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Wavesynth Glow

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
  • Mac OS X 10.11 or higher is recommended
  • Windows 7 or higher 4 GB of RAM, 8 GB is recommended
  • All products require Kontakt 6.2.2 or higher (Free Kontakt Player is NOT supported)
  • 64 bit DAW is recommended for optimized performance

Important Notes:

  • The FULL Version of Kontakt 6.2.2+ is required in order to use this instrument.
  • You will be stuck in DEMO MODE if trying to use this instrument in the FREE Kontakt Player.
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Dusty Roads

Dusty Roads captures the essence of a classic Fender Rhodes Mark II Stage Piano.

We recorded this vintage beauty in close stereo and direct line in, giving you total freedom to shape the tone and make it your own. The end result is a naturally playable, great-sounding instrument that will come alive in your tracks, with tons of sound-shaping options and expanded content to take this classic sound in new directions.

This iconic model was one of the most popular in the legendary instrument line originated by Harold Rhodes. He developed his unique take on the electro-acoustic piano concept during World War II in an effort to build compact bed-side electric pianos to aid in the recovery of wounded soldiers. He released an early version, the “Piano Bass”, with Fender in 1959. The first full-sized model, The Mark I “Suitcase”, was released in 1965 after CBS bought Fender.

The Mark I “Stage” followed in 1970 and this Mark II came out in 1979. While the Rhodes line was just one of many early attempts at “electrifying” the piano concept and sound, it achieved a tonal and dynamic character that was completely new and utterly distinct. The Mark II has a smooth, silky, almost glassy bell tone when played softly, but it quickly rises up when the player digs into it with a fuzzy growl and full body of an electric organ. It is one of a very few classic keyboards that have come to define the aesthetics of mid-20th century music.

We sampled all 73 keys with 6 velocity layers and 4 round robin, then recorded key up and down SFX so you can dial in the release volume and amount of key attack click, giving just the right amount of tactile presence when you really want to feel the instrument. Not content to stop there, we crafted 20 evolving textural soundscapes that range from ethereal and cinematic, to haunting and atmospheric – perfect for underscoring and adding depth to your musical compositions.

You can weave them into the sound in real-time or play them as their own instruments. You’ll also find 20 custom FX presets that utilize the multi-layer features and FX of our template to stretch the sounds in all kinds of new directions. And finally, our modular FX rack allows you to re-amp your new e-piano with various pedal, amp and speaker combos and pile on a variety of DSP effects.

Specifications:

  • 1 main powerful open-format Kontakt .nki instrument

  • Fender Rhodes Mark II Sustains, Key Up/Down SFX in close stereo and direct line in

  • 20 Ambience patches created from the source content

  • 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets

  • 12.7 GB Installed

  • 4,520 Stereo Samples

  • 24 bit / 48kHz Stereo uncompressed PCM wav audio

  • Unlocked wav samples can be directly imported into almost any wav-compatible plugin or DAW.

Software Requirements:

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.5 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library.

System Requirements:

Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

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Abstrung

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.

Requires FULL VERSION of NI KONTAKT 5.5. It is not compatible with NI Kontakt Player.

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Bioscape

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
  • 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
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Violin Intimate

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

Runs in full retail version of Kontakt 6.0.4 & above

  • 14GB (over 7500 samples)
  • 30GB disk space required during install
  • System Requirements:
  • Mac: Mac OS X 10.13 or later / Intel i5 or newer
  • Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, / Quad-core Intel i5 or newer
  • Recommended Cores & RAM: Quad-core & above, min. 8GB RAM (16GB & above recommended)
  • We strongly recommend storing Violin Intimate on a Solid State Drive (SSD) for better performance – regular spinning Hard Disk Drives (HDD) may not be as efficient
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Retrocade

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
  • The Full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 or above required to run this software.
  • This software will not function in full within the FREE Kontakt Player engine and will only be available in DEMO mode.
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The Kick

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.

Kontakt Version Required: 5.8.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)

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Sick 3

Welcome to Sick Volume 3: Dark Places.

This deep sound & music design collection features 175 professional dark/suspense/horror environments, soundscapes, hellscapes and nightmare worlds. We’ve hand-crafted horrific demonic creatures, feverish states of sonic delirium, monstrously shambling slavering hordes and discordant fever dreams. We traveled to the edge of a hurricane and wandered the endless halls of decrepit, vermin infested industrial, military and institutional ruins to capture authentic, production grade field ambiences that truly live and breathe.

