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FELT 54 is an intimate felt piano with character, it’s not the conventional bright and harmonically complex upright piano.

Stereo sampled from a felt customized upright Yamaha U3 1975 that has been modified in a way that makes the tone more pure, yet preserves its harmonic richness. A 0.8mm felt strip was added between the hammers and strings, and the middle section’s tone of the piano was simplified by muting 2 out of 3 strings per note. The instrument was captured by 3 microphones resulting in a very intimate stereo image.

FELT 54 covers a range of 54 notes, the sweet spot range of this particular piano.

Overview

• 3 EQ Knobs (Low,Mid,High)
• Intimate room reverb
• Tape Delay (Synced Time, Feedback, Send Level)
• Pedal noise and key release noise levels
• a Special TAPE module with 3 knobs (Analogue Tape Hiss, Saturation intensity, Flutter intensity)

FELT 54 is ideal for Ambient music and Melancholic film scores, as well as LO-FI hip-hop music with the Tape settings driven up.

Helios is an incredibly advanced instrument for Kontakt.

Combine two sound sources and rhythmically swap between each sound or create rich evolving soundscapes with gradual modulation. Each channel has an additional 11 individual sequencers which can all be synced to different speeds to control a rich collection of effects in either a pulsed or blendable system. That’s just the start!

On the second page is yet another set of sequencers which control master effects and 60 beautiful, custom-made impulse responses to further colour your sounds.

114 Snapshots

Helios contains 114 professionally designed snapshots to get you started.

Powerful Sequencing

Each sequencer has advanced controls which allow you to change the speed, number of steps, direction, offset, fade-in, nudge and loop individually per sequencer. Each sequencer also has copy/paste functions, randomisation and built-in presets.

Rhythmical Blending

Helios is an incredibly advanced instrument for Kontakt. Combine two sound sources and rhythmically swap between each sound or create rich evolving soundscapes with gradual modulation. There are also presets per sequencer so you can quickly select pre-built tools to add rhythm and variation instantly.

Sound Design

Helios contains 5GB of customer made soundscapes created by a selection of different sound designers. Select your source and manipulate the sounds in creative and unexpected ways.

Unprecedented Control

The 11 effects can be controlled randomly or in positive or negative directions at the press of a button. The amount of control here is unprecendented and opens up a vast world of sound design capabilities.

El Dorado: Legato Ambient Guitar has been created with the idea of achieving a realistic and expressive legato without compromising its playability in order to make it as inspiring as possible.

The library is also accompanied by pads and sustains to immerse yourself in the ambient/post-rock aesthetics.

• An expressive legato capable of playing both fast and slow lines due to it’s many legato transitions.
• Quick results with outstanding quality thanks to the Master Patch.
• Play freely with both hands and enjoy improvising.
• Great modulation capabilities for adding movement to the sounds.
• Quick access to a mix of convolution reverbs and delay for making the sounds as ambient as you want.

The power of the master patch

Aleatoric Keys is an inspirational tool for producers covering a vast variety of genres.

Aleatoric Keys uses sounds from synthesizers and real life recordings and seamlessly morphs them together to form a new era of inspiring sounds. Sound categories include bass, keys & strings, synths, pads and FX, but the individual sounds cover most categories from natural wind instruments to synthesized brass. Having the modern producer in mind, Aleatoric Keys is meant to be the workhorse tool for that “nasty lead” or the “mass” layer for EDM lead synth or pads. Now you can save time to get that unique sound and no more programming of trance leads or pads. Our powerful engine allows you to have a full sound quicker than using regular workflow or you can let it generate some quick and unique ideas using the “randomise” tool. With the sound of Aleatoric Keys you will stand out, which is massively important in the modern world.

The Aleatoric Keys engine is easy to use, but can give rich and complex outcomes. Aleatoric Keys contains four individually adjustable sample sources, each housing an abundance of fully modulatable parameters. The “Source Movement” & “Filter Movement” manipulation pads make your score or come alive and move with the picture.

Aleatoric Keys is a tool only utilizing new sounds that you cannot get anywhere else. Many natural sounds come from synthesized sources and emulate classical instruments, but also, many natural sounds turn into synthesizers.

