Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Deep User Interface

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

Product Specs

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

Kontakt Player

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

Continuo is a complex-sounding cinematic texture designer tool based on electric guitars for creating endless pads, unusual soundscapes, characteristic atmospheres and experimental sublayers especially for film, video games and electronic music.

This is the first release of our cinematic series with our brand new, easy-to-use Layer Designer Engine where you can edit, modulate and mix up to 4 individual Instrument Modules at the same time.

Continuo is created in collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist, electronic music producer & composer IAMYANK.

Your continuous journey starts now.

Main Features:

• 18 extra long guitar sample modules with rare sound setups: raw sounding Fender guitar textures with a lot of fortuitousness
• Bowed, tremolos, vibratos, beaten (with a wooden stick) techniques and a 300x stretched guitar patch
• Super large reverbs recorded through Eventide & Strymon effect processors
• Equipment used: UA1176, Roland Dimension D, Studer A800, Pultec EQP-1, UAD RAW, Strymon Deco / BigSky, Eventide Blackhole
• New Layer Designer Engine with inspiring, super clean interface
• 60+ Factory & Artist presets
• Over 80 controls on a simplified GUI
• Run up to 4 Sound Modules at the same time
• 8 LFO Modulation presets / Module
• 4 EQ presets / Module
• 2 effects / Module
• 2 Send effects
• Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
• 24bit / 48kHz sample rate
• 2.5 GB lossless compressed size (3.5 GB original size)
• Full version of Kontakt 5.7.3+ required

Testimonials

 “The patches in Continuo Guitars are wonderfully organic, blending well both with acoustic and synth sound pallets. It’s a very well crafted, musician forward library” – Richie Kohan, Trailer Composer (Spiderman, X-Men Apocalypse, John Wick)

“Inspiring, flexible tool with many sides.” – Peter Vozar, Trailer Composer (Avengers: Endgame, First Man, Narcos: Mexico)

“Continuo is a beautiful rendition of sounds bridging the now and the future. I heard it through a certain familiarity contained in the patches combined with carefully crafted layers of rich and complex subtleties of sonic delight.” – Gabriel Dib, Film Score Composer (Criminal Minds, Child of Nature, The Story of Us) 

Synthetic Materials is a simple, but powerful KONTAKT instrument fuelled by a rich assortment of modern-day classic analog and wavetable synthesiser sounds, complete with a scale-quantised semi-generative sequencer and support for user samples.

All the factory instruments (60 in total, approx 5GB compressed) have been sampled in 24 bit super-wide stereo, and include plenty of interesting content for long, evolving and atmospheric pads. The instrument comes with 100 snapshots plus 25 sequencer demos, but Synthetic Materials is really about making those sounds your own. There are also 50 Multis demonstrating what can be achieved by layering Synthetic Materials instruments plus five 4-track demo “songs” comprising 20 sequencer snapshots.

Instrument

Refine your sonic creations selecting from two different types of low pass filter (with envelope and LFO) or add some grit with a drive effect that has its own dedicated envelope. Further enhance your sounds with the instrument’s built-in effects, including 4-band EQ, stereo ping-pong delay, rotary, chorus, reverb and compression.

Add pitch-based expression with a unique velocity threshold legato glide, vibrato and an effects pedal inspired pitch shifter. The pitch shifter allows you to generate up to two additional notes for each one you play, for octave or chord effects, including velocity scaling, automated pan and subtle detuning. You can even emulate analog-like instability with variable pitch and velocity drift that randomly alters the pitch and tone of every single note.

Configure all of these parameters from a single screen on the instrument’s GUI or from your NKS controller.

Synthetic Materials also has its own percussion instrument, the “DM 78” which includes over 200 analog drum samples showcased by 100 “vintage” and “modern” sequencer snapshots of readymade beats for your projects.

User Samples

Synthetic Materials also supports user sample import giving you access to the same sample zone mapping design used by the factory sounds. Simply drag and drop your audio files, tweak your sample and loop points, then save custom instruments as snapshots. You can even share your creations with other Synthetic Materials users.

Sounds

All the base sounds (60 in total, approx 5GB compressed) have been sampled in 24 bit super-wide stereo, and include plenty of interesting content for long, evolving and atmospheric pads. The instrument comes with 100 snapshots plus 25 sequencer demos, but Synthetic Materials is really about making those sounds your own with its flexible sound design engine.

Powerful Sequencer

Last but not least, the Synthetic Materials step sequencer has been designed to be fun, creative and musically inspiring. Despite having only 16 steps maximum, the sequencer is driven by a generative probability-based engine that allows you to develop patterns that will never sound the same twice. Step length for each sequence can be set from a sixteenth note to a massive 8 beats in length for evolving soundscapes and simple chords. Velocity and gate is adjustable for each step, and steps can be optionally sub-divided for old-school “ratcheting” effects. Gate times can also be overlapped for glides between steps. 

But the fun really starts when you explore some of the sequencer’s more unusual features… 

The A/B options allows you to configure musical variation with alternative or combined pitches for each step. Add anything from subtle direction shifts to all-out chaos by assigning steps to “bump” or “jump”. All of this is probability-based of course! And finally, you can even sketch out musical ideas using the sequencer’s “shift automation” feature that auto-transposes your sequence while it’s running, with everything staying perfectly in key and in tune using built-in scale quantisation.

