Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

Here comes the third release of our new ‘Groove Butter’ series. The Bells features 85 different bell presets made from 2597 carefully recorded one shot samples.

Agogo Bells, Cowbells recorded with microphones and Cowbells sampled from machines. The drums are playable over four octaves. All presets are velocity sensitive in a very musical way and also tuned. We have recorded a lot of different drum machines in the last years and now selected some of the rare ones and run them through our saturation, compressing, cleaning process and finally built a nice GUI for you to have lots of fun by turning 44 knobs to get a satisfying beat making experience.

There are some totally clean and classic sounding bells 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 pitch bend in combination with some of the useful effects you got here in a very handy and intuitive GUI design.

This time you have 25 Agogo Bell presets, 30 Cowbell presets sampled from machines and 30 Cowbell presets made from 4 different real Cowbells (2x Meinl, 1x Latin Percussion, 1x Unknown) recorded with different Mics.

You have the possibility to make the sound more epic and stereo 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 focused effects like a compressor, a saturation unit, a powerful overdrive / distortion section and finally the low and high pass filters. On the left side of the instrument you have 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.

Specifications

• 85 Kontakt Presets
• 2,597 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
• 9 different machines and 4 instruments recorded
• processed in the box and thru outboard gear
• 172 MB filesize
• Formats: Kontakt and WAV

Cinematic Soundscape Machine

Perception is a set of 128 cinematic soundscapes.

It comes with three sample playback engines that feature 64 source waveforms each.

With the three XY pads, you can control various parameters like volume, filters and effects.

Each XY pad features pre-recorded motions, which are unique to every preset in PERCEPTION.

On top of that, you can record your own pad motions easily.

MAIN FEATURES

• 128 astonishing Factory Presets
• 3 XY Pads with Fluid Motion Recording (even while playing).
• 128 hand-crafted Motion Recordings
• 3x 64 source Wav sounds
• “Chaos Effect”
• Control over Filter, LFO, Drive, Volume and Effects
• Preset and Sounds Randomization
• Built-in production-quality Reverb
• Flanger, Phaser and “Flair” effects

Volt is a 4.6 GB library of high quality synthesizer sounds and comes with 130 snapshots.

Volt ships with a wide variety of sounds ranging from: pads and strings, atmospheric synth textures, bass, leads, arpeggiator synths, abstract fx and textures, MIDI clocked pulsing synths and atmospheres.

Volt is suitable for most types of electronic music production from Ambient, Abstract, Chill-Out and EDM. Volt would also be perfect for writing killer breakdowns in your next EDM club hit.

During the making of the presets we realised just how versatile Volt is. A whole cinematic soundtrack suitable for modern film scoring could easily be created using Volt, it also excels at creating atmospheres and mood.

Volt Meter

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

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

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

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

Cycles & Spots deliver their follow up Kontakt instrument for vocals.

It comes with 4 banks (Characteristics) of vocal phrases which you can put together as you please. Moreover the vocals can be manipulated in sound by tuning, formant shifting and adjusting the speed and each vocal’s starting point can be set separately.

Last but not least 4 effects (Reverb, Stereo Widener, Chorus, Delay) can be applied and adjusted. If you for any reason don’t want to use Kontakt you can directly work with the vocals by going to the specific folders.

This is an excellent tool for all Deep House / Minimal / House / Techno / Tech House producers.

Pack Contents:

• 1 NI Kontakt Instrument (5.6.6 and higher)
• 325 Vocals (4 Banks / Characteristics)
• Sound Manipulation Knobs (Tune, Speed, Envelope Order, Formant Shift)
• 4 Adjustable Effects (Reverb, Chorus, Delay, Stereo Widener)
• Start Point Selection For Each Vocal Seperately
• Random Button

Total Number Of Files:

• 4
• 82 MB

Software Requirements:

• NI Kontakt Full Version 5.6.6 & Higher

Synth Magic Retropolis is a Kontakt instrument (Full version of Kontakt is required 5.8.1 and higher).

A collection of Synthesizers were used in the creation of Retropolis such as: Red Sound Dark Star, Alpha Juno2, Kawai SX240, Arp Odyssey, Moog MG-1.

All samples are placed under the control of a very easy to use interface and are accessed via a menu system.

Retropolis has a full effects section and also comes with an Arpeggiator which can also be used to modulate filter cutoff.

