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AUDIO HEAVEN BBC Radiophonic Workshop is making a huge range of original sounds and samples publicly available
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collaboration between Spitfire Audio and BBC Studios is bringing the release of an unprecedented package of samples from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, creator of audio for shows from Doctor Who to Tomorrow’s World , including the Tardis engine and Daleks’ voices. For 40 years, the Radiophonic Workshop was the place to go for the sound of the impossible – the unruly engine behind the music and sound effects of Doctor Who , The Goon Show , Blake’s 7 , The
inspire artists. Musicians will be able to use modern techniques of bending, stretching and morphing to create something new, as well as having access to a variety of mics, the EMT turntable and Rogers loudspeakers made especially for the BBC, the Maida Vale plate and spring reverbs, modular synths, tape machines, EMS vocoder, echo chamber, Roland SVC-350 vocoder and Eventide H3000. These will be divided into Archive Content, Found Sounds, Junk Percussion, Tape Loops, Synths and a Miscellany.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , The Living Planet and countless other productions from the BBC. The workshop’s unconventional methods produced a distinctive sonic signature that continues to
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