Kontakt Player & NKS

Synthetic Materials is compatible with the Free KONTAKT player, so you don’t need the paid full version of KONTAKT to use the library.  Synthetic Materials is also compliant with Native Instrument’s NKS standard, with categorised snapshots and parameter mapping, allowing you to browse and edit sounds from any NKS-compatible controller.

Deep – Spacey – Epic!

VIEGO is a collection of 256 rich cinematic pads and soundscapes. Each instrument is a combination of sampled waveforms and wavetable synthesis. These stunning instruments are ideal for movie scoring and creating underscores.

VIEGO comes with five distinct controls:

• Presence – to bring a sound “to the front”.
• Space – to dial in a production-quality reverb.
• Modulation – to add movement to a sound.
• Lowpass – to filter a sound.
• Depth – to alter the stereo perception.

These five controls are pre-mapped to the modwheel in different ways. Listen to the fantastic rich and deep sounds of VIEGO!

Features

• 256 cinematic pads and soundscapes.
• Five controls to shape the sound.

What else?

• VIEGO is fully automatable
• Instantly useable and inspiring sounds right at your fingertips
• 100% royalty-free

Alpha Organ is a beautifully sampled pair of pipe organs recorded at St. Paul’s Church in SF.

They offer lush sound, powerful bass, a huge variety of organ presets, sound design, mic positions, tonal options, custom FX and very intuitive and flexible GUI control features.

The “lower” organ, built by Kilgen Church Organ Company of Saint Louis, MO, was originally water-powered, but has since been converted to an electric blower-driven system. The console is in the south isle near the side entrance and its pipes are hidden behind the altar with the blower and machinery under the floor of the Apse, allowing the lowest pedal notes to resonate through the floor, seeming to shake the very foundation.

The upper organ, far larger and more elaborate, was built by the Felix F. Shoenstein & Sons Organ company of San Francisco. It is arrayed high above the portcullis and Narthex in a mezzanine between the two bell towers. Where the first organ – our “Alpha” Organ – is sweet and silky in its tone, the second – our “Omega” Organ – is thunderous and mighty in its body and energy, with a more powerful blower, larger console and many more pipes.

We feel that this space has extraordinary acoustic properties bordering on the mystical. Each time we’ve recorded there, we’ve experienced waves of strange synchronicities. The entire hall seems to sing as if one great living instrument. To honor the high strangeness that the space seems to evoke, we’ve enriched this library with a very wide selection of sound designed ambiences, leads, pads, drones and custom effect presets, delving deeply into psychoacoustic and metaphysical aesthetics. The church was built by its own perishoners over a period of two decades, starting in 1897, delayed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and finally completed in 1911, using stone salvaged from the ruined city itself. It has a lush, pristine quality full of spacious airiness and crystal clarity, without a hint of cloudiness or oversaturation. This reverberant hall is one of our very favorite recording locations, home to our acclaimed Requiem Light Symphonic Choir, the Native Instruments Symphony Series Brass Ensemble and Solo collections and many other classic Soundiron libraries.

We’ve packed the user interface with powerful sound-shaping controls to give you complete flexibility. Controls for volume swell, attack and release time, sample start offset, vibrato, and sound bank selection are included in all presets. The main preset also features a microphone mixer and an octave effect. The Layered preset includes 4 independent sound layers, each with a full set of parameters that can be linked, automated and customized. The first three layers are the Close (Mic 1), Mid (Mic 2) and Far (Mic 3) microphone positions. The fourth layer is the Ambiences layer. We used various sound-design tricks to morph the sounds from our journey into 30 different tonal and dissonant pads, synth-tones and ambient dreamscapes. They can be played by themselves, or used to add texture and body to the primary sounds.

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. The built-in modular FX rack window offers 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 phase, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes 99 of our own convolution reverb impulse presets. We’ve captured a huge variety of different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, along with 139 unique, strange and creative special effect impulses to completely transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility.

Features:

• Product Version 2.0
• Two deeply sampled pipe organs with three microphone positions: Close, Mid, Far
• 12 stops in Alpha organ, 20 stops in Omega organ, 3 stops in Unity organ, Pedal tones + SFX
• 16,671 Samples
• 17.7 GB installed (29 GB wav source)
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
• Flexible and intuitive user interface with pro features, deep customizability and simple workflow.
• 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.

A box full of wonder! This is what a Shruti Box is.

Just by itself, this tiny acoustic instrument is able to produce timbres ranging from pure accordion-like sounds, ecstatic pedal notes and drones, blues-harp-like tones up to weird, granular and almost synthetic textures.

For this reason, Have Audio decided not to serve it in our usual blends but to sample the acoustic instrument in-depth and extend its natural range and music potential thanks to our double espresso engine and a set of unique and creative custom FX.

Shruti Box will become a must-have tool for all film composers and music producers interested in an ethnic instrument with that extra touch!