Retropolis comes supplied with over 200 snapshots. All snapshots are placed into folders such as: Bass, Strings/pads, synths etc for easy selection of snaphot presets.

Berlin-based soundtrax and UK sound designers Sub51 have created an 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. 

This special edition of Drop Pad comes with an alternative sound library focussing exclusively on rhythmic sounds like drums, beats, percussions, toppers, motions, sound fx and arps.

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.

334MB Library & Snapshots

Drop Pad Rhythmic Edition comes with a 334MB library of high quality on-board Snapshots and Samples featuring drums, beats, percussions, toppers, motions, sound fx 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 Rhythmic Edition is an additional 123MB of waveform samples such as basic waveforms, noise, timecode, turntable belt, electrical noise and vinyl crackles.

Brace for impact!
Proud to introduce Blast, a new sound design library from Ecliptiq Audio. From rumbling subs to punchy metal hits, Blast offers a wide range of cinematic impacts and hits for an unbeatable price.

Blast features 200 sound effects divided intro 5 categories (impacts, sub booms, distant hits, metallic hits, rise & hit). With the help of the custom made Kontakt engine, you can have the freedom to manipulate every sample to your desire. You can create additional movement with the 6 dedicated stutter effects. You can adjust the parameters of every sample separately, so you can use Blast multiple times without loading up another instrument. Ideal for movie and video game trailer music, making Blast a handy tool if you are a composer or a sound designer.

All samples in the library are 100% royalty-free.

If you don’t have Kontakt, you can purchase the samples separately at a discounted price. Search for the Ecliptiq Audio – Cinematic Hits Vol. 1 sample pack for more detail.

Pack Contents:

• 40 impacts
• 40 sub booms
• 40 distant hits
• 40 metallic hits
• 40 rise & hit
• custom made Kontakt engine
• 24bit/48kHz wav
• 382 MB uncompressed content

Total Number Of Files:

• 200

It’s the detail! Produce ultra realistic Percussion beds in no time.

THE MAIN FEATURES

FlyingHand Percussion is a dedicated Hand-Percussion sample library.

With over 30,000 samples, it represents an authentic and evocative ensemble utilizing a great number of articulations, true replication of the drums’ characteristics, and authentic nuances from each instrument. Whether you are composing or playing live, the instruments are responsive, full of authentic character, allowing complete genre freedom no matter the type of music you play or write.

Features & tech

FHP sports 50dB of dynamic range and a multitude of standard, and non-standard articulations, which help bring the instruments to life, showing off their true musical potential.

When recording the instruments we modified the studio to be as transparent as possible, enhancing the raw sound of each drum. Each instrument features up to 3 microphone positions, and plenty of velocity layers/round robins, covering a wide collection of articulations and utilizing multiple drum zones and hand strokes..

Extended Articulations – It’s all about nuance

Percussion instruments, and hand Percussion in particular, offer so much more diversity beyond traditional articulations. Especially when expanding them with extended and unique playing methods. In doing so, each instrument becomes a world of sound and detailed nuance, giving you an opportunity for expressive thematic writing.

Wide dynamic range – Authentic raw power

FHP features around 50dB of dynamic range!

A wide dynamic range is much more than just lots of velocity layers – it’s about the science of optimal distribution of intensity levels within the velocity spectrum.

Every dynamic level is clearly defined with musicality and character. It’s one of those things that makes FHP so special.

Legato Drumming ™ – Hyper realistic playback

Legato Drumming is a feature specifically designed for hand drum samples.

It adds a layer of real time gestural sounds, simulating typical vibrations and hand noises that occur when moving between articulations. Appropriate sounds are added during playback and react to speed and dynamics.

Additionally, sustain and resonance is automatically controlled when playing muted articulations or when muting a stroke on the fly.

‘Mirror’ mapping – Create grooves on the fly with ease

Hand drums are usually played using 2 hands. Building realistic grooves relies on this fundamental technique.

In FHP we sampled unique Left and Right hand samples for ALL articulations (!) When designing the MIDI mapping layout, we completed the original 2-hand premise and mapped the Left and Right hand samples symmetrically in a mirror-like fashion.

We also simulated the physical location of articulations as it relates to the mapping layout so triggering sounds from the center of the keyboard, is respective to articulations played on the center of the drum skin.

Winner of Electronic Musician Editors Choice Award

• FlyingHand Percussion received the coveted Editors’ Choice Award from Electronic Musician Magazine for Best Sound Library!

