Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

BALKAN CLARINET is a new playable Bb Clarinet that captures the style and nuances of Balkan music and beyond.

Superbly delivered by virtuoso reed player Achille Succi, it comes with 18 exciting articulations including sustained vibrato notes, normal-double and triple staccatos, short glissandos up and down (scoops) and lots of stylistic embellishments and tempo-synced approach notes to give your melody a vibrant life!

A must HAVE for composers and producers looking for high realism and instant gratification!

Balkan Clarinet comes with a highly intuitive, easy-to-use and ready-to-play interface with 2 top-class reverb algorithms, delay and a gritty, pedal-like distortion. ideal for lots of styles and musical genres, from jazz, pop, traditional music, Bregović-like scores and world music. 

Features

• 1625 Samples in .ncw format
• Total Uncompressed Size: 711.2 MB
• Full Instrumental Range

18 Articulations (Keyswitches):

• Sustain Notes
• Half Tone Long Mordent
• Whole Tone Long Mordent
• Short Gliss Up
• Short Gliss Down
• Half Tone Short Mordent 
• Whole Tone Short Mordent
• Minor Third Short Mordent
• Staccato
• Double Staccato (Double Tonguing)
• Triple Staccato (Double Tonguing)
• Strong Vibrato Sustained Notes
• Special Balkan articulation
• Half Tone Double Mordent
• Whole Tone Double Mordent
• Balkan Phrase (tempo-synced)
• Approach note group #1 (tempo synced)
• Approach note group #2 (tempo synced)

Built-in FX:

• Room Reverb
• Hall Reverb
• Delay
• Gritty Pedal-like Distortion 

A Collection of Central American Indigenous Drone Flutes library built for Kontakt

We teamed up with acclaimed sound practitioner René Jenkins to bring you a fantastic catalog of indigenous Central American drone flutes, in the Mayan, Aztec and Zapotec traditions. René performed with six of his favorite 2, 3 and 4-chambered flutes at the giant cathedral-like St Paul’s Church in San Francisco.

We recorded a variety of chromatic articulations and improvised phrases and effects in meticulous detail, including sustains, staccatos, true legato, chirps, swells, trills, flutters, and more. This library is perfect for cinematic compositions, game scoring, atmospheric songwriting, folk music and creative sound design.

The first instrument is the Double Wooden F#4 Drone Flute. It reaches from F#4 to Bb5, with soulful overtones and a wooden, breathy timbre. Next up is the Double Zapotec A4 Clay Flute, spanning from A4 to C6. In the midrange, the Harmony C4 Flute spans C4 to Eb5. The Quad Clay Flute plays D5 to F#6 – the ceramic body gives it a warm, rounded sound for gentle melodies or powerful rhythms. The Triple Snake Flute and Triple Zapotec Clay Flute both span F4 to Ab5. All of these flutes come with a variety of articulations and mic positions so you can mix and match to create your own chamber ensemble. This level of depth and detail lets you craft naturally lush drone flute arrangements, while our advanced sound-shaping and dynamic performance features allow you to explore with complete freedom.

To encapsulate the feel of live drone flutes in the hands of an expert, René also played thousands of beautifully dynamic live performance phrases for each flute, performing a total of over 3,000 distinct melodic elements. The phrases are organized by flute type, tempo (80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 140 bpm), musical key and style. You can trigger them individually with your keyboard or sequence them in the phrase sequencer, with full control over tempo, offset, release, pitch and so much more.

We captured his beautifully haunting sound from three distinct microphone positions: Close, Mid, and Far. The close microphones are a stereo pair of large studio condensers, offering an essentially “dry” sound, with strong tonality, minimal room tail and full presence. The mid position is a wide pair of omnis with a lush, blooming and open quality perfect for orchestral blending. The far mics are a distant pair of studio mics with a wide, cavernous and smoothly cinematic sound with an almost lonely and somber quality.

Features:

• 27 .nki presets made for full retail Kontakt 5.5+
• Six unique flutes articulations and phrases in three microphone positions
• 20 Ambience patches created from the source content
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 5,763 Stereo WAV files
• 9.72 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

CINEMATIC TEXTURE DESIGNER

A complex-sounding cinematic piano texture Kontakt instrument for creating massive modulations, ethernal soundscapes and hybrid keyboard themes. Continuo 2 follows the concept of its ancestor with a fresh new look, exciting features on a super intuitive interface.