To make your life easier, many individual sounds come in premixed, so that you can save time making them unique to your mix.

Included Samples & Snapshots

The 160 included instruments range from reinnovated classid EPianos, to gritty bass, ambient pads and soundscapes, EDM and re-envisioned classic synths, Winds and FX. Consequently, Aleatoric Keys were designed for cinematic material, but can be used as an expressive layer in most genres of music. Make your cue or soundtrack unique or add layers of juicy synths with Aleatoric Keys.

The best of what Aleatoric Keys has to offer is available for auditioning right out of the box; with the 112 categorized Snapshots. They are handily divided into “Bass”, “Keys & Strings”, “Pads”, “Synths” & “FX” subgroups for exceptionally efficient sound spectrum fillment. Each snapshot is easily adaptable, making it simple to modify into the perfect sound.

Four Flexible Sample Sources

The four sound sources allow you to layer sounds from “Bass”, “FX”, “Keys”, “Leads”, “Natural”, “Pad”, “Winds” & “Xtra”. Together they will produce an inspiring starter or a progressive continuation to your music.

The controls on each sound source allow you to tailor the sound to your project’s needs, thus making them extremely effective. These include EQ, Envelope & Filter to mix your sounds and make them unique.

Source Movement’ Manipulation Pad

One of Aleatoric Keys most defining features, the “Source Movement” Manipulation Pad permits for unrivalled control over the four sound source gain dynamics. Continually shifting the focus of your key or pad layers, the produced sound will come to life and tell a story for characters on the screen. You can easily change how the sounds mix with each other with the onboard controls and tailor the result to your specific needs.

Filter Movement’ Manipulation Pad

By allowing for the modulation of the filter cutoff frequency and resonance of each audio source independently, ultimate control over the timbre of each layer is now possible. This control over tonal dynamics massively increases possible sound outcomes for interesting and unique sound. When combined with the already impressive freedom of the “Source Movement” Pad, the possibilities truly are infinite.

Edit Modulation’ Menu

Like “Trails” and “AMM” Aleatoric Keys has four LFO’s and four ADSR Envelopes with various Sound Source parameters to choose from. Whether you want control in your hands of how the sound moves and behaves or you want to be surprised by the Randomise function, these tools are there to add dynamic character to your sounds.

Nine Included Effects Units

The nine built-in effects can be used to further mix the sounds or add crazy flavours. Whether you want to thicken up the sound, add distortions or widen your sound, these effects are extremely useful tools at your service.

Edit Randomise’ Page

Randomisation can spark infinite ideas and get a new track started, so we made sure that the randomising engine changes parameters and values that make the most inspirational sense. The randomisation menu puts control in your hands, so you can choose what you would like to change on a sound.

KEY FEATURES

• Four Sample Sources, each being allocated one of 160 instruments and versions
• Multisampled, Multi Velocity level, Articulated and Oneshot instruments
• 112 Thematic Categorized Snapshots
• Independent 3-band EQ, Envelope & Filter Parameters, for each source
• Pitch Shifting Controls, for shifting +/- 36 semitones
• Source-Specific Panning Controls
• Sample Selection Randomisation
• Source Movement Manipulation Pad, controlling the Gain Distribution Ratio
• Filter Movement Manipulation Pad, controlling Filter Cutoff & Resonance on either all sources, or per-source
• “Horizontal”, “Vertical” & “Circular” Modulation Units, for both Manipulation Pads
• “Edit Modulation” Menu, containing 4 LFO Modules, for modulating any source parameter, alongside 4 Envelope Modules, for controlling the dynamics of multiple different source parameters
• “Edit Effects” Menu, featuring 9 different Effects Modules; Chorus, Distortion, Lo-Fi (Bitcrusher), Replika Delay, Spatial (Stereo Field Enhancer), Filter, Phasis (Phaser), Convolution (Reverb) & Flair (Tuned, Harmonics-Enhancing Flanger)
• “Edit Randomise” Page, housing toggles for the randomisation of multiple sets of parameters
• Full version of Kontakt 6.7+ required. Not for Kontakt Player

A lush, dreamy strings instrument that combines 6 strings modules

Nuage – Strings Designer is a lush, dreamy strings instrument that combines 6 strings modules:

• Violin section
• Solo violin
• Viola sectio
• Tape strings
• Cello section
• Solo double bass

Overview:

All strings can be played either in Sustain or Tremolo, and expression can be controlled with the modulation wheel.

