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Cosmic Hand Pans

Cosmic Hand Pans is your complete steel handpan virtual instrument collection.

We’ve partnered with instrument-maker Grahm Doe of Hapi Drum to capture a classic D minor handpan in exquisite detail, as well as a pair of unusual hybrids that each have an utterly unique sonic flavor you won’t hear anywhere else. The traditional handpan has a distinctively dark, warm, mellow tone, with a ghostly and ethereal resonance rich with harmonic overtones. We recorded it with fingerpads and fingertips, as well as small soft rubber mallets and jazz brushes to give you plenty of sonic options.

Next we sampled two unique specimens resulting from Grahm’s quest to meld steel hand pans and tongue drums into a unified instrument. The first mutation is a Prototype fusion of a standard tongue drum and a handpan resonator face that was the first step on his blow-torch and pneumatic-hammer driven journey. It has a brash, plucky steel drum quality with intense and chaotic overtones. The durable steel tongues allow for much more aggressive articulations, including soft and hard rubber mallets and metal rods.

The second oddity is his signature Hybrid Handpan, a well-balanced and precisely- engineered instrument with standard handpan finger dimples on its face, tuned to match playable tongue drum tines on its belly. Each side has a distinct character that compliments the other. We recorded soft rubber finger mallets and sustaining finger rolls on the handpan face, as well as superball and giant rubber mallets on the tongues. With our intuitive multi-layered modular UI, you’ll enjoy complete freedom to mix, layer, retune and customize each sound to your heart’s content.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

Specifications:

  • 3 Unique, deeply sampled Hand Pans with up to four microphone positions
  • 1 Master and 20 Custom FX Kontakt Player .nki instrument presets
  • 20 Custom sound-designed ambiences created from the Hand Pan source
  • 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
  • 24,327 stereo samples in locked .ncw format
  • 12.7 GB Installed (24 GB Uncompressed)
  • Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6.2.2+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-
  • Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
  • Works with the Kontakt “Libraries” browser and Native Access.

Software Requirements:

This Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by version 6.1 or later of the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special “Libraries” rack.

System Requirements:

Windows 7 or higher required for PC. OSX 10.12 or higher required for Mac. Dual Core CPU, 3+ GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

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Superwave Bundle

For a limited time, you can get Superwave Collection with Karanyi Sounds’ two all-time bestseller synths: Wavesynth and Vapor Keys!

Features

  • 2 of Karanyi Sounds’ best-seller Kontakt sound collections
  • 320+ artist presets
  • 3 GB Sample content (5 GB uncompressed)

Wavesynth – Waveshaper for Kontakt

Big, bold basslines to super peaky sequences and arps, cinematic soundscapes, drones – meet KaranyiSounds most advanced instrument so far: Wavesynth, a powerful waveshaper instrument for Kontakt 6.
Fully packed with synth legends and brave new sounds waiting for you to create something unique. Wavesynth is almost as flexible as an analogue synth: you have plenty of possibilities to shape, twist, stomp your sounds. With over 60 parameters (all MIDI-learnable) and an intuitive interface design and Roll (Karanyi Sound’s built-in intelligent randomizer), you can go wild and create new inspiring patches in seconds.

Features

  • 220+ Factory & Artist presets
  • Sounds from 12 classic synths (Juno 106, JX & 8P, Voyager, Emulator, M1, Sub37, Prophet 6 & 8, OBX, MS20, CZ)
  • 14 type of wavetable algorithms
  • Amp & wavetable envelopes
  • 2 LFO: Wavetable position & Prophet-type low pass filter
  • Moog-type low pass filter
  • 3 customizable effects: dimension, tape delay & hall reverb
  • Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
  • ROLL (intelligent randomizer)

Vapor Keys – Sunbaked Electric Pianos

Unleash your 90s nostalgia! Karanyi are proud to introduce Vapor Keys: a collection of great sounding FM Electric Piano sample library + an inspiring collection of dreamlike keyboard instruments for Kontakt. It can sound sweet and naive, bright, bold, harsh, trashy, lush & sexy, spacy or even dark and gloomy. Vapor Keys includes 3 deep-sampled classic and modern FM, algorithmic and wavetable synth sources in 1 pack.

Features

Kissed by the 90s

Vapor Keys is a collection of custom Electric Pianos mixed with various FM, Wavetable and Algorithmic synthesizer sounds and designed to create gorgeous and bold modern neo-90s sounds. The collection is inspired by classic movies and artists like Luxury Elite, Macintosh Plus, 2 8 1 4 or Hong Kong Express. The collection is divided into two parts: Electric Pianos and Vapor Keys.

9 Electric Pianos

Electric Pianos are dry, multi velocity sampled instruments with classic EP presets from vintage FM gear with 2 effects / patch: a detuned chorus and a phaser.

With this selection you get access to great authentic FM Electric Pianos from the 80s and 90s. All samples are recorded key-to-key in 24 bit 48kHz. Karanyi captured these sounds with analog gear and by applying the minimum software post-production process to keep these patches rich and fresh.

