Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

Wavetable Galore

Angus is a full-featured wavetable-based Synthesizer with 800 instruments across 15 categories. It features 2x 128 wavetables split into two Oscillators, a comprehensive effects section as well as an Arpeggiator, Chordplayer, two Stepmodulators and intelligent musical patch randomization.

It features free wavetable-position modulating, harmonical shifting as well as modifying the wavetable via 14 different shaping modes.

Furthermore, it comes with a multiband filter, a chord memory function, an effects sequencer, a step-modulator, an arpeggiator as well as six built-in effects. Most of these sections do come with built-in factory presets that you can choose via menus easily.

MAIN FEATURES

• 800 Instruments
• Full Kontakt 6.4.2 Required
• 2 x 128 WaveTables
• 2 Oscillators
• Multi-Effects

Hyperion Strings Elements is a universal string ensemble library built for everyone. Compatible with the FREE Kontakt Player.

It was recorded with uncompromising engineering precision and then hand-edited and carefully balanced to achieve a new benchmark in quality and playability.

It’s made for Native Instruments’ free Kontakt Player and the NKS Standard.

This virtual instrument is a robust musical production workhorse that will serve you well, whether you’re a working composer, student, producer, songwriter, teacher, arranger, band, sound designer, or are just curious about creating your own music.

It’s ready to perform from the moment you load it up.

The Hyperion String ensemble has a forward and robust sound unlike any other. It has a strong tone and wide dynamic range that can be shaped to fit any genre or style. It can also be used to fatten and layer with other strings to create massive arrangements.

We’ve also equipped the interface with plenty of spatialization, environment simulation and positioning controls and options to let you dial in the sound and character you need.

The library includes a full-ensemble preset and 4 Master and True-Legato section presets for 8 Violins, 6 Violas, 5 Cellos and 4 Double Basses.

The Master presets include a broad selection of fundamental articulations, each with their own range of customizable real-time performance options, key-switch and mapping options, handy auto-functions, apregiators, FX and performance tools.

These master presets allow you to blend and switch effortlessly vibrato, non-vibrato and tremolo sustains, a variety of short bow strokes and naturally dynamic tempo-based expressions, effects, rhythmic patterns, runs and sequences.

Main Features:

• Product Version 1.0
• 9 master presets for Ensemble, Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses.
• Plenty of articulation maps, seating arrangements, arpeggio patterns and FX chains to choose from.
• 20,148 Samples
• 10 GB installed (14 GB wav source)
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
• Multi-dynamic sustains, with smooth real-time control over natural vibrato and dynamic transitions. 
• Multi-dynamic long and short staccatos, spiccatos and pizzicatos with loose/tight variants and 4x round-robin.
• Bartok Pizzicato snaps and Col Legno bow string taps with loose/tight variants and 4x round-robin.
• A full suite of Expressions in a variety of lengths, timings and dynamics, including crescendos, decrescendos, sforzandos and swells, with time-stretching, tempo-synching and automatic release. 
• Flexible and intuitive user interface with pro features, deep customizability and simple workflow.
• Free soundstage positioning for each section within dozens of custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments.
• Adaptive Play Assist and Arpeggio systems for instant inspiration.
• You can apply your full purchase amount toward your upgrade to the full Hyperion Symphonic Strings when they’re released.
• Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6.0.1+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
• Works with the Kontakt “Libraries” browser and Native Access.

The EKO Stradivarius is one of the rarest and hardest to find string synthesisers from the 1970’s.

It has an incredibly rich and vibrant sound all of its own.

I personally spent a long while hunting one of these synths down and eventually found one, but it was in Italy and had to be shipped here. I could not find one in the UK!

The EKO was released in the 1970’s and used by the likes of Vangelis during his 70’s live shows, the EKO produces beautiful and haunting string sounds of that era. Our version will allow for you to easily create those sounds and go way beyond what the original hardware can do.

Each of the 6 original sections of the EKO stradivarius has been sampled in great detail.

PLEASE NOTE: The FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 is required (NOT Kontakt Player)

Deep Effects

The effects section has bus sends for each synth section and allows for you to ‘dial in’ just the right amount of effects for each section.

Effects List:

• Chorus
• Phaser
• Flanger
• Reverb (Convolution – 37 Impulses to choose from)
• Sync Delay

All audio demos and video demos use only the presets from this Kontakt instrument.

Suitable for all kinds of music from abstract electronics, 70’s disco, modern EDM. Would also sound great being used to score a Zombie movie like Romero’s Dawn of the dead or some obscure Italian horrow/zombie movie.