Each Instrument has it’s separate controls and settings like panning, expression, envelope…

Each section has up to 9 effects and modulators like 2 LFO’s, reverb, delay…

This instrument is not convenient for fast and big orchestral productions, it’s more suitable for intimate, experimental, expressive, ambient and slower music.

Please note: The FULL version of Kontakt 6.6 or above is required. Not for Kontakt Player

Seiko DS250 – A strange and extremely rare Additive synthesiser from the 1980’s and used by J.M Jarre on his Rendezvous album.

The DS250 has a set of presets built into it and it allows for you to stack two presets by pressing a dual function key to select layer 1 and layer 2; it is a little awkward pressing these buttons, so our version just has two sets of 16 preset select buttons which is much easier.

The D-250 relies on some form of additive synthesis to create its sound and produces tones that are not clean and pristine, but instead have a wonderful earthy, organic and grainy sound that have bags of character.

After searching for many years to find one of these illusive keyboards I was immediatly struck by its great set of presets, but I thought it was let down by not being velocity sensitive – So that was the first thing we added to Castle Instruments version. I also thought it could benefit from resonant filters, so we added those and also added velocity modulation to allow control of the Filter Cutoff and resonance; this really added so much expression to the sounds. We also added multiple filter types which can be selected from the filter menu on the interface.

We also added controllable ADSR for amp and filter, Hi-Pass filters, and MIDI syncable LFO’s; all of these extra features take the sounds way beyond what can be achived with just the hardware synth. Of course our version has the original sounds from the hardware DS-250 and we created the factory presets for you in the preset folder, but it is great to be able to go way beyond what the hardware can do and explore new sounds – sort of like if Seiko had added all these new features to their original hardware.

Our version also has two random patch generators – one for each preset layer which makes it easy to throw some chaos theory into your patch creation and just hit randomise until you get something you like.

Also included is a full effects section including: Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Tape saturation/warmth, Reverbs, MIDI syncable Delays and an arpeggiator.

The Castle Instruments DS-2500 is great for taking a journey into the strange and digital world of additive sounds and textures who’s roots are firmly entwined in the original sounds from the DS-250 hardware and comes with 100 presets and 30 MULTI’s to get you started.

Features:

• 110 Presets
• 30 Multis
• Randomisation System
• 2 Layers (16 Voices per Layer)
• 41 Filters with LFO
• Arpeggiator
• 7 Global Effects
• Convolution Reverbs
• Full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 Required – not for Kontakt Player

The Composer Cello is a suite of organic Cello instruments paired with a carefully curated set of inspirational analogue pads for Kontakt 6.7.1

The Composer Cello has been created using the beguiling musicianship of one of the UK’s leading session cellists: Liz Hanks: Liz Hanks (Richard Hawley, Self Esteem, Pulp, Liam Gallagher).

Features

At the heart of this instrument are 3762 meticulously crafted samples, recorded at Kinema Audio’s renowned 1600sq foot Studio 1. The instrument also includes 9 complimentary analogue pads crafted to underscore and support your Cello compositions.

All patches have 3 controllable mic positions: Center, Stereo and Room. The Analogue Pads are also multi mic’d with Dry, Room and Verb control.

A signal chain incorporating Microphones from Flea, Coles and Neumann into Neve Preamps and Prism Conversion was used to record Liz’s vintage Cello, an instrument made by Thomas Smith at the Harp and Hautboy, Piccadilly, London 1765.

Kinematic Composer Cello is the first instrument from Kinematic : a new Kontakt instrument collection from Sam Brown (of PaperStone Instruments):

“Kinematic is the fusion of my ideas as a composer and the collaborative input of session musicians to form uniquely organic, inspiring instruments for Kontakt.”

