Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

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

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

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

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

Overview

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

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

Specifications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specifications:

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• Alto xylophone and two soprano xylophones, tuned + untuned percussion & FX in two mic positions
• 20 Ambience patches created from the source content
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 14,129 Stereo WAV files
• 3.1 GB installed
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Features

• Over 1480 Samples
• 84 Analogue Patches
• Dual engine design for blending two sounds together
• Advanced Chord Sequencer
• Komplete and Maschine Integration
• 130 Snapshot Presets
• Compressed .NCW Files.
• Animated background

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

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

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

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

Deep-Sampled Articulations

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

Dynamic User Interface

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

Product Specs

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

The Brand New Pyrex Kontakt Library is an urban music vst full of hard hitting sounds.

Even though it’s made for urban music, it’s a beast with any genre of music.

• Recorded mixed & mastered at high quality.
• Has a Reverb Knob, LFO Filter, Phaser, Delay, Glide Knob, A.D.S.R Controls, and a built in Arpeggiator
• Over 1gb (Compressed) of sounds
• All sounds are also available in wav. 24bit

The instruments and sounds were all custom made by DJ Will of The Beat House Productions LLC.

Textural Organic Synths & Cinematic FX By Composer Blake Ewing

Sonespheres is a series of uniquely sound-designed atmospheric synths, textural pads, evolving soundscapes, nuanced drones and tonal ambiences, built for Native Instruments Kontakt. Each volume explores film and tv composer and long-time Soundiron collaborator Blake Ewing’s unique creative vision, delving into deeper aesthetics, stylized niches and specialty production concepts. This volume was crafted using lush symphonic woodwind recordings, with a full array of essential user controls to unlock virtually limitless creative potential.

Blake brings to his craft a brilliant ear for nuanced layering, rich detail, fluid textures and powerful emotional weight.

Blake is an American composer with a concentrated interest in creating music for visual media. His compositions have been commissioned, licensed and well received by film directors, producers, videographers, sample developers, advertising firms, music supervisors and fans from around the world. He believes in music – and in its wonderful power to support and elevate storytelling.

Our intuitive user interface gives you flexible control features for two independent sample source modules, with 7 categories and preset selection menus for each encompassing a total of 307 sound source presets.

Both modules provide automatable controls for volume, attack, start offset, release, bass, treble, pitch, pan, filter type, filter resonance, filter frequency, LFO shape, LFO rate, LFO tempo-sync, LFO target parameter, LFO depth and LFO attack time.

The LFO can be routed to Volume, Bass, Treble, Pitch, Pan, Resonance and Frequency.

There’s also a cross-fader, legato glide system, and a step-sequencable arpeggiator system, as well as our full FX rack system that allows you to select from 18 creative effect plugins, including convolution reverb with over 100 of our favorite custom reverb impulse responses covering everything from bunkers and undulating sci-fi effects to piano strings and concert halls.

Effects options include Amplifier, Cabinet Simulator, Chorus, Compressor, Delay, Distortion, EQ, Filters, Flanger, Jump Amp, Lo-Fi, Phaser, Convolution Reverb with 100+ custom impulses, Rotator, Skreamer, Stereo, Tape, Saturation, Transient Master and LFO with routing to Volume, Bass, Treble, Pitch, Pan, Resonance and Frequency.

The Dark Grand Piano is Dark Silence’s first instrument for the Native Instruments Kontakt platform.

The dark grand piano will breathe excellence right into your project with 150 piano style presets to choose from! A true one of a kind powerful simplistic digital piano instrument. This is the piano instrument you have been dreaming about!

GRAND PIANO INSTRUMENT FOR NI KONTAKT 5.7+

• 150 Piano Style Presets
• 4 FX Options
• (Distortion, Delay, Reverb, Xtra Verb)
• Full ADSR Envelope
• SSL Style 4 Band EQ
• LEMUR APP CONTROLER (IPAD)
• Main Volume Knob
• 380 MB Zip File

The dark grand is a 85-key grand piano from the early 1920’s. Recorded using special mic methods to really capture the character and essence of this grand piano. Ranging from cinema style pianos to scary spooky distant tones to warm grand piano sounds to out of this world piano sounds etc.

