Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

Opalescence is a cinematic pad designer

Created for the purpose of crafting hybrid (Orchestral/Electronic) evolving Pads, with 22 sequencer-based effects. Opalescence helps you design non-static, dynamic Hybrid pads, covering the whole dramatic spectrum, from lush and creamy, to aggressive and dirty.

Opalescence consists of 2 main modules.

Module A has 15 orchestral raw instrument to choose from, with different variations for each (articulations, playing techniques, dynamics…):

• Basson
• Cello section
• Clarinet
• Double Bass section
• French Horn
• Flute
• Harmonica
• Oboe
• Organ (Manual)
• Organ (Pedal)
• Trombone
• Trumpet
• Trumpet Mute
• Viola section
• Solo violin

Module B: consists of 2 separate wavetables with an infinite selection of waveforms for each wavetable, from a simple sine wave to the most complex waveforms.

Each module has its own HP and LP filter, as well as volume controls and separate ADSR envelopes.

For each module, the user can access the “Designer” page, (Designer A and Designer B), for an number of 11 Sequenced effects table for each module(Lofi, drive, chorus, flanger, Articulation,
PWM …)

Alongside the sequenced effects for each module, Opalescence has a Master FX page that includes: Reverb, Delay (Modern, tape, diffusion) and a 3 band EQ.

Sick Noise Instruments is proud to present a brand new Kontakt Library called Protogon Horizon Lite.

Its a Hi-Tech Futuristic Dark Industrial Cinematic Library and also useful for many genres as Psytrance, Dubstep, HighTech and many more electronic music genres.

Also it can be used in cinematic tracks and trailers.

Protogon Horizon delivers truly unique and inspiring sounds and it has 2.1 GB of sound. Protogon is not only library its also a synth. With Protogon you have full control of sounds.

IMPORTANT. This is a Kontakt Library for the FULL version of Kontakt. This library is not for Kontakt Player. PROTOGON HORIZON will work in 5.8.1 version of Kontakt and newer!

PROTOGON HORIZON LITE CATEGORIES:

• 5 – Bass
• 12 – Booms
• 5 – Brams
• 30 – Short Downers
• 12 – Machine Downers
• 24 – Hits
• 21 – Kick Machine Impacts
• 15 – Machine FX
• 5 – Pulses
• 12 – Reverse SFX
• 30 – Short Rizers
• 5 – Synths

PROTOGON HORIZON LITE MAIN CONTROLS:

Sound Control:

• Pitch
• Semi
• Pan
• Volume

ADSR Envelope:

• Attack
• Decay
• Sustain
• Release

Filter:

• Cutoff
• Resonance
• Gain

LFO:

• Rate
• Depth
• Waveforms(Sine, Triangle, Pulse, Ramp down, Ramp Up, Random)

Unison:

• Voices
• Detune
• Spread

EFFECTS PANEL – Protogon has 5 effects:

• Reverb:
  • Pre Delay
  • Size
  • Colour
  • Dump
  • Stereo
• Delay:
  • Time
  • Dump
  • Pan
  • Feedback
• Flanger:
  • Depth
  • Speed
  • Phase
  • Feedback
• Phaser:
  • Depth
  • Speed
  • Phase
  • Feedback
• Distortion:
  • Volume
  • Tone
  • Drive

Wavesynth – The Advanced Wavetable Engine

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.

MAIN 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)

A Horror Instrument & Sound FX Library For Kontakt

Sick Volume 2 was designed with horror sound-design in mind. This library is a one stop shop for eerie and disturbing paranormal sound-design, including subterranean clanks, booms, thuds, cracks, drags, stomps, steps, creaks and thumps in the dark- ness; demonic creature howls, moans, breaths and growls; hellish and twisted sound- scapes, pads, drones and ambiences; and a variety of terrifyingly vivid EVP recordings (some of them quite real).

To capture the raw materials for this sonic descent, We explored the bowels of an abandoned Civil War/World War I-era naval artillery bunker (mind you, not the same bunker that we visited in Rust II – I guess you could say we love us some abandoned bunkers.) and a World War II/Cold War-era decommissioned warship. All in all, you get over 200 Grade-A production-quality horror sound effects and sound beds for about the price of a pound of raw hamburger. Delicious!

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. We’ve also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.

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!

Features:

Tape XX is a unique library produced by the acclaimed developers, Audiowarp.

Tape XX features 37 live drum loops, 54 electronic drum loops, 54 drones and 44 individual sample loops consisting of pad, guitar, mallet, pluck, analog synth and bass sequences.

With such a diverse palette of high quality sounds it’s easy to create complete tracks with just Tape XX but it’s also designed to be a perfect accompaniment with our other Audiowarp synths.

