Kontakt Instrument VST Plugins

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.

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

• 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

Ferpect Instruments presents this unique Bass instrument called THE RUBBERBAND.

We have sampled a few Rubberbands like those used in the office or in the kitchen and also some bigger ones.

We got access to some old print machines and a junkyard were we have also recorded some Rubberbands used in different machinery.

We have processed this recordings with different Hardware Saturation and also with the newest software tools to make them sound really phat and outstanding. The sound is really organic, phat and warm.

From there we build a custom GUI for you to manipulate the original until you get the Rubberband Bass you are looking for.

You got 50 variations to choose from. All were build from 18 different Rubberbands

Specifications

• 50 Variations of Kontakt Instrument
• 600 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
• 18 different sources/rubberbands recorded
• 189 MB Filesize
• Formats: Kontakt and WAV

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just pick up your drum controller and get straight to the playing part? Instantaneously get access to your favorite sounds, mapped, as soon as you select a track in your DAW?

Well, now you can!

NoteMatrix 2 is an elegant and sophisticated Kontakt addon, comprised of a 16-cell matrix.

Version 2 New Features

• New modern GUI
• Added a Fixed Velocity slider
• Added a Shift Velocity slider
• Enhanced MIDI Learn functionality.
• Added various new keyboard shortcuts.

It grabs incoming MIDI notes from your pad controller (or any other MIDI hardware), and swaps them in real-time with other MIDI notes and channels of your choice. Most importantly – it saves your mapping withing your DAW/Kontakt Multi!

NoteMatrix 2 basically gives your Pad Controller a whole new life. By simplifying the integration process, it’s just becomes super useful!

Key Features

• Easy recallable MIDI mapping that matches your hardware and software quickly and painlessly.
• Eliminate all reliance on external Hardware MIDI Editors/Drum maps/preset flipping.
• Eliminate the need to reprogram your MIDI hardware physically.
• Fixed/Shift velocity sliders for each Cell.
• Play melodic instruments on your Pad/Drum Controller using the length knob.
• Big clear MIDI monitor to track your MIDI data.

W e l c o m e t o W i c e C i t y 2021（ねアワ）

Remember those shiny, glitchy, vintage sounds and waving synthesizer beds from the 90s TV ads and videogames? Or the melting themes from movies like Miami Vice, Beverly Hills, or GTA Vice City?

Well, Vapor Keys 2 instantly brings you back in time: a unique Kontakt 6 collection of carefully recorded FM and analog classics. Taste the luxury of the 90s.

Vapor Keys 2 Summary

• 90+ Factory presets
• Sounds from 5 classic synths (Super JV, Juno 106, JX & 8P & Yamaha DX11)
• 4 Easy-to-Access FX (2 EQ, Phaser & Chorus)
• Recorded in 96kHz, 24bit (converted to 48kHz, 24bit for Kontakt 6)
• 1.6 GB total size (3.1 GB uncompressed)

The discreet charm of the VHS

Vapor Keys 2 follows the concept of its ancestor (like DX and Vapor Keys 1): creating great-sounding patches in second and teleport you thirty years back in time to get a super authentic 90s synth sound. Or we could say back to the future? Because this instrument collection is designed to be fresh and unique for modern music productions, especially hip hop, trap, glitch hop, lo-fi, vaporwave, or house music.

Sonic Supercharge

We crafted highly usable patches and sampled four amazing FM, PCM, and analog gear to bring you this exciting instrument collection. Used only completely analog signal path with stellar sampling quality: recorded in 96kHz, 24bit & converted for Kontakt 6 to 48kHz.

ABYSS is a designer bass collection focusing on deep and atonal sounds created with classic and modern analog synthesizers to produce rumbling soundscapes, dystopian pads and characteristic drones with real low-end and depth.

With a lot of instrument presets and the updated Synths Engine 2.0 you get great flexibility and sound design possibilities for your next filmscore, videogame, ambient or any other music production.

