Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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A kotatsu is a Japanese low heated table. It is so warm but almost always puts me to sleep. That is how the name “Kotatsu Naps” came about. This is a dramatic actor portrayal of how the song originally came together. I was playing guitar along to the end of a record’s pop as a kind of metronome. By the time I came up with most of the chord changes I was already half asleep.
More Lullatone stuff:
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Bandcamp: lullatone.bandcamp.com
Sample Packs: lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com
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A kotatsu is a Japanese low heated table. It is so warm but almost always puts me to sleep. That is how the name “Kotatsu Naps” came about. This is a dramatic actor portrayal of how the song originally came together. I was playing guitar along to the end of a record’s pop as a kind of metronome. By the time I came up with most of the chord changes I was already half asleep.
More Lullatone stuff:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/3h100hRlLZ7QDz8GRt5QsD
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/lullatone/34467705
Bandcamp: lullatone.bandcamp.com
Sample Packs: lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com
Instagram: instagram.com/lullatone
Website / Email: lullatone.com
![Bells Samples [FREE Kontakt, Ableton, and OP-1 patches]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nWGJQ1mReyg/mqdefault.jpg "Bells Samples [FREE Kontakt, Ableton, and OP-1 patches]
Get the sounds here:
https://lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com/album/bells-sample-set-ableton-and-kontakt-instruments-in-zip
I made a sample library out of so many bells.
There are some colorful cute hand bells, a beautiful bell tree toy that used to sit in our sons window until he got too big for it, the entrance bell to our buddys bed and breakfast at a cabin in the mountains in Nagano, Japan, another big bell recorded at a campsite, some bicycle bells at the park, a special patch recorded onto an old Reader’s Digest cassette recorder from decades ago, and even a really dreamy patch made by looping just the soft sustains of a bell to get gorgeous drones.
I turned them into 10 patches for Native Instruments Kontakt, Ableton Live (Simpler and Sampler), the OP-1 by Teenage engineering, and even the original sample files are in there in case you want to import them into any other kind of sampler like fruity loops, logic or cubase.
I know bells aren’t the type of instrument you need to use every day, but maybe there will be some project that needs the melody doubled up with a ring or click-y attack tone. Or maybe you are doing some sound design for alarms or something and you need a rattling sound to grab people’s attention. Anyway, I hope somehow someday they help you make some nice melodies!
Let me know if you use them in something cool.
High fives,
Shawn / Lullatone
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![PATATAP - Now with MIDI [WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o5igwpQIpi4/mqdefault.jpg "PATATAP - Now with MIDI [WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS]
https://patatap.com [WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS]
App for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/patatap/id880626868?ls=1&mt=8
Patatap is an audio visual beatbox that lets you play the internet like an instrument. When you open the Patatap site and type a letter on your keyboard (or touch the screen on the app) it simultaneously triggers an animation and sound in your browser allowing you to make polyphonic polyoptic beats and images at the same time. It is part art, app and instrument all rolled into one.
Patatap was originally released in 2014 by Jono Brandel and Lullatone.
For the 7 year anniversary, we updated the app to receive MIDI input. Now you can control the sound and visuals with external MIDI controllers or Ableton (send MIDI wirelessly using the IAC or network setting)
For the online version, just go to
https://patatap.com/?midi=true in Chrome
to use the MIDI enabled version. It should automatically detect any MIDI inputs. We hope you have a lot of fun playing with it!
Thanks for checking it out,
Shawn & Yoshimi & Jono")
