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Continuo Collection – Featuring 2 Cinematic Kontakt Instruments

Coming off the release of Continuo and Continuo 2, Karanyi Sounds now combines both cinematic Kontakt instruments to form the Continuo Collection, in collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist composer and sound designer iamyank.

Continuo is a complex-sounding cinematic texture designer tool based on electric guitars for creating endless pads, unusual soundscapes, characteristic atmospheres and experimental sublayers especially for film, video games and electronic music.

This is the first release of our cinematic series with our brand new, easy-to-use Layer Designer Engine where you can edit, modulate and mix up to 4 individual Instrument Modules at the same time.

Continuo is created in collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist, electronic music producer & composer IAMYANK.

Your continuous journey starts now.

Main Features:

• 18 extra long guitar sample modules with rare sound setups: raw sounding Fender guitar textures with a lot of fortuitousness
• Bowed, tremolos, vibratos, beaten (with a wooden stick) techniques and a 300x stretched guitar patch
• Super large reverbs recorded through Eventide & Strymon effect processors
• Equipment used: UA1176, Roland Dimension D, Studer A800, Pultec EQP-1, UAD RAW, Strymon Deco / BigSky, Eventide Blackhole
• New Layer Designer Engine with inspiring, super clean interface
• 60+ Factory & Artist presets
• Over 80 controls on a simplified GUI
• Run up to 4 Sound Modules at the same time
• 8 LFO Modulation presets / Module
• 4 EQ presets / Module
• 2 effects / Module
• 2 Send effects
• Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
• 24bit / 48kHz sample rate
• 2.5 GB lossless compressed size (3.5 GB original size)
• Full version of Kontakt 5.7.3+ required

CONTINUO 2

CINEMATIC TEXTURE DESIGNER

A complex-sounding cinematic piano texture Kontakt instrument for creating massive modulations, ethernal soundscapes and hybrid keyboard themes. Continuo 2 follows the concept of its ancestor with a fresh new look, exciting features on a super intuitive interface.

This Kontakt instrument collection focuses on complex-sounding cinematic textures: build massive modulations, ethereal soundscapes, hybrid keyboard themes from super quiet scores to enormous trailer tracks and electronic music. Continuo 2 is based on exceptional quality piano recordings, analog synths and various sound design tools. Created in collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist composer and sound designer iamyank.

MAIN FEATURES

• 500 Pulse Instruments for instant playability
• A massive array of content
• 40GB including analog synths, digital synths and organic instruments
• Up to 4 separate pulses at one time
• All pulses lock to tempo
• Rhythms: Looper, Step Sequencers, Arpeggiators, LFOs
• 4 central MACRO sliders unique to each of the 500 Pulse Instruments
• Important Note: The Full Version of Kontakt 5 is required in order to run this software.

Character Design. Creative Morphing.
Simple controls, complex sounds: meet our brand new Continuo 2 engine with a futuristic organic look! Blend between 4 heavily sound designed instruments, browse our artist presets to get inspired or create your very own hybrid sounds from scratch.

More tools. Polyrhythmic Modulation.
There are no bad choices! Twist, blend, squash, tousle, filter, sharpen, dim, wow, blur, echo, overdrive… with over 40+ new controls and special effects to play with. Now with an additional transient layer control, Prophet 5 style filters, dual pulse control and extended master chain tools.

Woods. Metals. Oscillators. – The sound sources
We sampled iamyank piano with different unconventional mic setups and playing techniques. The library contains a traditional piano, a prepared and a hand picked instruments. We enhanced the recordings with various synths such as Sequential Circuits Rev2 and Moog modular modules to give bite, depth and real analog low end to the instrument patches. 

Samples are recorded with analog gear and ran through cassettes and tapes to give a more organic feel. We also processed some of our patches with digital granular effects & distortion stompboxes. Also included are 80+ Artist presets from music composers and sound designers.

Unique Audio Plugin

Important note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT 6.5.2. The free Kontakt Player is not sufficient.

An otherworldly experience for Kontakt 6 has just landed! Playable lead and atmospheric sounds, drones, soundscapes, hits, risers, whooshes, braams, wave tables, rhythmic loops and lots of unearthly textures and effects.

UAP brings you a unique alien engine to push your music and sound design to another dimension.

You can bend time and space, blend into different sound dimensions, engage lots of alien-sounding FX, add organic movement and pulses and/or engage the auto-pilot and just sit back/enjoy your space flight listening to which unknown and exotic places your sounds are taken to. Last but not least, you can drag&drop your own samples (up to 128) and tweak them inside the engine, importing your favorite sample packs or expanding the instrument with future expansion packs especially designed and optimized for UAP.

