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A Four Layered Synthesis Engine & Sound-Design library built for Kontakt

Aevium is a powerfully unique collection of fierce lead synths and atmospheric pads, developed in partnership with the premier sound effects and Foley production house BOOM Library, sound designed by our team using only source sounds from their Birds Of Prey avian sound effect library as our point of origin. We love to challenge ourselves as sound designers here at Soundiron, seeking ever more exotic acoustic sources to explore and shape into musically compelling and intuitively playable virtual instruments.

Birds Of Prey is a comprehensive post-production sound effects library capturing the essence of owls, eagles, crows, hawks, falcons, vultures and other raptors, corvids and large birds of prey.

Perfect for creating natural wildlife soundscapes and character/creature sounds, it’s an essential tool for sound design and post-production for video games, film, television, video, advertising and more. Visit BOOM Library for more info about Birds Of Prey.

To build Aevium, we selected a wide variety of raw source sounds from Birds Of Prey and worked for months to warp, stretch, modulate, glitch, overdrive, and generally tear into to bits and bytes and re-synthesize them into a stunning sample-based virtual instrument library. We’ve hand-crafted 11GB of sound-designed content, with over 1800 samples. The preset browser tree makes it easy to explore and create! Everything is conveniently organized into a variety of helpful and efficiently searchable musical, textural and aesthetic categories.

The user interface is built on our popular Ouroboros ambient synthesis engine (Ambius Prime, Quadral), so the creative possibilities are truly limitless.

Whether you’re looking for classic punchy lead patches, warm fuzzy pads, dark drones, bubbling atmospherics, otherworldly textures or just pure flights of imagination, Aevium is your wing man!

The main user interface is built around four separate quadrants, an assignable XY Pad, quick modulator + filter routing menus, and arpeggiator system to expand your creative potential. Each layer has fully independent sound-shaping options including Attack, Release, Offset, Pitch and Pan. Every quadrant has its own individual filter with 39 built-in filter types, as well as modulators using a variety of sources: LFO, ADSR and Velocity with 5 selectable targets: Volume, Pitch, Pan, Filter Frequency, Filter Resonance.

The central XY Pad can be used in a variety of ways but defaults as volume control between the 4 layers.

Each axis can be customized to affect a different parameter and can be used to control filters or a select amount of FX options. Rhythmic motion can also be added to the XY Pad, automatically adjusting each axis in a tempo-syncable way. You can also limit the X and Y range to create new patterns and fluctuations in tone.

Specifications:

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• Over 20 categories of sample based synth sustains, staccatos, basses, leads, and FX
• Over 400 factory presets: inspirational rocket fuel
• 4-Layer Morphing Engine with XY Pad Mixer and Randomize capabilities
• 1,810 stereo 24-bit 48kHz PCM Wav samples
• 11.2 GB Installed
• Custom Preset Import and Export, with intelligent random preset generator
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

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 

A hard-hitting drum sample library built for Kontakt

Knockout Drums is a hard-hitting drumkit sample library created in collaboration with metal drummer extraordinaire Navene Koperweis (Entheos, Animosity, Animals As Leaders) and seasoned mixing engineer/producer Zack Ohren (Machine Head, All Shall Perish, Aborted). Whether you’re looking for a gigantic live room feel or a super- focused and tight studio sound, this kit crushes it.

Navene obsessively sampled every nuance of his Starclassic Bubinga drumkit at Sharkbite Studios to bring you a massive collection of hand-picked drums including 7 snares, 3 kicks, and a variety of Meinl cymbals designed to strike hard and show no mercy. Each element can be dialed in to your personal taste with a wide selection of carefully selected microphone models recorded through a 1978 Trident TSM console.

We utilized a unique stereo pair for each drum using TLM 103’s, top and bottom mics for snare & toms, kick and sub, and a selection of room mic options that offer you complete sonic freedom to tackle everything from progressive & death metal to rock, pop, breakbeat and dance styles and everywhere in-between. This library has all the power tools and performance features you need to get a great-sounding drum mix right out-of-the-box, no matter what tonal style you’re after.