14 Vapor Keys

Vapor Keys are heavily sound-designed keyboard instruments with dry and wet signals mixed together from various FM pianos, other synth sources and reverb gears. These patches are great for chords, arps and shorter soundscapes. Karanyi captured authentic, classic instruments algorithmic and fm (Yamaha DX7 and TX81z) and modern wavetable (Arturia MicroFreak) synthesizers along with various Eventide reverb units and tape machines to create these extraordinary presets.

System Requirements

  • Windows 7 (latest Service Pack, 32-/64‑bit), Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 CPU, 2GB RAM.
  • Mac OS 10.11 or higher, Intel Core Duo CPU, 2GB RAM.
  • 5GB free disk space for complete installation.
  • The full version of Kontakt 6.2.2

Important Note: The Full Version of Kontakt 6.2.2 is required in order to run this software.

Wavesynth Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.11 or higher is recommended *
  • Windows 7 or higher
  • 4 GB of RAM, 8 GB is recommended
  • Kontakt 6.2.2 or higher (Free Kontakt Player is NOT supported)
  • 64 bit DAW is recommended for optimized performance

Important Note: The Full Version of Kontakt 6.2.2 or higher is required in order to run this software.

Vapor Keys Requirements:

Minimum Requirements

  • A full version of Kontakt 5.7.3 or above
  • Windows 7 (latest Service Pack, 32-/64‑bit)
  • Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 CPU
  • 2GB RAM+
  • Mac OS 10.7 or higher
  • Intel Core Duo CPU
  • 2GB RAM
  • 4 GB free disk space
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Altron

Producers Creation

When imagination & creativity come to life, they come with Altron.

Altron is a professional sample-based synthesizer made by Beyron Audio from a producer’s & artist’s point of view. Altron comes with more than 1000 ready sounds and new features such as the Smart sequencer, Altron FX, and Q&T engine.

Altron offers unprecedented sounds for all types of music production. Every preset is designed and crafted with the producer in mind which results in less tweaking and more producing.

Altron also comes with smart presets, such as Arranger drums Harmony instruments, and Smart sequencer arranger, which will get your production inspiration fired up in no time.

MAIN FEATURES

  • Active sound engine for prodigious quality
  • Digital technology embedded into a powerful synthesizer
  • World’s first Smart sequencer

The Beast Behind The Sound Quality

Altron’s Q&T engine delivers hyper sound quality for beautiful results. Additionally, it automatically fine-tunes every instrument to sound its best. Thanks to Beyron’s Q&T engine which is processed in detail for every preset.

The Q&T engine uses an equalizer, compressor, and limiter to provide a crisp sound. Every instrument has been refined, perfected, and integrated into Altron.

World’s First Smart Sequencer

With six sequencers running at the same time, you can create a whole band at your fingertips.

The Smart sequencer presets offer rhythmic melodies that can be manipulated by choice. Switch keys and Smart sequencer generate chords that compliment each other. You can open 64 different smart sequencers and allow each one
to play different instruments that are 100% customizable.

Drums
Design amazing drum loops with limitless combinations.

Instruments
Create a whole band with different instruments and effects.

Combine
Combine drums, instruments, effects, and play them together.

What’s All Included?

Mixer.

  • Compressor
  • Three band equalizer with Q&T engine
  • Limiter
  • Volume, pan, tuning and more

FX.

  • 8 effects
  • Reverb, delay, rotator, space, phaser, flanger, chorus & lo-fi
  • Gain sliders

Groups.

  • Six different instrument groups
  • Equalizer, filter, ADSR, envelope, talk and gate features per group
  • Including basic controls

Modulation.

  • Unison portamento
  • 4 LFO’s with tempo and fade-in feature
  • ADSR pitch
  • Mod envolope
  • Dedicated vibrato

Sounds.

  • Over 1000 sounds ready to go
  • Classical, EDM, Hip-Hop, Trap, Pop, Rock & much more
  • TOP songs created with Smart sequencer directly into Altron
  • Arranger drums, Harmony instruments & Smart sequencer arranger
  • Risers, drops, impacts & film FX

Native Kontrol Standard

An intuitive and comfortable workflow that makes it easy to bring your sound to life. NKS gives you streamlined browsing, consistent tagging, instant sound previews, pre-mapped parameters, Smart Play features, and more.

Altron works with multiple software and hardware thanks to NKS.

  • macOS 10.12, 10.13, 10.14 (latest update)
  • Windows 7, 8, 10 (64-bit, latest Service Pack)
  • Altron runs in Kontakt or Free Kontakt player version 5.8.1 or higher
  • Display with 1024-by-768 or higher resolution
  • At least 4 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended), and 28 GB of free drive space
  • Access to a stable internet connection for digital delivery and activation is required.
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Surdos & Snares

ARIA Sounds are proud to present “Surdos & Snares”, a percussion ensemble consisting of three snares and three surdo drums, all placed in the displayed formation (screenshot below), and reproduced faithfully, so you can play these drums, and they will sound in these positions.

We have absolutely pushed the variation and authenticity to the limit with this library. There are 127 dynamic layers per hit/technique/key in these drums, which provides even more benefits than the obvious lack of repetition, or the dreaded “machine-gun effect”. Say you record/play in a performance with this instrument, and then possibly go into the MIDI data and tweak a few hits’ dynamics to get the performance how you want it… and then decide the general feel needs to be either louder or quieter.