Tapes M400 is a Mellotron library, chromatically sampled from the Mellotron M400, one of the earliest models from the 1970’s.

Tapes M400 features the 3 main and most iconic sound of the Mellotron: Strings, Choir and Flutes that were recorded chromatically for the full length of each tape, but you can either enjoy them the classic way or loop them!

M400 features 5 effects that matches the old sound of the 70’s:

• Chorus
• Rotator
• Tape Delay
• Reverb
• 11 Different type of cabinets

On the menu page, the user can easily access and modify the reverb and delay’s send levels, HP and LP filters, envelope Attack and Release parameters, pitch-bend amount, mechanical noise amount and stereo width.

Tapes M400 work perfectly for musicians looking for the raw sound of the classic early Mellotron, plus some additional effects and sound design tools!

Technical specs:

• 280 Mb
• 105 samples – 48 Khz/24 bit

The Minipoly synth contains raw analogue and tape oscillator samples, great filters and LFOs, a Step Modulator, a chord system, an arpeggiator and eight effects.

Minipoly’s unique TAPE SAWs are long sawtooth waves recorded for each key on tape of a Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo. You can hear wow and flutter and even tape dropouts – quite similar to a Mellotron. The SAW OSC, Square OSC and Noise waves are directly recorded minimoog samples – and sound much crisper than the ‘taped’ waves.

This makes the Minipoly one of the most musical sounding virtual synthesizers and a must have for all Kontakt owners.

The latest PRO version contains many improvements and cool additions like a new Step Modulator, a formant filter, updated (and extended) Kontakt 6 effects, NKS automation and much more.

PLEASE NOTE: Minipoly PRO requires the FULL version of Kontakt 6.6.0 or above – NOT Kontakt Player

OVERVIEW

Oscillators:

• Tape Sawtooth Oscillator
• Sawtooth Oscillator
• Square Oscillator
• Noise OSC (3 types)
• Fine tuning (+ – 100 cent)
• mono or dual mode (two OSCs spread to stereo)
• Amp env (ADSR)
• Pitch env

Filter Section:

• Low Pass Ladder Filter with Frequency Cutoff, Resonance, Env Amount, Filter Env
• Low Cut Filter
• Formant Filter

LFOs:

• Pitch and Filter LFOs
• switch for re-triggered / untriggered mode
• switch for free / tempo sync mode
• controls for LFO amount, rate and waveforms

Master Control:

• Polyphonic / Monophonic mode
• Glide (portamento)
• Octave shift -1 to +1
• adjustable Pitch Bend range and Velocity sensitivity
• Keyboard Balance control
• Stereo Width control
• 10 interval / chord presets
• Arpeggiator
• Supporting image for Minipoly Pro

Step Modulator:

• up to 96 steps synced to the DAW tempo.
• controls for Speed. Amount of Steps, Step shift, Randomize, Retrigger
• Mod Destinations: Pitch, Pan, LP Freq+Reso, Formant Size+Talk, Volume
• 24 Step Mod user presets

Onboard Effects:

• Reverb, Replika Delay, Lo-Fi. Chorus (Choral), Phaser (Phasis), Flanger (Flair), Drive (Van51), Comp (Supercharger GT) quick and super easy FX editing

Presets:

• over 100 presets (Kontakt snapshots)

NKS:

• Pre-Assigned Komplete Kontrol Automation

Tempo-synced Drums, Pulses and Tones

Reticle: Total Sync is focused around the beat. This sample library is a collection of tempo-synced material to add extra pulse and rhythm to your composition.

Reticle: Total Sync includes 3 parts for building rhythmic content: Drum Pulses, Tonal Pulses and Plucks. In these instruments you can discover modern drum and percussive loops, tonal pulses and ready-to-arp short instruments. Everything in this library follows the tempo of your DAW. With its inspirational randomizing function you will instantly get a new element for the composition.

Reticle: Total Sync features a clean and intuitive yet advanced interface. You can easily browse through individual loops and samples, and all sound elements are displayed in waveform windows. The interface contains a dual FX system which includes filters, delays, equalizer, distortion and lo-fi, rotator and reverb. Many of these effects can be automated with internal flexible step-sequencers that sync to the tempo of your DAW.