Sampled to the EXTREME

• Features over 30,000 individual samples, 4x Round Robin, up to 20 velocity layers, and up to 3 microphone positions. (10GB uncompressed)

Extended articulations

• Each drum fulfills its true musical potential with a multitude of extended articulation techniques using unconventional playing styles.

Ultra wide dynamic range

• 50dB of dynamic range and totally noiseless!

Highly playable

• Meticulous collection of articulations / extended techniques / Left-Right hand samples / multiple playing zones, and combination strokes.

Legato Drumming ™

• Realtime replication of live performance sonic nuance and instrument control.

Reverb Impulses

• Custom impulses with a variety of rooms and halls.

Brought by SoundIron and designed for film & game composers/sound-designers, this collection includes a full selection of chromatic articulations, melodic phrases and exquisitely sound-designed cinematic effects, pads and atmospheric elements.

The lead vocal content is intuitively playable and the phrases and effects are easy to use in any project, making this library an ideal source of inspiration that’s perfect for nearly any music or video production need that comes your way. It all combines into a complete, efficient and deeply-refined toolbox that comes fully equipped with our flexible and full-featured user interface.

Mimi’s otherworldly vocal style effortlessly fuses ambient, dream pop, EDM, and cinematic vocal styles. This library includes 4,413 samples, exploring the two extremes of her creative style: Light and Shadow.

The chromatic content features sustain, staccato and true legato chromatic articulations for the Ah, Ee, Mm and Oo vowels. It also includes 1,295 live tempo-synching melodic phrases conveniently organized by mood, key and tempo.

This library goes far beyond the realms of the “norm” with an extended collection of hand-crafted sound-designed atmospheric content created by Mimi herself, divided into angelic, mystical, haunting and horror sections that are perfect for adding dreamy soundscapes, unnerving stingers and otherworldly underscores.

This library includes a full package of vital chromatic and melodic lead vocal articulations, featuring sustain, staccato, vocal SFX and true legato for (Ah, Ee, Mm and Oo).

It also includes a huge collections of captivating live phrases divided up by 100bpm and 140bpm tempos and the Ethereal Dreamscapes for both Light & Shadow categories. You can craft your own parts using the chromatic articulations and your midi keyboard, and shape, blend and sequence the live melodic phrases to fit your arrangements with our phrase-legato, step sequencer, speed-control and live waveform editing controls.

The phrases are intuitively organized by root tempo and key. However, tempo-syncing, time-stretching and pitch transposition controls give you complete freedom to customize any phrase.

Mimi also created a sweeping variety of mystical atmospheric effects, pads, drones, stingers, risers, swells, falls and clusters using her voice that are perfect for creating dramatic tension, dreamy aesthetics, lush soundscapes and surreal envonrments in films, video games. electronic music and more.

We recorded Mimi in a dry studio environment, using a high dynamic range, large-diaphragm Neumann studio microphone and Sound Devices preamps to get maximum detail, clarity, fidelity and clean dynamic range.

We’ve also included our comprehensive FX Rack, with compression, delay, filter, EQ, amp/speaker simulation and convolution reverb, featuring dozens of rooms, cathedrals and otherworldly fx to open endless possibilities.

• Ah, Ee, Mm, and Oo natural true legato
• Vowel Sustains, Staccatos and Vocal SFX.
• 100bpm and 140bpm tempos for both Light and Shadow phrase categories.
• Over a thousand melodic phrases in multiple keys, with pitch transposition, instant pattern sequencing, legato blending, tempo-synching/time-stretching, shaping and more.
• 300 ambient pads, effects and atmospheres.
• 871 ethereal vocal dreamscapes.
• Easy to navigate melodic phrases, organized intuitively by style, native tempo and root key.
• Fluid sequencer allows for per-step phrase start and end markers.
• Vocal Ambiences, Atmospheres and custom melodic pad instruments crafted directly from Mimi’s voice.
• Vocal performance breaths for added realism.
• Swell control allows real-time dynamic performance shaping.
• Full Multi-FX rack panel with Chorus, Compression, Distortion, Amp and Cab simulation, EQ, Delay and Reverb
• Our Reverb rack unit includes 25 unique creative FX convolutions and 45 excellent live rooms, studios, chambers, cathedrals, halls and other real-world environments, with flexible tone, size and mix controls.
• Fully automatable, with customizable key switch and GUI controls.
• Convenient real-time visual wave-form display.