Features:

• 4 ANALOG SYNTH SOURCES
  • 120+ DEEP SAMPLED BASS SYNTH PATCHES
  • 230 PRESETS FOR FILM, AMBIENT & ELECTRONIC MUSIC 
• Quality
  • 24BIT / 48KHZ QUALITY
  • OVER 8 GB CONTENT
  • RECORDED WITH ANALOG GEAR
• Format
  • KONTAKT 5.7 FORMAT (Full Version Required)
  • WITH NCW LOSSLESS COMPRESSED SAMPLES

4 ANALOG SYNTH SOURCES

Cooking only from the finest ingredients: ABYSS includes high quality patch samplings from 4 great classic and modern synthesizers from Oberheim and Moog. Bring 4 unique taste of bass for your next track!

190 INSTRUMENT PRESETS…

With ABYSS you get an exciting collection of designer bass presets from pure analog patches to distorted, glitched, resampled, granularized, stretched, reverbed, atonal presets recorded with a wide range of effect processors and hardwer units.

… AND 40 MULTIS

Get even bigger and wider sounds with multi instruments! Blockbuster drones, cinematic soundscapes… Get started with pre-designed multis or start creating your own multi-layered weapon set

INSTRUMENT CONTROLS

• Envelope selector with 3 Attack & 3 Release stages
• 6 Effects: Phaser, 80s Flanger, Leslie, Delay, Reverb & Ladder Filer (2 effects / Instrument)
• 2 SSL-style EQs: Bass Booster – Mid Attenuator & Mid Attenuator – Hi Booster combo
• Pole wheel for soft sample group blending
• Custom GUI with SYNTHS Engine 2.0

LIST OF INSTRUMENTS

Granular Library

Deep sampled, analog bass synth patches combined with tonal & atonal soundscapes using various granular sound design tools.

• Moog Minitaur / Sub37, Oberheim Matrix 1000 / 6
• 90 Kontakt patches
• 3-4 octaves (low register)
• Neve 88RS + Empirical Labs EL7 used for recording path
• Eventide, Crusher X granular effect processors
• 2 layers / patch (original & effected)

Glitch Library

Deep sampled, analog bass synth patches combined with 8bit, amped and taped soundscapes using various sound design tools.

• Moog Minitaur / Sub37, Oberheim Matrix 1000 / 6
• 80 Kontakt patches
• 3-4 octaves (low register)
• Neve 88RS
• Empirical Labs EL7 used for recording path
• OTO Biscuit, modular synth effects & various guitar amps
• 2 layers / patch (original & effected)

Scape Library

Deep sampled, analog bass synth patches combined with lush soundscapes using various algorythmic reverb units.

• Moog Minitaur / Sub37, Oberheim Matrix 1000 / 6
• 90 Kontakt patches
• 3-4 octaves (low register)
• Neve 88RS
• Empirical Labs EL7 used for recording path
• Lexicon, Eventide & Strymon effect units
• 2 layers / patch (original & effected)

Multi Instruments

60+ multis using various patches from Scape, Glitch & Granular Libraries combined together to create more complex soundscapes & drones.

Hybrid Soundscape Designer – Welcome to the Multiverse

Supermassive soundscapes, heavily processed cellos and modern hybrid pads: this is what Polyscape 2 is all about. The second chapter of Karanyi Sounds all-time best-seller was inspired by the sound of today, so with it, you can create contemporary scores like Dune by Hans Zimmer or Arrival by Johann Johannsson, and it also works perfectly in modern electronic music, especially in sci-fi themed pieces.

Discover Hidden Universes!

The library features 80 artist presets created from the 18 brand new sound sources of carefully recorded string instruments. It was created in collaboration with UK-based Italian music producer, composer and sound designer Alessandro Mastroianni (Prodigal, Red Winter) with the aim to give you out of this world soundscapes in a blink of an eye.

The New Dimension of Hybrid Soundscapes

Karanyi Sounds faithfully recorded bowed acoustic sounds and then heavily processed them with analogue modular effects to bring you the best of both worlds. Due to this process, all sounds are massive but still remained organic and definitely inspiring.

