Balinese Gamelan II KONTAKT

SYNTHiC4TE | August 23 2015 | 12.7 GB

SYNTHiC4TE | August 14 2016 | UPDATE NKS: 119 MB

Balinese Gamelan II features two full gamelan ensembles: Semaradana Gamelan Ensemble (LSO, London), Gamelan Batel Ramayana (Toronto) Over 30 different instruments were recorded in great depth to capture the living, breathing sound & dynamics of gamelan. Play individual instruments or the whole ensemble at once – complete control over the gamelan sound for experts & newcomers alike. Gamelan is an ensemble of instruments originating from Indonesia. The majority of Gamelan instruments are percussive, and most of these are bronze. They include xylophone-like metallophones of different sizes and pitch, tuned gong chimes, very large pitched gongs, and an assortment of drums and percussion. There are many types of Gamelan ensembles, but the two dominant types are Javanese and Balinese. Balinese Gamelan has a characteristic ‘shimmering’ sound which is due to the detuning of paired instruments playing the same musical part.

PADS KONTAKT

FANTASTiC | August 14 2016 | 4.56 GB

PADS is a virtual synth instrument for Kontakt and Free Kontakt Player that lets you create cinematic musical textures. Combining multiple layers of unique samples, PADS provides natural and organic sounds that tastefully build, adding a new level of emotion and excitement to your compositions.The instrument has been designed to be easy to use in order to get you up and running quickly, with over 140+ uniquely developed presets to choose from. Sculpt and shape the layers to your needs with envelopes, modulators, step sequencers, creative FX, and randomization options. PADS is intuitive to use and an essential tool for any composer or sound designer.

Elvish Choir KONTAKT

P2P | 12.08.2016 | 68.26 MB

This library is pretty much exactly what it sounds like it should be all about: A pack of rowdy elven folk singing as an ensemble, with sustains, short staccatos and long staccatos/semi-marcatos in multiple dynamics over a fairly wide range. Also included are meaty shout/yelp impacts created through a little excessive hammer on elf groin violence.We recorded this little beast with the help of a little spiced seasonal ale and a whole lot of helium. It’s perfect for holiday, comedy and parody music and those who are searching for fresh and weird source material for sound design and experimentation.

Clav KONTAKT

SYNTHiC4TE | Dec 25, 2014 | 4.53 GB

SYNTHiC4TE | August 10 2016 | NKS UPDATE: 101 MB

Few instruments get fans of funk grooves drooling like the Hohner D6 clavinet. Originally intended for classical harpsichord-esque duties, but really sonically closer to an electric guitar than a piano, its twangy, spanking timbres add a melodic tension to a groove like nothing else. To achieve the iconic funk sound it is paired with a wah-wah pedal – one of the earliest examples of this was on Up On Cripple Creek by The Band in 1969.

Drifter KONTAKT

SYNTHiC4TE | August 10 2016 | 838 MB

Drifter is, at heart, a simple idea: build the ultimate pad machine. A synth dedicated to, and optimised for, pads. Big swooshy pads. Smooth analogue pads. Crisp, shimmering digital pads with grainy washes of sound running through them in stereo. Crusty vintage pads that crackle and tremble and sound like they’re emanating from old tube amps tied together with frayed patch cords. Delicate ethereal pads. Warm pads like wooly jumpers.

Ondes v2 KONTAKT

SYNTHiC4TE | August 24 2014 | 2.22 GB

SYNTHiC4TE | August 10 2016 | UPDATE NKS: 52 MB

Perhaps one of the most enigmatic musical instruments of all time, The Ondes Martenot ( literally ‘Martenot Waves’) was invented by Maurice Martenot in 1928. The original unreliable tube-based design was refined and later models remained in production until 1988. An interesting overview of the instrument can be seen on Youtube. The Ondes Martenot has been used in many film scores first dating from 1931; Odna by Shostakovich, Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Ghostbusters (1984), A Passage to India (1984), and recent films such as Amélie (2001) and recently There Will Be Blood (2007) by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. Ondes v2.0 features new interface graphics, but most significantly it now has phase-locked oscillator samples. In the original version of Ondes, blending the different sampled waveforms would result in a slightly phasey sound. Although quite pleasing and fat, this was not strictly realistic. Now it is possible to switch from the original version to a phase-locked sample set, which gives a very authentic single oscillator sound, very like the real Ondes Martenot.
Playing The Ondes Martenot

Fairlight KONTAKT

P2P | 06.08.2016 | 1.06 GB

It all came from requests of creating a Kontakt version of our popular Reason-based Fairlight soundbanks. Underneath the patch programming there are WAVs and AIFFs and those work excellently in Kontakt as well, so what had to be ‘translated’ was the patch programming. After the conversion process was done, all 850 patches have been carefully checked and re-edited if not working properly, and re-saved. Some patches have been utilizing Kontakt’s eminent FX units to give you instant ideas of how to use the sounds; others have been left “dry” and you can then process them as you wish. What you should do when using these sounds is to experiment and tweak and save your own edits (preferably in a new catalogue and using your own patch names). If you come up with creative ideas you can also provide your patches to us and we can include them in the library as your signature patches – just like we’ve done in the Reason soundbanks.