Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

Premium Marimba, Xylophone & Vibes. Effortless idiomatic writing.

The Instruments

Scoring Mallets includes 3 instruments – Marimba, Xylophone, and Vibraphone.

Recorded in a beautiful large scoring room, its primary use is for scoring applications, however, due to its full-featured mixer and microphone balance options, it fits virtually every musical style!

Marimba

Custom Marimba made by ‘Marimba One’. 5 Octaves with Basso resonators to enhance the fundamental pitch.

Xylophone

This Xylophone from Malletech features a robust tone and strong attack. The mallets we used extend the rich sound and offer a nice balance between warmth and punch.

Vibraphone

This Yamaha Vibraphone is very special. It has a very direct sound with a lot of dynamics. There is some nonlinearity of harmonics throughout the tonal and dynamic ranges that makes it sound detailed and grainy, which works well within a modern orchestral context.

Features & tech

Scoring Mallets offers an abundance of features all targeting seamless Composition and idiomatic writing that compliments modern scoring. The robust 38,000+ sample count along with up to 5 microphone perspectives translate to ultra authentic playability, while powerful features such as the Acoustic Positioner™ and numerous intuitive playing techniques extend this library to boast unparalleled quality.

Premium instruments – Detailed Scoring Sound

Scoring Mallets features premium custom instruments from Marimba One, Malletech and Yamaha. We chose custom Mallets that combine medium soft outer material with a harder more articulate core to bring out both warmth and resonance from the instruments.

The recording process in the scoring room results in a lot of flexibility of tone. We captured the instruments from 5 Microphone perspectives: Tight, Loose, Stage, and Wides/Surround.

The microphone placement was prepared in such a way to give maximum flexibility from intimate and a more ‘pop’ sound to authentic Cinematic tone with a lot of body, air, and spatial focus. Unique microphone arrays and placement were used in order to make our stage positioning engine possible!

Ultra idiomatic playback – From single notes to Ripple Rolls

Scoring Mallets makes effective use of its massive sample pool for a lot more than plenty of velocity layers, round robins and release samples. We have designed custom scripts for authentic Trills, Rolls, and Glissandi with complete control over tempo and humanization. You can apply Crescendo, time shifting, and velocity drifts all in real time if you wish.

With the built-in Step Sequencer you can design polyrhythmic and polyphonic Ostinati and change tonal structures on the fly by playing chords. With added features for time drifts and custom velocity maps you can create evocative loopable Ostinati and intricate polyphonic lines on the spot.

And finally, Scoring Mallets includes special 4-mallet playing techniques which bring authentic multi-mallet playing styles to the virtual instrument world. Choose between various types – Basic, Independent, and Ripple rolls – each with special scripting to replicate proper timing and velocity relationships between inner and outer mallets.

Acoustic Positioner™ – Truthful positioning around the stage

We have developed a totally new concept with instrument positioning. Unlike panning, instrument positioning is a spatial effect which relies on the acoustic properties of the recording space. Scoring Mallets was recorded in a beautiful scoring room and with our Acoustic Positioner you are now able to move instruments around the stage to better fit your production, especially when doing scoring and using a variety of instruments from different libraries.

Acoustic Positioner offers true positioning capabilities without relying on convolution and panning mock-ups. The engine is based on specific microphone arrays and placement that allowed us to create a comprehensive time and phase matrix that is entirely sample-based. There are no gimmicks and no simulation. You are actually moving the instrument around the stage smoothly with virtually no extra CPU usage!

Playback control – Complete control over timing and performance

We enhanced the playability using a logarithmic velocity sensitivity control that allows you to fit the velocity curve to any playing style. There are key performance controls that include Crescendo/Diminuendo and auto detection of Rolls, Trills, and Glissando. Playback can be controlled further utilizing adjustable time and velocity drifts.

Every performance nuance is easily controlled. The custom playback scripts infuse performances with a ‘human’ feel through a variety of built-in humanization algorithms.

THE HIGHLIGHTS

Scoring Mallets features 3 instruments – Marimba, Xylophone, and Vibraphone. Recorded in a beautiful large scoring room, its primary use is for scoring applications, however, using its full-featured mixer and proper microphone balance it excels in virtually every musical style!