Warm Sounds

Every sample has been recorded to tape with external analog equipment.

Tape XX uses the same bespoke post-production techniques as our critically acclaimed synths, BOCS and Retcon.

Every sample in Tape XX comes with its own tempo synced Kontakt NKI file with ADSR settings making it easy to integrate into your projects.

CRYO offers an extensive collection of depressing drones, haunting plucks, dystopian hits and frightening growls with a versatile and intuitive engine like few other. CRYO is a handy tool for every sound designer seeking dark and futuristic textures.

CRYO takes advantage of Kontakt’s granular sampling to create unique sounds. CRYO features 180 different sound sources sampled across 5 octaves. Each note is capable of reacting differently with the convolver, which offers 250 hand-crafted impulse response samples to choose from.

CRYO’s ultra flexible FX section helps you sculpt your sound even further. The pre-arranged effect chains are the past. With CRYO, you can freely choose from the 7 different effects to the 5 slots, granting the kind of independence that only a handful of Kontakt engines can.

CRYO takes modulation to a whole new level, featuring 6 different types of modulators (3 of each). You can choose from LFO, envelope, sequencer, keytracking, velocity and macro control. They can control almost every parameter CRYO has, giving you the ability to wreak havoc with ease. You can assign each modulator to 2 destinations, except the macro controls, where you can select up to 5 parameters.

CRYO features a built-in preset browser, where you can easily choose from the 270 presets without loading another .nki file.
 
Kontakt Engine Contains:

• 270 easily accessable presets thanks to the built-in preset browser
• More than 11000 high-quality samples
• 250 unique impulse response samples for the convolver
• 8.4 GB content
• Ultra flexible FX section
• 6 types of modulation possibilities

Total Number Of Files:

• 10984

The third release of the “Groove Butter” series, The Open 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
• 449 MB filesize
• Formats: Kontakt and WAV

The Melodica Piano 26 is another easy to use and beautiful 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 very rich and warm.

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 old instruments in a very good condition. The Piano 26 Melodicas were maybe the best selling Melodicas of that time.

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

Overview

Each microphone can be tuned 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 pretty red 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.

Specifications

• 20 Kontakt Instruments
• 321 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
• Four Mics (piezo, condenser, dynamic, stereo)
• 20 sec long notes samples
• 21 sec long noise samples
• long notes and noises were looped carefully
• extra click samples
• Three different playing styles recorded
• 424 MB Filesize
• Formats: Kontakt and WAV

Introducing Lux Violin by David Forner – an exquisite addition to the acclaimed series. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail and a passion for sonic excellence, Lux Violin brings the soulful beauty of a violin to your fingertips.

Building upon the success of Barbarian Cello, this Kontakt instrument offers a rich and expressive experience for composers, producers, and musicians alike. Barbarian Cello: Lux Violin is based on the ground-breaking engine and bowing techniques used in Barbarian Cello. View Barbarian Cello here.

Features

• Unparalleled Realism: Lux Violin captures the authentic timbre and nuances of a real violin, delivering a lifelike performance that adds a touch of sophistication to your compositions.
• Expressive Articulations: Just like Barbarian Cello, Lux Violin features a comprehensive set of expressive articulations, including legato, staccato, pizzicato, and more. Immerse yourself in the dynamic range of this instrument.
• Advanced Controls: Take full command of your sound with a range of intuitive controls. Shape your performance with parameters such as dynamics, vibrato, and articulation switching, allowing you to tailor the violin’s voice to your creative vision.
• Versatile Soundscapes: Lux Violin is not confined to classical genres. Explore its versatility by integrating its emotive tones into various musical styles, from cinematic orchestrations to contemporary compositions.
• Seamless Integration: Whether you’re a seasoned composer or a beginner, Lux Violin seamlessly integrates into your workflow. Compatible with Native Instruments Kontakt, this instrument ensures a hassle-free and intuitive user experience.

Elevate your compositions with the unmatched beauty of Lux Violin.

Lux Violin – where timeless elegance meets cutting-edge technology.

Rebowing Engine: Lux Violin employs a one-of-a-kind rebowing engine, meticulously designed to allow you to repeat notes on long articulations whenever you want in a natural way. It achieves this by incorporating up to 5 variations per note, effectively eliminating the “machine gun effect.” Furthermore, the repetitions are extracted from phrases, ensuring a natural and authentic performance.

The Legato Engine: A legato which has two different types of transitions that are activated depending on your performance and that make this instrument especially good with fast passages. The regular transitions have been meticulously recorded up to an octave both up and down and the fast transitions have been recorded up to a perfect fourth so you can seamlessly do fast ornaments and runs.