This Kontakt instrument collection focuses on complex-sounding cinematic textures: build massive modulations, ethereal soundscapes, hybrid keyboard themes from super quiet scores to enormous trailer tracks and electronic music. Continuo 2 is based on exceptional quality piano recordings, analog synths and various sound design tools. Created in collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist composer and sound designer iamyank.

MAIN FEATURES

• 500 Pulse Instruments for instant playability
• A massive array of content
• 40GB including analog synths, digital synths and organic instruments
• Up to 4 separate pulses at one time
• All pulses lock to tempo
• Rhythms: Looper, Step Sequencers, Arpeggiators, LFOs
• 4 central MACRO sliders unique to each of the 500 Pulse Instruments
• Important Note: The Full Version of Kontakt 5 is required in order to run this software.

Character Design. Creative Morphing.
Simple controls, complex sounds: meet our brand new Continuo 2 engine with a futuristic organic look! Blend between 4 heavily sound designed instruments, browse our artist presets to get inspired or create your very own hybrid sounds from scratch.

More tools. Polyrhythmic Modulation.
There are no bad choices! Twist, blend, squash, tousle, filter, sharpen, dim, wow, blur, echo, overdrive… with over 40+ new controls and special effects to play with. Now with an additional transient layer control, Prophet 5 style filters, dual pulse control and extended master chain tools.

Woods. Metals. Oscillators. – The sound sources
We sampled iamyank piano with different unconventional mic setups and playing techniques. The library contains a traditional piano, a prepared and a hand picked instruments. We enhanced the recordings with various synths such as Sequential Circuits Rev2 and Moog modular modules to give bite, depth and real analog low end to the instrument patches. 

Samples are recorded with analog gear and ran through cassettes and tapes to give a more organic feel. We also processed some of our patches with digital granular effects & distortion stompboxes. Also included are 80+ Artist presets from music composers and sound designers.

Helios is an incredibly advanced instrument for Kontakt.

Combine two sound sources and rhythmically swap between each sound or create rich evolving soundscapes with gradual modulation. Each channel has an additional 11 individual sequencers which can all be synced to different speeds to control a rich collection of effects in either a pulsed or blendable system. That’s just the start!

On the second page is yet another set of sequencers which control master effects and 60 beautiful, custom-made impulse responses to further colour your sounds.

114 Snapshots

Helios contains 114 professionally designed snapshots to get you started.

Powerful Sequencing

Each sequencer has advanced controls which allow you to change the speed, number of steps, direction, offset, fade-in, nudge and loop individually per sequencer. Each sequencer also has copy/paste functions, randomisation and built-in presets.

Rhythmical Blending

Helios is an incredibly advanced instrument for Kontakt. Combine two sound sources and rhythmically swap between each sound or create rich evolving soundscapes with gradual modulation. There are also presets per sequencer so you can quickly select pre-built tools to add rhythm and variation instantly.

Sound Design

Helios contains 5GB of customer made soundscapes created by a selection of different sound designers. Select your source and manipulate the sounds in creative and unexpected ways.

Unprecedented Control

The 11 effects can be controlled randomly or in positive or negative directions at the press of a button. The amount of control here is unprecendented and opens up a vast world of sound design capabilities.

What’s your favorite scary movie?

Get your hands on the perfect synth for creating authentic horror themes without spending hours sculpting sound. Analog Nightmares is a Kontakt 6 library full of fantastic effects and dark synth pads to create tension-filled pieces that capture those eerie vibes from classics like Halloween or Stranger Things. Killer plugin if you’re into old school scare-’em ups!

4 Layers of Analog Hell

The four synth modules and 1 sub synth layer can be blended together seamlessly, making for a multi-layer engine that is capable of complex sound design. Every module includes a wide range of controls and effects such as Prophet-type filters, analog and tape delays, room and hall reverbs, EQs.

…And an Analog Sub Module

Add extra warmth and depth to your sounds with the simple-to-use but powerful Sub Bass Module. It comes with three different flavors – sampled from a vintage Oberheim synth!

Next Level Randomizer

You don’t always need hundreds of controls to create exciting new sounds, but when you do, Advanced Smart Random Bar steps in with its unique built-in feature! Control 160+ onscreen controls with just one click. Push and get an inspiring, studio-quality sound immediately.

Sounds of the Darkness

Iconic synths ( (Eurorack Modulars, DX21, Polysix) were sampled with a completely analog signal path (studio-quality 48kHz/ 24bit) and heavily processed them to give you the spookiest horror sounds possible.