Please note: The FULL version of Kontakt 5.8 or above is required. Not for Kontakt Player

Tired of the same old drum samples that make you sound like any bedroom producer? Want to finally stand out and claim your place in the music industry or, as an already established producer, take a bold step into the future, 2077?

With Cy-Kick, immerse yourself in a world of gritty electrifying drums, where the neon glow of the city pulses to the rhythm of the streets. Cy-Kick is your cybernetic side-kick in your next headbanger.

To get you producing quickly, Cy-Kick comes with 55 Layered snapshots and 186 Single sound snapshots, totalling 241 snapshots. It’s easy to modify them or make your own. Snapshots include 808, Bass, Clap, Hats & Cymbals, Epic Hits, FX, Fills, Kick, Lead, Percussion and Snare.

“I see where “human music” is heading and Cy-Kick will help you be a step ahead of the great artificial movement”. Ergo Kukke

Unleash your Cy-Kick powers to teach the robots a lesson…

Features:

• 29 808’s
• 45 Claps
• 50 Epic Hits
• 69 FX & Layers
• 74 Hats, Cymbals
• 104 Kicks
• 118 Percussion Hits
• 83 Snares
• WAV’s are categorized and usable without Kontakt if needed

Complex Worlds

Inspired by modular synthesis, Stigmata is an instrument capable of producing rich and complex soundscapes. Designed as a true sound creation tool, Stigmata features numerous modulations and treatments particularly adapted to the staging of melodic ambiances.

A recognizable element of the interface, it is the complete and complex filtering that is in the spotlight with Stigmata. Those familiar with modular systems will be familiar with the technique of using multiple filters together to achieve a richness of harmonic content.

Stigmata incorporates this technique and makes it a central part of the performance. With tempo-synchronised modulations and variations particularly suited to creating melodic moods, Stigmata lacks nothing and should be a real inspiration to you.

Easy to Handle

Stigmata incorporates four polyphonic sources that reproduce layering techniques, each with sufficient controls to place them in space, adjust their character and modulate them dynamically and continuously.

The organisation of the instrument is simple: there are five categories of controls. Modulations allow you to determine the strength and speed with which sounds are modified. Variations offer alterations to each source in real time. Modulations and Variations work with Macros, grouped controls, while the middle section houses a set of filters combined around a common control, stereo width adjustment and infinite sustain to hold notes played without the need to keep your hands on the keyboard.

Simple and effective but not simplistic!

A new fantastic vintage-style Digital Sampler is here!

Sampler One transforms Kontakt into an early digital hardware sampler – with a much simpler workflow, more advanced tempo sync options and greater sonic flexibility, thanks to features like Drag+Drop sample import, auto pitch detection, TM-Pro time-stretch mode, eight excellent onboard effects and a great user interface.

Sample One 2.0 New Features

• Larger Interface
• Extended support for NKS / Komplete Kontrol
• Additional Pitch Envelope
• New FX Preset system
• Additional Snapshots

Create your own sampled sounds

Drag+Drop an audio file onto the interface, adjust the loop points and the envelope, add filter, LFO and FX to your taste and you are ready to go. If you like the result, just save the instrument as a new snapshot. It’s really easy. Sampler One accepts any WAV, AIF and NKX audio file in mono or stereo, at any length and at any frequency or rate.

Effects

• Reverb (Hall and Room)
• Replika Delay (Five Models)
• Lo-Fi
• Choral (Chorus)
• Flair (Flanger)
• Phasis (Phaser)
• Van 51 (Drive)
• Stereo Width
• Transient Master Sustain

Great sound library

Sampler One comes with over 250 high-quality snapshots featuring many classic sampler sounds plus new sounds and loops exclusively recorded for Sampler One. Spread over 19 categories the provided snapshots contain a wealth of great sounds to get you started. They are quick to load and perfect to use as a starting point for your own sound design adventures.