Many options: Lux Violin features a wide variety of articulations covering the lowest to the highest dynamic ranges. Legato, harmonics, flautando, 3 types of swells and much more. In addition, the long articulations feature soft and hard attacks for added expressive possibilities. The short articulations have been extracted from phrases for a greater naturalness and better connection between them, highlighting the spiccato with 12 round robins and 5 dynamic layers.

The interface has three different modes

1. With keyswitch mode you can change the articulation using the red keys located in the highest register of the keyboard.
2. The split mode will allow you to divide the keyboard into two different parts, for example being able to play legato on the right side and sustains on the left.
3. With morph mode you can transform an articulation into another that you want, very useful for example to transform the flutando into harmonics or any other combination that you like.

Individual patches are also available if you like to work this way or you want to save resources.

Volt II is the follow up to our last popular Kontakt library Volt I.

Volt II is packed with deeply sampled and highly playable sounds including hard hitting and gritty bass sounds, ethereal pads and strings, arpeggios, distorted other-world textures, alien atmospherics and dreamy uplifting chordal synths.

Volt II uses our Volt Meter controller which allows for multiple dial manipulations on the interface with just one dial movement. Essentially the Volt Meter is an advanced Macro. Assign your modwheel to the Volt Meter automate the parameters on the fly.

Volt II is perfect for all kinds of electronic music from ambient, abstract electronica to Techno and is also great for writing breakdowns for your next electronic masterpiece.

Comes with over 130 snapshots preset and we also included a collection of MULTI’s.

Audio demos are made with just a few instances of Volt II using simple chords etc – Volt II does the rest with slow evolving textures and gritty bass and distorted arpeggios etc.

Volt Meter

Volt has a special Volt Meter dial that is the centre of the action. Most of the controls on the front panel can be controlled by the movement of the Volt Meter.

Simply select from the front panel which controls are to be controlled by Volt Meter and then select the depth/range of the control – Moving the voltmeter will then control those active dials. You can also assign the Volt Meter to your Modwheel or any other external controller dial and control many dials with the Volt Meter.

The two sliders under each dial are to set the min and max movement that the volt meter will have on the dial ie they set the range that the dial will move, if it did not have those range dials then all the dials would move the same range from 0 to full which would not be that exciting. Also it is worth noting that the left slider can also go higher then the right slider and this will create an inverse movement when the volt dial is used. ie if the left slider is taller than the right slider then when the volt meter is used the dial will move in the opposite direction – good for using on Cutoff and res with an inverse set of sliders.

Most of the included snapshots have already been setup to respond to the Volt Meter – Give it a whirl and experiment.

It is easy to create stunning patches with Volt, and by clicking the Volt symbol in the centre of the interface you can randomise patches and let the chaos of the universe play a hand in the sounds you make.

Features

• 792 Samples

• For the Full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above (Not for Kontakt Player)

• NCW format samples to save on disk space

• 2.33GB on disc

• 130 Snapshots

• 22 Multis

• ‘Volt Control’ Macro System

• Dual Layer Architecture for blending two sources together

• 40 different filter types to choose from

• 58 sound sources per layer

• Individual ADSR for Vol, Filter and Resonance

• Filter LFo Depth, Speed and Sync controls with 5 LFO Shapes

• Convolution Reverb with 10 unique Impulse Responses

• Effects Include: Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Bit Crush, Delay and Distortion

• Arpeggiator with 16 pattern modes to select

• Randomisation. Click the VOLT logo to intelligently randomise all settings and generate new patches instantly.

Rebirth is a Kontakt 6 collection of tape-like pads, guitar atmospheric loops and field recordings.

The library was designed by processing guitar and synthesizer sounds in various manners, including the extensive use of well-known boutique guitar pedals. The analog style, slightly detuned movements and soft grit obtained, make Rebirth a unique sounding Kontakt library.

Details

The four layers custom engine features full randomization capability, X-Y programmable movements, assignable effects, LFOs and envelopes (see included video for more infos). The 90+ patches are a straight starting point to instantly play the “Rebirth” sounds. You can scroll through the samples menu to choose the sound you like with no effort.

You get 6 instruments for full flexibility: Pads.nki, Guitars.nki, Fields.nki and the mixed categories Pads+Fields.nki, Pads+Guitars.nki, Pads+Guitars+Fields.nki. This allows you to design, or cleverly randomize exactly the content you need, in just a few clicks.

Rebirth for Kontakt 6 is offered at an unbeatable price to follow Soundethers policy, summed by our motto “We Love Your Music”.

NOTE: to use “Rebirth” you need the “full retail version” of Kontakt (6.6.1 and up). It will not work with the Free Kontakt Player.