Sick 3 also includes a massive collection of 335 live stereo convolution reverb impulse response files captured in a wide range of remote horror-friendly environments: bunkers, prisons, waterfronts, graveyards, forests, chambers, warehouses, sewers and more.

We’ve focused this catalog of impulses on environments leaning toward dark and foreboding, from the vast hopelessness of a derelict prison hall to a terrifyingly claustrophobic earthen grave. Recorded at a variety of capture distances, angles and degrees of occlusion, they provide realistic coloration and spatialization when placing additional instruments, sound design and foley into a mix, allowing you to augment other source material in your music, film, television, game or multimedia production.

You can find these acoustically accurate impulse responses in the Samples folder – they’re compatible with any convolution effect, host, virtual instrument or utility that supports wav impulse import.

Features

  • One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
  • Creature noises, Convolutions, Environment field recordings, Drones, SFX
  • 40 Ambience patches created from the source content
  • 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
  • 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
  • 549 stereo samples
  • 4.6 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

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

The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library. Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

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The Brother 6

THE BROTHER 6 is a fully sampled original Juno 6 synth from 1985. It really is the truest recorded sound of the synth, which means no more bad replica VST’s, no more preset attempts, this is the real deal!

We carefully recorded every note, with the best suited recording chain to create a fully playable sample instrument which is just like having the real thing.

Product Contains:

  • 40 Presets with Leads, Bass, Pads
  • 10 REAL Juno 6 sampled real time switchable patches, with and without the famous Roland chorus.
  • Filter, Delay, Stereo Spreader and Lexicon 480 Convolution reverb.
  • ADSR Envelope control
  • 1 NKI, with 40 preset files
  • File size : 1GB

Use it for almost any genre, anything that needs that classic synth texture. You’ll struggle to find a track in the charts that hasn’t used the Juno 6 analog synth as a benchmark for Leads, Bass or Pads.

Here at Brother Audio we’re a collective of producers and songwriters that specifically chose the sounds to put into this instrument to make the most versatile instrument for production! We’ve included over 40 presets all utilizing the inbuilt Filter, Delay, Stereo spreader and convolution reverb, filled with all real Lexicon 480 impulse responses.

In each of those presets you also can change the ‘Patch’, which is a choice of 10 waveforms and Juno tricks. Which then gives you a huge number of different variations and sounds to make YOUR signature sound.

The FULL retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.5.2 (or later) is required to use this library.

Please Note: The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this Kontakt library.

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Sequencer One

SEQUENCER ONE is a digital recreation of an 8-step CV/Gate sequencer classic: The rare SEQUENCER DRUM, produced by EHX during the early eighties.

It’s a little silver, black and green metal box with only one single square analogue oscillator, eight steps and a few simple controls for pitch, decay and speed rate.

It was originally named SEQUENCER DRUM because it had to be triggered/started with the hit of a drumstick on its trigger pad.

NOTE: The Full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above is required. Not for Kontakt Player. Will also work with the Full version of Kontakt 6

CLASSIC SOUNDS

At first sight, the SEQUENCER DRUM looked much like a toy instrument, whereas it was in fact capable of producing complex percussive synth patterns, deep bass sounds and wild roaming arpeggios. Its tonal range spread over eight octaves, and it sounded amazing.

Now, over 35 years later, we’re bringing this little box back to life as a soft Kontakt synth. We changed its name to SEQUENCER ONE (because you don’t really need a drumstick anymore) and added some cool and useful features, all the while keeping its original minimalistic approach and iconic sound.

  • 6.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)
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Hyperion Strings Micro

ABOUT

Hyperion Strings Micro is our introductory orchestral string library for Native Instruments’ free Kontakt Player, Komplete Kontrol and S-Series Keyboards.

This library is the perfect starter pack for songwriters and musicians just getting into orchestral writing, as well as seasoned composers wanting new colors in their orchestral palette. No matter what your creative needs are, you’ll discover the powerful toolset and outstanding audio quality that you’re looking for in this convenient and extraordinarily flexible virtual instrument library.

This library has a forward and robust sound unlike any other. We recorded our string ensemble sections up close on a dry sound-stage — the historic Studio A at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA — and then 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. It’s perfect for any musical style from rock, pop and EDM, to fully orchestral compositions.