Scoring Mallets offers an abundance of features all targeting seamless Composition and idiomatic writing that compliments modern scoring. The robust 38,000+ samples along with up to 5 microphone perspectives translate to ultra authentic and playable instruments. Additional powerful features such as the Acoustic Positioner™ and numerous intuitive playing techniques extend this library to boast unparalleled quality.

Premium Marimba, Xylophone, and Vibraphone

Recorded in a beautiful Scoring room and includes multi velocities, extreme dynamic range, round robin and release samples for ultra realistic playback.

Extremely Sampled

Features over 38,000 samples and up to 5 microphone perspectives – Tight, Center, Loose, Stage, and Wides/Surround. Custom scripts were designed to enhance each instrument with versatile articulations and enhanced playability. (14GB uncompressed).

Effortless idiomatic writing

With Scoring Mallets you can elegantly play single notes, Trills, Rolls, Glissandi, and for the first time, have dedicated access to 4-Mallet playing techniques. These options allow complete freedom of idiomatic writing without the use of pre-recorded loops.

Polyphonic Step Sequencer for Ostinati generation.

Design sequenced patterns and trigger them in realtime. Create up to 4-note polyphonic and polyrhythmic Ostinati with complete control over timing, tempo, and dynamics.

Acoustic Positioner ™

Place the instrument anywhere on the stage with HandHeldSound’s innovative Acoustic Positioner™. Unlike other positioners that rely on convolution or panning mockups, our positioner uses no artificial processing. It uses dynamic phase / time relationships, calibrated to replicate an authentic and smooth spatial positioning with minimal CPU usage!

Playability enhancements

Scoring Mallets includes a customized Logarithmic velocity control and extensive realtime performance, timing, and humanization options that ensure ultra realistic playback.

The first installment of Ecliptiq Audio’s brand new Hexa Series brings you a fine collection of heavily processed drums with two easy to use Kontakt Engines.

Armed with two straightforward kontakt engines, take control of the multisampled percussions with the trailer drum kit, or create complex loops in seconds with the rhythm designer.

The Rhythm designer engine features 250 percussion sounds with 8 velocity layers. Combine them freely in the 5 layer, 32 step sequencer custom made for Kontakt.

The engine comes with 150 snapshots to kickstart your productions.

The Rhythm Designer is equipped with flexible randomisation options: Change the layers, sequencers and sounds individually or all together.

With the dedicated FX sequencers, the engine also offers deep sound design options.

Main Features:

• Two Kontakt Engines with Randomization Options
• 250 percussion sounds each with 8 velocity layers (2000 samples altogether)
• 24 bit/48 kHz wav samples
• 490MB content
• 100% royalty-free

Total Number Of Files:

• 2000

ARIA Sounds are proud to present “Colossal Toms”, an ensemble of eight separately playable toms, with tunings from large and deep to high.

One of the things that really makes this library stand out, easy to use, and realistic, is that we tried to max out the velocity layers, so each hit has up to 127 different, separately recorded dynamics. This means, on top of the fact that you virtually eliminate the problem of hearing one sample twice too soon, creating an artificial sound, but you can obtain extremely realistic performances.

A loud section can be easily scaled down in dynamics, due to the fact that there are so many velocity layers – see the upcoming demos for examples of this. The instrument is also compatible with both version 4 and 5 of Kontakt, and comes with a close mic position, and hall mic position.

Each drum has been played with varied techniques, including soft mallets, sticks, sticks with newspaper on the drum, rims, hands, brushes etc. 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.

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

PLEASE NOTE: REQUIRES FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT

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

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

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

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

Features

• 14000+ samples

Mic Options:

• Stereo MIC
• DI

Built-in Effects and Controllers:

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

Articulation and Preset List:

Melodic

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

Textural

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

Chordscape is an ambient infinite tape playback machine designed to create evolving modulated dark ambient soundscapes but can be used for all sorts of different sound design scenarios.

Chordscape is now at Version 1.2 with many new features and snapshots included. Updates include:

• Start/stop playback using a key-switch (either colored Red or Green) at the bottom of the virtual keyboard. MIDI note 31
• The Mute key-switches have been assigned to key switches MIDI notes 24,26,28 & 29
• The range of re-pitch keys has been greatly expanded to now cover 4 octaves
• When using the sound browser Chordscape now immediately starts to play the selected sound, no longer waiting for you to close the browser. This way you can audition sounds whilst the sound browser is open
• Improved repitch engine
• Keyswitch assigned to the sequencer Start/Stop button
• Independent start/stop key switches for each sequencer track
• Sequencer presets now load from disk
• 55 additional sequencer presets included
• 200 brand new snapshots. Now includes a total of 441 snapshots!