• 4.72 GB Installed (7.6 GB uncompressed)
• 4,413 Samples
• 8 master NKI instrument banks
• Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
• Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
• Works with the Kontakt “Libraries” browser and Native Access.

Mimi Page is a singer, songwriter, producer, and composer born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

Her dreamy, ethereal music and haunting, angelic vocals have been featured in a multitude of soundtracks and scores for film, television, and video games. Mimi’s music is a transformative and emotionally captivating experience and her unique sound is a catalyst for all who listen to go inward, self-reflect, and journey the expansiveness of their own imagination.

Mimi’s original music has been featured on Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures”, Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance”, and NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”, to name a few.

As a composer, she’s provided original scores for the documentary features “The Demon House” and “The Trade”, along with numerous short films. She’s also composed original scores for the indie video games, “Ancient Frontier”, “She Dreams Elsewhere” and “The Lighthouse”.

As a vocalist, Mimi’s collaborated with Inon Zur on video game soundtracks “Dungeons & Dragons: Sword Coast Legends”, Ubisoft’s “Eagle Flight” and Bethesda’s “Fallout 4: Far Harbor”.

She’s collaborated with over 30 artists in the electronic music genre, including Bassnectar, Delerium, Conjure One, Seven Lions and Illenium. In addition to her professional music career, Mimi’s extremely passionate about sharing her knowledge through music education, working with UCLA and the ADIDAS Sound Lab as a mentor and artist development coach for Los Angeles high-school students.

Mimi’s goal as an artist is to inspire people to nurture their own unique voices and to use music as an outlet and tool for communication and self-expression. She believes that music is our universal language and has a profound ability to help heal and unify our world.

FULLY-RANDOMIZABLE GROOVEBOX

Groundshaker is your new production-ready, four-layer groovebox with over 1000 source WAV sounds spread across five categories for a ton of inspiration right out of the box.

Groundshaker is based on randomization and can thus create an infinite array of creative and complex drum pattern with the click of a single button.

You can fully control what you want to randomize. May it be a pattern, a drumsound, an effect or all together.

Furthermore, Groundshaker features a layer sequencer to spice up things even more.

On top of that you can export your randomly created patterns as a MIDI clip via drag and drop for further (external) mangling and editing.

Kickstart your drum production with an infinite array of punchy grooves. Mix and match 1000 cutting edge drum sounds or drag and drop your own.

FEATURES

• Generate random grooves with a single click.
• Ideal for Dance, Pop and Techno.
• 1000 Cutting-Edge WAV sounds included.
• 45 Factory Kits/Grooves included.
• Onboard audio file import and MIDI clip export.
• Multi audio output for mixing in a DAW of choice.
• MIDI remote control, shuffle and 4/4 + 6/8 time signatures.
• Kontakt 6.4.2 (Retail) required.

The Toys bundle is Have Audio’s Halloween creature.

Funny, spooky and creepy. The perfect sample library for film composers looking for dark, cinematic textures to trigger their creativity and enrich their scores.

They sampled music boxes, wind-up toys, vintage robots, martian attackers, springs, balls, cat and water toys and much more to create unique sounds both sinister and funny. The result is a library that is a must for all horror film composers and producers interested in edgy sounds.

Starting from the original recorded material Have heavily processed all sounds through some of the best modular synthesizers and authentic, highly noisy and vicious vintage tape machines, walkmans etc. perfect for ghostly and scary scores.

This bundle includes three separate Kontakt instruments: Toys Acoustic, Toys Electronic and Toys Dystopian and requires the full version of Kontakt to work. Please note this will not work in the free Kontakt Player.

MAIN FEATURES

• Over 650MB uncompressed file size across 3 instruments
• 3 separate .nki files
• 385 samples

Keyswitches/Soundbanks:

• Toys one-shots and textures (processed through modular synths and vintage tapes)
• Music boxes (processed through vintage tapes)

Built-in FX

• Infinite delay
• Low-end drone impulse response fx
• Unique granular and reverse convolution reverbs
• Filter
• Vintage tape noise

Weighted Strings is a set of two amazing custom creations from the mind of master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin: The Weighted Lyre and Weighted Zither.

These handcrafted experimental instruments use small weights on the strings to alter overtone relationships and create unusual, beautiful sounds. Made of wood and metal, they have a richly acoustic essence that resounds brightly through each plucked note.