4+1 Dimensions of Sound

Powered by Karanyi’s flagship Kontakt engine, Polyscape 2 features four sound modules and 1 sub synth layer, which can be blended together seamlessly. This gives you access to complex sound design possibilities courtesy of a wide range of controls and onboard effects such as Prophet-type filters, analogue and tape delays, and room and hall reverbs.

Millions of Instant Variations

• 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.

Features

• 80 Factory & Artist Presets
• Sounds from Studio-Grade String Instruments
• Heavily Processed by Eurorack Modular Effects
  • Over 160 Controls (all MIDI-learnable) including:
  • Prophet-Type Low-Pass Filters
  • 2 Types of EQs
  • 2 Types of Algorithmic Reverb
  • 2 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…
• Advanced Randomizer with over 40 Random Setups includes:
  • 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

The Composer Cello is a suite of organic Cello instruments paired with a carefully curated set of inspirational analogue pads for Kontakt 6.7.1

The Composer Cello has been created using the beguiling musicianship of one of the UK’s leading session cellists: Liz Hanks: Liz Hanks (Richard Hawley, Self Esteem, Pulp, Liam Gallagher).

Features

At the heart of this instrument are 3762 meticulously crafted samples, recorded at Kinema Audio’s renowned 1600sq foot Studio 1. The instrument also includes 9 complimentary analogue pads crafted to underscore and support your Cello compositions.

All patches have 3 controllable mic positions: Center, Stereo and Room. The Analogue Pads are also multi mic’d with Dry, Room and Verb control.

A signal chain incorporating Microphones from Flea, Coles and Neumann into Neve Preamps and Prism Conversion was used to record Liz’s vintage Cello, an instrument made by Thomas Smith at the Harp and Hautboy, Piccadilly, London 1765.

Kinematic Composer Cello is the first instrument from Kinematic : a new Kontakt instrument collection from Sam Brown (of PaperStone Instruments):

“Kinematic is the fusion of my ideas as a composer and the collaborative input of session musicians to form uniquely organic, inspiring instruments for Kontakt.”

Tapes M400 is a Mellotron library, chromatically sampled from the Mellotron M400, one of the earliest models from the 1970’s.

Tapes M400 features the 3 main and most iconic sound of the Mellotron: Strings, Choir and Flutes that were recorded chromatically for the full length of each tape, but you can either enjoy them the classic way or loop them!

M400 features 5 effects that matches the old sound of the 70’s:

• Chorus
• Rotator
• Tape Delay
• Reverb
• 11 Different type of cabinets

On the menu page, the user can easily access and modify the reverb and delay’s send levels, HP and LP filters, envelope Attack and Release parameters, pitch-bend amount, mechanical noise amount and stereo width.

Tapes M400 work perfectly for musicians looking for the raw sound of the classic early Mellotron, plus some additional effects and sound design tools!

Technical specs:

• 280 Mb
• 105 samples – 48 Khz/24 bit

Organetta is a portable vintage electronic organ made in the early 1970s by the esteemed German manufacturer Hohner.

The sound is nostalgically familiar: something in between a melodica, accordion, and analog synthesizer. The El Luxe 49P used colorful switches to effortlessly transition between tones, from mellow flutes to brilliant trumpet, warm strings to haunting oboe. It had internal speakers, and came with volume-adjustable drum loops to help you practice your gnarly organ chops.

To faithfully capture all of the character of this vintage gem, we meticulously recorded two microphone positions: up close in stereo, and direct line in. Soundiron’s Organetta comes with our favorite synth sustains, deep bass tones, staccatos, drum loops, and keystroke sound effects. Unleash its full potential by experimenting with our built-in FX rack, which offers amplifier emulation, reverb, delay, distortion, and so much more. We’ve also included 20 custom 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, or just shred a slick nasal brass solo, Organetta is ready to rock!

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

• Sustains, Releases, Staccatos, Drum Loops, Keystrokes in two mic positions: Close stereo, Direct
• 20 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content
• 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 3,702 stereo samples
• 4.55 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 Minipoly synth contains raw analogue and tape oscillator samples, great filters and LFOs, a Step Modulator, a chord system, an arpeggiator and eight effects.