“The goal was to create an Instrument that can be used by all ages and all walks of artists for any style or genre! When we were creating the dark grand piano, we wanted it to be very simple that even a child or advanced pianist can figure it out very quickly. We wanted to have all the options needed to carve out a perfect piano sound, on one individual page.

The double reverb combined with the eq and distortion is where you can really bring out amazing tones and character out of the dark grand.”

This piano instrument is geared towards the new artist or the advanced pianist. The simplicity in the one page GUI design of the dark grand is really where it shines!

Giving you the controls you need and access to them right away. We created the dark grand for anyone who desires that lush warm vibrant grand piano sound or that dark erie tone.

Recording or playing live the dark grand piano delivers visually and sonically!

The dark grand and it’s ease of use make it easy for anyone of any age to start playing. Whether you are a regular piano player or it is your first time behind the keys.

The dark grand makes it incredibly simple to get an amazing piano sound into your project within seconds!

VISUALLY STUNNING INTERFACE

The dark grand piano is powered by the true lite GUI engine. True lite is our first GUI engine hosting the design aspects of the dark grand. Smooth knobs and buttons make the grand a true beauty to the eyes.

150 GRAND PIANO STYLES

The dark grand piano is fully loaded with 150 unique piano style presets ranging from cinema style to warm and modern to haunted to amazing studio sounding classics. The dark grand really brings true harmony to your project!

REVERB + XTRA VERB

The reverb unit comes with the option to change the size, pre-delay and reverb dry/wet. The xtra verb option gives an extra boost of convolution reverb to really spice the dark grand right up!

ADSR ENVELOPE

The dark grand piano features a full envelope function. Giving you power over the attack, decay, sustain and release.

FREE TIME DELAY

The free time delay fx unit gives you the option of time, feedback, panner and delay dry/wet. The time option is not synced. It is a free time delay giving you the time in milliseconds.

SSL STYLE 4 BAND EQ

The dark grand piano features a full SSL style band equalizer. Giving you the option to sculpt your piano sound with ease!

4 MULTI EFFECTS (DISTORT, DELAY, REVERB + XTRA VERB)

The distortion switch really gives an upfront light distortion to add a ton of character to your piano tone. The Delay, Reverb + Xtra Verb switches turn the multi fx on and off.

Lemur APP Controller (Included In Package)

 You control the sound. Have full control over the Dark Grand Piano.

• Full Control
• Effects Control
• Playable MIDI Keyboard
• Touch Response
• And so much more!

Requiem Light is a professional symphonic choir library specifically designed for epic cinematic scoring and dramatic trailer composition, packed with a huge mix-ready sound in a supremely light ram and disk footprint. Whether you use it in your studio or take it on the road, it has a rich, dynamic cathedral choir sound that’s equally perfect for achieving soaring fortissimo power or sculpting delicately soft melodic detail.

This library is Powered By the Native Instruments Kontakt Player engine (VST, AU & AAX Plugin formats) and supports all Komplete Kontrol software and hardware.

This library includes three true legato vowels, a variety of classic vowel sustains and staccatos, single-syllable Marcato words, long poly-syllabic Latin sustains and fast, aggressive Latin staccatos, as well as a big selection of classic and uniquely creative dynamic choral effects, a great collection of emotive solo soprano and tenor polysustains and a selection of sound-designed atmospheric pads, drones and choral atmospheres.

Product Specs

• 4,243 Samples
• 4.72 GB installed (6.4 GB wav source)
• 14 nki Kontakt instrument presets
• 24 bit / 44.1kHz lossless NCW format samples
• Works with the free Kontakt Player
• Includes bonus choral atmospheres, soundscapes, drones and evolving sound designed pads, hand-crafted from the source.

All of this content is wrapped in a newly redesigned intuitive and flexible graphical user interface for easy parameter shaping, real-time articulation layering and switching, fluid legato, customizable section blending and a fully-integrated syllable and phrase step sequencer.

