Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

Magnetic|Duo puts you at the controls of a hybrid instrument combining strange acoustic pianos, bizarre synthesizers, electronic organs and other unlikely keyboards. All at the same time.

Based on the sound research that produced Subliminal Keys, Magnetic|Duo takes a more direct approach while retaining the strangeness of its bigger brother.

For Inquisitive Composers

Magnetic|Duo is aimed more at inquisitive composers than fussy sound designers.

This collection of instruments gives you access to two worlds, allowing you to create your own parallel universe: a textured piano form on one side, a related instrument on the other.

Each proposal oscillates between the concept of a digital sampler or an electronic keyboard and the Mellotron-ish approach. DACs and tapes interweaving to create new sounds.

Stretch the piano to an ethereal layer, turn it into stringy violins, reduce it to a delicate, corrosive powder. All with a minimum of fiddling.

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.

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

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

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.

Aquaalt is an experimental custom creation from the mind of master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin: A unique Lute with a steel bowl resonator.

This handcrafted contraption’s bridge delivers the string vibrations directly to the bowl’s flat bottom. As the strings sound, a small amount of water moves in the bowl, causing ever-changing resonances and creating unusual, dreamy sounds. Made of wood and metal, Aquaalt has a richly acoustic essence that resounds brightly through each note. With the body mounted on a swaying stand, the player can rock the lute to keep the water in the bowl moving. It can be played by plucking or bowing, occasionally with a slide to vary the string pitches.

We’ve faithfully sampled every interesting sound we could get out of this water lute, with two stereo mic positions: Close, and direct line in. Plucks, Bow Long, Bow Short, Bow Sul Ponticello, and Glisses up and down are available in all four layers to easily mix and match. With up to 8x round robin and 6 velocity layers per note, you’ll be swimming in beautiful timbres in no time. We’ve also included a wide selection of custom FX presets and plenty of our signature sound-designed ambient content, crafted from the raw acoustic source to give you complete creative freedom.

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

• Water Lute Plucks, Bowed, and Gliss articulations in two mic positions: Close, Direct line in
• 20 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content
• 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 5,820 stereo samples in unlocked .WAV format
• 15 GB Installed
• Made for the full retail version of Kontakt (version 6.2.2+)