We’ve packed the user interface with powerful sound-shaping controls to give you complete flexibility. The Master Kit presets contain every sample in the library and a host of powerful performance features. Use the Remapper to create custom drum mappings or load any of our factory presets which include a number of common drum maps for easy use with existing MIDI drum loops and grooves. Our powerful mixer allows you to route each instrument track to any available output in Kontakt and includes individual control for Volume, Pan, FX Send, and Stereo width, from mono to full stereo spread, as well as an FX chain with compressor, limiter, 4-band parametric EQ and more! The Master section features Space and Delay FX sends with a wide variety of options for each.

In the advanced settings pull-down window, you’ll also find an adaptable per-layer LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 13 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, mod-wheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator features a built-in velocity sequencer table and control over arp direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration.

Soundtracks, Cinematic and Trailer music

Attractor is a comprehensive Kontakt library for the composers and producers of soundtracks, cinematic and trailer music. It is a wonderful inspiration and production tool. This sound pack includes all-new sound effects in multiple categories, such as hits, whooshes, drops, bends, alarms, tonal elements, pulses and much more.

Attractor library contains not only Kontakt instruments, but also uncompressed WAV samples to provide the best usability, whether you prefer to drag-and-drop sounds to your DAW or use Kontakt.

Features

On the keyboard in Attractor every blue key has a different sample on it. The last played key is colored in red. The green range marks the keys for pitching samples, and the default pitch key is C0, colored in violet.

At the top of the interface there is an internal mini-browser. To select a sound bank click on the button with its title. To see more banks included in the patch use the buttons with left and right arrows.

The middle section contains the main controllers and functions of sound adjustment. Attack and Release knobs manage the respective parameters of amplitude envelope. Velocity influence on volume is controlled with Velocity knob. Gate and Rate knobs adjust the settings of rhythmic sound interruption.

In Attractor you can instantly adapt samples to your host tempo. Enable TMPro mode and use Speed knob to do it. Also Attractor interface allows you to get all samples reversed and map the last played sample across 5 octaves with Wide Range function.

The effects section in Attractor has 6 slots. All effects are interchangeable, so you can build your own effect chain. To see the parameters of effect, click its title. To change the effect in the current slot, click its title again.

The waveform display contains a visual offset controller. Drag it across the waveform picture to set the needed sample start point.

Specifications

• Requires Kontakt Version Full 5.8
• 5 nkis (Effects, Drums, Melodic Elements, Pulses [stretched], Pulses [sliced])
• 1928 Samples (WAV format)
• Advanced Engine

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

Due to the extremely positive response to Have Audio’s previous instrument Nordisk Kontrabass, they decided to create a whole series called Nørdic Series that will share a brand new engine with lots of enhanced and creative features.

The new engine comes with the well-known ICE blend FX, Time Warp to time-stretch phrases and textures in real-time, built-in arpeggiator, REVERSE FX, and top-class reverb and delay algorithms.

What’s New?

• Drag&Drop slot to import and manipulate your own samples, loops, and future expansion packs.
• ADSR
• Big collection of convolution reverbs including many creative Impulse Response effects
• 6 additional FX to choose between EQ / COMPRESSION / SATURATION/ CHORUS / PHASER / LESLIE
• 4 FX macros
• A new random mode in the arpeggiator for unpredictable and surprising results

NØRDIC CELLO

Deep-sampled and superbly delivered by Parisian cellist Jean-Philippe Feiss, Nørdic Cello is a new sample library that offers total playability, hyper-realism, and tons of creative applications that will make every musician, film composer, and music producer insanely happy!

Tons of articulations: From classic true legato, all kinds of pizzicatos and staccatos, tremolo up to unusual articulations, extended techniques, and cinematic textures.

A totally enhanced engine: including arpeggiator, top-class reverb, and delay algorithms, time warp, a new Drag&Drop feature to import and manipulate your own samples, loops, and future expansion packs inside the Nørdic Engine, ADSR Envelope controls, Reverse FX, 82 convolution reverbs, 6 additional FX to choose between EQ / COMPRESSION / SATURATION / CHORUS / PHASER / LESLIE, with 3 controls for each FX and 4 main FX Macros to assign whatever you want.

Go Nørdic!