Each drum has been played with varied techniques, including soft mallets, sticks, rims, hands, different brushes.

Click each of the drum icons on the interface to loud and unloud that particular drum. Unloaded drums will appear on the keyboard interface as black, and loaded drums with active samples will be shown as blue keys.

  • This library runs in KONTAKT 4 and above.
  • Library size is 6.5GB
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Sax Fury

Sax Fury is a new library designed for film composers and producers looking for powerful and original sax extended techniques and textures.

REQUIRES FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT. Not compatible with Kontakt Free Player.

It offers a wide range of melodic and atmospheric textures, Coltrane inspired sheets of sounds synched to tempo, multiphonics as well as frullati, vibrato, slap samples and sounds processed by analog pedal effects.

A great tool to trigger your creativity. Get inspired by difference to make a difference!

MAIN FEATURES

Built-in Effects:

  • Arpeggiator
  • Reverse
  • Time Travel Bar (realtime controllable Time Stretch)
  • Selection of 9 top class reverbs
  • Delay

Articulation List:

Melodic

  • Frullati
  • Key noises
  • Multiphonics
  • Slap
  • Vibrato

Textures

  • Air
  • Circular breathing
  • Free textures (melodic, combined, key noises, slap, tremolo, etc.)
  • Frullati textures
  • Key noise textures
  • Key noise rises

System Requirements

  • Requires full version of KONTAKT 5.6.8+
  • Approx. 0.5 GB free harddrive space
  • 8 GB of RAM or more is recommended
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Aztec Death Whistle

Conjure the sounds of the undead with the Aztec Death Whistle

The Aztec Death Whistle is a deeply sampled folk wind instrument that captures the dark soul of the ancient Aztec death whistle, a ceremonial clay resonator used during human sacrifice rituals and warfare at the height of the Aztec (historically also known as the Mexica) empire in Central America, during the 14 and 15th centuries AD in what has now become modern day Mexico.

This whistle—technically grouped into the same family of whistles as bird and animal call whistles— is made of kiln-fired clay. It has two chambers which create air cavities that are resonated by blowing into the top of the skull. It produces a harsh, raspy atonal vocal sound very much like a dying breath, but with a shrill demonic essence that is certain to evoke dread on an almost instinctive level. It is the sound of death incarnate.

We recorded sustains, flutter-tongues, staccatos, hand percussion in our dry studio with deep dynamic layering and 12x round-robin. You’ll also find single-shot dramatic stinger effects, such as swells, crescendos and diminuendos. We then recorded the instrument in a large cathedral from both close and far stereo mic positions to bring out a darker, more mysterious and ambient quality. We also created a wide variety of dark, ethereal and sinister sound designed ambiences, synth patches and FX presets created with the raw acoustic source to give you plenty of nightmare fuel to get your horror on. They make an ideal accompaniment to the main natural articulations in this library.

Aztec Death Whistle comes equipped with flexible control features, like attack, release, transient offset, dynamic swelling, octave, vibrato and a robust Arpeggiator system that provides a full range of custom dynamic arpeggiation modes and step sequencer pattern creation options. There’s also a complete DSP effects rack, including convolution reverb with dozens of unique spaces, such as cathedrals, churches, halls, bunkers, garages, tunnels, chambers, rooms and plenty of special FX impulses to fully explore and endless variety of strange and unexpected sonic manipulations

Features:

  • Product Version 1.0
  • 1.4 GB Installed
  • 723 Samples
  • 14 Kontakt 5.5 .nki preset banks
  • 24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed stereo PCM wav audio
  • Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization
  • Full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later
Price History: Aztec Death Whistle
$19.00
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The Closed Hats

The third release of the “Groove Butter” series, The Closed Hats features 100 different closed Hi-hat presets made from 2.450 carefully recorded and processed one shot samples. The Hats are playable over four octaves and all presets are velocity sensitive and tuned.

We have recorded a lot of different drum machines in the past and we have now selected some of the rare ones and run them through our saturation, compressing, cleaning process and built a nice GUI for you to have lots of fun with, by turning 44 knobs to get a satisfying beat making experience for musicans and listeners. There are some totally clean and classic sounding closed Hihats and some which we have barely overworked to get some more modern or aggressive results, to fill the toolbox for different music genres.

Add some extra drama by using the pitchbend in combination with some of the useful effects, in a handy and intuitive GUI design. Use the reverb, delay and flanger section to add some width and epicness. You can go real crazy if you want to. In the mid section of the instrument you will find some more tone focussed effects like a compressor, a saturation unit, a powerful overdrive / distortion section and finally the low and hi-pass filters.

On the left side of the instrument you got a few knobs to build up the total shape and mood of the hi-hat sound by using tune, amplitude and pitch envelopes, a section to manage the speed of the sample and also a very useful transient shaper to add some extra attack and punch to the drums.

Features:

  • 100 Kontakt Instruments
  • 2.450 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
  • 9 different machines recorded
  • processed in the box and thru outboard gear
  • 234 MB filesize
  • Formats: Kontakt and WAV

Kontakt Version Required:
5.8 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)

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The Maracas & Shakers

We are excited to announce the next release of our Groove Butter series: the Maracas & Shakers.