The interface is detailed, configurable and feature-rich to allow total customization. However, for all of the bells and whistles we’ve designed into Hyperion Micro, we’ve carefully refined every feature to be intuitive and naturally simple to use, with virtually no learning curve.

CONTENTS

Hyperion Strings Micro includes a combined full ensemble preset, as well as 4 main section presets for our 8 Violins, 6 Violas, 5 Cellos and 4 Double Basses. For this Micro Edition, we’ve included the most essential core articulations for each section: multi-dynamic sustains both with and without natural vibrato, staccatos, spiccatos and pizzicatos, as well as two basic dynamic expressions: long crescendos and decrescendos.

The multi-dynamic sustain, staccato, spiccato and pizzicato articulations allow smooth crossfading across dynamic layers, from piano to forte with the Swell control. In addition to dynamic layering, you can also choose rich, natural vibrato or clean non-vibrato sustain types or seamlessly blend between them with the sustain blend control. You can also instantly switch the staccatos, spiccatos and pizzicatos to velocity sensitivity mode and control dynamics directly as you play.

The pizzicatos also allow manual or automatic switching between naturally loose flams and precise tight plucks that adapt to your speed. Each of these short articulation types also features two “round-robin” variations per note. The Crescendo and Decrescendo expressions allow real-time dynamically-aware release sample triggering, tempo-synching and time-stretching. These are a great introduction to our broader “Expressions” concept for modular arrangement.

Main Features:

  • Product Version 1.0
  • 5 nki Kontakt instrument Banks
  • 2,950 Samples
  • 2.5 GB installed
  • 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
  • 5 master section presets: Ensemble, Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses.
  • Multi-dynamic sustains, with smooth real-time control over natural vibrato and dynamic transitions. 
  • Multi-dynamic staccatos, spiccatos and pizzicatos with 2x round-robin.
  • Dynamic auto-release and tempo-synching for Crescendo and Decrescendo expressions. 
  • 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 Hyperion Strings Elements or the full Hyperion Symphonic Strings when they’re released.
  • Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 5.7.3+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
  • Works with the Kontakt “Libraries” browser and Native Access.
  • Kontakt or Kontakt player 5.7.3 or later.
  • Mac OS 10.10 or later.
  • 3 GB ram recommended.
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Axe Machina

A Cutting-Edge Virtual 7 String Guitar library built for Kontakt

Axe Machina is a powerful multi-sampled virtual electric guitar library designed for unleashing pure metal destruction. Craig Peters sampled his custom Kiesel Aries multi-scaled 7 string guitar, tuned to A Standard. This instrument features 24 frets, a swamp ash body, birdseye maple neck, Guitarmory Polaris pickups with D’Addario XL 10-64 gauge strings. The swamp ash body has a unique style and flavor, along with a robust natural tone and resonance.

We sampled single note and power chord sustains with palm mute variations. You’ll also find an assortment of SFX, like pinch harmonics, mutes, pick scrapes with slow, med and long, fret noise, chokes, rakes, and slides. Dial in your dream tone by sending our pure D.I. signal through your favorite amp simulator plugins, or use our custom reamped tone, crafted with Neural DSP software. Our flexible GUI gives you access to real-time articulation selection and performance features, key-switch and mapping options, arpeggiator, auto-strummer, sequencer, and full FX rack, all packed into an intuitive and customizable user interface.

We’ve packed the user interface with powerful sound-shaping and performance controls to give you complete flexibility combined with playability. The Main presets contain every sample in the library and a host of powerful performance features. The Lite presets feature fewer round-robins for situations where less RAM usage is important. The DI presets feature the pure guitar tone, recorded directly in with no preamp or other sound-coloring hardware in between, giving you the pure guitar tone, ready to reamp with the built-in effects or any other way you choose. The Amped presets feature a custom tone carefully dialed in by Craig Peters, giving you a modern hi-gain tone right out of the box. In the standard presets, you have access to individual strings, giving you full control over the available range for each string, including overlapping notes. The Simple variations of the preset omit this option and include a standard cross-over point for each string going up the scale.

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!

Specifications:

  • 8 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets made for the full retail Kontakt 6.2.2+
  • Single note & power chord sustains, palm mutes, pinch harmonics, mutes, pick scrapes, rakes, slides
  • 62,630 stereo samples in unlocked WAV format
  • 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
  • 31.9 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

Software Requirements:

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 6.2.2 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library.