Chordscape contains 8GB of sound designed content derived from acoustic instruments, natural recordings, sound design, outboard effects and synthesizers. Each sound has been carefully created from scratch to fit the engine and philosophy of the library by our good friend Erick McNerney.

There are 4 sound sources, an inbuilt browser system, 4 dedicated sequencers and multiple assignable effects

The unique feature of Chordscape is that it is designed to emulate a tape machine. Once you start the Chordscape engine running you can create movement by modulating and automating parameters as it plays. This gives incredibly unique evolving sounds that never stop!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specifications:

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

Voices Of Rapture is our premier operatic solo vocal collection for Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX), featuring 4 outstanding singers covering the classical soprano, alto, tenor and bass ranges.

This complete solution includes fundamental chromatic articulations like true legato vowel sustains, single and multi-syllable staccatos and Latin chanting sustains, with individual solo and combined ensemble quartet presets.

It also comes packed with thousands of beautifully dynamic live performance phrases in various keys and tempos, with your choice of Pure Vowel, French, Latin and even Humming and Whistling categories. The Phrase presets are equipped with real-time step-sequencing, tempo control, phrase editing and other control features for maximum flexibility and intuitive playability.

You’ll also find dozens of uniquely creative sound-designed atmospheric synths, drones and soundscapes that we’ve re-synthesized from these voices. They’re perfect for underscoring, reinforcement and ambient arrangements. Along with our full FX rack panel, they offer you nearly endless creative possibilities.

Product Specifications

• Product Version 1.0
• 17,310 Samples
• 13 GB installed (17 GB wav source)
• 61 nki Kontakt instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48kHz losslessly compressed NCW samples
• Works with the free Kontakt Player (version 5.5.2+)

Together with Nichole Dechaine (Soprano), Kindra Scharich (Alto), Brian Thorsett (Tenor) and Joseph Trumbo (Bass), we captured a grand total of nearly 50 hours in our studio and carefully distilled it into this extraordinarily playable virtual instrument library for the Kontakt Player and Komplete Kontrol platforms. With a clean and simple interface, pristine fidelity and excellent vocal performances, Voices Of Rapture is your new go-to for classical and cinematic lead vocal arrangements.

Chromatic Elements

• True Legato Vowels: Ah and Oo core vowels for the ensemble, with additional options for some individual voices.
• Vowel Sustains: Classic pure vowel sustains, covering Ah, Eh, Ee, Mm, Oh and Oo sounds in softer piano and stronger forte dynamics.
• Latin “Poly-Sustains”: 12 Poly-syllabic sustaining liturgical Latin words and short chants with speed control and simulated legato.
• Vowel Staccatos: Classic pure short notes for Ah, Eh, Ee, Mm, Oh and Oo vowels in softer piano and stronger forte dynamics.
• Latin “Poly-Staccatos”: 23 Poly-syllabic short notes with round-robin, covering a wide variety of liturgical Latin words.
• Whispers, Breaths and other vocal sound effects for added realism and expanded sound design possibilities.
• 425 Atmospheric pads, ambiences, drones, sonic textures and evolving soundscapes hand-crafted from the raw vocal source. From smooth and celestial to brutally gritty and sinister, you have a huge range of choices that are perfect for layering, underscoring, sound design and electronic and hybrid music production.

Live Performance Phrase Elements

• A huge variety of over 3,200 natural melodic and dynamic passages in a variety of categories, tempos and root keys.
• Pure Vowel Phrases for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass
• French Phrases for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass
• Latin Phrases for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass
• Whistled Phrases for Soprano, Alto & Bass
• Hummed Phrases for Tenor & Bass

User Interface

• Powerful Custom User Interface with CC and host automation support for all major DAWs and Komplete Kontrol hardware and software.
• Main performance parameters include features like Swell, Attack, Offset, Release, Legato, Vibrato, Auto-Panning, Phrase Cross-fading, Pitch Shifting, Tempo-Sync/Time-Stretch, Unused sample purging, Articulation Key-Switching and Pitch Shift key-switching.
• Ensemble presets include a mixer panel with separate solo/mute, volume, pan and key range controls for each vocalist.
• Our FX Rack comes equipped with 18 powerful effect modules, each with configurable controls and customizable routing and chain saving/loading.
• 119 integrated custom convolution IR samples in 10 distinct categories (Cathedral, Chamber, Large Room, Small Room, Hallways, Underground, Outdoors, Long FX and Short FX)