Less is More

Sampler One can load only one single audio file per instance, there is only one velocity zone and only one loop for each sample is possible – a limitation that is intended: Its main purpose is to quickly create high-quality sample based instruments, beats or loops without having to deal with multiple sample zones, loops or velocity layers.

TM-Pro

TM-Pro is a fantastic tool to edit / transform audio or to remix whole parts of a track: Drop an audio file onto Sampler One and use TM-Pro to time-stretch your audio in real time. You can even automate the speed/stretch settings – or automate the Formants or the FX – or turn Sampler One into a granular sampler by using the TM-Pro mode at very slow speed values.

Features

• Sample import via Drag & Drop (WAV, AIF or NCW)
• Automatic Root Key and Pitch Detection on import
• Visual waveform editing of Start, End and Loop points
• 2 Playback Modes (Sampler and TM Pro)
• Options for Reverse sample playback and Key Tracking
• Controls for Root Key, Pitch, Fine Tune
• Formant Shift and Speed controls (in TM Pro Mode)
• 2 Edit Modes: Standart or Single Key Edit
• Random Sample Start control (in Forward playback only)
• Low and Hi Pass Filter (12dB Ladder)
• LFO (Destinations: Filter, Pitch or Pan)
• 2 envelopes types (ADSR or Hold)
• Arpeggiator
• adjustable Key Range
• over 250 snapshots with samples (220 MB, WAVs)
• NKS ready (pre-mapped automations for Komplete Kontrol)

Wavemeister is digital wavetable synthesizer taking full advantage of the latest Kontakt innovations, like Drag & Drop sample import and high quality onboard effects.

Two independent wavetable engines and a sub oscillator are capable to produce a wide range of sounds – everything from raw and noisy to crystal clear is possible.

It has countless modulation possibilities, great sounding filters, an Arpeggiator and Chord Memory – and is CPU friendly. Wavemeister is an indispensable instrument for contemporary electronic music, modern sound design and for film scores.

Features

• 2 Wavetable engines and 1 Sub Oscillator
• Drag and Drop Wavetable import (WAVs & AIFs at any sample rate, Serum Wavetable import)
• 34 Factory Wavetables
• Realtime 3D and 2D wavetable displays
• Realtime controls and envelopes for Wavetable Position and Warping
• Controls for Octave, Semitone and Finetune
• Sub OSC with 20 basic waveforms
• 2 independent LFOs for WT-position, PWM, Filter, Pitch and Pan modulation
• 12 dB Low Pass Ladder Filter
• 12 dB High Pass Ladder Filter
• Polyphonic / Monophonic switch, Portamento Control
• Velocity Control and Keyboard Volume Balance
• Chord Memory
• Arpeggiator
• Onboard effects: Reverb, Replika, Lo-Fi, Choral, Phasis, Flair, Drive (Van 51), Comp (Supercharger GT)
• 100 Kontakt snapshots

NOTE: The FULL version of Kontakt 6.6.0 is required. Not compatible with Kontakt Player

Seurat is the first instrument to use our AGRA engine (Advanced Grain Recombination Architecture).

Essentially this is a highly-customisable granular synthesis engine, used across the two complementary voices.

Seurat allows you to manipulate the normal granular controls – grain size, grain frequency, attack and release of each grain and sample position but also adds a range of additional parameter controls for things like grain gain (volume), grain position variation (movement), the space between grains and the symmetry of grain positions in the audio flow offering a range of interesting and often unique outcomes.

Seurat offers an unconventional collection of sounds for movie scoring and sound design.

Seurat uses our powerful AGRA engine (Advanced Grain Recombination Architecture). Essentially this is a highly-customisable granular synthesis engine, Seurat allows you to manipulate the normal granular controls – grain size, grain frequency, attack and release of each grain and sample position but adds a range of additional parameter controls for things like grain gain(volume), grain position (movement), the space between grains and the symmetry of grain position in the audio flow offering a range of interesting and often unique outcomes.

Seurat comes with 707 Samples, 81 Selectable Sound Sources and 175 snapshots, each grouped into separate folders for ease of access.