Extra Controls

We have added many, many extra features to allow for greater sounds to be created from the core sound of the EKO Stradivarius. We also added a special set of Ensemble processed samples for a very rich and vibrant sound. Both sample sets can be freely mixed with each other for extra creativity.

How about each section panning independently of each other?

Each section also has independent filter shapes with a huge range of filter types to choose from, vowel filters, phasers filters and each synth section (all 6) has them – lots of scope for sound creation or use the snapshots that come supplied which will give a wide range of sounds that can be tweaked and modified by you.

Easily create beautiful and lush strings, haunting pads, synth leads, special analogue type effects, synth stabs and then pass them through the effects section.

Secure Serial System

This product features its own custom serial system.

You will require the full version of Kontakt to load EKO (Not Kontakt Player).

When you purchase EKO you will be provided with a unique code which is required to unlock the instrument. Please check out the install and unlock video for more information.

Sounds that you’d never imagine could come out of a piano – for Kontakt 4 and above.

The vol.1 of Hybrichord is our first exploration into what we can really get out of a normal piano, and the initial results are fantastic.

Using various means of getting the instrument to vibrate, including wiring the instrument up, using magnets, electric current, etc, we managed to create some fantastic organic sounding sonic landscapes.

The user interface has controls to allow you to shape and sculpt some of the sound to your liking for use in your music.

Of course, we have also included a variety of more well known experimental techniques, including picks, plucks, bows, hammers, drumming, screws in the strings etc.

This library contains over 4GB of excellent cinematic content, recorded at 96KHz, 24Bit.

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

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

Custom Bow And Mallet Instrument FX Library For Kontakt

Frendo is a custom-built Soundiron instrument. We created this monster by stringing bailing wire around and through through steel plates and bolts, over galvanize steel piping and across wood planks. It was meant to suffer. You can help it by mistreating it in horrible ways with screwdrivers, bows, drum sticks, mallets and fingers. The instrument holds a vast amount of otherworldly sounds, which is ideal for composers looking for new disturbing, horror-like textures for their scores. Frendo is partially a mallet instrument, recorded with wooden and rubber mallets, but is also a more traditional string instrument, since we recorded finger plucks and bows. It’s the sound of Satan’s cello, weeping softly for your burning soul.

Made of knotty pine, rusted steel bailing wire, eye bolts, hooks, deck screws, hurricane brackets and an old 24″ bass drum, this 5-stringed son of a bitch was 8 feet long and 3 feet wide. The body had a 2″6 spine and two separate body segments to allow torquing and bending while the instrument was played. It was strung with black iron bailing wire, wound over galvanized steel angle brackets and plates and through heavy gauge eye bolts that we used as tuners, by way of a pipe wrench.

We played it with a violin bow, screwdrivers, rubber and wooden mallets, picks, hands and fingers and have provided an array of custom controls, presets, effects and tools to allow total sonic freedom and control over the sound. This library is a unique tuned percussion and string instrument in it’s own right, but also makes excellent effect and sound design material for stingers, trailers, reveals, slates, post production and any number of other specialized production uses.

This library was originally released in 2008 by Tonehammer. For our version 2.0 update, we improved key-mapping and overall playability, added a full set of brand new automatable performance, DSP FX, convolution reverb and advanced arpeggiator controls and refined the overall playing experience. The new Convolution Reverb effect features 73 select custom impulse responses, featuring some of our favorite recording halls and some rather unusual custom FX impulses.

Features:

• Product Version 2.0
• 990 MB Installed
• 1,100 Samples
• 30 Kontakt 3.5 .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 44.1 kHz uncompressed PCM wav audio
• Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization
• Includes a bonus collection of custom sound-designed ambiences, drones and special FX presets, as well as our favorite custom convolution reverb impulses and an advanced Kontakt user interface with full automation support.

Viola Drama Textures

Step into the realm of Viola Drama Textures, a mesmerizing collaboration with the talented violist, Hailey Walterman. This instrument is a conduit for boundless creativity, igniting true musical inspiration, allowing you to compose and express your ideas in an instant. Unveil a new perspective on the traditional viola, and craft evolving organic textures that are ideal for instant scene scoring.

With a palette of 15 distinctive articulations at your fingertips, you can seamlessly blend up to two of them using the built-in effects to sculpt and manipulate your sound.

Behind the Seems

This instrument is a conduit for boundless creativity, igniting true musical inspiration, allowing you to compose and express your ideas in an instant. Unveil a new perspective on the traditional viola, and craft evolving organic textures that are ideal for instant scene scoring.

With a palette of 15 distinctive articulations at your fingertips, you can seamlessly blend up to two of them using the built-in effects to sculpt and manipulate your sound.