Antidrum Machine is the ultimate compendium of alternative instruments, experimental percussive sounds, toys, junk, machines, tools, surfaces and objects and all kinds of other uniquely musical and acoustically interesting sonic sources.

This vibrant palette of musical inspiration contains a vast collection of “found-sounds”, field recordings, prepared objects, surfaces, machines and noisy contraptions, booming bass to tight clicks, clacks, zips, zings, ticks and tocks.

Antidrum Machine includes all of the content from our Antidrum series of libraries (Antidrum 1, Antidrum 2, and Antidrum 3) all well as Cathedral of Junk, Luftballoon, Luminabells, PVC Beatbox Ensemble, and Snow Drums.

We’ve also created a vast new volume of toys, instruments and sound sources exclusively for this compendium.

Antidrum Machine has been built from the ground up for Native Instruments’ free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and Komplete Kontrol platforms, including full support for Maschine and all S-Series keyboards. It’s the perfect collection for composers, sound designers and anyone looking for unconventional musical ideas to round out their musical tool chest.

This library contains 3 different preset types that allow users to interact with the content in different ways. The Dual Layer preset type allows every articulation to be played tuned spread across the key range exposing the sonic qualities of all the sounds. There are two fully configurable layers in this preset type, each with sound selection, LFO, filter and sound shaping controls: volume, attack, offset, release, bass, treble, pitch and panning.

The Single Effects preset type gives users access to all the special single-shot effects that didn’t fit into any velocity or round-robin based articulation. Each Single Effects preset has the same sound controls as each layer in the Dual Layer presets. The Ensemble preset types spread all the articulations across the available key range. LFO, filter, and sound shaping controls are available, as well as mapping customization. Users can remap any articulation to any key, and we include a Random button to really let users explore how a midi beat changes when randomly selected percussive sounds are assigned to the keys.

Every preset type includes our integrated ARP arpeggiator system, featuring a suite of options like rhythm, direction, swing and randomization. The easy Glide feature is also included, instantly turning sustaining content into a monophonic legato/portamento instrument with adjustable pitch bend speed control, and adds an adjustable pitch bend to percussive content.

All LFOs are configurable with user-selectable shape and target parameter, as well as free or tempo-synced speed, depth and attack. Every Filter is powerful, letting users select from 12 different filter types and modulation options such as sustain pedal and step sequencer.

A Deep User Interface

• Powerful Custom User Interface with CC and host automation support for all major DAWs and Komplete Kontrol hardware and software.
• Each layer has its own primary controls for Volume, Attack, Release, Offset, Pitch, Pan, Modulation routing and Filter settings.
• Try the Map window “Randomize” button in the Ensemble presets to instantly generate new ensemble mappings for inspiration on the fly.
• Our FX Rack comes equipped with 18 powerful effect modules, each with configurable controls and customizable routing and chain saving/loading.
• 119 integrated custom convolution reverb IR samples in 10 distinct categories (Cathedral, Chamber, Large Room, Small Room, Hallways, Underground, Outdoors, Long FX and Short FX)

Product Specs

• Product Version 1.0
• 21,038 Samples
• 8.1 GB installed (13.6 GB wav source uncompressed)
• 39 nki Kontakt instrument Banks
• Thousands of unique sound source presets.
• 24 bit / 48kHz lossless compressed NCW samples
• Works with the free Kontakt Player (version 5.6.8+), Komplete Kontrol and all S-Series Keyboards

Kontakt Player

This library has been licensed for use in the free Kontakt Player virtual instrument engine. It can be used in Kontakt Player or the full retail version of Kontakt (version 5.6.8 or later) for VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin formats. You can add this product to the Kontakt “Libraries” browser. It requires online serial number registration through the Native Instruments Service Center app. This library is also fully compatible with Komplete Kontrol and all S-Series Keyboard Controllers by Native Instruments.

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

NASTRO SOUNDSCAPES 

Ready to enter a realm of analog beauty?

NASTRO is the reel experience for Kontakt 6 Full Version!

NASTRO means “tape” in Italian and Soundscapes is the first release of an exciting new series, dedicated to the long-gone world of tapes and reels, bringing a powerful 4-track tape machine experience right on your computer. 