System Requirements:

Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

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El Dorado: Legato Bowed Guitar

El Dorado: Legato Bowed Guitar is focused on capturing the most lyrical part of the Ebow applied to an electric guitar.

The result is an inspiring, expressive and fun-to-use tool that will give you hyper-realistic results and, thanks to its combination of pads and legato, will make you not want to take your hands off the keyboard.

El Dorado: Legato Bowed Guitar has been sampled with extra care in order to maintain musicality in each sample so you can get the liveliest performance possible, essential for convincing results. This also includes the pads which have been processed in different ways so that they accompany your guitar melodies in the best possible way.

Like the other volumes in this series, El Dorado: Legato Bowed Guitar is the result of the search for a tool that is capable of inspiring you even on bad days. A tool designed for composers who face tight deadlines and need to be fast and also a tool for musicians who just want to enjoy improvising on their keyboard, and all this without losing control over the sound.

With the master patch you can play the pads and the legato/sustains at the same time, letting you choose which ranges of the keyboard you want them to sound at. Once you try it there is no turning back, it is ideal for improvising over a scene or for getting new ideas playing freely with both hands.

If you are one of those who likes to have control down to the last detail, don’t worry, you also have individual patches that will give you more control with almost the same possibilities as in the Master Patch.

Carefully designed to give you as much control as possible with all the options visible so you don’t have to search through different submenus.

The user interface offers numerous possibilities when it comes to tweaking the sound. It allows you to automatically crossfade between the pads using the motion knob so you can enjoy playing with both hands, you can also crossfade traditionally with the CC of your choice, select different types of filters for the pads, modulate the filters with an LFO, apply different effects, and much more.

Key Features:

  • An expressive and versatile legato with realistic results.
  • Quick results with outstanding quality thanks to the Master Patch.
  • An inspiring and fun tool to use.
  • Great modulation capabilities for adding movement to the sounds.
  • Quick access to a mix of convolution reverbs and delay for making the sounds as ambient as you want.

Technical Specifications:

  • 3 dynamic layers.
  • Master Patch, legato, sustains and pads patches
  • Multiple pads.
  • Manual or automatic crossfading between pads
  • Integrated effects
  • 4,49 GB of disk space.
  • Full Kontakt 5.8.1 and above

Kontakt Version Required: 5.8.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)

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Fabrikator

Product Overview

Building on the strengths of Konstruktor, and keeping with the ethos of raw, unpolished percussive sound, Fabrikator explores the texture and motion of acoustic-synthetic sounds colored with convolution.

The task was to design distinctive synthesized percussion that would complement the new acoustic palette while offering fresh material for the convolution engine: sounds and textures that would react in new and unexpected ways.

Different design and mixing methods were applied to produce nine categories of synthetic percussion: over 200 multi-articulation sample instruments in total. Sound treatments include valve and fuzz-wah filters, frequency disintegration and granulation, harmonic and digital distortion, and pitch/time and modulation effects.
Fabrikator offers a rhythmic sound palette and convolution engine with practically endless combinations.

PUSHING RHYTHM DESIGN

New convolution impulses bring the total to almost 400, including vinyl/radio/tape/digital noise and static, particulate and granular effects, digital and acoustic sound effects, frequency modeling, mic effects and chorusing, stereo imaging, and new, pitch-based impulses for adding harmonic interest to rhythms.

With Fabrikator’s totally new sample content, the aim was to shape and control the interaction between convolution impulses and more dynamic textural material. What new rhythmic possibilities might emerge? Going beyond frequency modulation, panning, and spectral effects, this is a new direction for generating rhythmic sound treatments from sample content.
Packed with this kit builder are 72 beautifully constructed kits, ranging from big, deep hip-hop/downtempo kits to dirty, hyperactive electronic/hybrid kits. Now with multi-out capability.

TEXTURE AND MOTION

Fabrikator pushes the concept of a hybrid drum designer and kit builder in ever more creative directions. An all-new sound palette of custom-designed acoustic and synthetic percussion for generating fresh, dynamic rhythms—with a deep focus on texture, motion, and spatial elements.

CONVOLUTION COLORS

Sculpt each kit slot with convolution: almost 400 custom-designed impulses that color, shape, and spatialize every nuance of frequency and texture. Create deep, echoing kicks, dynamic, resonating snares, shimmering, syncopated hi-hats. Bitclutter, Humfuzz, Echoglitz, Monoflak…

ROBOT OR HUMAN?