Nichole Dechaine received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Redlands and her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in vocal performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has performed a variety of leading roles in opera and musical theater productions, and regularly appears as soloist with numerous choirs, orchestras, and ensembles in the US and abroad. She enjoys working with many composers performing their works and recording for film. In addition to performing Dr. Dechaine teaches private voice and music courses at Westmont College and Santa Barbara City College and maintains an active private voice studio.

Kindra Scharich studied voice and piano at Eastman School of Music and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance at the University of Michigan. She also completed her post-graduate education at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Kindra has pre-sented recitals for the American Composer’s Forum in Los Angeles, Lieder Alive, the Wagner Society Northern California Chapter, and the Yehudi Menuhin Seminar in San Francisco. In the world of opera, Ms. Scharich has sung over 25 roles in the lyric mezzo repertoire, most recently and to much acclaim as Minerva in West Edge Opera’s production of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria.

Brian Thorsett has been seen and heard in over 90 diverse operatic roles. His 2012-3 highlights include the title character in Rameau’s Pygmalion, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore and Jupiter in Semele. As a concert singer, Brian retains a stylistically diversified repertoire of over 200 works, which has taken him to concert halls across the US and Europe. He is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Glimmerglass Opera’s Young American Artist program, American Bach Soloists Academy, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme at Aldeburgh, England and Music Academy of the West. When not singing, Brian is on faculty at Virginia Tech.

Joseph Trumbo is a young, upcoming operatic bass singer studying at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. Joseph was a featured soloist in our Mars Symphonic Men’s Choir, as part of the Soundiron Olympus Symphonic Choral Collection. He has also performed with the SF Choral Society, Volti, Quire Cleveland, and numerous other ensembles and choral groups.

Kontakt Player

This library has been licensed for use in the free Kontakt Player virtual instrument engine. It can be used in Kontakt Player or the full retail version of Kontakt (version 5.5.2 or later) and can be loaded as a VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin. You can add this product to the Kontakt “Libraries” browser. It requires online serial number registration through the Native Instruments Service Center app. This library is also fully compatible with the Komplete Kontrol software interface and all S-Series Keyboard Controllers by Native Instruments. Purchasing this library qualifies you for a great cross-grade discount toward the full unlocked version of Kontakt through Native Instruments!

Morphing Pads and Soundscapes

Pad Therapy is a Kontakt 6.4.2 instrument with 128 “morphing” pads and textures. These sounds are ideal for music production, movie scoring and video games. PAD THERAPY features nine sample-playback engines with 64 source waveforms each.

Each preset in Pad Therapy comes with three “states” (snapshots) that can be edited and played back in various orders and blended/morphed if wished.

It comes with effects like flanger, phaser and a production quality reverb as well as full randomization. On top of that, you can import your own WAV files into Pad Therapy via drag and drop.

MAIN FEATURES

• 128 Factory Presets.
• 3 different States within each Factory Preset.
• 4x 64 (256) Source WAV Sounds.
• 4 Engines (2x Grain, 1x Wavetable, 1x Timestretching).
• 2x 64-Step Modulation Tables.
• Control over Grain Flux, Speed, Detuning, Length and Sample Offset.
• State-Sequencer with 8 Steps and Morphing.
• Preset Randomization.
• Sound Randomization.
• Random Source Sound Selection while playing.
• Built-In Production-Quality Reverb.
• Flanger, Phaser and “Flair”-Effects.
• User Audio File import via Drag and Drop.

Soundtracks, Cinematic and Trailer music

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

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

Features

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specifications

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

Solo Strings Sample Library Bundle for Kontakt

Aria Sounds is very happy to bring you the LSS SOLO STRINGS. A sample library comprising of meticulously sampled solo violin, viola, cello and double bass instruments.