Features

• 90+ Factory & Artist presets
• Sounds from 4+1 classic and modern synths (Eurorack Modulars, DX21, OBX, Minilogue, PolySix with additional VHS tape and complex distortion effects)
• Over 160 controls (all MIDI-learnable)
• Prophet-type low pass filters
• 2 types of EQs
• 2 types of algorithmic reverb2 types of vintage delays (bucket brigade & tape)
• 2 types of chorus (ensemble & dimension)
• 8 types of LFO filter and gain modulations
• Master limiter and compressors
• tape-style pitch modulation and more…
• Karanyi’s most advanced randomizer with over 40 random setups
• 4 articulation setups (Straight, Keys, Pads and Pluck)
• Random instrument sources (Modules)
• Random LFOs
• Random effects (Filters, Dimension, Delay, Reverb, EQs)
• Random master EQs
• Smart Random All

Eloquent and audacious, Collision FX cinematic scoring tool is a sound design supercharger with everything you need to create cinematic elements that truly express the sonic emotion in your audio productions.

Straight up, out of the box, start with the Collision FX unconventional palette of sounds and use the built in 235 NKIs that are hand crafted, created by expert sound designers, audio engineers and musicians for adding film and AAA game style cinematic elements to your mix or score in moments.

The heart of Collision FX is built on a sonic foundation of cinematic source. Impacts risers, transitions, strikes, drones and tones, all meticulously designed and curated to empower composers, musicians, DJ’s and sound designers with unmatched audacity for creating and shaping breathtaking cinematic dynamics.

With 3100+ audiophile quality cinematics, sound effects and instrument samples at 96k/24bit resolution, Collision FX delivers the power to capture and create an intense collage of sounds that make your music and audio productions truly unique.

Because Collision FX is an NKS-ready plug-in, and it’s derived from Epic Stock Media’s popular, battle tested cinematic sound effects collections; Bane Cinematics, Blockbuster Trailer and Asylum, it’s set up and ready to make use of the production empowering Smart Play features in the KOMPLETE KONTROL and MASCHINE software – including touch strips, scale mapping, chord sets, and the powerful arpeggiator. Collision FX and NKS enable you to perform cinematic elements with your KOMPLETE and MASCHINE hardware like never before.

Collision FX – KONTAKT Instrument VST Plugin Feature Highlights

• A Complete Toolbox for Cinematic Sound Design
• Massive Library of Sounds – 3,107 Samples @ 96k 24bit Resolution
• 14.72 GB of Cinematic SFX, Samples, Instruments, Audio (uncompressed)
• 235 NKIs for Blazing Fast Workflow and Custom Sound Design
• 19 Trailer Tested Master Themes Inspire Cinematic Composition
• Environments (85 NKIs), Movement (18 NKIs), Stingers (35 NKIs), Textures (17 NKIs), Tempo Sync Sequences (54 NKIs)
• Works with Popular Digital Audio Workstations Ableton, Logic, Cuebase etc.
• Purchase qualifies for special crossgrade pricing from Native Instruments
• Proprietary LFO Design with Matrix Mapping
• Bank of 190 IR Reverbs for Extraordinary Spatial and Ambient Overtones
• 4 Band Premix EQ (Parametric) for Instant Sound Slotting
• Single Click Sidechain Power Mods: Destruction, Shimmer, Depth
• Hits, Risers, Drops, Impacts, Flybys, Textures, Sweeps, Environments, Ambiences, Instruments
• Includes Kontakt 5 Player – Nothing Else to Buy – RTU-OTB
• Native Instruments NKS Ready with KOMPLETE KONTROL & MASCHINE
• Standalone Virtual Instrument Plugin or VST-AU-AAX Plugin

Power on Deck

With a single click, add swank and brazen boldness to epic elements with Collision FX instant sidechain power mods on the main display. Destruction, Shimmer and Depth, the first level of Collision’s custom crafted controls that give composers and designers instantaneous power over expression, timbre, res filter and low end dynamics.

Modify the sidechain input envelope with ADSR controls at hand and gain instant access to modify pitch and reverse waveform direction all from the main tab. Simply dial in the amount of effect to apply you’ll be creating vastly different sounds as you go.

Sculpting Desk

Capturing a cinematic mixing style can be challenging particularly when faced with precisely scoring impacts, hits, sweeps, risers and transitions. Collision FX delivers allowing you to conveniently slot your Collision FX sounds and cinematics into your mix in real-time using the Sculpting Desk that includes ready onboard 4 band parametric EQ.