Control the amount of randomization that is applied to velocity and quantization—separately for each kit slot. Make those snares and hi-hats extra trashy. And with 6 round-robin layers for every articulation, even fully synthetic kits can find a new groove. Let those kits run loose.

PERFORMANCE CONTROL

Adjustments to tuning, sample start points, decay envelopes, and sample width can be used to control how different convolution impulses color an instrument. Fabrikator is multi-out capable: kit slots can be routed to separate output channels for automation control and 3rd party plugins.

FILTER CONTROL

Each of the 7 kit slots has three dedicated, independently selectable lowpass, bandpass, and highpass filters, each with dedicated cutoff and resonance knobs for on-the-fly switching. Filtering offers another way to control how convolution impulses color the sound.

SMART RANDOMIZATION

A powerful kit-building tool, this feature preserves the kit’s performance controls and offers three randomization modes: sample banks only, convo choices only, or both. With two temporary memory slots for comparing new combos, tailor settings then save a snapshot of your new kit.

FEATURES

  • 3,918 Stereo 48kHz/24bit samples
  • 491 Instruments
  • 394 Custom-designed convolution impulse responses
  • 7 Independently controllable drum kit slots
  • 6 Round-robin layers for every articulation
  • Separate LP/BP/HP filters with dedicated cutoff/resonance controls for each kit slot
  • 72 Factory Kits

5.7.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)

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The Snare

Here comes the second release of our new ‘’Groove Butter’’ series.

The Snare features 99 different snare drum presets made from 2,035 carefully recorded one shot samples. The drums are playable over three 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 have selected some of the rare ones and run them through our saturation, compressing, cleaning process and finally build a nice GUI for you to have lots of fun by turning 44 knobs to get a satisfying beat making experience for musicians and also the for the listeners. 

There are some totally clean and original sounding famous snare 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. 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. 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 high 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

  • 99 Kontakt Instruments
  • 2.035 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
  • 9 different machines recorded
  • processed in the box and thru outboard gear
  • 125 MB filesize
  • Formats: Kontakt and WAV

Kontakt Version Required:
5.8 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player) – learn more

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The Ronroco

The creator of The Bandoneon, the film composer Guillermo Guareschi, presents a new and exciting Kontakt Library intended to become a singular tool for composers and musicians.

The Ronroco belongs to the family of the Charangos, a typical South-American instrument. It is like a Charango but bigger in size with a deep and warmer sound. It was brought to the international scene by the two-time Oscar winner, Gustavo Santaolalla. He uses the Ronroco in almost all his projects, such as “The Last of Us”, “Brokeback Mountain”, “Babel” and Michael Mann’s film, “The Insider” among others.

“As a film composer and producer, I created this Ronroco Kontakt Instrument having in mind the needs of musicians and film composers. You can almost score a whole film using this instrument alone. It’s that powerful.” Guillermo Guareschi.

It is more than a simple instrument, it is a Creative Workstation where you can compose and create original and realistic tunes and atmospheric landscapes.

Features

  • Recorded in high resolution with Krystalos Audio technology.
  • Long notes in round-robin and three dynamics per note.
  • Staccato, pull-off, mordente and tremolo notes.
  • A special menu with a huge variety of arpeggios patterns conceived to create original and infinite sequences with an unprecedented level of realism.
  • Chords and strokes in many tonalities.
  • Soundscape menu to create huge idiomatic and cinematic beds and atmospheres.
  • Southern Winds is another idiomatic tool for creating realistic tremolos.
  • Rontoor is a special sound created by striking the strings of the instrument with a metal wand.
  • Effects: this menu offers another spectrum of effects produced by playing the ronroco in unusual ways.
  • Check out the videos and sound demos to listen to The Ronroco in action, have fun!
  • 9 Articulations with various keyswitches per articulation
  • Full Kontakt 5.6 or above required (Not for Kontakt Player)
  • Download size 3.87GB
  • 2836 Samples
  • 24Bit WAV
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Felt 54

FELT 54 is an intimate felt piano with character, it’s not the conventional bright and harmonically complex upright piano.

Stereo sampled from a felt customized upright Yamaha U3 1975 that has been modified in a way that makes the tone more pure, yet preserves its harmonic richness. A 0.8mm felt strip was added between the hammers and strings, and the middle section’s tone of the piano was simplified by muting 2 out of 3 strings per note. The instrument was captured by 3 microphones resulting in a very intimate stereo image.