Included Instruments

Here are some of the instruments and recording techniques used in the creation of Seurat:

Violin

• Mesh fabric fastened flush to the bow, creating a gritty, broken sound (used for a variety of “articulations” such as tremolo and harmonics)
• Felt fabric fastened near the bridge to create a softened/muted sound (most notably for “Soft Violin” but other sounds as well)
• Attaching metal and other materials to the strings to achieve a different sound (“paperclip violin”)
• and more….

Electric Guitar/Acoustic Guitar

• Home-made soft guitar picks or soft “found” material for the normal picked sounds
• Felt fabric and other fabrics used to mute guitar harmonics
• A technique used for the “moving” plucked and harmonic sounds was to move where I was plucking the string in order to create a different tone across the time of the sample
• Isolating and amplifying reverb tails
• Notes generated only from vibrating the strings with the left hand and fingers, no plucking (“ghost guitar”)
• Notes generated only from a hammeron and then turning the volume knob up (“volumation”)
• and more…

Bass Guitar

• Normal bowed
• Mesh fabric bowed (similar to the violin, but not as “tonal”)
• Bowed in a “sweet spot” near the bridge in order to create a gritty, harmonic-like, dark sound (these are the “Gritty Harmonic” sounds)

Piano

• Muted pedal sustain (pretty basic)
• Muted on and off with fabric (at the strings) while rapidly pressing the keys
• Muted pedal sustain pressing keys rapidly with a varying degree of dynamics
• Live performance of rapidly playing different intervals (octaves and whole tones, “octave etude” and “debussy’s dream” respectively)
• And more…

Mandolin

• Bowed
• Multiple strings tuned to same note and plucked together (“mandolin unison plucked”)
• Basic pluck with a home-made “cardboard” pick
• Fidget spinner
• And more…

Ukulele

• “flamenco” style plucked –using 4 fingers and rapidly plucking the same string
• “brushing” notes with felt fabric

Fameboy is an awesome little instrument that fulfills all your nasty lo-fi drum desires.

FAMEBOY is a classic drum synthesiser propelled into the modern age for the professional music producers of today. Featuring original samples fused with cutting-edge technology, advanced sequencing and sound-shaping capabilities.

We packaged all of this inside the most spectacular interface we could create.

FAMEBOY can be used for any purpose – It’s not just a Chiptune machine…The advanced architecture and sound-mangling controls will enable you to use it for any music production purposes. Or maybe, you just want to be inspired and use it to show off to your friends.

3D Interface

Just for fun – relive your retro dreams with our realistic interface complete with loading animations and startup sound effect.

Master Effects

The Master page contains a wealth of effect controls that operate across the entire mix including:

• Crush (Bit Rate)
• Redux (Sample Rate)
• Saturation (Master Saturation)
• Slam (heavy compression)
• Master EQ (Low, Low-Mid, High-Mid, High)
• Comp (Threshold)
• Attack (Compressor Attack)
• Release (Compressor Release)
• Gain (Compressor Gain)
• Width (Stereo Width)
• Limit (Master Limiter Gain)
• Release (Master Limiter Release Speed)
• Master and Multi-Out (When enabled this mode bypasses the master effects and sends each channel to it’s own output in Kontakt.)

MIDI Drag’n’Drop

Fameboy allows you to drag any created pattern into your DAW for further tweaking. We love this feature! Simply click the midi button and a small icon will appear. Drag that icon into a sequencer lane in your DAW and have your way with it.

Mixer Page

Every single sound in Fameboy has it’s own mixer channel and send levels with controls over:

• Channel Volume
• Pan
• Reverb (Pre-delay, Size, Hi-Cut, Send)
• Echo (Time, Regen, Hi-Cut, Send)

Sequencers

The Sequencers in Fameboy are small but very powerful offering many functions for creating unique and interesting patterns. Once you have a sequence you can easily export the midi pattern to your host using drag ‘n’ drop!

Each Sequence can hold up to 8 unique patterns and each pattern can be triggered on-the-fly using keyswitches!

Snapshots

Snapshots are the easiest and most efficient way of loading and saving presets within Kontakt. FAMEBOY comes with a vast selection of snapshots ready to use. Please go to the snapshots folder inside your product folder and locate the folder named [Fame Boy] then copy that folder to your user content folder.