We have sampled these instruments in a large beautiful concert hall, with many microphones, making up four main, mixable mic perspectives:

• Close mono
• Close pair
• Mid room
• Far room

The difference in perspectives is huge, meaning you can create sounds ranging from a very dry and up close sound, to a singing, naturally reverberated distant violin – as well as many degrees between the two.

• The full version of Kontakt 4 or above is required to run this instrument.

Three legato modes were sampled – slurred, bowed and portamento.

These are easily switchable during use via keyswitches, and one exceptionally useful feature, which we are shocked to say we rarely see in string libraries, is the ability to change bow on the same note. Simply hold the note you want to change bow on, and press the low G keyswitch (see screenshot below).

Staccato and whole tone trills are also included, with the staccatos having 24 variations per note so as to never sound repetitive – also switchable via keyswitch.

Another feature included is the ability to alter the release sound when the final note is played and released. A soft release is a normal removal of the bow from the string, but through keyswitching, you can also select hard release, which triggers a hard release. This is the sound of a player ending the note with a sharp crescendo and quick accented lift of the bow.

The perfect blend of character and polish.

• Beautiful, raw, and emotional sound
• Custom GUI with simple, yet effective controls
• Tonal depth knob adds granular decays
• Requires Kontakt 6 Full Version. 1.2GB of Space

LOFT PIANO KONTAKT OVERVIEW

If the Loft Piano doesn’t become one of your top 5 favorite piano libraries, let us and know and we will issue you a refund. ​

The Loft Piano is an exquisitely sampled upright grand piano. Sampled in, you guessed it, a loft. It’s a perfect Kontakt piano for a wide range of genres. We love using it for bedroom pop (Billie Eilish vibes anyone?) as well as Future Bass, House, Hip Hop, and of course, Film Score. ​

We wanted to create a piano that is part character and part studio. Most piano plugins or piano Kontakt libraries are either one or the other.

Character pianos often only work in a limited range of songs while the more versatile pianos can sound stale and boring. ​

The Loft Piano for Kontakt can be either. It comes with 5 Snap Shots for Kontakt so you can easily access 5 distinct and unique versions of the piano. We’ve also created a soft patch as a bonus to the main sound.

Exquisitely sampled

We used two large diaphragm condenser microphones (Nuemann UI 87) and two pencil condensers to capture the source recordings. Over 1,500 samples.

Edited. And edited some more

We cleaned up any unwanted imperfections for each individual sample.

Powered by 3,047 lines of code

The Loft Piano does the heavy lifting for you so you can focus on what you do best, make music. The custom KSP script handles round robin and allows you to control the most important elements of the piano’s sound.

The focus of SEQui2R Synth is to provide a new way of creating sequences, without being bound to a arpeggiator type of workflow. SEQui2R Synth enables the user to record and perform custom phrases, which are altered by SEQui2R Synth engine in order to follow the composition’s chords progression.

• Two separate sound engines/oscillators
• 8 different waveforms categories chosen from the amazing Galbanum, Architecture Waveforms collection, including: Sine, Square, Saw, Triangle, Pulse, Unison, Driven and Mixed.
• 10 Waveforms per category including Inverse, Serial, Fractal, Formant and more
• Sub Oscillator with Square and Sine waveforms and Noise Generator (White and Pink)
• Individual Tempo-Syncable LFOs and Envelopes for Pitch, Volume, Filter and Pulsewidth, for each oscillator.
• Extremely small library size, for fastest loading time.
• Multisampled Single Cycle Waveforms, not samples of Vintage Synths.
• 8 programmable phrases per patch, with step-able Filters, Distortion, Lo-Fi, Pitch Bend, Volume and and Pan.
• Key/Scale Control keeps your phrases in the desired scale and key. Major, Minor, Diminished and Whole-tone scales are provided.
• Portamento per step.
• Stutter and Ornamento per step.
• Random notes per step, improvisation function.
• Selectable randomisation of Sounds, StepFX, phrases, Filters, Envelopes and LFOs.
• 10 User programmable scales available per patch.
• Import and Export of User Key/Scales.
• Midi Notes Midifile Drag & Drop export.
• Includes Chorus, Phaser, Delay, Convolution Reverb per engine and a Master Digital Reverb.
• Additional Master Fx, choose among Flanger, Rotor, Bus Compressor and Cabinet Simulation.
• Over 20 selectable Filters per oscillator, including 4Pole, Ladder, Daft, Pro52, HP, BP, LP and Notch, one per engine, assignable to desired Midi CC.
• Automate-able Step effects, even at a phrase level.
• Over 100 Snapshots/presets in 3 categories: Cinematic, Modern and Vintage.
• Total sound creation from scratch, from simple single waveforms to very complex 4 oscillators architecture.
• Scripted Unison mode, up to 8 voices.
• Includes Sampled Unison Saws, Sine, Square, Triangle and , Supersaw and Ultrasaw waveforms to reduce CPU consumption at high voices count.