We’ve also included our modular FX rack, including 119 of our favorite custom reverb spaces. With a clean and responsive interface, pristine acoustic fidelity and excellent vocal performances, Requiem Light is your new go-to for classical and cinematic lead choral arrangements.

We recorded Requiem Light in the massive sanctuary hall at historic Saint Paul’s in San Francisco and conducted by award-winning maestro Robert Geary with hand-picked members of Volti, SF Symphony Chorus, SF Opera and the San Francisco Choral Society. The choir was captured with 12 large diaphragm microphones and expertly mixed and mastered into a perfectly-balanced stereo image. This instant mix-ready master mix provides you intuitive ease-of-use and resource efficiency right out of the box, without the usual system resource and performance cost.

The library contains polyphonic true-legato sustains for full unison choir, with essential Ah, Eh and Oh vowel types with smooth piano-forte dynamic cross-fade control. It also includes men’s and women’s divisi sustains for six common vowel sounds (Ah, Ee, Eh, Ih, Oh and Oo). There are 24 staccato syllables with round-robin and 16 ultra-forte sustaining single-syllable marcato words to choose from, with integrated phrase-sequencing.

We also include 20 fast and 12 slow multi-syllable Latin words with time-stretching, tempo-synching and legato control. It also features 10 expressive poly-sustain articulations for Tenor and Soprano soloists.

You’ll also find hundreds of dramatic and creative choral effects including clusters, demonic chants, glisses, swells, sweeps, consonants, shouts, stomps, breaths, claps, snaps and more. You can also choose from 119 custom convolution reverb and FX impulse responses to place the choir in different environment or create unique atmospheric and special textural effects.

The library also offers a variety of uniquely sound-designed atmospheric and choral pad content for underscoring, layering, EDM and ambient songwriting, soundscape creation and more.

Berlin-based Soundtrax and UK sound designers Sub51 have teamed up to create a new, intuitive and inspiring Drag ‘n’ Drop sample-based Kontakt instrument which allows dynamic blending of four imported custom sound sources to create multilayered complex sounds that morph and evolve in an organic way.

XY Morphing

Drop Pad’s XY-Morph movements can be recorded and exported and imported to or from disk, all four samples can be edited and modulated by the onboard Filters and LFOs. Seven of the best Kontakt effects and an optional Arp will give the sound the final touch – and all samples and almost every movement or modulation can be instantly tempo-synced. 
 
Additional features include a Play button (accessible from all windows) for auditioning loops and it is now possible to further modulate the path of the morph cursor using further Warp functions, which open up new  possibilities for modifying rhythms. An Isolate function now allows one or more of the pads to be locked so that its playback level remains constant, for example, when you want your kick and snare patterns to remain steady but still have the toppers assigned to other pads following the Morph path.
 
Drop Pad uses Kontakt’s new MIR technology to automatically detect tonal material during import and adjusts the pitch of the audio file. Sample editing options include individual controls related to the pitch, envelope, pan position, playback direction, loop and sample start. The playback engine can be set to the classic ‘Sampler’ or ‘TM Pro’ Mode (incl. tempo/speed settings) to provide convenient tempo adjustment.

Mod & FX

The Modulation section contains a low-pass filter, a peak filter and a high-pass filter, each to be assigned to one or more of the four sample pads where it is possible to modulate the filter setting via a choice of LFO shapes allowing both the X and Y parameters of each pad’s cursor to be changed during playback — independently for all three filters. Other modulation features include independent Pan and Pitch, both with a choice of waveforms. Complete Mod setups can be quickly stored and recalled with via the 9 FX preset buttons.

The FX section contains seven global effects: Reverb, Choral (Chorus), Flair (Flanger), Phasis (Phaser), Overdrive (Van51), Compression (Supercharger GT) and Replika Delay. A special FX Warp pad allows the X and Y axes each to be assigned to an FX parameter where the rate, modulation shape and tempo-related speed of the FX modulation can be adjusted.
A simple EQ allows further shaping of the sound. Complete FX setups (all FX and EQ settings) can be quickly stored and recalled with via the 9 FX preset buttons

Nine FX setups can be stored and recalled with the MOD preset system.