2-pole legacy filters for HP and LP provide frequency filtering and flexibility to clean up or heighten selected bands, all while the solid state modeled bus compressor helps you stay in control of extreme dynamics. Easily preview and compare all your effects changes with simple toggle controls.

Modulation Mayhem

For every parameter of every effect you’ll enjoy immediate and powerful access to envelope modulation, LFO modulation and step sequencing modulation (often used for mod. and tempo sync). The interactions and variability you create are almost limitless and alone, Collision FX multi assignable modulation schemes could by themselves keep you busy in “ultra-creative mode” for hours and hours.

Totally proprietary linear envelope generators deliver precise control over how effect parameters interact with samples. The custom LFO, also assignable to any effect parameter, features multiple wave shapes including random, and inversion (polarity). For the adventurous, Step Sequencer modulation assigned to multiple effect parameters creates interactions unique, unpredictable and of epic cinematic proportion.

Delicious Dimensions of Space

Quickly add spatial dimension, ambience and sonic secret sauce to your creations with custom convolution impulse response reverbs,190 of them! These exceptional reverbs take you on a journey of dimensions beyond basic auditoriums and rooms, the convolution reverbs contained in Collision FX are powerful for creating spatial and ambient overtones with Collision’s unique sample bank. Every reverb effect is precisely controlled by modifying standard early reflection and late reflection parameters.

It’s one of our favorite approaches to getting a little extra… “Un gros coup de cul à la fin,” (a kick in the arse) pardon our French. Try building your sounds and cinematic elements only to add the convolution reverbs at the last step. You won’t be disappointed as Collision FX comes through with the perfect compliment to your audio arsenal.

Orrville Pipe Organ is a classic pneumatic pipe organ with 1,224 pipes, 21 ranks, 3 divisions, 2 manuals, 18 stops and 31 registers. It was built for the First Presbyterian Church of Orrville, Ohio in 1963 by the venerable Schantz Organ Company. With a robust and mighty sound, it’s a much more elaborate and powerful instrument than you’d typically expect to find in a smaller rural church like this one, allowing the sound to completely fill the space with an epic presence and grand tonal body. However, that all might be explained by the fact that the Schantz workshop is just a mile up the road in the same small town.

We captured several of our favorite sustain and staccato articulations in two microphone positions, as well as chimes, zymbelstern, blower, and pedal noises for ultimate realism. We’ve also included tons of custom FX patches and sound-designed ambient synth pads created from the source to make this library extraordinarily playable and versatile. Whether you’re looking to create a massive video game sound, bold synth bass tone or play straight from the hymnal, Orrville’s got the pipes to do it!

Contents

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more.

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

The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Features

• Pipe Organ Sustains, Staccatos, SFX in two microphone positions: Close, Far
• Gemshorn, rohr-flute, octave, principle, block-flute, trumpet, combo, chimes, SFX, and more
• 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 7,956 stereo samples
• 9.08 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

El Dorado: Legato Ambient Guitar has been created with the idea of achieving a realistic and expressive legato without compromising its playability in order to make it as inspiring as possible.

The library is also accompanied by pads and sustains to immerse yourself in the ambient/post-rock aesthetics.

• An expressive legato capable of playing both fast and slow lines due to it’s many legato transitions.
• Quick results with outstanding quality thanks to the Master Patch.
• Play freely with both hands and enjoy improvising.
• 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.

The power of the master patch

This one is powerful. This one is unstable and resonating, wobbly and warm, this one is smooth also harsh. All at the same time.

We decided to bring you chaos paired with pure love. We have recorded an old and out of tune harmonica with different microphones and preamps and get some interesting resonances and musical errors instantly. We then processed this recordings heavily with different hardware saturation and also with lots of awesome software tools to make them sound even more interesting and get the things more under control.

We build three different version for you to play with. The Long and the short versions are the most realistic sounding ones. The Long version is looped carefully so you can play it to eternity without the need to hitting the key again. The short version is just a sharp played recording. For the long and the short version you can mix four different microphones to get a natural sounding result at the end.

Next we build a version where you can mix four so called “Tracks”.

These tracks are made from different recording sessions and the microphones are layered together already. So you got a total different experience and a more mystical or industrial like sound as result. In combination with all the effects you can go real wild with that one.