Fire Strings will ignite your creativity with 6GB of custom recorded sounds inside an extremely powerful engine powered by Native instruments Kontakt sampler.

Fire Strings is a hybrid, scoring and music production tool for cinematic composers and producers. The library consists of a highly curated collection of cinematic sounds created from recordings of electric violin and guitars recorded through high end analog signal paths (Neve, API, Universal Audio, Manley) and put through extensive sound design processes by a team of sound designers.

Over 140 sounds including sustains, textures and grooves are included.

The Engine

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.

Fire Strings 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.

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

An additional 8 global send and insert effects allow for even further sound manipulating possibilities.

Content

Tonal – This section of the library contains electric violin sustains and textures both of a traditional and extended nature. We dug very deep to push well beyond common technique. Here you’ll find everything from standard sustains and tremolos to the extremely jarring spectral scrubs, harmonics, trills, wild microtonal bends and vibrato.

Risers – Risers offers a collection of long, tension building glissandos played with a variety of bowing and fingering techniques, perfect for developing climaxes.

Rhythmic – The rhythmic content consists of dozens of tonal, tempo-synced electric guitar grooves that serve as the perfect starting point for a cue. All grooves are mapped across several octaves and are freely transposable.

Summary

• 129 Snapshots
• Custom GUI
• 11 FX Sequencers Per Sound
• 60 Custom Impulse Responses
• Requires Kontakt 5.7.3 Full Retail Version (Not compatible with free Kontakt player)
• 800 + Samples
• 6 GB

A hard-hitting drum sample library built for Kontakt

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

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

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

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

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

NASTRO is a powerful time machine, your ticket to the realm of lo-fi devices from reel to reel tape recorders, cassette players, walkmans up to Super8, VHS & Betamax recorders. After Soundscapes, here comes the second release of the series: NASTRO VHS!

You won’t need any DeLorean to travel back to the 80s and its quirky sound and visuals: shaky, glitchy, wobbling, full of beautiful imperfections and fluctuations, and with abundance of static noise.

IMPORTANT: it requires Kontakt Full Version 6.6.1+ (not compatible with the Free Kontakt Player).

Specifications

• 52 sound sources/patches:
  • 21 long synthetic tones patches (10 analog synths + 11 hybrid synths patches)
  • 14 short synthetic tones patches (10 analog synths + 9 hybrid synths patches)3 Tempo-based loop patches
  • 3 Textures and FXs patches
  • 6 VHS Static Noises patches
  • 6 Reel Noise Patches
• 4 Channels/Tracks
• 4 Playback modes: Normal / Reverse / Normal Loop / Reverse Loop
• 3 Playback Speeds for each channel in Sync Mode: half speed / normal speed / double speed. You can manually control speed in the Free Mode
• 20 unique IR effects
• Built in FX Macros: Pan / EQ / Comp / Sat

BALKAN SAX is a new playable alto sax that captures the style and nuances of balkan music and beyond.

Superbly delivered by virtuoso reed player Achille Succi, it comes with 18 exciting articulations including sustained notes with strong vibratos, powerful normal-double and -triple staccatos, short glissandos up and down (scoops) and lots of stylistic embellishments and tempo-synced approach notes to give your melody a vibrant life!

A must HAVE for composers and producers looking for high realism and instant gratification!

Balkan Sax comes with a highly intuitive, easy-to-use, ready-to-play interface with 2 top-class reverb algorithms, delay, and a gritty pedal-like distortion. ideal for lots of styles and musical genres, from jazz, pop, traditional music, Bregović-like scores and world music. 