This plugin features 105 unique shaker and maracas presets, carefully crafted from 1,725 meticulously recorded and sampled one-shots.

Each preset is playable over two octaves and is velocity-sensitive in a musical way. We recorded 11 shakers and 6 maracas with 5 microphones, as well as sampled 4 different drum machines. After running them through our saturation, compression, and cleaning process, we designed an intuitive GUI with 45 knobs for an enjoyable beat-making experience.

The plugin includes clean and classic-sounding maracas and shakers, as well as more synthetic or unusual options.

We also overworked some of them to achieve a modern or aggressive sound suitable for different genres. Add extra drama by using the pitch bend in combination with the useful effects available in the intuitive GUI design, including reverb, delay, and flanger.

The mid-section of the instrument features tone-focused effects, such as a compressor, a saturation unit, a powerful overdrive/distortion section, and low and hipass filters. On the left side of the instrument, you can shape the total mood of the drum sound by using tune, amplitude, and pitch envelopes, manage the sample speed, and add extra attack and punch to the drums with the transient shaper.

Kontakt Version Required: 5.8.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player) 

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Voice of Wind – Adey

An ethereal and soulfully nuanced mezzo-soprano solo vocal library for Kontakt

Voice Of Wind: Adey is the first volume in our modular female solo vocal series Voices Of Wind. Each volume focuses on a new vocalist with a distinct creative style and comes complete with a full package of vital chromatic and melodic articulations that sound great and are easy and convenient to use in any music or video production project that comes your way. This edition focuses on the ethereal and soulfully nuanced mezzo-soprano voice of singer-songwriter Adey Bell. Her rich, nimble and dusky vocal character effortlessly fuses classical, pop, folk, blues, lounge and jazz vocal styles.

This 2.6 GB library includes over 3,000 samples, featuring sustain, staccato (8x round-robin) and true legato chromatic articulations for 6 core vowels: Ah, Eh, Ee, Mm, Oh and Oo.

It also includes over a thousand live dynamic, melodic phrases organized by mood, key and tempo. This huge collection of live phrases are divided into 100bpm and 140bpm tempos for both Bright and Dark categories, as well as a special 120bpm Hummed category. We’ve also included 20 sound-designed custom FX and ambient presets to expand your creative palette.It all comes together in a complete, efficient and deeply-refined toolbox of chromatic articulations and powerful melodic elements with tempo-synching and key options, all built into a flexible, full-featured user interface.

This Kontakt library features true legato, plus an array of staccato syllables with 8x round-robin, spanning over two playable octaves.

A huge collection of live phrases that are divided into 100bpm and 140bpm tempos for both bright and dark categories, as well as a special 120bpm hummed category. 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. You can also shape, blend and sequence phrases, with our phrase-legato, step sequencer, speed-control and live waveform editing. The library includes 20 sound-designed custom FX and ambient presets to expand your creative palette. 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.

We recorded Adey 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.

Specifications:

  • 2.6 GB Installed
  • 3,114 Samples
  • 12 master NKI instrument banks in Kontakt 6 Player format
  • 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
  • 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format
  • Phrases and Breaths Samples also included in unlocked WAV 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

Software Requirements:

This Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by version 6 or later of the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special “Libraries” rack.

System Requirements:

  • Windows XP or higher
  • Mac OSX 10.9 or higher
  • Dual Core CPU, 3 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.
Price History: Voice of Wind - Adey
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CATTANEO Upright Piano

CATTANEO Upright Piano is an intimate, unique-sounding piano which is simply perfect for songwriting, indie/pop and introspective scoring.

With its HUMAN layer, real samples of pedal-sustained notes that get engaged whenever you use your midi sustain pedal (together with press/release noises responding to it when activated), you’ll feel like you were playing the real instrument. Additionally you can engage 2 sound design layers to add swells and analog distortion, and one extra color layer, created by sampling a vintage claviharp.

Use them combined or solo to achieve unique, surprising results. Engage the cassette tape noises and wobble FX to enter a lo-fi world, add rhythm and movement with the arpeggiator, top-class reverb algorithms, delay, and 3 built-in pedal FX with 6 different FX types to choose. All you need to create beautiful piano music and beyond.

5 Mixable Channels:
  • PIANO: main sound
  • HUMAN: human performance noises 
  • SWELL: swells 
  • RUST: distortion
  • COLOR: claviharp 

FX and controls: 
  • ATTACK: customize the attack to your taste
  • REVERB: choose between 6 top-class algorithms
  • DELAY chose your delay type (Normal/Ping-Pong), time subdivision menu and level. 
  • SUSTAIN PEDAL Volume: if you engage it, it reacts to your midi sustain pedal sounding like a real one. 
  • TAPE SECTION: turn your electric piano into a lo-fi gem
    • Tape Noises: choose between 6 samples cassette tape hiss types
    • Wobble: add wobbling to get those typical, random detuning effects 
  • ARPEGGIATOR
  • 3 FX PEDALS with 6 FX types each to choose between Eq, Compression, Saturation, Chorus, Phaser and Leslie
  • *Yellow keys are percussive piano sounds. 
  • Requires Kontakt Full Version 6.6.1+ (not compatible with the free Kontakt Player)
  • Total Size (Uncompressed) aprox 10.13 GB
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CATTANEO Pianos

HAVE Audio are releasing the CATTANEO Pianos. A bundle of 3 unique kontakt instruments from Paolo Cattaneo made ready for immediate playing.