Finally we made a simple version also where we layered together some of the recordings and samples we got while recording and building these instrument. Just choose one and tune it to your taste with all the given knobs.

All instruments are programmed with musical velocity, aftertouch and pitchbend modulation possibilities and a super useful LFO effect tuneable by using the modwheel.

Deep Down and Dirty

There is a black sheep in every flock: meet Wavesynth Pitch Black, the dark knight of Karanyi Sound’s legendary waveshaper family. Dive deep into the dirt and explore the 50+ bass-heavy artist presets! Made for all genres that make use of noise and harshness, including, but not limited to modern techno and indie dance, retro video games and post-apocalyptic sci-fi themes.

Advanced waveshaper tools

Wavesynth Pitch Black 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 Sound’s built-in intelligent randomizer), you can go wild and create new inspiring patches in seconds.

Features

• 50+ Meticulously designed artist presets
• Bass focused, but you will also find great synths and other elements.
• 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

A Stunning Fazioli Concert Grand Piano for Kontakt

The “Fazioli” is a highly sought after grand piano, by the makers of world’s most expensive grand pianos. Its considered by many to be the best of the best when it comes to concert grand pianos.

Some grand pianos start to get a little muddy when you go to the lower registers, but the Fazioli stays sparkling and crystal clear even when you hit the low end of the keys.

“Silk” features a Fazioli recorded with close and stage mics so you can mix and match to create your own desired sound.

MAIN FEATURES

• A highly sought after concert grand piano
• Sounds crystal clear in the lows to the highs
• Up to 76 velocity layers per note
• 16GB of content (compressed down to 6GB using Kontakt’s lossless file compression)
• Two mics to choose from – close and stage
• A unique sound compared to other grand pianos
• Note: Requires the Full Retail Version of Kontakt 4.2.4.5 or higher (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

Recorded in 24Bit /96kHz with up to 76 Velocity Layers!

The Fazioli piano was recorded for Silk at a high level of real layers per note – around 30 40 layers per note.

It sounded great with just this, but we decided to add another 20-30 more layers to the mid/top end of the piano where you are likely to hear more fast/consecutively played notes, to add as much variation and detail as possible!

Technical Specifications and Requirements

Note: Requires the Full Retail Version of Kontakt 4.2.4.5 or higher (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

• 3114 samples recorded in 96kHz/24-bit
• Up to 76 velocity layers per note
• 6GB file space required (16GB compressed to 6GB using Kontakt’s lossless file compression)

Introducing Sonespheres Limitless, the ultimate compendium merging the ethereal realms of Sonespheres Distance, Origins, Current, and Direction into a seamless sonic journey.

Crafted by acclaimed film and TV composer Blake Ewing in collaboration with Soundiron, this collection transcends boundaries with its meticulously designed atmospheric synths, textural pads, evolving soundscapes, nuanced drones, and tonal ambiences.

This library features an intuitive XY pad that empowers you to effortlessly blend between all four series unlocking boundless creative potential. With a fusion of acoustic and electronic instruments, each volume explores Blake’s unique creative vision, delving into deeper aesthetics, stylized niches, and specialty production concepts. Additionally, the library offers a suite of innovative features including infinite randomization, wavetables, and user sample import capabilities, further expanding the horizon of creative expression.

Contents

The user interface is built around four separate quadrants, an assignable XY Pad, and arpeggiator system to expand your creative potential. Each layer in has fully independent sound-shaping options including Attack, Release, Offset, Pitch, Pan, and more. Every quadrant has its own individual arpeggiator and filter with 39 built-in filter types.

The central XY Pad can be used in a variety of ways but defaults as volume control between the 4 layers. Each axis can be customized to affect a different parameter and can be used to control filters or a select amount of FX options. Rhythmic motion can also be added to the XY Pad, automatically adjusting each axis in a tempo-syncable way. You can also limit the X and Y range to create new patterns and fluctuations in tone.

You can set up dynamic arpeggiator, gliss, and strum patterns with our integrated ARP system, featuring a suite of abilities like rhythm, direction, swing and randomization. The Legato feature is also included, instantly turning this machine into a monophonic legato/portamento instrument with adjustable pitch bend speed control. Dive in to tweak and automate every parameter with total control over every detail, or just hit the Random button to instantly generate an infinite variety of new sound, parameter and dynamic modulator combinations. The Macro knobs to the left and right of the XY Pad can be assigned to modulate a variety of layer sound shaping controls or FX rack plugins.