An Experimental 12 Stringed Instrument & Sound-Design library built for Kontakt

Aeolian Fan Harp is a unique hand-made instrument created by Dust Bowl Guitars. Based on the concept of a traditional ancient Greek wind harp, this 12-stringed non- fretted hollow body instrument incorporates a 120mm PC fan under the strings near the bridge to produce its own wind! And rather than nylon strings, it uses steel-wound strings and electric guitar pickups.

When plucked while the fan is off, it has a sound similar to a baritone electric guitar. Powering up the fan generates a lush steady drone, but the real magic begins when you bow, scrape, gliss or excite the strings and set off extraordinary cinematic clusters, sound effects and undulating drones. This experiment was built over three long months and sampled in outstanding detail by Soundiron contributor John Valasis and Konstantinos Sakkas.

This nearly 14GB library includes a close stereo microphone position as well as a direct stereo pickup line out, so you can dial in an electric or acoustic sound just the way you like it with the help of our handy modular FX rack, full of amp and speaker simulators, multi-FX and custom convolution reverb impulses.

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. We’ve also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.

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.

Features:

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• Steel string Sustains, E-bow, Mutes, Harmonics with fan on+off, SFX in close stereo and direct line in
• 20 Ambience patches created from the source content
• 24bit/48kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 3,411stereosamples
• 13.8GBInstalled
• 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

Symphonic Choir Sample Library for Kontakt 5.8.1 and Above!

The Aurora Choir is an elegant and powerful choir sample library for Kontakt, and represents somewhat of a milestone for Aria Sounds, being the culmination of many hours of work, study and tweaking.

The library contains both Sopranos and Altos (separate instruments for maximum control), and has an absolutely stunning legato tone. On top of this, it has short syllables, arranged into a very conveniently playable sequencer. Simple arrange your phrase in the sequence, and play away – the choir will automatically sing the syllables you enter.

Note: Full Version of Kontakt Required

Note: All Female Vocals

Multiple Legato Modes at Multiple Dynamics

The choir contains four true legato modes (ah, eh, ih and oh) sampled at multiple dynamic layers, giving a total of EIGHT true sampled legato sets, for absolute realism and variation. On top of this, there are a total of twenty four different syllable shorts, sequence-able in the GUI, each sampled at three dynamic layers, giving a total of 72 variations per short note!

Four Mic Positions (48kHz / 24 Bit)

The choir was recorded in a mid sized hall, for a pristine and clear sound, with four mic positions used to ensure that no part of the vocalists’ glorious sound was wasted. Choose from, or create your own personal blend from the four available positions.

The positions are ordered from closest to furthest, and you even have the option between close condenser mics, and close ribbon mics (for a darker and warmer sound). If an even more reverberant sound is what you are after, there is a reverb slider on the interface, and you’ll also be pleased to know that this library takes external reverb very well.

All audio is in 24 bit 48KHz .wav format files.

The sequencer (lower) part of the interface allows for the creation of extremely realistic and powerful spoken lines, with the 24 included syllables.

The default sequence spells out the “Dies Irae” text, but you can easily customise or completely change this. Simply click on any syllable, and select a different one from the 24 options on the drop down menu that opens… Each syllable was recorded at three dynamics, which respond to velocity.

The low G# (in yellow) can be used to reset the sequence to the beginning, in case you don’t want to use all twenty four steps every time, allowing for even greater variation.

Roomscape is an ambient infinite tape playback machine designed to generate infinite soundscapes derived from real-world field recordings of interior and exterior spaces.

The unique feature of Roomscape is that it is designed to emulate a tape machine in that you simply press play and then blend and modulate up to 4 sources as it plays. This gives incredibly unique evolving soundscapes that never stop! All sounds in Roomscape have been provided by 3Maze Sound Effects Libraries.

10 Sound Categories: 4 sounds sources, each with 10 sound categories. All sounds are accessible using the pop-up browser system and mixer settings are retained per sound.

Evolving Modulation: Roomscape allows nearly every single control to be modulated over time. With a dedicated pop-up modulation system with between 4 and 128 steps per conrol it is possible to create pulses, stepped sequences or long smooth progressions and adjust the speed individually for every control.

Send FX:  Roomscape contains 4 Send FX slots, each slot can be populated with 1 of 5 FX. Each channel can then send the signal to each slot. This makes it very easy to quickly swap effects on the fly without having to re-assign them for each source.

Snapshots: If you don’t know how to use snapshots in Kontakt then you don’t know what you are missing. They load quicker, can be organised better and shared easier than using a bunch of nkis.

Roomscape ships with 67 snapshots in 6 different categories to get you started:

• Alien Spaces
• Buildings
• City
• Country
• FX
• Nature

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