Minipoly’s unique TAPE SAWs are long sawtooth waves recorded for each key on tape of a Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo. You can hear wow and flutter and even tape dropouts – quite similar to a Mellotron. The SAW OSC, Square OSC and Noise waves are directly recorded minimoog samples – and sound much crisper than the ‘taped’ waves.

This makes the Minipoly one of the most musical sounding virtual synthesizers and a must have for all Kontakt owners.

The latest PRO version contains many improvements and cool additions like a new Step Modulator, a formant filter, updated (and extended) Kontakt 6 effects, NKS automation and much more.

PLEASE NOTE: Minipoly PRO requires the FULL version of Kontakt 6.6.0 or above – NOT Kontakt Player

OVERVIEW

Oscillators:

• Tape Sawtooth Oscillator
• Sawtooth Oscillator
• Square Oscillator
• Noise OSC (3 types)
• Fine tuning (+ – 100 cent)
• mono or dual mode (two OSCs spread to stereo)
• Amp env (ADSR)
• Pitch env

Filter Section:

• Low Pass Ladder Filter with Frequency Cutoff, Resonance, Env Amount, Filter Env
• Low Cut Filter
• Formant Filter

LFOs:

• Pitch and Filter LFOs
• switch for re-triggered / untriggered mode
• switch for free / tempo sync mode
• controls for LFO amount, rate and waveforms

Master Control:

• Polyphonic / Monophonic mode
• Glide (portamento)
• Octave shift -1 to +1
• adjustable Pitch Bend range and Velocity sensitivity
• Keyboard Balance control
• Stereo Width control
• 10 interval / chord presets
• Arpeggiator
• Supporting image for Minipoly Pro

Step Modulator:

• up to 96 steps synced to the DAW tempo.
• controls for Speed. Amount of Steps, Step shift, Randomize, Retrigger
• Mod Destinations: Pitch, Pan, LP Freq+Reso, Formant Size+Talk, Volume
• 24 Step Mod user presets

Onboard Effects:

• Reverb, Replika Delay, Lo-Fi. Chorus (Choral), Phaser (Phasis), Flanger (Flair), Drive (Van51), Comp (Supercharger GT) quick and super easy FX editing

Presets:

• over 100 presets (Kontakt snapshots)

NKS:

• Pre-Assigned Komplete Kontrol Automation

Tired of the same old drum samples that make you sound like any bedroom producer? Want to finally stand out and claim your place in the music industry or, as an already established producer, take a bold step into the future, 2077?

With Cy-Kick, immerse yourself in a world of gritty electrifying drums, where the neon glow of the city pulses to the rhythm of the streets. Cy-Kick is your cybernetic side-kick in your next headbanger.

To get you producing quickly, Cy-Kick comes with 55 Layered snapshots and 186 Single sound snapshots, totalling 241 snapshots. It’s easy to modify them or make your own. Snapshots include 808, Bass, Clap, Hats & Cymbals, Epic Hits, FX, Fills, Kick, Lead, Percussion and Snare.

“I see where “human music” is heading and Cy-Kick will help you be a step ahead of the great artificial movement”. Ergo Kukke

Unleash your Cy-Kick powers to teach the robots a lesson…

Features:

• 29 808’s
• 45 Claps
• 50 Epic Hits
• 69 FX & Layers
• 74 Hats, Cymbals
• 104 Kicks
• 118 Percussion Hits
• 83 Snares
• WAV’s are categorized and usable without Kontakt if needed

Quadral 2 is an imagination laboratory.

Randomize your way to your next favorite electronic score using 16 brand new groups of hand-crafted atmospheric synth pads. Combine quadrants to create layered leads, asteroid ambiences, or evolving textures using our Ouroboros modulation engine and tempo-synced XY pad. Each sound has been sculpted with care, allowing you to weave layers together into spectacular new presets with categories like Blurry, Electric, Icy, LoFi, Nature, and Zen. We’ve also included over 250 factory patches of Arps, Basses, Leads, FX, Pads, and Plucks to get you started on your interstellar journey through space and time.