Fameboy comes with a selection of sound design and sequencer presets from our good friend and talented producer Si Begg.

Tape Drive

The Tape Drive pages offer a full set of controls to emulate classic tape degredation effects to add an authentic layer of analog grit to your drums

Voice Select

The Voice page is where you’ll spend most of your time. There are 16 different channels and each channel has up to 16 different samples to choose from. Each sample also has 4 different variations. By using the ‘Style’ controls you can move through each style.

• Style A is a clean and modern playback engine
• Style B is a gritty and filtered playback engine
• Style C is a gritty playback engine
• Style D is a gritty playback engine which, is similar to, but differs from Style C

Each sound can be manipulated even further with a selection of sound-design controls and each each sound can be selected for editing using incoming midi notes for ease-of-use.

El Dorado Master Guitars has been created to give you the widest variety of sounds possible on a electric guitar.

Tremolo, trills, harmonics and much more, plus 44 different pads in which a lot of other techniques have been used to create them. The result is a workhorse library that will provide you with a lot of the electric guitar sounds that you will need for your productions.

Key Features

• A wide selection of twenty different articulations.
• Over forty carefully created pads.
• The inclusion of DI signals for all articulations.
• Up to 8 round robins.
• Stereo mode so you don’t have to duplicate tracks.

DI Signals
The library also includes all previous articulations in DI version. This expands the possibilities even further, allowing you to completely change the sound of the library, making it even more versatile.

UI
As you can see, the variety of sounds available is enormous, for this reason, it is presented in an easy and intuitive user interface that will make it easy for you to work with all these sounds.

Pads
The pads are a very important part of this instrument, the same detail, time and care has been dedicated to creating them as any of the other articulations available in the library. With them you can obtain all kinds of ambient sounds perfect to complement the more traditional articulations. To create them, a large amount of new material has been recorded as well as material from the traditional articulations has been processed with different effects and techniques, resulting in a collection of 44 pads.

Articulations

Among the articulations recorded for this library we can find all kinds of sounds.

Various types of sustains played with pick or with fingers, more percussive sounds such as harmonics or mutes recorded with two different guitars, four different types of tremolo techniques, swells, four types of trills or sustains played with an EBow.

In addition, the shorter articulations have up to eight round robins so you can create all types of rhythms without suffering from the machine gun effect.

Introducing the B.A.M. Orchestra Trumpet: a groundbreaking fusion of innovation and artistry.

Crafted through advanced behavioural physical modelling, delivering unparalleled playability, seamless transitions, and a consistent dynamic range from ppp to fff. Embark on a journey of musical authenticity with the BAM Orchestra Trumpet, offering unparalleled playability mirroring the real instrument itself. The instruments in the line are created through behavioral physical modeling, ensuring significant advantages.

Key Features

• Extremely high playability – enabling natural performance without sudden group changes.
• Phase-aligned samples resulting in seamless transitions between layers; the response is smooth, musical, and akin to the real thing.
• Consistent dynamic range from ppp to fff for all instruments.
• Approximately 40 MB of RAM usage per instrument.

Features

Optimized RAM usage ensures seamless performance, featuring a suite of functionalities to elevate your musical expression:

• High Playability: Experience natural performances with minimal abrupt changes.
• Expressive Modes: Explore three expressive modes: Legato, Polyphonic Long, and Polyphonic Staccato.
• Phase-Aligned Samples: Enjoy seamless transitions between layers, mirroring real-life responsiveness.
• Dynamic Range: From the softest pianissimo to the loudest fortissimo, maintain consistency across all dynamics.
• Infinite Sustain: Immerse yourself in sustained notes with super legato capabilities, enhancing expressiveness.
• Vibrato and Flutter Effects: Add depth and emotion to your performance.
• Customizable Reverb: Tailor your sound with three reverb room sizes: Small, Medium, and Large.
• Mute Options: Shape your sound with cup, bucket, and harmon mutes.
• Noise and Air Control: Fine-tune your performance with precision noise and air control features.