The Lyre has 17 main strings, as well as three additional strings that run over a narrow neck and can be fretted. The weights on the Lyre strings are carefully placed to prominently bring out an octave overtone. The Zither has 34 chromatically tuned main strings. Unlike the Lyre, the weights on these strings are not placed to bring out any particular overtones. As a result, the overtone recipes are highly inharmonic and random, varying from string to string, with highly inharmonic tone qualities.

We’ve faithfully sampled every interesting sound we could get out of these instruments, with three stereo mic positions: Close, Room, & Contact. 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!

Product Specs

• Weighted Lyre & Zither plucks, glisses, harmonics, SFX in three mic positions: Close, Room, Contact
• 20 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content
• 22 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 9,204 stereo samples in unlocked .WAV format
• 23.4 GB Installed
• Made for the full retail version of Kontakt (version 6.2.2+)

A Journey Into The Analogue World

Inspired by old tapes in the attic, the golden age of analogue synths worn down by the hands of time and a true love of pushing the boundaries of what analogue can do, Blossom by Audiowarp is the result of years of recording, re-recording and twisting countless numbers of vintage synths to produce something truly unique.

Manipulating Sounds

All the sounds within Blossom were recorded and post affected using only vintage outboard analogue equipment.

Divergent Audio Group took vintage analogue synths and using various recording and post-production methods such as tape compression and artefact manipulation then created an entirely new set of amazing, unique sounds. Dusty, ghostly, sombre and distant these sounds can only be created in the analogue world.

It’s What’s Inside that Counts

Blossom features a five-page GUI including an FX, Modulation, Arpeggiator, Presets and main quad sample engine page. 228 sample patches, over 1300 incredible never heard before individual samples.

4 Source XY Pad

Blossom features 4 individual sound sources which can be blended and manipulated in various ways. Using the central XY pad you can dynamically morph between layers. Alternatively use the X and Y dials to constrain to horizontal or vertical axis only. Assign a CC controller to the X or Y dials for instant fun!

Features

• 4850 Samples
• 11.6GB
• 249 Individual patches
• 4 voice mixer with XY Control
• Factory presets
• User presets
• Modulation assign system with 4 x LFOs and 4 x envelopes
• 7 Global Effects
• Intelligent Randomisation
• Individual envelopes and filters per layer
• Arpeggiator

This is Future Retro

Karanyi Sounds is giving a major boost to it’s most popular instrument Wavesynth with the retro-futuristic Wavesynth Glow sound pack.

It includes 70+ contemporary pop music-ready artist presets ranging from basses, plucks, leads, keys, and more for the next dance hits.

Inspired by Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, The Bad Dreamers or Kavinsky

You can explore the charm of retro-futurism through authentic wavetable synthesis, but with a modern, intuitive user interface.

Advanced waveshaper tools

Wavesynth Glow is almost as flexible as an analog synth: you have plenty of possibilities to shape, twist, stomp your sounds. With over 60 parameters (all MIDI-learnable) and an intuitive interface design and Roll (Karanyi’s built-in intelligent randomizer), you can go wild and create new inspiring patches in seconds.

MAIN FEATURES

• 70+ Meticulously designed artist presets
• Ranging from basses to leads, plucks, percussions and more
• Professional, studio-grade quality sample content
• Recorded in 96kHz, 24bit (converted to 44kHz, 16bit)
• Sounds from classic analog and FM synths
• 14 type of wavetable algorithms
• Amp & wavetable envelopes
• 2 LFO: Wavetable position & Prophet-type low pass filter
• Moog-type low pass filter
• 3 customizable effects: dimension, tape delay & hall reverb
• Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
• ROLL (intelligent randomizer) for creating super sharp pluck sounds

Includes a selection of stringed instruments like GuZheng, Mandolin, Pipa, American Zither, Hammered Dulcimer, Kantele, Acoustic Guitars, Acoustic grand, upright and prepared pianos and Seagull instrument among others.

The sound categories include organic real instruments samples, modeled, synthetised, designed and spacey sounds.