Features

• 1074 Samples in .ncw format
• Total Uncompressed Size: 530.2 MB
• Full Instrumental Range

18 Articulations (Keyswitches):

• Sustain Notes
• Half Tone Long Mordent
• Whole Tone Long Mordent
• Short Gliss Up
• Short Gliss Down
• Half Tone Short Mordent 
• Whole Tone Short Mordent
• Minor Third Short Mordent
• Staccato
• Double Staccato (Double Tonguing)
• Triple Staccato (Double Tonguing)
• Strong Vibrato Sustained Notes
• Special Balkan articulation
• Half Tone Double Mordent
• Whole Tone Double Mordent
• Balkan Phrase (tempo-synced)
• Approach note group #1 (tempo synced)
• Approach note group #2 (tempo synced)

Built-in FX:

• Room Reverb
• Hall Reverb
• Delay
• Gritty Pedal-like Distortion 

FATTY 311 honors the tonal legacy of the Conn Prelude 311 organ.

 Our lovely Prelude had a real spring reverb unit, two 44 key keyboards, a Min-O-Matic rhythm machine, and tons of emulated sounds of clarinet, trombone, violin, guitar tremolo, and more.

FATTY 311 honors the tonal legacy of the Conn Prelude 311 organ. C.G. Conn Ltd., sometimes called Conn Instruments or commonly just Conn, was an American manufacturer incorporated in 1915. Its early business was based primarily on brass instruments manufactured in Elkhart, Indiana. During the 1950s, its best seller became the electric organ. After the household organ craze died down (50-70), Conn went bankrupt and was eventually bought by Steinway in 2000.

Charles G. Conn was a Civil War veteran of the U.S. Army who established a grocery and baking business in Elkhart, Indiana after the war. He also played cornet in the local community band. He started out inventing cornet mouthpieces, and by 1905, Conn had the world’s largest musical instrument factory producing a full line of wind instruments, strings, percussion, and a portable organ.

Our lovely Prelude has a real spring reverb unit, two 44 key keyboards, a Min-O-Matic rhythm machine, and tons of emulated sounds of clarinet, trombone, violin, guitar tremolo, and more. The instrument’s classic wooden body echoes the popular aesthetics of the 1970s and its beefy, warm analog sound can cut through any mix. We sampled its best sustains, staccatos, and effects in three microphone positions to bring your midi to life. You can easily use vibrato and a special “Octave” knob, which spices up your tone by smoothly rolling in lower and higher octaves. We’ve also included tons of custom FX patches and sound-designed ambient synth pads created from the source to make this library extraordinarily playable and versatile. Whether you’re looking to recreate an old video game sound, huge synth bass tone or play straight from the hymnal, Fatty 311 can get you there!

Contents

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more.

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 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 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!

Features

• Electro Organ Sustains, Releases, Staccatos, SFX in three microphone positions: Close, Mid, Far
• Synth Clarinet, Trombone, Violin, Guitar Tremolo, Diapson, Flute, Reed, Major Bass, and more
• 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 8,700 stereo samples
• 6.17 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

GAS is a hybrid Kontakt synthesiser fusing together six-string electric guitars and analog modular effects.

Every sound in the library has been recorded from real guitars ran through a complex sequence of tape machines, effects and pedals. The results are mesmerizing and unlike any sounds heard before.

NOTE: The Full version of Kontakt 5.5.1 or above is required please. NOT for Kontakt Player

Hyperion Strings Ensemble is an orchestral string scoring library with brilliant sound, expressive control, and adaptive performance features.

It’s loaded with a massive array of dynamic long and short articulations, fingered true legato and portamento, emotive dynamic expressions, tremolo, runs, trills, flautando, ponticello, harmonics, chromatic and aleatoric effects, and creative sound-design elements. It’s a complete string scoring solution right at your fingertips, with everything you’ll need to shape your own sound, from the intimate to the astral.

Whether you want human realism and detail or vast ambient textures, Hyperion Strings Ensemble offers total flexibility to fit any style and arrangement, wrapped in a wide, intuitive interface that lets you dive right in. This 30-piece string ensemble has compact sections with 8 1st Violins, 7 2nd Violins, 6 Violas, 5 Cellos and 4 Double Basses to produce natural divisi arrangements, with a 12-layer slot system that lets you quickly build huge symphonic groupings. Create your own mix with 4 distinctive microphone distances. The ultra-close Stage mix has intense character and clarity. The newly remastered Close position delivers modern tone with relaxed processing. The wide Mid Hall blend offers velvety warmth with a rounded top end. The lush Far Hall has a classic atmospheric sound.