900 MB Library & Snapshots

Drop Pad (Original Edition) comes with a 850MB library of high quality on-board Snapshots and Samples featuring Cinematic Soundscapes, Bass and Drum Loops, Pads, Raw Textures, Sound Effects and Arps. Users can easily choose different sample combinations of the Factory content to create their own Snapshots as well as bringing in their own samples.

Komplete Kontrol is supported via selected pre-defined parameters

Also included with Drop Pad is an additional 123MB of waveform samples such as basic waveforms, noise, timecode, turntable belt, electrical noise and vinyl crackles.

Asphericon features a collection of 24 beautiful, multi-sampled guitar, tube and bell instruments, with each instrument having different layers (variations) that can be blended together with a few button presses.

To round things up, Asphericon features unique convolution reverb effects, an ambient layer with 20 presets, an ambient shimmer effect as well as a guitar-amp simulation effect.

The instrument is fully velocity-responsive and comes with 4 global presets.

MAIN FEATURES

• 24 Beautiful Multi-Sampled Hybrid Instruments
• 4 Global Presets, Unique Convolution Reverb Effects
• Ambient Layer with 20 Presets
• Velocity Adaptive
• Ambient Shimmer Effect, Guitar Amp Effect
• Perfect for Moody and Ambient Productions

Blending analog textures with mechanical and electronic actuators.

All-new electro-mechanical bass instruments constructed from a multisampled analog synthesizer, physical actuators, noise artifacts, and amp/cabinet impulses.

Building on the philosophy of mechanical sound, RootBass TANG charts new creative territory by blending all-new analog textures with mechanical and electronic actuators. Rich new sample content re-imagines the sound and feel of classic synthesizers, with a focus on root+fifth variants.

Carefully modeled, velocity-sensitive multisamples from an analog synthesizer are made combinable with keys, switches, old circuitry, percussive strikes, and articulations from analog waveforms and effects. RootBass TANG captures the sound and feel of vintage synthesizers in a fresh, modern style: brilliant arpeggiators, intense leads, deep keys, rich basses, and gorgeous crossover instruments that defy classification.

RootBass demonstrated how noise becomes an essential part of the sound and feel of an instrument. Two types of radio noise are added to the lineup of custom noise textures, which include different tape hiss and flutter styles, amplifier hum, vinyl crackle, VHS tracking, and electromagnetic noise. Routed through classic tape echo, amp/cabinet impulses, and effects, RootBass TANG creates instruments that feel solid, real, and deliciously mechanical.

CLASSIC ARPEGGIATOR

RootBass TANG‘s arpeggiator is bright, and intense, and captures the iconic sound of vintage electronica in a fresh new style. Filtering, noise modeling, effects, and subtle modulation are central to capturing the feel of fluctuating voltages, scratchy pots, failing transistors, and aged circuits. The humanization feature (instrument mode) adds another dimension by shifting note volume, pitch, and filtering.

MECHANICAL BASS

Independently selectable key-down and key-up articulations offer separate decay, filter, tuning, and velocity sensitivity controls, including fine control over their position relative to the bass’s attack and release. Similarly, control the noise type, volume, envelope, filtering, and velocity sensitivity. The instrument offers poly/mono modes and a simple, classic legato mode. Each element can be bypassed.

TAPE ECHO/FX & MIXING

The unique character of tape echo pairs up beautifully with classic rotator, phaser, flanger, and chorus effects to color the bass tones. Three output mix types shape the instrument’s essential style: overdrive + amp/cabinet impulse, classic tube amp, and classic UK guitar amp. Finally, tape saturation and compression give warmth and body while classic mono and modern stereo reverb impulses put space around it.

Built Upon The Stigmata Engine

The Stigmata Engine incorporates four polyphonic sources that reproduce layering techniques, each with sufficient controls to place them in space, adjust their character and modulate them dynamically and continuously.

The organisation of the instrument is simple: there are five categories of controls. Modulations allow you to determine the strength and speed with which sounds are modified. Variations offer alterations to each source in real time. Modulations and Variations work with Macros, grouped controls, while the middle section houses a set of filters combined around a common control, stereo width adjustment and infinite sustain to hold notes played without the need to keep your hands on the keyboard.