User sample import allows you to blend your own WAV files into the engine to make each sound truly your own. Mix and shape your samples alongside our categories of sounds and 24 wavetables for your next epic atmosphere.

Limitless ships with over 200 Factory Presets, each one lovingly crafted. They can be easily perused using the Preset Browser. You can also save new patches you’ve made using the browser, or share presets with other users. Finally, don’t forget to fire up the FX rack panel and load your synth up with dozens of DSP effects, including convolution reverb with over 100 of our custom real-world and special FX spaces to perfect your sound.

Features

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• 11 Categories of Synth Pads, Arps, Basses, Leads, FX, and 24 Wavetables
• Over 200 factory presets to kickstart your next track
• 4-Layer Morphing Engine with XY Pad Mixer and Randomize capabilities
• 1,610 stereo 24-bit 48kHz PCM Wav samples
• 7.2 GB Installed
• Custom Preset Import and Export, with intelligent random preset generator
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with user sample import, LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

Synthesizer Haven for Professionals

Sparkling ambiences. Dystopian landscapes. Vintage synth beds.

This is all Polyscape Pro, a new synthesizer pad instrument inspired by 90s liquid electronic underground electronic music, synthwave artists and classic 80s film scores such as Blade Runner by Vangelis or Terminator by Brad Fiedel.

Pro version comes with the Analog Blur expansion with 50 new artist presets to create lush, deep and subtle soundscapes for your music production and 4 additional organ sounds inspired by Oberheim PCM organs from the 80s.

The library contains carefully handcrafted patches from 9 analogue synths such as Moogs, Oberheims, Sequential Circuits and Nord Lead.

MAIN FEATURES

• Handcrafted patches from 9 analogue synths: Sequential Prophet 5, Rev2, Nord Lead 2x, Oberheim Matrix 6, 1000, OB32, OB6 and Moog Subsequent37.
• 130 full-scale Kontakt presets.
• 40 Synth Modules with Karanyisound’s Layer Designer Engine with more than 80+ adjustable control options.
• Exceptional audio quality: recorded with analogue gear, 24bit / 48kHz sample rate.
• 24bit / 48kHz sample rate.

Analog Blur Expansion Additional Contents:

• 4 brand new sample instruments created with vintage organ module.
• 40 Cinematic soundscapes & moving pads created by sound designers and film composers.

The library:

Create modern scoring sounds, blending traditional orchestration with contemporary electronics and morphing, musical sound-design-driven textures, and built-in creative sound manipulation effects. Isobelle Austin Cello features and utilizes musical gestures, breaking the boundaries of performable sounds with endless possibilities; you can create new sounds from this instrument which you cannot achieve in a concert hall, by combining sounds of 20 different playing techniques, and even adding your own sounds.

Create a blend of up to 4 playing techniques at a time (including your own sounds) via an XY pad. Apply various global sound manipulation effects (see full list below) to your blend of sounds and go even more into detail in our user interface’s secondary effects processing page.

Isobelle Austin Cello’s secondary effects processing page allows for extremely detailed musical sound design. There you can apply and shape a large collection of sound manipulation tools (please see full list below). All of these tools can be applied per individual playing technique which gives you ultimate creative flexibility.

About Isobelle:

​​​​Isobelle is an award-winning cellist and featured recording artist. She plays acoustic and electric cello. Isobelle is a performer as well as a session recording musician and is regularly involved in recording sessions, recording different styles of playing – ranging from Classical, to video games and films, to cello lines for singers, bands and songwriters.

Isobelle’s playing reflects her passion for and enjoyment of the cello in all its diversity.

Playing Techniques

• Double Stop | 5th
• Arco | Flautando
• Arco | Senza Vib
• Arco | Molto Vib
• Arco | Molto Vib | slow fast
• Arco | Senza Vibrato | con sord
• Arco | Sul Pont Sul Tasto
• Circular Bowing 1
• Circular Bowing 2
• Circular Bowing Harmonics
• Col Legno Battuto
• Sul Pont | Poco Vibrato
• Sul Tasto | Poco Vibrato
• Tremolo | Harmonics Octave
• Tremolo | pizz
• Tremolo | Senza Vib
• Tremolo | Sul Pont Sul Tasto
• Trills | Min 2nd & Maj 2nd
• Ext. 1 | Paper Clip
• Ext. 2 | L.h. Trem Pizz R.h. Col Legno Battuto
• Load Your Own

Features:

Main Page:

• XY pad (blend up to 4 sounds together, including your own)
• Envelope (ADSR)
• 12 reverbs (Auditorium, Concert Hall, Chamber, Digital Hall, Plate I, Plate II, Tubes, Warm Room, Medium Room, Warehouse, Reflections, Cave)
• EQ
• Saturation (Tape)
• Filter
• Pitch Shifter
• LFO

Secondary page (per individual playing technique editing)

• Envelope (ADSR)
• EQ
• Spreader
• Rotation
• Space (reverb wet/dry knob)
• Granular Engine
• LFO
• Filter
• Pitch Shifter
• PAN
• Volume

Here comes the third release of our new Groove Butter series.