Built-In Effects And Controllers

• Flying Saucer Big Knob: it blends into multiple sound dimensions
• Green Fireballs (Foo Fighters): they bend Time and Space
• Signals (Orange Fireballs): they control Delay level and feedback)
• Anti-Gravity: choose among 35 unearthly FXs
• Lift: choose among 41 time-dilation FXs
• Propulsion: it adds movement and pulsing
• Amplifier: it changes speed of the propulsion in terms of rhythmical subdivision
• Emitter: it changes shape of the propulsion
• Reactor: it adds tube distortion
• Autopilot
• Abduct Your Samples: drag&drop up to 128 samples and tweak them in the engine

20 Instruments/NKIs

• Black Triangle
• Casebook
• Deepspace
• Element 115
• Encounters
• Evolving Theory
• Granular Environment
• Gravitational Waves
• High Strangeness
• Hybridization
• Infradimensional Tones
• Nuke Connection
• Observables
• Otherworldly
• Phoenix Lights
• Summer of the Saucers
• The 4th Kind
• Their Planet
• There is only one of us
• Unidentified Submerged Objects

Lunaris v1.5 is a pad instrument, containing pads only from classic analog pads to lush ambient pads, cinematic pads and any pads in between including 30 original Luftrum pads from the Prophet-6.

Lunaris also contains sequenced pads, underscoring elements and a selection of dark, avantgarde and obscure pads. Lunaris is 4.5GB and ships with over 500 presets created by world-class sound designers such as Arksun, Bigtone, Himalaya, Luftrum, Sonic Underworld, Martin Walker, Adam Pietruszko, Twolegs Toneworks and Brandon Clark.

At the heart of Lunaris are 2700 meticulously hand trimmed samples, collected in over 200 sound sources of multisampled pads, field recordings, synth transients and soundscapes available to mix, sculpt and shape into the perfect pad structure.

Not only is Lunaris a dream pad machine, it is also a full bodied creative tool that can excel at anything from soundscapes to synth leads, as well as drones and organic textures, complementing both the producer, composer and the sound designer.

Lunaris is licensed to and made for the free Kontakt Player so the full version of Kontakt is not required. It will run without limits in the free Kontakt Player or the full version of Kontakt v5.6.8 or later, and can be loaded directly in your DAW, including FL Studio, Live, Reason Studios, Logic etc. as any other plugin and no other software is required. Lunaris is fully NKS compatible and designed for use with Komplete Kontrol and Machine.

MAIN FEATURES

• 500 presets by pristine sound designers
• NKS ready for Komplete Kontrol and Machine
• 200 high quality multisampled 24Bit sound sources
• No need for the full version of Kontakt
• Loads in the free Kontakt Player without limitations
• No other software needed to play Lunaris
• Flux Motion, Modulation and Effect Chain per layer
• Create, mix, sculpt and save your own pads
• 16-page PDF User Manual included

Brought by SoundIron and designed for film & game composers/sound-designers, this collection includes a full selection of chromatic articulations, melodic phrases and exquisitely sound-designed cinematic effects, pads and atmospheric elements.

The lead vocal content is intuitively playable and the phrases and effects are easy to use in any project, making this library an ideal source of inspiration that’s perfect for nearly any music or video production need that comes your way. It all combines into a complete, efficient and deeply-refined toolbox that comes fully equipped with our flexible and full-featured user interface.

Mimi’s otherworldly vocal style effortlessly fuses ambient, dream pop, EDM, and cinematic vocal styles. This library includes 4,413 samples, exploring the two extremes of her creative style: Light and Shadow.

The chromatic content features sustain, staccato and true legato chromatic articulations for the Ah, Ee, Mm and Oo vowels. It also includes 1,295 live tempo-synching melodic phrases conveniently organized by mood, key and tempo.

This library goes far beyond the realms of the “norm” with an extended collection of hand-crafted sound-designed atmospheric content created by Mimi herself, divided into angelic, mystical, haunting and horror sections that are perfect for adding dreamy soundscapes, unnerving stingers and otherworldly underscores.

This library includes a full package of vital chromatic and melodic lead vocal articulations, featuring sustain, staccato, vocal SFX and true legato for (Ah, Ee, Mm and Oo).

It also includes a huge collections of captivating live phrases divided up by 100bpm and 140bpm tempos and the Ethereal Dreamscapes for both Light & Shadow categories. You can craft your own parts using the chromatic articulations and your midi keyboard, and shape, blend and sequence the live melodic phrases to fit your arrangements with our phrase-legato, step sequencer, speed-control and live waveform editing controls.

The phrases are intuitively organized by root tempo and key. However, tempo-syncing, time-stretching and pitch transposition controls give you complete freedom to customize any phrase.

Mimi also created a sweeping variety of mystical atmospheric effects, pads, drones, stingers, risers, swells, falls and clusters using her voice that are perfect for creating dramatic tension, dreamy aesthetics, lush soundscapes and surreal envonrments in films, video games. electronic music and more.

We recorded Mimi in a dry studio environment, using a high dynamic range, large-diaphragm Neumann studio microphone and Sound Devices preamps to get maximum detail, clarity, fidelity and clean dynamic range.

We’ve also included our comprehensive FX Rack, with compression, delay, filter, EQ, amp/speaker simulation and convolution reverb, featuring dozens of rooms, cathedrals and otherworldly fx to open endless possibilities.

