The Strained Wire + Garotte was created using 4 metre lengths of wire and nylon line trimmer stretched tightly over a bridge and sound board. This was struck, picked, hit with a mallet, bowed and generally tortured. A tuning turnbuckle was incorporated to allow tuning of the instrument. The strained wire was then recorded using contact and stereo microphones.
Introducing BANG BANG, a truly unique product for production, beat making and performance. BANG BANG are Urban Kits and Melodic Hits that are nothing less than incredible. 16 incredible kits, played, produced, and developed by Grammy nominated and winning musicians this product contains 249 total one shots, riffs, samples, loops, and hits that inspire inspiration from the jump. BANG BANG has is a multi-formatted product so that you can be sure it’s compatible with your beat making weapon of choice.
Worldly Goods is a 8 patch addition to our drum and percussion series where we have added in a few percussion sounds and instruments collected in our various travels…
Sound Mob Live Edition is one of the hottest products we’ve ever released period! Recorded in LA with grammy award winning producers, musicians, and engineers this product is something special. We are talking 40 construction kits organized into 10 song sets with changes, bridges, different grooves played by some of the best musician’s in the business. Sound Mob contains 1,366 loops, chops, riffs, samples, and one shots. We’ve organized the product so that product work well together and you can get going quickly!
TRANSPORT marks the maiden voyage of Refractor Audio brought to you by Klayton (Celldweller) as it ascends to the stars. Blast off to the outer limits of sound design with a Kontakt Instrument that gives access to over 2000 unique samples created by Klayton in the Celldweller Spaceship. Create new sonic worlds with Transport by combining 5 unique sequencers along with the Transport Probability Engine to mix, mash, and modulate them into new and exciting sounds. Transport plays loops in an unconventional and unpredictable manner. It is monophonic in the sense that it will only play one sample at a time, despite how many notes are played. However, at its core sits the ability to take a chosen set of loops and let the Probability Engine randomly jump between slices of those loops at varying rates, all synced to your DAW. Slice “in order” to ensure your kicks, snares, and other accents always land in logical spots, or “randomly” to allow the Probability Engine to make your patterns more unpredictable.
“Traveler Aurus“ is the first instrument in our new “Traveler” series. The Traveler series follows an adventurer across the universe to unknown landscapes and far-off worlds. He is a seeker of not only sights, but also of sounds. Each volume serves as a catalog of sounds that our traveler records while journeying across an unexplored planet. Haunting and whimsical atmospheres, curious objects and materials, volatile and beautiful environmental phenomena, or even mysterious and graceful beasts, all of these surroundings offer not only a new world to see, but a new world to hear as well.
Rattly and Raw has released Zombie Drum Bits, a free zombie sound drum kit for Native Instruments Kontakt (full version, Player version not supported). If you’re brave enough (these days you often hear this slogan), watch the video from above. Zombie Drum Bits is made in the style of Rattly and Raw, namely, with humor… The zombie interface is simple so any human can understand it: two buttons, one to select the sounds and the other to mix the sounds. There are 10 grave stones, each containing a sound type: kicks, snare, closed/open hats, toms, and symbols. “Digging” further, each grave stone has 20 samples to choose from. The samples are designed from a wide range of sources, such as horror vocals and phrases, found sounds, percussions and more.