Simple and effective but not simplistic!

Bizarre Sitar may not seem so strange at first glance.

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.5 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library.

It has most of the elements found on any other sitar, with it’s traditional gourd body, both main playable strings and sympathetic resonating strings, parda (adjustable curved frets), kunti (tuning pegs), dandi (neck), ghoraj (main bridge) all complete with orante hand-painted accents.

At just over 24″ in length, however, this little beauty is barely half the size of a standard sitar. Simply being small isn’t bizarre by any means, but what is bizarre is how it can achieve such a lush, full-bodied sound while being so small. Intended as more decoration than instrument, we feel this little guy has been highly underestimated. Although soft-spoken and possessing fewer strings than normal (5 main and 6 sympathetic), all this “baby” sitar needed was someone to listen closely. And we did. Very close.

The Bizarre Sitar includes chromatic plucks as well as strumming articulations. Two main strumming tunings are included, a fifth and octave/unison.

An onboard “Speed” slider (MIDI assignable and defaulted to the modwheel) allows you to sculpt the speed of the individual strum from very tight, fast strums to slower, plucky strums.

The unison articulation was tuned with strings in unison and in several octaves to give a very full sound. The fifth articulation was tuned with strings in unison and in fifths, similar to the Pancham-Kharaj tuning popularized by Ravi Shankar. By recording several different strumming speeds for both the fifth and the unison strumming articulations, this library allows you to create realistic sounding strums by adjusting the speed in real-time.

The strums are tuned and spread across the entire keyboard, providing deep, droning sounds in the low end and sharp, mandolin-like plucks in the high end.

Product Specs

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• 603 Stereo Samples
• 1.86 GB installed
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization
• Plucked, Bowed, and Multi-Speed Strummed articulations
• Effects including string mutes, fret scrapes and more
• 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

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.

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!

Create, Control and Play Kontakt like never before!

Build multis on the fly and perform anything from trios, quartets to fully blown orchestras!

MAIN FEATURES

• Trigger multiple instruments simultaneously across different key and velocity ranges.
• Transpose instruments on the fly to create chords/intervals/textures.
• Use the Octaver to play massive chords and melodies.
• Set fixed velocity values or shift velocity around. Zone dependent Polyphony Limiter.
• Zone dependent Polyphony Limiter.
• Fine tune your MIDI control using the built in CC Filter.
• Mix your multi with the built in MIDI learnable mixer.
• Use 8 different independent, key switched scenes for the ultimate performance!
• Extensive MIDI Learn functionality and Hotkeys for ultimate workflow.
• If used inside a DAW, ZoneMatrix can be used to control other VSTi’s.
• ZoneMatrix presets for swift recall.

ZoneMatrix offers a new dimension of creativity for Kontakt users worldwide!

ZoneMatrix contains eight independent Zones. A Zone correlates to a kontakt instrument.

Click a Zone Button to switch it On/Off. The Incoming MIDI data is then routed to all active Zones. Each Zone can shift/remap/multiply the incoming MIDI data in a variety of useful and creative ways. The modified MIDI data is sent to Kontakt instruments and determines how/what/when they’ll play.

There are four main pages available in the Upper Zone. Each represents a different MIDI aspect.

• The Keyrange page is where you set your keyrange and note values assignments.
• The Velocity page is where you set your velocity assignments.
• The CC Filter page is where you can filter out MIDI CC’s.
• The Mixer page is where you mix your multi.

Here comes the next release of our “Groove Butter” series. “The Woods” features 90 different Clave and Woodblock presets made from 1,764 carefully recorded and sampled one shots. All presets are playable over four octaves and are velocity sensitive.

We have recorded 6 Claves, 5 Woodblocks with 3 drum sticks and 2 brushes, we also sampled 5 different drum maschines, run them through our saturation, compression, cleaning process and finally built a nice GUI for you to have lots of fun by turning 45 knobs to get a satisfying beat making experience.