Contents

The Legato deftly weaves vibrato and clean sustains with fingered and glissando legato transitions across the dynamic range, with adaptive speed response that seamlessly transitions from quick slurred runs to smooth melodies. Craft dramatic passages with naturally emotively bowed sustains, fast & slow interval trills, tremolo, ponticello, harmonic, flautando and other effect sustains.

From the delicate to the bombastic, our dynamic expressions bring a score to life. You’ll find dozens of variations to fit every mood, with smart dynamic release-triggering, tempo-sync and time-stretching. Combine them with our A-B system, Offset, Attack, and Release controls to create truly expressive moments. Do it live with Performance mode and effortlessly switch between sustains and shorts as you play. Take it easy with adaptive legato response, natural vibrato-clean blending and auto-bowing.

The Shorts include long & dotted 8th-note staccatos, 16th & 32nd-note short staccatos, 32nd & 64th-note spiccatos and loose & tight pizzicato plucks, with up to 8 round-robins, velocity/swell control, and auto speed-switching for realism and precision. You’ll also find fx shorts like loose & tight Bartok pitz snaps and Col Legno bow taps, tremolo and trill stacs, and many other specialized variations. Explore a broad selection of crescendos, decrescendos, vibrato-clean transition, hairpins, sforzandos, and swells to create nuanced and realistic movements.

Each section includes plenty of long and short chromatic and aleatoric effects, including runs, bridge bowing and plucks, runs, slides, clusters, tension beds, cacophonies, stabs, stingers, risers, falls, percussion and more. The 1st Violins also feature a wide selection of long and short Sordino articulations, expressions and effects, including true legato & portamento.

Fly seamlessly between grouped articulation layers with instant key-switch assignment, A-B grouping, velocity stacking and cross-fade control. Dial in your ideal Swell range with the Niente attenuator. Sequence as you go with the Arpeggio editor and keep it in key with Play-Assist. Shape your tone, body, dynamic response and sound-stage positioning and acoustic environment on the Effects and Space panels. Create the perfect articulation maps with handy macros and convenient preset menus at the top of each panel, making it easy to save time and share templates and settings across the library

Each carefully balanced mic position captures a distinct aesthetic style. The Stage mix places the mics on each player for intense presence, detail and transparency to bring each instrument into focus, making it the perfect choice for adding definition and personality to any arrangement. The Close position delivers a modern, bold cinematic tone that also forms the basis for our Micro and Elements editions, but we’ve dialed back the processing in this Ensemble edition to achieve a more natural quality, letting it breathe and move freely. The Mid Hall blend is a wide omni array with velvety character, relaxed dynamics, and soft highs that falls easily into place in classic movie soundtracks. The Far Hall has a lush, vintage quality with a deep, dark concert hall sound that harkens back to golden age mid-century classical recordings.

Features

• Multi-dynamic sustains, with smooth real-time control over natural vibrato/clean and dynamic transitions.
• An extensive collection of specialized sustains, including expressive bowing, tremolo, flautando, ponticello, harmonics, bridge bow, fast trills, slow trills w/ tempo sync, and more.
• A wide variety of Short strokes in a variety of dynamics and styles, with up to 8x round-robin per dynamic/key, including staccatos, spiccatos, pizzicatos, Bartoks, Col Legno, trills, tremolo, ponticello, flautando, harmonic, bridge, runs, etc.
• A comprehensive suite of Expressions in a variety of lengths, timings and dynamics, including crescendos, decrescendos, sforzandos and swells, with time-stretching, tempo-synching and automatic release.
• 1st Violin Sordino with dynamic sustains, finger & gliss legato, multiple staccato and spiccato types, expressions & effects.
• Sound-designed atmospheres, pads and ambient textures for underscoring and soundscape creation.
• Flexible and intuitive wide-format user interface with pro features, deep customizability and simple workflow.
• Free soundstage positioning for each section within dozens of custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments, including both convolution and algorythmic reverb modes.
• Full Ensemble presets to allow instant unison scoring.
• Optimized Multi-instrument banks (.nkm) for efficient DAW templating.
• Multi-microphone position presets to allow custom mixing and convenient output routing.
• Adaptive Play Assist and Arpeggio panels for instant inspiration.

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

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

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

What’s New?

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

NØRDIC CELLO

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

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

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

Go Nørdic!