basses, keys, drones and immersive, evolving pads.
Here's a playlist of 3 musical demos using only sounds from mora with no processing or fx:

55 presets based on ~470mb of original samples.

no AI, just a real, human scottish person, obsessed with creating sounds that make you want to make music.

comes with 4 TAL Sampler colour themes, including a light one for you weirdos who like light themes! ;)

Please read the install instructions and make sure to update TAL Sampler or the presets may not work. mora was produced and tested on v4.9.4 of TAL Sampler.

I’ll be porting mora, and future sample-based packs, to other platforms. The other versions will be added to this download so one purchase gets you all versions! If you buy the TAL version now you will be notified as the other versions are added over the next few months.
Likely candidates are Ableton, Bitwig & Falcon but join my Patreon community, mailing list or follow me on Bluesky, Mastodon or Instagram for updates.

this was a cathartic release for me. created during a very difficult year,
after a few difficult years, but we all have difficult years.

grief is hard, it can feel like everything stopped, nothing matters.
it gets better. it will be ok again. everything's going to be ok.

mora - the setup used to create, process and record the samples