There are some clean and classic sounding claves and woodblocks and also some which we have hardly overworked, to get some more modern or aggressive results to fill the toolbox for different music genres too. Add some extra drama by using the pitchbend in combination with some of the useful effects available, in a very handy and intuitive GUI design.

You have the possibility to make the sound more epic and wide by using the reverb, delay and flanger section. Here you can go real crazy if you want to. In the mid section of the instrument you will find some more tone focussed effects like a compressor, a saturation unit, a powerful overdrive / distortion section and finally the low and 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 drum sound by using tune, amplitude and pitch envelopes, a section to manage the speed of the sample and also a very useful transient shaper to add some extra attack and punch to the drums.

Features

• 90 Kontakt Instruments
• 1,764Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
• 5 drum machines sampled
• 6 claves, 5 woodblocks recorded
• Processed in the box and through outboard gear
• Formats: Kontakt 5.8 and WAV

Granular Morphing Soundscapes

Grainstates is a set of 128 “granular morphing” textures and soundscapes.

It comes with two sequencers and 4x 64 source waveforms within four distinct layers that can be played back randomly.

There is control over granular playback as well as onboard effects like flair, flanger and phaser.

Besides this, each preset in GRAINSTATES comes with three states“ (snapshots) that can be edited and played back in various order and morphed if wished.

On top of that, you can import your own WAV/AIF files into each Grainstates layer 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.

The Brand New LE HITS ESSENTIALS Kontakt Library is for any genre of music. This library vst is full of chart topping radio ready sounds.

Thats been hand picked by [Super Producer LE] who has made hits for Trey Songz, Lil Wayne, Bird Man, Mya, Trina, Jim Jones, Lil Mo, & More.

Start making hits today with LE HITS sounds.

Pack Contents:

• LE HITS ESSENTIALS is an expandable vst bank
• recorded mixed & mastered at high quality
• Has a Reverb Knob, LFO Filter, Phaser, Delay, Glide Knob, A.D.S.R Controls, and a built in Arpeggiator
• KONTAKT 5.1 Or Higher Required – Full Version
• Over 3gb of free space recommended
• Windows/Mac Compatible
• All sounds are wav. 24bit

DARK KALIMBA “A DREAM OF AN INSTRUMENT”

The Dark Kalimba for Kontakt has finally arrived! This instrument is an absolute game changer for kalimba based digital instrumentation.

The software team had a goal to create a full package for our Kontakt users.

Buy now and get Dark Kalimba LE included FREE!

Delivered with 50 presets showcasing the ability to create lustrous abstract cinematic sounds in seconds.

“Having access to a double reverb really makes the Dark Kalimba shine from all aspects, combined with the panned infinite delay!”

All sounds have been recorded using high quality studio condenser microphones combined with SSL preamps. Giving extreme clarity and warmth to the entire sound frequency.

The Dark Kalimba is laid out across all octaves for instant creativity. Bringing you the power of this amazing acoustic instrument right into your studio.

INFINITE DELAY
The Delay Feature brings you a panning option included with a time and infinite feedback for very long delay times.

XTRA VERB
We added a reverb function with pre-delay and size options along with a xtra verb option.

FULL EQUALIZER
The full EQ is designed for this particular instrument. The bands are widened for warm boosting and dead cuts.

ADSR ENVELOPE
Unlike the LE version. The Kontakt version features a full ADSR envelope for precise audio sculpting.

MAIN FEATURES

• Kalimba instrument for kontakt 6.2+
• 50 kalimba presets
• Velocity sensitive
• Warm tube distortion
• Panning delay with infinite feedback
• Double reverb feature
• Studio reverb with size + pre-delay
• Additional xtra verb function
• Full spectrum 4 band eq
• Envelope adsr
• Lemur controller
• Dark Kalimba LE Included Free!

Kontakt 6.2 or above (will not function with lower versions or free kontakt player)

Truly unique and inspiring sounds right out of the box.

Important Note: The Full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8.1 or above required to run this software.

Sore is a state-of-the-art cinematic loop module for Kontakt containing 350 different kits that can be played in tandem across four categories (Bass, Melody, Ambience and Groove).

These kits are built using the included 1,300 (unencrypted) 24-bit WAV files. All loops can be played polyphonically, time-stretched within a range of two octaves (24 semitones).