• Ah, Ee, Mm, and Oo natural true legato
• Vowel Sustains, Staccatos and Vocal SFX.
• 100bpm and 140bpm tempos for both Light and Shadow phrase categories.
• Over a thousand melodic phrases in multiple keys, with pitch transposition, instant pattern sequencing, legato blending, tempo-synching/time-stretching, shaping and more.
• 300 ambient pads, effects and atmospheres.
• 871 ethereal vocal dreamscapes.
• Easy to navigate melodic phrases, organized intuitively by style, native tempo and root key.
• Fluid sequencer allows for per-step phrase start and end markers.
• Vocal Ambiences, Atmospheres and custom melodic pad instruments crafted directly from Mimi’s voice.
• Vocal performance breaths for added realism.
• Swell control allows real-time dynamic performance shaping.
• Full Multi-FX rack panel with Chorus, Compression, Distortion, Amp and Cab simulation, EQ, Delay and Reverb
• Our Reverb rack unit includes 25 unique creative FX convolutions and 45 excellent live rooms, studios, chambers, cathedrals, halls and other real-world environments, with flexible tone, size and mix controls.
• Fully automatable, with customizable key switch and GUI controls.
• Convenient real-time visual wave-form display.

• 4.72 GB Installed (7.6 GB uncompressed)
• 4,413 Samples
• 8 master NKI instrument banks
• Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
• Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
• Works with the Kontakt “Libraries” browser and Native Access.

Mimi Page is a singer, songwriter, producer, and composer born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

Her dreamy, ethereal music and haunting, angelic vocals have been featured in a multitude of soundtracks and scores for film, television, and video games. Mimi’s music is a transformative and emotionally captivating experience and her unique sound is a catalyst for all who listen to go inward, self-reflect, and journey the expansiveness of their own imagination.

Mimi’s original music has been featured on Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures”, Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance”, and NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”, to name a few.

As a composer, she’s provided original scores for the documentary features “The Demon House” and “The Trade”, along with numerous short films. She’s also composed original scores for the indie video games, “Ancient Frontier”, “She Dreams Elsewhere” and “The Lighthouse”.

As a vocalist, Mimi’s collaborated with Inon Zur on video game soundtracks “Dungeons & Dragons: Sword Coast Legends”, Ubisoft’s “Eagle Flight” and Bethesda’s “Fallout 4: Far Harbor”.

She’s collaborated with over 30 artists in the electronic music genre, including Bassnectar, Delerium, Conjure One, Seven Lions and Illenium. In addition to her professional music career, Mimi’s extremely passionate about sharing her knowledge through music education, working with UCLA and the ADIDAS Sound Lab as a mentor and artist development coach for Los Angeles high-school students.

Mimi’s goal as an artist is to inspire people to nurture their own unique voices and to use music as an outlet and tool for communication and self-expression. She believes that music is our universal language and has a profound ability to help heal and unify our world.

NORDISK KONTRABASS is a unique upright bass instrument designed for film composers and music producers looking for fresh and original sounds.

PLEASE NOTE: REQUIRES FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT

Superbly performed by a top creative player, Nordisk Kontrabass is great both as a fat, real-sounding upright bass and as a stand-alone compositional tool, capable of delivering beautiful and engaging string harmonies and textures, powerful rhythms and emotive melodies that will make your music stand out. 

It is influenced by the styles of composers and musicians who redefined film-scoring and contemporary music. References were Jóhann Jóhannson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, Arvo Pärt, most minimalistic music and contemporary European ECM-like improvised music.

The library features 100% playable, full range legato and pizzicato, lots of techniques and textures never sampled before and gives you tons of colour variations and articulations to set cinematic vibes in seconds. You can model new and surprising grooves by using the built-in arpeggiator or manipulate all the phrases and textures recorded for you to personalize them, changing the tempo, performing ritardando and accelerando in real-time, reversing, adding top-class effects and enter a new sound design realm by engaging the ICE knob.

Perfect for epic cues as well as intimate and fragile soundscapes to bring some of the most inspiring Scandinavian and European atmospheres into your compositions.

Features

• 14000+ samples

Mic Options:

• Stereo MIC
• DI

Built-in Effects and Controllers:

• Arpeggiator
• Selection of 9 top-class reverbs
• Ice effect
• Delay
• Reverse
• Warp (real-time controllable time-stretch)
• Legato speed

Articulation and Preset List:

Melodic

• Full range Whales Legato and Phrases 
• Glissando Whales 
• Harmony of Whales 
• Harmony of Whales 2 
• Full range Pizzicato with 5 articulations/key switches (normal pizzicato, slides, harmonics, fret FX, Street Slap) 
• Double stops pizzicato 
• Thumb choked pizzicato 
• Weird pizzicato 
• Harmonics 
• Natural harmonics 
• Anjor 
• Dirty tremolo 

Textural

• Twisted pizzicato textures 
• Wood body percussions 
• Bow textures 
• Low Engines 
• Unusual Textures 
• Rises 
• Falls 
• Pizzicato drone 1 
• Pizzicato drone 2 
• Pizzicato drone 3