The Rim features 75 different rimshot presets made from 1274 carefully recorded one shot samples. The drums are playable over a range of 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 thru 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 listeners. There are some totally clean and classic sounding rims 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.

We found a beautiful old African Balafon in a friend’s old studio so we could not resist turning it into a carefully sampled Kontakt instrument.

We have recorded this beauty with different microphones and preamps and also in different locations to get some interesting resonances and on some also a little room from the beginning. We then processed these recordings with different hardware saturation and also with some state of the art software tools to make them sound woody, natural and warm.

The sounds are carefully tuned and really clean.

From there we build a custom GUI for you to manipulate the original until you get the Balafon / Woody sound you are looking for.

You have 48 variations to start with. 24 x brush and 24 x sticks.

Each instrument has 49 notes. You got some presets which sound more like the real instruments and some which sound like a piano or flutes, some more like soft pads or mystic drums. Velocity is also set to a very musical level for authentic playing.

What’s inside?

• 48 Kontakt Instruments
• 1,761 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
• 4 different Sticks / Brushes recorded
• 247 MB Filesize
• Formats: Kontakt and WAV

David Oliver’s Drum Kit is a deeply sampled red 1980’s Pearl DLX drumset, handpicked and performed by British instrumentalist and media composer David Oliver.

The Pearl DLX was originally played and endorsed by the legendary Jazz drummer Art Blakey although it has a very versatile sound suitable for multiple genres of music. We put it through it’s paces sampling it with a number of different stick types for maximum scope of expressive drumming techniques from ultra loud to ultra soft. The compact 18 inch kick is super punchy with a 12 inch rack tom and 14 inch floor tom. We recorded this kit extensively at The Whitehouse Studios in UK.

We recorded an extensive array of cymbals which were mostly Zildjians with a few Sabian, a few Paiste and Wuhan. We included a variety of hi hats with combinations of top and bottom, custom jazz and rock rides selected for their rich character and expressive crashes and splashes. We also sampled some effects cymbals, a few of which I customised myself with a grinder and rivets. The Sabian custom 20in crash ride was customised from a minibell dry ride by artisan cymbal maker Dave Collingwood in Bristol UK working to my specifications to create a uniquely rich and tonally exotic cymbal especially for this project.

The toms were double headed using Evans Level 360 Heads for the batter side which are great for sound control and fidelity and Evans 56 Calftone drum head for the Mapex Peace Snare Drum, with Remo Coated Ambassador head on the vintage Pearl Super Gripper Brass Shell Snare Drum and Evans 56 Calftone and Gope Goatskin on Custom 22 inch Concert bass drum. This concert bass drum was hand built by an artisan drum maker in UK to my specifications for sound control recording purposes. The 18 inch kick was sampled with a Remo Powerstroke batter head and Evans Level 360 resonant front head. The mics we used were a stereo pair of Blue Dragonfly for overhead mics, Stereo Neumann TLM 103s for close up, an M-S front pair, figure 8 (Microtech-Geffell UM70s and cardioid TLM103). Overall, this powerhouse is ready for jazz, rock, pop, or any genre that requires drums with amazing realism and customization. With the multiple mic positions, you can quickly dial in your own perfect drum kit and be on your way to your best sound yet.

A 4-String Electric Bass Guitar library built for Kontakt

Voltage Bass is a four stringed electric bass guitar with hot pickups, wide tonal range, and a versatile sound ready for any genre of music. We put it through its paces, sampling 30 notes of fingered sustains, palm mutes, picked palm mutes, picked chokes, and harmonics with up to six velocity layers and eight round robin. We captured E1 to C#4 with a mic’d amp for steel character and beefy flavor, and direct line in for a transparent clean tone perfect for adding your own amps and effects.