CATTANEO Upright Piano

CATTANEO Upright Piano is an intimate, unique-sounding piano which is simply perfect for songwriting, indie/pop and introspective scoring.

With its HUMAN layer, real samples of pedal-sustained notes that get engaged whenever you use your midi sustain pedal (together with press/release noises responding to it when activated), you’ll feel like you were playing the real instrument. Additionally you can engage 2 sound design layers to add swells and analog distortion, and one extra color layer, created by sampling a vintage claviharp.

Use them combined or solo to achieve unique, surprising results. Engage the cassette tape noises and wobble FX to enter a lo-fi world, add rhythm and movement with the arpeggiator, top-class reverb algorithms, delay, and 3 built-in pedal FX with 6 different FX types to choose. All you need to create beautiful piano music and beyond.

5 Mixable Channels:
  • PIANO: main sound
  • HUMAN: human performance noises 
  • SWELL: swells 
  • RUST: distortion
  • COLOR: claviharp 
FX and controls: 
  • ATTACK: customize the attack to your taste
  • REVERB: choose between 6 top-class algorithms
  • DELAY chose your delay type (Normal/Ping-Pong), time subdivision menu and level. 
  • SUSTAIN PEDAL Volume: if you engage it, it reacts to your midi sustain pedal sounding like a real one. 
  • TAPE SECTION: turn your electric piano into a lo-fi gem
    • Tape Noises: choose between 6 samples cassette tape hiss types
    • Wobble: add wobbling to get those typical, random detuning effects 
  • ARPEGGIATOR
  • 3 FX PEDALS with 6 FX types each to choose between Eq, Compression, Saturation, Chorus, Phaser and Leslie
  • *Yellow keys are percussive piano sounds. 

CATTANEO Electric Piano

CATTANEO Electric Piano is an authentic dreamlike experience.

Sampled directly from Cattaneo’s custom-modified and “augmented” Rhodes-type piano, it is nothing like any other electric piano you may have heard. With its HUMAN layer and press/release noises of the sustain pedal responding to your midi pedal, you’ll feel like you were playing the real instrument.

Additionally you can engage 2 sound design layers to add swells, granular polyphony and an extra color layer, created by sampling tuned crystal glasses. Use them combined or solo to achieve unique, surprising results. Engage the cassette tape noises and wobble FX to enter a lo-fi world, add rhythm and movement with the arpeggiator, top-class reverb algorithms, delay, and 3 built-in pedal FX with 6 different FX types to choose. All you need to create beautiful piano music and beyond.

Tech Specs

5 mixable channels:
  • PIANO: main sound 
  • HUMAN: it captures the sound of the hands while hitting the keys
  • SWELL: sound designed swells 
  • GRAINS: granular sound design layer
  • COLOR: tuned crystal glasses
FX and controls: 
  • ATTACK: customize the attack to your taste
  • REVERB: choose between 6 top-class algorithms
  • DELAY chose your delay type (Normal/Ping-Pong), time subdivision menu and level. 
  • SUSTAIN PEDAL Volume: if you engage it, it reacts to your midi sustain pedal sounding like a real one. 
  • TAPE SECTION: turn your electric piano into a lo-fi gem
  • – Tape Noises: choose between 6 samples cassette tape hiss types
  • – Wobble: add wobbling to get those typical, random detuning effects 
  • ARPEGGIATOR
  • 3 FX PEDALS with 6 FX types each to choose between Eq, Compression, Saturation, Chorus, Phaser and Leslie

►CATTANEO Cassette

A bonus instrument, available only in the Complete version, CATTANEO Pianos.

Mechanical noises and selected loops from the artist’s own cassette collection, with adjustable speed, reverb and delay, arpeggiator and 3 built-in pedal FX with 6 different FX types to choose. A tasty additional color to add to your upright and electric piano.

Tech Specs

  • REVERB: choose between 6 top-class algorithms
  • DELAY chose your delay type (Normal/Ping-Pong), time subdivision menu and level.
  • TAPE SPEED
  • STEREO ENHANCER
  • ARPEGGIATOR
  • 3 FX PEDALS with 6 FX types each to choose between Eq, Compression, Saturation, Chorus, Phaser and Leslie

The Artist

All around Cattaneo is about space, minimalism, elegance and gesture. No matter if it’s music, sound experimentation, filmmaking or decorative art, style and attention for details are his motto.

Paolo Cattaneo is an Italian musician, songwriter, electronic performer and instrument collector and builder. He published 5 acclaimed albums and EPs, one of which produced by Hugo Race, legendary guitarist of Nick Cave. He’s also a member of electronic duo Jay Perkins. We joint-ventured with this wonderful artist to create a new signature series and capture some of the sounds that captured us in the first place: we spent days in his beautiful studio in Italy to sample his unique upright piano, his modified and “augmented” electric piano and lots of little instruments, like a vintage claviharp and other gems for future releases.