This bundle includes three separate Kontakt instruments plus a bonus instrument: Shruti Box Essentials, Shruti Box Extended and Shruti Box Harmonic and the bonus Shruti Box Interval Machine and requires the full version of Kontakt to work.

Please note this will not work in the free Kontakt Player.

Features

• 537 samples
• Over 2.6 GB uncompressed file size across 4 instruments
• 4 separate .nki files

Keyswitches/Sound Banks:

• Short notes
• Long notes
• Movement  
• Pedal tones (mantra)  
• Soft pedal tones 
• Harsh
• Ominous textures
• Gentle pedal tones 
• Pleasant textures 
• Wah
• Major chords
• Minor chords
• Augmented chords 
• Diminished chords 

Built-in FX:

• Concert hall convolution reverb
• Accordion-verb
• Freeze reverb
• Reflection custom impulse response fx
• Distortion

TRUE HYBRID DRUMS

Konstruktor is a hybrid drum designer and kit builder that blends acoustic sound sources with synthesized waveforms. Together with both fully acoustic and fully synthetic elements, this kit builder creates truly hybrid drums with a unique, fresh new sound.

CONVOLUTION COLORS

Model each kit component with its own convolution plugin: almost 400 custom impulses that color, shape, distort, and augment the drum samples. Thicken kick drums, smear and widen snares, turn hi-hats into mini rhythm engines. Glitchbomb, Drumrust, Echoglitz, Boomscope…

ROBOT OR HUMAN?

Control the amount of randomization that is applied to velocity and quantization—separately for each kit component. Make those snares and hi-hats extra trashy. And with 6 round-robin layers for every articulation, even fully synthetic kits can find a new groove. Let those kits run loose.

PERFORMANCE CONTROL

Adjustments to tuning, sample start points, decay envelopes, and sample width can also be used to control how different convolution impulses color an instrument. Subtle tuning changes, in particular, will often reveal new and unexpected frequency effects that can help to shape a whole kit.

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

NASTRO SOUNDSCAPES 

Ready to enter a realm of analog beauty?

NASTRO is the reel experience for Kontakt 6 Full Version!

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

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

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

SOUND SOURCES

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

The 64 sound sources are organized in 6 thematic categories:

• SYNTHETIC TONES

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

• SYNTHETIC CHORDS

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

• SYNTHETIC TEXTURES

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

• ARPEGGIATION

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

• HYBRID 

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

• REEL NOISE 

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

58 UNIQUE IR EFFECTS

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

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

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

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

80 factory presets/snapshots organized into 8 categories: 

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

64 SOUND SOURCES/PATCHES organized into 6 thematic categories:

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

High-Density Organic Textures

Limerence delivers 424 cinematic textures and soundscapes.

MAIN FEATURES

• Each instrument has four layers
• Layers can be blended and toggled individually
• Categories: an organic, bright, complex, drone, evolving, huge, modulated, pad, soundscape and various
• Intuitive, easy-to-grasp interface with a moderate set of controls
• Impulse response (convolution reverb) effects
• Tone control for filter, phaser and delay effects
• Flow control for adding rhythmic modulation effects
• Shape control for distortion and degrading
• Limerence is fully automatable
• Instantly useable and inspiring sounds right at your fingertips
• 100% royalty-free
• Instant download after purchase from fast servers

Ferpect obtained a great sounding set of Kalimbas (Mbiras or Thumbpianos) so they could not resist making a carefully sampled Kontakt instrument from that collection.

Ferpect recorded the samples with different microphones and preamps and also in different locations to get some interesting resonances. They then processed the recordings with different hardware saturation devices and also with some state of the art software tools to make them sound warm, lovely and sweet….The sound is natural, phat and clean.

From there they built a custom GUI for you to manipulate the original sounds until you get just the right Kalimba sound you are looking for.

You got 50 variations to start with. Each instrument has up to 73 notes. All were build from 4 different Kalimbas, Mbiras, Thumbpianos.

The instruments are carefully tuned and velocity is also set to a very musical level for authenthic playing. You got some presets which sound more like the real instruments and some which sound like a piano or e-piano, some more like soft pads or steeldrums.

Features:

• 50 Kontakt Instruments
• 2442 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
• 4 different Kalimbas recorded
• 873 MB Filesize
• Formats: Kontakt and WAV

The Melodica Piano 32 is a nice looking easy to use and super warm sounding reed instrument made by the German company Hohner*.

The sound is generated by blowing air thru a mouthpiece into fine brass reeds like those used in Harmonicas. This one sounds really beautiful, smooth and rich.

This underrated instruments were 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 instruments in a very good condition. The Piano 32 Melodicas are little bigger than the other ones.

Overview

We have recorded this big black 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)

Each microphone can turned in separately in the master area at the head of the instrument. So you can take advantage of the different characters of the four microphone types and mix your own original black bro sound until it fits your taste perfectly.

The noise from blowing air into the Melodica was separated from the musical material and made usable thru an extra mixing knob. The same processing we did with the clicks which were produced by pressing the keys on the Melodica. So you can now add/reduce the noise from blowing by turning the noise knob and add/reduce the clicks from the keys by turning the click knob.