Sonus Dept

Ritual Kontakts features a complete range of sounds to build your own ritual music: ethnic percussions and drums, strings, didgeridoos, singing bowls, rainmakers, nature SFX and synthesized hypnotic sounds.

The aim of this library is not to provide you every conceivable instrument on Earth, but to give you an environment to experiment and to transorm any sound into your own one. Play with the many effects (all of them fully automatable) already featured within every patch and create your signature sound with a few spin of knobs. You will never end with a “preset sound”, but rather with a variation that is truly unique.
Ritual Kontakts will please a very diverse audience: soundtrack composers, ambient musicians, sound designers, anyone who is devoted to ethnic music and every artist willing to add a touch of eerie feeling to his/her music.
Pack Contents:

• 27 patches for Kontakt: acoustic instruments, chromatic percussions, ethnic drums, exotic soundscapes, a wide drum kit and many more. Every patch features different variations of the same sounds. By combining them you can obtain dozens of new timbres
• All the patches have a vast range of effects, some triggerable directly from your keyboard, including: filters, delay, reverb, phaser, compressor, distorsions and spatial effects. You won’t need any additional effects to obtain the exact sound you are looking for
• Every parameter is fully automatable, you can create evolving and realistic sounds in a breeze
• Everything you hear was sampled or rendered at 96 kHz / 24 bits. You will notice the pristine quality of every single sound
• Every patch has its own GUI, carefully crafted and oriented towards usability and beauty

Total Number Of Files:

• 28

Software Requirements:

• Requires Kontakt 5.5+ full version

Industry is a sound library for Kontakt featuring a vast sonic palette, from epic earthshaking percussions to subtle pads and bells, from deep basses to weird sound FX. It features everything you need to build intricated atmospheres, aggressive rhythms and cinematic progressions. From the experimental musician to the soundtrack composer, from the old school industrial devotee to the guitarist that wants to add something different to his music, Industry will please a wide range of audience.

• 32 patches for Kontakt, featuring:
  • 3 rich drum kits for a total of almost 100 carefully crafted samples
  • 5 big sets of FX
  • 8 pitched percussions
  • 12 synth patches including harsh leads, melodic pads and acoustic instruments
  • 4 aggressive basses

  a total of almost 1 GB of unique sounds (uncompressed size)

• All the patches have a vast range of effects, some triggerable directly from your keyboard, including: filters, delay, reverb, phaser, compressor, distorsions, spatial effects, chord builder – you won’t need any additional effect to obtain the sound you are looking for that perfectly suits your track
•  Everything you hear was sampled or rendered at 24 bits – you will notice the pristine quality of every single sound
• Every patch has its own GUI, carefully crafted and oriented towards usability and beauty

Mass Drummer is a sound library for Native Instruments Massive.

Mass Drummer features 60 presets that exploit all the power of this synthesizer workhorse to create powerful and deep percussions that can fit on any electronic track, be it techno, industrial, trip hop, a soundtrack or anything else.

Any kind of drum sound and percussion is featured:

• Kicks
• Snares
• Hi-hats
• Toms
• Claps
• Cymbals
• Rides
• Congas
• Bells
• Chromatic percussions
• …plus basses, risers, hits, synths and SFX!

If you wonder how it is possible all this variety in 60 patches, the answer is simple: like all the other Sonus Dept. libraries, a special care is put on the macro controls, so that the preset is only a starting point to craft your own sound signature. Any of the 60 sounds can become something totally different with a few spins of knobs, making Mass Drummer not just a bunch of patches, but a complete percussion synthesizer, able to satisfy even the most demanding sound designer.
For example, within the same patch you can turn a kick drum sound into a snare, or even a bassline synth. And it is the same for any of the many sound types you find in Mass Drummer!

Empyrealm is a complete and affordable solution for all those looking for atmospheric sounds in the broader sense of term, from ethereal pads to eerie drones, from nature sounds to diaphanous metal percussions.