  • Requires Kontakt Full Version 6.6.1+ (not compatible with the free Kontakt Player)
  • Total Size (Uncompressed) aprox 12.56 GB
Price History: CATTANEO Pianos
$149.00
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The Clap

Here comes the third release of our new ‘Groove Butter’ series. ‘The Clap’ features 99 different clap presets made from 1,275 carefully recorded one shot samples. The drums are playable over two octaves.

All presets are velocity sensitive in a very musical way and also tuned.

We have recorded a lot of different drum machines in the last years and now selected some of the rare ones and run them thru our saturation, compressing, cleaning process and finally build a nice GUI for you to have lots of fun by turning 44 knobs to get a satisfying beat making experience for musicians and also the listeners.

There are some totally clean and original sounding famous hand claps and also some which we have hardly overworked to get some more modern or aggressive results to fill the toolbox for different music genres too.

Add some extra drama by using the pitchbend in combination with some of the useful effects you got here in a very handy and intuitive GUI design.

You have the possibility to make the sound more epic and stereo by using the reverb, delay and flanger section.

Here you can go real crazy if you want to. In the mid section of the instrument you will find some more tone focussed effects like a compressor, a saturation unit, a powerful overdrive / distortion section and finally the low and high pass filters.

On the left side of the instrument you have a few knobs to build up the total shape and mood of the drum sound by using tune, amplitude and pitch envelopes, a section to manage the speed of the sample and also a very useful transient shaper to add some extra attack and punch to the drums.

Specifications

  • 99 Kontakt Presets
  • 1,275 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
  • 9 different machines recorded
  • processed in the box and thru outboard gear
  • 60,3 MB filesize
  • Formats: Kontakt and WAV

5.8.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)

Price History: The Clap
$15.36
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Stradivarius EKO

The EKO Stradivarius is one of the rarest and hardest to find string synthesisers from the 1970’s.

It has an incredibly rich and vibrant sound all of its own.

I personally spent a long while hunting one of these synths down and eventually found one, but it was in Italy and had to be shipped here. I could not find one in the UK!

The EKO was released in the 1970’s and used by the likes of Vangelis during his 70’s live shows, the EKO produces beautiful and haunting string sounds of that era. Our version will allow for you to easily create those sounds and go way beyond what the original hardware can do.

Each of the 6 original sections of the EKO stradivarius has been sampled in great detail.

PLEASE NOTE: The FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 is required (NOT Kontakt Player)

Deep Effects

The effects section has bus sends for each synth section and allows for you to ‘dial in’ just the right amount of effects for each section.

Effects List:

  • Chorus
  • Phaser
  • Flanger
  • Reverb (Convolution – 37 Impulses to choose from)
  • Sync Delay

All audio demos and video demos use only the presets from this Kontakt instrument.

Suitable for all kinds of music from abstract electronics, 70’s disco, modern EDM. Would also sound great being used to score a Zombie movie like Romero’s Dawn of the dead or some obscure Italian horrow/zombie movie.

Extra Controls

We have added many, many extra features to allow for greater sounds to be created from the core sound of the EKO Stradivarius. We also added a special set of Ensemble processed samples for a very rich and vibrant sound. Both sample sets can be freely mixed with each other for extra creativity.

How about each section panning independently of each other?

Each section also has independent filter shapes with a huge range of filter types to choose from, vowel filters, phasers filters and each synth section (all 6) has them – lots of scope for sound creation or use the snapshots that come supplied which will give a wide range of sounds that can be tweaked and modified by you.

Easily create beautiful and lush strings, haunting pads, synth leads, special analogue type effects, synth stabs and then pass them through the effects section.

Secure Serial System

This product features its own custom serial system.

You will require the full version of Kontakt to load EKO (Not Kontakt Player).

When you purchase EKO you will be provided with a unique code which is required to unlock the instrument. Please check out the install and unlock video for more information.

5.8.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player) Product Version: 1

Price History: Stradivarius EKO
$33.69
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Hybrichord

Sounds that you’d never imagine could come out of a piano – for Kontakt 4 and above.

The vol.1 of Hybrichord is our first exploration into what we can really get out of a normal piano, and the initial results are fantastic.

Using various means of getting the instrument to vibrate, including wiring the instrument up, using magnets, electric current, etc, we managed to create some fantastic organic sounding sonic landscapes.

The user interface has controls to allow you to shape and sculpt some of the sound to your liking for use in your music.

Of course, we have also included a variety of more well known experimental techniques, including picks, plucks, bows, hammers, drumming, screws in the strings etc.

This library contains over 4GB of excellent cinematic content, recorded at 96KHz, 24Bit.

  • Samples are 24 bit at 96000HZ wav files
  • 4.3 GB of Content
  • The full version of Kontakt 4 or above is required to run this software.
  • It will not run on the free version of Kontakt player.
Price History: Hybrichord
$47.00
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Greenma

The Soprano Melodica is a nice and easy to use reed instrument made since 1958 by the german company Hohner*.