Each part has its own colour-coded range on the keyboard. You can alternatively play the loops sliced using the “Slice” button in the sequencer pages.

There are special MIDI trigger keys/notes that enable you to retrigger a currently playing slice (when a sequencer is turned on) or to trigger a volume “trance gate” per part.

The Mix Page

From here you can mix and match the individual loops (parts) – the top LCD shows the current kit or simply “—USER—” if you’ve modified the kit (loaded a different loop).

You have 4 LC-displays that show the current (loaded) loop. From there you can select different loops or let SORE choose new ones by clicking on the “R” buttons (randomize). When you press Shift and Alt/Option on the first randomize button on the mix page (Bass section), then that will also alter the sequencer state randomly (on or off) and choose a random sequencer preset for all four parts.

The Solo buttons can be used to solo parts. Clicking any Solo button with Control/Command or Shift will deactivate any active solo.

For almost all controls you can press Alt/Option and adjust the value for all parts at once (It´s always stated in Kontakt’s information window). Control/Command will reset values. Shift is for fine-tuning.

The Space knobs set the amount of convolution reverb for the selected part (The “Space” toggle button must be enabled in the FX page).

The FX buttons can be used to enable or disable FX sections for the parts. The SEQ buttons will enable/disable the per-part sequencer.

The Edit Page

The Edit page lets you set up parameters for each of the four parts. Sore features per-part loop speed control (half, normal, double speed and freeze).

You got a filter modifier with cutoff and resonance, amplifier and filter envelope control, modwheel mapping (volume, lowpass or highpass filter cutoff), pitch bend range as well as a solid bus compressor, tape-saturation, a lowcut and a stereo width adjustment.

The FX Page

Sore comes with a comprehensive onboard FX section. Besides the basic bread-and-butter effects like auto-pan, flanger and delay, you also got some more interesting effects:

The Step Filter is a tempo-synced bandpass filter that randomly changes it’s cutoff. The Amount controls the strength of the cutoff sweeps. The Step Gate is a classical volume “trance gate”.  In the middle are on/off toggle buttons for the various effect sections. To the right is a preset menu with 32 presets and a randomize button that chooses one randomly.

The Space Reverb comes with 60 impulse responses that you can choose via the dropdown menu.

The Seq Page

Perhaps the most interesting thing in Sore. Each part has a 2 x 32 step sequencer that lets you not only control the sample offset per part but also the loop offset. So basically it loads 32 loops per part into the RAM and then you can offset which one to play. (Which delivers really interesting results in no time!).

Furthermore, each part has 32 presets (together with the famous “R” button), a rate control (1/2 , 1/4,  1/8 , 1/16), start step and end step offset knobs + a Slice and a Gate button:

• Gate button: If the current step in the first (sample offset) sequencer is 0 it won´t play the loop at this moment. (Required for some presets.)
• Slice button: Let´s you play the first 24 slices on the keyboard of the selected loop chromatically. (“AKAI-Style”).

It will then use the default pitch, that you can still change using the Semi knobs on the mix page.

On top of that, you can even record your own pattern data using the pattern recording buttons for either sample offset (SO) or loop offset (LO).

MAIN FEATURES

350 preset kits that guarantee instant inspiration. If that’s not enough you can use the randomization features of Sore to generate endless “new” kits.

• Based on the powerful CINEMATRIX engine (14k+ lines of script code)
• Instantly useable and inspiring sounds right at your fingertips
• Fast preset kit browsing utilizing Kontakt’s snapshot feature
• Comprehensive effects section with 4x convolution reverb
• Central mixing section with 2x parametric EQ per part
• Per-part step sequencer with sample and loop offset
• Awesome editing and sound-shaping capabilities
• Unencrypted WAV loops – ready for any DAW
• Mix and match loops for endless possibilities
• Polyphonic time-stretching, MIDI hotkeys
• 1,300 24-bit host-synced loops (3.2GB)
• Separate edit, fx and sequencer pages
• Intelligent randomization
• Fully automatable
• 100% royalty-free
• 350 preset kits