This huge library, featuring over 2.8 GB of sounds and 67 Kontakt patches, is made up of five modules (see below for details). Its complex architecture features a 2D vector with 4 seamlessly morphable layers of sound and a series of effects of any kind, plus three multishaped LFOs to modulated volume, pan and pitch.

Moreover, every parameter is fully automatable, for a total of 115 automation destinations. Building up lively and ever changing textures has never been so easy!

Pack Contents:

• Forest of Drones: 25 patches devoted to evolving gloomy soundscapes, with sounds that can be modulated in multiple ways, giving you an ever changing atmosphere
• Padradise: 16 carefully crafted patches featuring immersive, deep and huge sounding pads, with unrivaled sonic detail and eerie feeling
• Mysteries of Creation: 9 patches to build nature soundscapes, featuring real field recordings taken in the wildlife. Creating a credible and evolving naturalistic soundtrack has never been that easy
• Secrets of Haephaestus: 11 detailed patches with ritual metal percussions and other magical hi-pitched instruments
• Sidewinds: 6 windscapes, occasionally with bonus rain and thunders, to fulfill any atmospheric need
• A total of 67 Kontakt patches for over 2.8 GB of sounds (compressed size)
• All the patches have a vast range of effects, including: filters, equalizer, delay, reverb, phaser, pitch envelope and spatial effects. You won’t need any additional effects to obtain the exact sound you are looking for
• Each of the 115 parameters is fully automatable, you can create evolving and realistic sounds in a breeze
• Everything you hear was sampled or rendered at 96 kHz / 24 bits. You will notice the pristine quality of every single sound
• Every patch has its own GUI, carefully crafted and oriented towards usability and beauty

Total Number Of Files:

• 861

Software Requirements:

• Requires Kontakt full version 5.6 or higher

Percussion Arkitect is an innovative and powerful laboratory to create any kind of percussion you need. Its complex , yet easy to use in all the right ways. Percussion Arkitect features 3 vector layers of sound, each of them able to seamlessly morph among 4 different samples. Every layer has its own separate effects (filters, eq, pitch envelope, distorsion, rotator), plus you have global effects (layers volume and pan, filters, reverb, delay, gain envelope) and global pitch/volume/pan complex LFO modulations!

The results you can obtain are truly endless, and a clear and straightforward user interface allows even the most near-the-deadline composer and sound designer to obtain quickly the sound she/he needs. Moreover, every parameter is fully automatized, for a total of 115 automation destinations. Building up lively and ever changing rhythmic textures has never been so easy! 

The custom GUI features five tabs: one for global settings, one for each of the three layers and finally one for the modulators. You will find the many parameters organized in a rational and intuitive way. We’ve included 20 patches inside, covering many percussive sounds and FX, plus a bass synthesizer!
Pack Contents:

• 20 Kontakt patches
• 250 Samples
• 115 Automation Destinations
• 24-Bit
• Custom GUI
• A detailed manual guide to take you step by step through the library interface

Total Number Of Files:

• 304
• 101 Mb Unzipped

Software Requirements:

• Requires Kontakt 5.6+ full version

Dark Mass is a sound library for Native Instruments Massive.

Dark Mass features 70 presets revealing another side of this great synthesizer: gloomy soundscapes, cinematic impacts, harsh leads and mysterious pads.
Dark Mass is a monstrous collection that has everything you need to build haunting atmospheres and industrialized soundscapes, ideal for soundtracks and any kind of dark electronic music.

This collection features very different kind of sounds:

• Soundscapes
• Pads
• Percussions
• Basses
• Pianos and organs
• Sound effects
• Multitrack sequences
• Aggressive leads
• …and many more

Like all the other Sonus Dept. libraries, a special care is put on the macro controls, so that the preset is only a starting point to craft your own sound signature. Any of the 70 presets can become something totally different with a few spins of knobs. From the soundtrack composer who needs immediately a certain sound, to the musician willing to experiment, Dark Mass is the right tool for the job. Join the dark side!