The sound is generated by blowing air through a mouthpiece into fine brass reeds like those used in Harmocicas.

This underrated instrument was used by musicians like UB40, Depeche Mode, The Gorillas, The Hooters, Supertramp and… you too name a few!

We are very happy to get our hands on one of these rare old instruments in a very good, maybe never used, condition. This is one of the very first Melodicas ever made.

Overview

We have recorded this old, fantastic sounding beauty with four different types of microphones thru well selected preamps after some time consuming experiments:

  • Piezo Mic (attached to the chassis)
  • Condenser Mic (placed 30 cm in front of the instrument)
  • Dynamic Mic (placed 30 cm in front of the instrument)
  • Stereo Mic (placed overhead)

Specifications

  • 20 Kontakt Instruments
  • 281 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
  • Four Mics (piezo, condenser, dynamic, stereo)
  • 24 sec long notes samples
  • 19 sec long noise samples
  • long notes and noises were looped carefully
  • extra click samples
  • Three different playing styles recorded
  • 448 MB Filesize
  • Formats: Kontakt and WAV
  • Kontakt Version Required: 5.8.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)
Price History: Greenma
$17.00
4.78
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Alto Xylophone

A Wooden Orff Tuned Percussion & Sound-Design library built for Kontakt

Alto Xylophone is a deeply sampled Orff tuned percussion instrument primarily found in elementary music classrooms, measuring at just over two feet long. It has a warm plunky tone and fast decay, with 13 rosewood bars laid in a diatonic C major scale from C4 – A5. We used felt mallets to capture each note, then recorded glisses and percussive knocks. We also sampled two soprano xylophones an octave higher: One has 13 notes (C5-A6) with a rounded playful timbre, while the other has 12 notes (C5- G6) with a crisp biting tone, performed with mallets and wooden cube hammers.

All three xylophones were recorded in a dry studio using two microphone positions, with 10 round robin and up to 14 velocity layers per note.

After that, we expanded these natural wooden tones with 20 ambient organic soundscapes and 20 custom FX presets to kickstart your creative exploration. Alto Xylophone fits comfortably in any genre from horror to jazz, and it’s ready to bring acoustic percussive accents to your next composition. This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration.

We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility.

We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Specifications:

  • One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
  • Alto xylophone and two soprano xylophones, tuned + untuned percussion & FX in two mic positions
  • 20 Ambience patches created from the source content
  • 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
  • 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
  • 14,129 Stereo WAV files
  • 3.1 GB installed
  • 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

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.5 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library.

System Requirements:

  • Windows 7 or higher.
  • Mac OSX 10.9 or higher.
  • Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.
Price History: Alto Xylophone
$29.00
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Retcon – Boards Of Canada Synthesis

Retcon is the natural evolution of the BOCS series. It pulls together all three previous libraries along with a massive amount of new content to bring you the finest collection of ambient inspired sounds.

More than just another sound library, Retcon is a uniquely designed virtual instrument that features a colour coded HEX layout giving you easy access to a wealth of controls. Designed specifically with ambient and synth music in mind. Retcon contains a host of powerful features built specifically for creating atmospheric, lofi, heavily modulated pads, leads, keys and plucks. The centrepiece of Retcon is its custom 16 step chord sequencer that offers unlimited inspiration with it’s unique approach to creating music.

Quickly build long evolving chord progressions up to 4 bars in length or program fast moving and otherwise impossible modern chord sequences. With numerous features including legato/retrigger, latch hold, auto fade and 16 unique patterns all switchable via MIDI keyswitches there is enough power and control to satisfy the needs of even the most demanding user.

The full version of Kontakt is required please – not for Kontakt Player.

Filters Page: The filters page gives you 3 different filters per Voice which can be dynamically changed using various LFOs and envelopes. Each voice can be filtered individually (Parallel) or together (Series)

FX Page: The FX page gives you a huge amount of additional control to shape your sound

Sequencer Page: The sequencer page is an advanced chord generator and pattern creator offering controls over the the Volume, Pitch and Chord of each step. Each patch can hold 12 unique sequences with additional controls for Latch, Fade and Retrigger modes.

Features

  • Over 1480 Samples
  • 84 Analogue Patches
  • Dual engine design for blending two sounds together
  • Advanced Chord Sequencer
  • Komplete and Maschine Integration
  • 130 Snapshot Presets
  • Compressed .NCW Files.
  • Animated background
  • Kontakt Version Required: 5.5.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)
Price History: Retcon - Boards Of Canada Synthesis
$47.27
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Elysium Harp

Elysium Harp is a 47-string grand concert pedal harp virtual instrument library, fully compatible with the free Kontakt Player and Komplete Kontrol S-Series Keyboards by Native Instruments. We recorded this massive Lyon & Healy bronze concert harp in exquisite detail, with extended articulation choices, advanced controls, easy play-assist features and warm presence across the entire key range.

We’ve covered classic Finger Plucks with long sustains, deep round-robin and dynamic layering for each string. We also recorded Hard Fingernail plucks, Harmonics, Xylophonics, Bass Pedal Buzzes, plus a wide collection of natural Live Glisses in 19 scales and styles by harpist Jennifer Ellis.