FELT 54 covers a range of 54 notes, the sweet spot range of this particular piano.

Overview

  • 3 EQ Knobs (Low,Mid,High)
  • Intimate room reverb
  • Tape Delay (Synced Time, Feedback, Send Level)
  • Pedal noise and key release noise levels
  • a Special TAPE module with 3 knobs (Analogue Tape Hiss, Saturation intensity, Flutter intensity)

FELT 54 is ideal for Ambient music and Melancholic film scores, as well as LO-FI hip-hop music with the Tape settings driven up.

  • Kontakt Version Required: 6.5.2 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)
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Sunroom Upright Piano

A warm upright piano library built for the full version of Kontakt

Sunroom Upright Piano encapsulates the cozy feeling of being home alone, relaxed and playing old ivory keys next to a warm window. Conn pianos have a tagline: “the piano that few know about”, which summarizes the curiosity and mystery of each handmade instrument. The resulting tones are rich and full, with warm resonance, powerful low end and a woody, even quality. Weighing in around 500 lbs, this 1980s piano has a responsive action and balanced timbre, perfect for soundtrack scoring, songwriting, or just noodling new ideas. In addition to deep-sampling 52 keys with 5 velocity layers in close stereo, we captured a number of other SFX like lid open/closes, key & pedal noise, and wooden creaks.

Sunroom Upright comes complete with a host of performance shaping and effects controls, allowing you to take these organic sounds in any number of new directions. We’ve also included a collection of ambient pads, synths, and a huge selection of uniquely sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lush sonic flavors and robust creative tools.

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. We’ve also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

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

Features:

  • One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
  • Conn Upright Piano Sustains with Pedal Up, Pedal Down, Releases, SFX
  • 20 Ambience patches created from the source content
  • 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
  • 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
  • 919 stereo samples
  • 2.9 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

Software Requirements:

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.5 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library.

System Requirements:

Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10.9 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

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Pretty Red

The Melodica Cassetto 26 is another easy to use and super rich sounding reed instrument made by the German company Hohner*.

The sound is generated by blowing air thru a mouthpiece into fine brass reeds like those used in Harmonicas. This one got an extra chamber at the bottom for more resonances.

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

We are very happy to get our hands on one of these super rare instruments in a very good condition. The Cassotto Melodicas are very hard to find in a good condition.

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

Overview
Each microphone can be tuned in separately in the master area at the head of the instrument. So you can take advantage of the different characters of the four microphone types and mix your own original pretty red sound until it fits your taste perfectly.

The noise from blowing air into the Melodica was separated from the musical material and made usable thru an extra mixing knob. The same processing we did with the clicks which were produced by pressing the keys on the Melodica. So you can now add/reduce the noise from blowing by turning the noise knob and add/reduce the clicks from the keys by turning the click knob.

Specifications

  • 20 Kontakt Instruments
  • 321 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
  • Four Mics (piezo, condenser, dynamic, stereo)
  • 22 sec long notes samples
  • 24 sec long noise samples
  • long notes and noises were looped carefully
  • extra click samples
  • Three different playing styles recorded
  • 460 MB Filesize
  • Formats: Kontakt and WAV
  • Kontakt Version Required: 5.8.1 Full Version (Not for Kontakt Player)
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Diggi Dub

Here comes our “DIGGI-DUB”. A synthesizer build to resurrect some classy, warm and dusty memories and finally make them useable.

We want to make a really digital and old skool sounding lo-fi synthesizer this time. Like the old casio toy pianos and stuff like that.

Diggi-Dub uses a lot of different saturation, distortion, modulation and lo-fi effects in a very interesting chain and also very interesting results.

The samples we have used are mostly phat pad and key sounds but also some chords, stabs and drum sounds. Diggi-Dub is built from 1.197 stereo wave samples in 24 Bit and 44.1 kHz quality (1,5 GB). You got 19 different instruments to start with.

The concept on that beautiful looking instrument is to make drastic changes to the sound for example by turning the speed to a totally different level or experiment with the formants or let the lows and highs wobble against each other

FEATURES

  • 19 Kontakt Instruments
  • 1,197 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
  • Different hard and software synthesizers recorded
  • 1.52 GB filesize
  • Formats: Kontakt and WAV
  • Kontakt 5.8 or higher is required to run this instrument
  • NOT Compatible with Kontakt Free Player
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