• 2 Main Sound sources, plus Trails sound sources
• 205 + 20 Multisampled Sound Sources
• Over 22GB, NCW – over 8500 samples
• Volume, Pan, Octave and Semitones Shift, High pass and Low pass filters, Attack and release controls per sound source
• Master Shine, Saturation, Chorus, 2 delays, Lo-fi, Convolution reverb
• New Crystals Generator with Pitch, Grains and Cloud functions
• Intelligent Randomiser engine, with undo history
• Categorised browser
• Undo and redo randomisation up to 1000 undo levels
• Undo level counter to jump to a desired undo level
• Single, Dual and Random Map mode
• Pan Control: Widen and Random
• Twin step sequencer, with live recording mode, auto save and auto recall
• 8 editable twin or single sequences per patch
• Permanent random sequences generation
• Temporary random notes generation for user controlled “improvisation”
• Keycontrol with Major and minor scales available
• Selectable playing percentage for Trails layer
• Velocity control for Trails layer

Fully customisable

 Even though the Randomisation engine plays a big part in Abstrung, for the most creative producers, Abstrung still offers the possibility to create patches from scratch, with multiple ways of choosing sound sources, including a categorised Sound Browser, which works hand in hand with the randomisation engine to create sounds which are “just right”. 

On-the-Fly Reverseable sounds

 Following the success of Sequi2r’s family reverseable sounds feature, Abstrung gives the option to reverse sounds on the fly and to adjust the length of each reversed sound with the mod wheel. 

3 Play modes

 In Abstrung you can select whether you want to play both sound sources at once (Single map Mode), one per key zone (Dual Map Mode) or let it happen randomly (Random Map Mode), creating interesting changing textures. This both while you are in Normal Mode or Step Sequencer Mode. The keyboard zone can be defined by the user. 

Creative Convolutions

 Unique reverb convolutions add to the picture to contribute in a creative way to the sound creation; reverbs that not only add space but define the final sound too. 

Twin Step Sequencer 

Abstrung features not one, but 2 step simultaneous sequencers with 8 memory slots. You can change sequence on the fly like in Sequi2r via keyswitch, but with Abstrung you’ll have double the fun. Also, you can record your sequences by playing, not by drawing, pretty much like in Sequi2r, but Abstrung’s process is even faster and simpler. Add to this Permanent random generated sequences and Temporary random sequence at the tip of a “keyswitch”, to spice up some stale repetitive phrases. 

Split personality 

You can perform one sequence per sound source (Twin Seq on) in Dual Map Mode, or have both sound sound sources playing simultaneously (Single Map) both sequences. Or you can run one sequence only (Twin Seq off) with both sound playing at once (Single Map), or one sound per define-able keyboard zone in Dual Map Mode.

Step & Master Effects

Add movement and filtering to pads and sequences with four step sequenceable effects: Filter Cut off and Resonance, Distortion & Formant Filter Add finishing touches to your sound with Convolution Reverb, two delays, Chorus, Shine, and Lo-Fi effects.

Spice up your Sequences

Generate random sequences and “improvise” temporary sequences at the tip of a “keyswitch”, to spice up some stale repetitive phrases.

Export your sequences as Midi

The Randomisers Series 1.2 includes a System page which gives acces to the Midi Drag & Drop feature. Generate sequences performances, export them on to you DAW and edit them or assign third parties sounds to them.

Arpeggiator fun

Arpeggiate short sounds or trigger sequences with the arpeggiator (yes you can!). Play sequencers and arpeggiator in serial or parallel with 2 different sounds.

Field recordings merge together in a sonic kaleidoscope of found sound cinematics – from underscoring pads to drones, pulses and textures.

Bioscape is a 4.5GB Kontakt instrument that is based on field recordings and found sounds to create musical content, this gives you an unpolished, raw and organic dimension to your production. Bioscape is particularly suitable for game and filmscore composers, but works extremely well with ambient music, music concréte, sound healing, music therapy or as a standalone experimental instrument.

Bioscape contains hundreds of field recordings and found sounds from hydrophonic desert wind to abandoned factory drones, from ghostly ringing rocks to cracking icy rivers, all sorted in different sound categories. Using the sound material, a team of world renowned sound designers have crafted over 440 presets sorted in categories from pulses to pads, textures, ASMR, drones, playables, effects and reverse.

Within the DNA of Bioscape is a multifaceted instrument that on one side can sound as atonal and dark as you want and on the other side produce the most ethereal and light timbres.

Bioscape is made for and licensed to the free Kontakt Player so you do not need the full version of Kontakt to play Bioscape. It is fully NKS compatible and supports drag & drop, so you can use your own sounds and samples. It is installed directly in Native Access, just enter the serial number and click install.