You’ll find lots of custom ambiences, pads and unique FX presets created with the harp source to open up limitless sound design possibilities. You also have access to 3 stereo mic positions (sound board, rear ports & room) to freely mix and route, plus an advanced real-time gliss and arpeggiator sequencers, instant pedal presets for easy glissing and arpeggios, precise tone and presence shaping and a full FX rack for total creative freedom. Elysium Harp contains 12,147 samples and over 30GB of wav content.

The library is compressed to 14.7 GB with NI’s lossless .ncw audio format for greater resource efficiency. It works in Kontakt or Kontakt Player version 5.5.2 and later.

Deep-Sampled Articulations

  • 8 round-robin variations per dynamic layer
  • Finger Pad Plucks
  • Finger Nail Plucks
  • Soft Harmonic Plucks
  • Hard Harmonic Plucks
  • Xylophonic Plucks
  • Bass String Pedal Buzz Effects
  • 194 Natural Glisses in 19 scales and styles by harp soloists Jennifer Ellis
  • Dozens of custom ambiences, organic synth pads, tonal atmospheres and FX presets crafted from the harp source recordings and presets.

Dynamic User Interface

  • Powerful Custom User Interface with fully automatable access to critical performance controls.
  • Front Sound Board microphone position for a full, rich sound. Captured with Neumann TLM 103 microphones.
  • Rear Sound Port microphone position for a deeply resonant and hyper-present tone, captured with Neumann TLM 102 microphones.
  • Overhead Room microphone position for a deeply resonant and hyper-present tone, captured with Neumann TLM 107 microphones.
  • Mixer module for custom channel mixing, loading, positioning and routing.
  • Adaptive Arpeggiator system with preset saving/loading and tons of tweakable options to make arpeggios inspiring and easy to play.
  • Dynamic Gliss generator that lets you draw your own gliss speed and velocity shapes and curves.
  • Intuitive Pedal system that lets you select from dozens of classic harp pedal configurations and instantly snap your keyboard to both common and specialized scale types and keys.
  • The Arpeggiator, Gliss and Pedal systems make it extraordinarily easy to play beautifully life-like glisses, arpeggios and melody lines in real-time. Just load it up and start playing!
  • Modular DSP FX Rack panel with a full set of automatable controls for every effect unit.
  • 119 integrated convolution IR samples recorded in a variety of rooms, environments and FX spaces.

Product Specs

  • Product Version 1.0
  • 12,145 Samples
  • 30.6 GB uncompressed / 14.7 GB Installed with lossless ncw compression
  • 9 nki Kontakt instruments
  • 63 nksn snapshots
  • 24 bit / 48kHz lossless NCW format samples
  • Works with the free Kontakt Player (version 5.5.2+)

This Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by the latest version of the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special “Libraries” rack.

  • Windows 7 or later.
  • Mac 10.9 or later.
  • 2 GB ram recommended.
Price History: Elysium Harp
$149.00
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Quadral

Quadral is an inspiration machine.

Randomize your way to your next favorite electronic score using our 16 categories of hand-crafted atmospheric synth pads. Combine quadrants to create layered organs, unique ambiences, or evolving textures using our Ouroboros modulation engine and tempo-synced XY pad. Each sound has been sculpted with care, allowing you to weave layers together into sensational new presets. We’ve also included over 200 factory patches of Arps, Basses, Leads, FX, Pads, and Plucks to get you started on your interstellar journey through space and time.

Quadral is a powerful sampled synthesis engine, ideal for film and game composers who need a fast workflow while maintaining their creative spark.

Dive in to tweak and automate every parameter with total control, or just click Randomize to generate a virtually endless universe of fresh ideas. Good luck… We’re all counting on you.

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.

Quadral ships with over 200 Factory Presets in 6 categories, each one lovingly crafted.

They can be easily perused using the Preset Browser. You can also save new patches you’ve made using the browser, or share presets with other users. Finally, don’t forget to fire up the FX rack panel and load your synth up with dozens of DSP effects, including convolution reverb with over 100 of our custom real-world and special FX spaces to perfect your sound.

The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish.

You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.8 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library.

The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library.

  • Windows 7 or higher.
  • Mac OSX 10.9 or higher.
  • Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library
Price History: Quadral
$39.00
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Plugged

Plugged is a Library for Kontakt 5, which will be useful for every trap producer. Inspired by all the sounds you here in 808 Mafia, Future, Metro Boomin, ASAP Rocky and more… The library includes of 20 construction kits (No Name, Valhalla, Flex Gang, Retribution), which are easy to switch in menu.

Best of all, these Construction Kits are 100% Royalty-Free, meaning you can use them in personal or commercial compositions at no extra cost.
Pack Contents:

  • 243 Loops
  • Includes Construction Kits in Library (No Name, Valhalla, Flex Gang, Retribution)
  • Must Have NI Kontakt 5.6.5 or Higher
  • 100% Royalty-Free
  • Tempo-Labeled

Total Number Of Files:

  • 473
  • Over 1.3 GB of content

Software Requirements:

  • Kontakt 5.6.5
Price History: Plugged
$29.95