This low-end legend is rounded out by 20 ambient pads, synth sustains, staccatos, and a powerful FX rack so you can dial in your new favorite bass preset, create a practice track for your band, or compose an epic rock musical. You can also utilize our advanced options like the velocity range limiter and legato to get even finer control. For your next project, grab Voltage Bass… The results will shock you!

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more.

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

The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Features:

Rust 4 is the most extensive volume in our classic Rust series of metallic percussive and melodic instruments.

For Relics, we explore the remnants of yesteryear at the East Contra Costa Historical Society’s agricultural museum in Knightsen, California. The museum preserves the last 150 years of Knightsen history – a small rural farming community nestled at the edge of the San Francisco Bay Delta where it opens into California’s Central Valley. The ECCHS staff generously let us sample a huge collection of their artifacts and exhibits in comprehensive detail.

We brought our custom studio-grade field recording rigs to roam the multi-acre museum grounds, equipped with large-diaphragm, mid-side pairs, and stereo contact microphone arrays to capture each sound in extreme detail and ridiculously pristine fidelity. We recorded ball, stick, felt and metal mallet percussion on dozens of distinct farm implements throughout the museum grounds, including heavy equipment, agricultural machines, metallic surfaces and objects of all shapes and sizes, from vintage horse-drawn plows, harvesters, combines, and motorized tractors to the complete physical interior and exterior of a vintage railroad caboose. We recorded a 40-foot tall windmill in every way conceivable, a whole collection of pioneer-era farmhouse antiques and vintage household devices crafted from brass, copper, steel, tin, bronze and cast & wrought iron.

We explored every nook and cranny for interesting tones and special effects, powerful booms, eerie screeches and moans, clanks, clatters, ratchets, gongs, musical rings and clangs in indoor and outdoor environments. We then curated and refined the content into a vast collection of playable instruments and effect banks, intuitively categorized into tunable percussion kits by object, style, tone and sonic character. All of the sounds are accessible through a single multi-layer sound designer interface and easy to play as full impact percussion ensembles, or soloed as melodic tuned percussion instruments. Rust 4 offers a vast variety of distinct sounds in every acoustic category, from delicate to brutal, and richly resonant to raw and gritty.

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The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more.

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

The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Features

• Metallic percussion & tonal SFX from farm equipment, caboose, firetruck, windmill, and more
• 30 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content
• 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 6,655 stereo samples
• 4.89 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

Seiko DS250 – A strange and extremely rare Additive synthesiser from the 1980’s and used by J.M Jarre on his Rendezvous album.

The DS250 has a set of presets built into it and it allows for you to stack two presets by pressing a dual function key to select layer 1 and layer 2; it is a little awkward pressing these buttons, so our version just has two sets of 16 preset select buttons which is much easier.

The D-250 relies on some form of additive synthesis to create its sound and produces tones that are not clean and pristine, but instead have a wonderful earthy, organic and grainy sound that have bags of character.

After searching for many years to find one of these illusive keyboards I was immediatly struck by its great set of presets, but I thought it was let down by not being velocity sensitive – So that was the first thing we added to Castle Instruments version. I also thought it could benefit from resonant filters, so we added those and also added velocity modulation to allow control of the Filter Cutoff and resonance; this really added so much expression to the sounds. We also added multiple filter types which can be selected from the filter menu on the interface.

We also added controllable ADSR for amp and filter, Hi-Pass filters, and MIDI syncable LFO’s; all of these extra features take the sounds way beyond what can be achived with just the hardware synth. Of course our version has the original sounds from the hardware DS-250 and we created the factory presets for you in the preset folder, but it is great to be able to go way beyond what the hardware can do and explore new sounds – sort of like if Seiko had added all these new features to their original hardware.

Our version also has two random patch generators – one for each preset layer which makes it easy to throw some chaos theory into your patch creation and just hit randomise until you get something you like.

Also included is a full effects section including: Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Tape saturation/warmth, Reverbs, MIDI syncable Delays and an arpeggiator.

The Castle Instruments DS-2500 is great for taking a journey into the strange and digital world of additive sounds and textures who’s roots are firmly entwined in the original sounds from the DS-250 hardware and comes with 100 presets and 30 MULTI’s to get you started.

Features:

• 110 Presets
• 30 Multis
• Randomisation System
• 2 Layers (16 Voices per Layer)
• 41 Filters with LFO
• Arpeggiator
• 7 Global Effects
• Convolution Reverbs
• Full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 Required – not for Kontakt Player