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.

Music Box & Plucked Piano KONTAKT

FANTASTiC | August 04 2016 | 176 MB

The Origins series returns with new carefully recorded instruments. This time we present to you the incomparable MUSIC BOX together with the sinister PLUCKED PIANO. Play the instruments individually or unleash the true power of ORIGINS with an interplay of both instruments by the powerful Multi-Arpeggio Designer (MAD) that lets you get the highest quality, creative results in the fastest time possible. The rhythmically interacting and enriching interplay of the music box and the plucked piano offer the best possible basis to create eerie, anticipation building or dreamy moods on the fly.

Harmonic Machinery KONTAKT

FANTASTiC | August 05 2016 | 898 MB

Harmonic Machinery is built around samples of 3 unique hand-crafted instruments: Ferrophone, Sonoplotter and Blue Triangle. This metallic sound library contains two virtual instruments: Ferro and Nebulon Ferro, a match made in heaven.  They both have powerful personalities that stand strong on their own, but their sounds can easily be welded together to form intricate sound design structures.

Dusty House Grooves MULTiFORMAT

FANTASTiC | August 05 2016 | 618 MB

Traversing the line between authentic old-school analogue House and modern summertime classics, Dusty House Grooves shines, with all of it’s analogue splendour clearly on show. With all loops tracked and mixed through a delicious old Studer tape machine, into some real outboard big hitters, you know this House sample pack will offer that tangible crunchiness your compositions have been desperately crying out for! Referencing artists from Bonobo to Floating Points, this boutique collection houses the finest in live and programmed House grooves, swung and filtered analogue basses, dusty percussion lines, modulating modular synth pads, tasty as you like guitar phrases, rattling tops and anything else a true House and Electronica guru could wish for.