Quadral 2 is a powerful sampled synthesis engine, ideal for film and game composers who need a fast workflow while maintaining their creative spark. Dive in to tweak and automate every parameter with total control, or just click Randomize to generate a virtually endless universe of fresh ideas. All systems go – Time to make one giant leap for mankind.

The main user interface is built around four separate quadrants, an assignable XY Pad, quick modulator + filter routing menus, and arpeggiator system to expand your creative potential. Each layer in Quadral 2 has fully independent sound-shaping options including Attack, Release, Offset, Pitch and Pan. Every quadrant has its own individual filter with 39 built-in filter types, as well as modulators using a variety of sources: LFO, ADSR and Velocity with 5 selectable targets: Volume, Pitch, Pan, Filter Frequency, Filter Resonance.

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.

Quadral 2 ships with over 250 Factory Presets in 6 categories, 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.

A Massive 3-Piece Drum Kit library built for Kontakt

Drums of St Paul was recorded in the massive sanctuary hall at historic Saint Paul’s in San Francisco, CA (the same location as our renowned Requiem Light Symphonic Choir). This powerful multi-sampled drum library captures a variety of kick, snare, and tom articulations from three different microphone positions for a crisp and lush natural reverb and open tone you can blend effortlessly to create an epic sound for any genre. The kick comes with high and low bass drum strikes, metal, rim, and side clicks. The snare was sampled with snares on and off, rimshots, and rim clicks, while the tom includes high and low strikes and rim clicks. We prioritized maximum clarity and presence for each instrument with a wide stereo image, up to 13 velocity layers and 16 round robin.

This open-format Kontakt library is perfect for light to “epic” cinematic drum arrangements, concert percussion, Pop or Rock drum tracks, drum replacement or layering. Each articulation provides natural and aggressively dynamic performances you can take even further using our arpeggiator and FX rack. We’ve also included 20 unique sound designed ambiences, atmospheres, and sustaining pads to provide tonal leads and background textures. They can be used with the drums or in any other music application you wish. Each one has been hand-crafted using the raw source recordings to create an ideal sonic companion to this library.

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.

A Cinematic Toolkit & Sound-Design library built for Kontakt

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

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

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

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.

Continuo Collection – Featuring 2 Cinematic Kontakt Instruments

Coming off the release of Continuo and Continuo 2, Karanyi Sounds now combines both cinematic Kontakt instruments to form the Continuo Collection, in collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist composer and sound designer iamyank.

Continuo is a complex-sounding cinematic texture designer tool based on electric guitars for creating endless pads, unusual soundscapes, characteristic atmospheres and experimental sublayers especially for film, video games and electronic music.

This is the first release of our cinematic series with our brand new, easy-to-use Layer Designer Engine where you can edit, modulate and mix up to 4 individual Instrument Modules at the same time.

Continuo is created in collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist, electronic music producer & composer IAMYANK.

Your continuous journey starts now.

Main Features:

• 18 extra long guitar sample modules with rare sound setups: raw sounding Fender guitar textures with a lot of fortuitousness
• Bowed, tremolos, vibratos, beaten (with a wooden stick) techniques and a 300x stretched guitar patch
• Super large reverbs recorded through Eventide & Strymon effect processors
• Equipment used: UA1176, Roland Dimension D, Studer A800, Pultec EQP-1, UAD RAW, Strymon Deco / BigSky, Eventide Blackhole
• New Layer Designer Engine with inspiring, super clean interface
• 60+ Factory & Artist presets
• Over 80 controls on a simplified GUI
• Run up to 4 Sound Modules at the same time
• 8 LFO Modulation presets / Module
• 4 EQ presets / Module
• 2 effects / Module
• 2 Send effects
• Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
• 24bit / 48kHz sample rate
• 2.5 GB lossless compressed size (3.5 GB original size)
• Full version of Kontakt 5.7.3+ required

CONTINUO 2

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.