For NASTRO Soundscapes, Have Audio sampled some of their favorite instruments and designed synthetic lead sounds, loops, textures, noises and arpeggios using some of the best analog synthesizers out there. Then, they re-processed all material through lots of vintage tape devices, walkmans, boomboxes, VHS and rare cassette players to get that authentic, noisy tape sound.

4 independent tracks to channel your creativity, a selection of 64 sound sources, 4 playback modes, adjustable speed, 80 factory presets, 58 unique IR effects created from vintage devices and 4 additional FX macros to control panning, EQ, compression and distortion. Reel up and feed your nostalgia! 

SOUND SOURCES

64 sound sources, slightly different on each track and for each playback mode, just like in the analog world! Just do your maths and here you got 1024 unique-flavored sources and you still can adjust playback speed for each of the 4 tracks to slow down, accelerate and stretch the reel, deteriorate the sounds and customize the quality of the artifacts.

The 64 sound sources are organized in 6 thematic categories:

• SYNTHETIC TONES

Have Audio used a wide array of Synths to create these playable patches. From warm vintage analog to modern, cutting edge digital machines, everything was carefully captured, manipulated and re-processed into different tape machines to catch the magic artifacts of the long gone, golden era of
tape recording. 

• SYNTHETIC CHORDS

A tonal set with one-chord-per-key synth sounds, delivering a great starting point for pad and droney stuff. You can choose between minor, major, maj7, min7, sus2, sus4 and augmented. Load chords, engage looping and start composing! 

• SYNTHETIC TEXTURES

Richly detailed layers of synth textures crafted by using rare and obscure pieces of equipment, often mixed with sounds of nature to add an organic touch. Add a pinch of built- in FX and turn textures into lush washes. 

• ARPEGGIATION

Let Arpeggiation take the creative strain out of your patches. Multi-note blocks have been sampled into beaming cascading melodies, bringing a luminous and vibrant life to static chords.

• HYBRID 

These sound sources were created with super creative phrases performed on electro-acoustic instruments such as sax, electric guitar, bouzouki, saz baglama and persian santoor, subsequently heavily-processed through tape machines in order to get that out of tune, wobbling and nostalgic
tone. 

• REEL NOISE 

A set of noises carefully sampled directly from various vintage tape machines with no input: cassette walkmans, dictaphones and big reel to reel units. Add magic to your patches, tones of hiss, wobble and crackling motor sound. Have Audio also added a peculiar synth patch made out of a pitched hiss! 

58 UNIQUE IR EFFECTS

NASTRO’s Send FXs are a big part of the game. So many hours were spent creating and fine-tuning unique convolution reverbs and IR effects to push even further Nastro’s capability. Have Audio sampled both real environment responses for organic results, and vintage pedals and devices for extremely unrealistically huge/small halos. There’s also plenty of tuned resonating IRs to enrich your patches with pedal notes of your choice. 

Back in the days, iffy frequency response, distortion, tape hiss and noise were unwanted side-effects for everyone recording music on tape. Nowadays, all these artifacts are long gone and often badly missed. For this reason, Have Audio decided to develop a Kontakt instrument capable of bringing all the possibilities and “limitations” of their most beloved tape machines. Those that once were limitations can finally become enhancements in this new engine. 

You will find synthetic and hybrid samples painstakingly processed through legendary devices like R2R Akai GX210-D, Sony TC630, Philips 4307, and rare cassette players such as National RQ210-S and boombox Grundig RR1140 just to name a few. 

• 4 playback modes (normal / reverse / loop normal / loop reverse)
• 3 playback speeds for each track in sync mode: normal speed half / double
• Control speed manually with the free mode 
• 58 unique IR effects created from analog equipment and tape devices
• Built in FX Macros: Pan / EQ / Comp / Sat 

80 factory presets/snapshots organized into 8 categories: 

• Arp
• Atmosphere
• Chords
• FX noise 
• Motion
• Perc
• Synthetic 
• Textures 

64 SOUND SOURCES/PATCHES organized into 6 thematic categories:

• 15 SYNTHETIC TONES Patches 
• 21 SYNTHETIC CHORDS Patches 
• 4 SYNTHETIC TEXTURES Patches 
• 7 ARPEGGIATION Patches 
• 11 HYBRID Patches
• 6 REEL NOISE Patches