Bioscape is also one of the most extensive sample manipulating engines ever created for the Kontakt platform.

MAIN FEATURES

• 4.5GB cinematic Kontakt instrument
• Official Native Instruments third party library
• Installed directly in Native Access, just enter serial and click install
• 345 high quality field recordings and found sounds by professional field recordists
• Drag & Drop your own samples and field recordings
• 440 presets by world class sound designers
• NKS ready for Komplete Kontrol and Machine
• No need for the full version of Kontakt
• Made for the free Kontakt Player
• Loads in the full version of Kontakt v6.2 or later

Sound from a Golden Era

Retrocade is inspired by the iconic sounds of the 80s and early 90s, featuring analogue recordings faithfully recreated with the comforts of our time. From catchy leads to soothing pads, Retrocade has it all!

Retrocade comes with 2 x 100 analog waveforms of all sorts ranging from detuned brass sounds, organs and keys to mystic pads, filter sweeps and buzzing bass sounds.

These source waveforms form the 256 included preset snapshots that cover basses, keys, leads, plucked sounds, pads and more.

MAIN FEATURES

• A Kontakt 6.2.2. instrument with 256 preset snapshots.
• 2 x 100 analogue waveforms.
• A dedicated AB blend slider.
• Individual control over panning and tuning.
• Randomize (“Dice”) Button.
• Amp and Filter Envelope.
• Reverb, Delay and Flanger Effects.
• LFO with three targets and wave shapes.
• Five controls to shape the sound.

What else?

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

Introducing “Violin Intimate”, a textural violin library featuring intimate articulations and improvisations, recorded in collaboration with violinist Kayvon Sesar at Silent Zoo Studios in Los Angeles, CA⁠.

A tool created for anyone who is looking for an unconventional approach to using a traditional instrument, and creating original, evolving organic textures, allowing you to score a scene in an instant.

Choose from 18 different articulations and create your own blend of up to 4 articulations at a time (via an XY pad) which can be shaped and manipulated with multiple built-in effects.

About Kayvon:

Kayvon is a freelance violinist based in Los Angeles. He performs on a wide variety of platforms ranging from classical concerts, pop shows, to recording sessions for albums films, TV and video games.

Artists Kayvon has worked with include Adele, Beyoncé, John Legend, and Toni Braxton. He has also performed with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, and Santa Barbara Symphony.

Playing Techniques

• Broken Chords (Minor & Major)
• Broken Chord Harmonics
• Flautando
• Col Legno Bowed
• Col Legno Tremolo
• Col Legno Bounce Attacks
• Col Legno Bowed Trills (min2nd & Maj2nd
• Col Legno Bends
• Sul Pont / Sul Tasto Textures
• Scale Clusters
• Fingered Harmonics Sul Pont
• Fingered Harmonics Sul Pont Tremolo
• Improvisation 1 – Hairpin Outbursts / Slow & Fast Bow Changes
• Improvisation 2 – Hairpin Outbursts / Slow & Fast Bow Changes Col Legno
• Improvisation 3 – Muted Sul Pont With Random Accents

Special:

• QR code for quick access to our Recording Artist
• Two-way switchable user interface
  • Headshot
  • Biography / QR code

Main Page:

• XY pad (blend up to 4 sounds together)
• 5 x mic positions (Close, High Close, Tree, Room, Wide)
• EQ
• Envelope (Attack, Sustain, Decay, Release)

FX Page:

• 5 x reverbs (Chamber, Cathedral, Hall, Plate, Home)
• 5 x delays (Modern, Analog, Tape, Vintage, Diffusion)
• Filter
• Pitch Shifter
• Saturation
• Rotation

Secondary page (per individual playing technique editing)

• EQ
• Filter
• Spreader
• Rotation
• PAN

The Kick features 99 different kickdrums which are playable over three octaves.

Ferpect recorded a lot of different drum machines in the few last years and have selected some of the rare ones and run them thru saturation, compressing, cleaning processes and finally built a nice GUI for you to have lots of fun by turning 44 knobs to get a satisfying kickdrum experience for musicians and also the listeners.

There are some totally clean and original sounding famous kick drums 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.

You got 99 variations to start with. All presets are velocity sensitive in a very musical way and also tuned.

Add some extra drama by using the pitchbend in combination with other effects you got here in a very handy and intuitive GUI design.

You have the possibility to make the sound more epic and stereo 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 hipass 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.