One Kit Wonder: Brutal brings a chaotic, ultra-heavy sound to the lineup. With a ferocious snare, pummeling kick, tribal single-headed toms and aggressive cymbals, it thrives on the extremes – whether that’s straight-up death metal, post-apocalyptic industrial, blackened thrash or reverb-swamped doom, you’ll get what you need.
Let’s take a Martin and play some straight Diamond CHORDS. That is exactly the philosophy of this library. So easy to use (and absolutely foolproof), you can play strumming chords with only one finger and make a nice and authentic arrangement with this beautiful acoustic guitar. Thanks to RoundRobins it still sounds alive. Playable like an all-purpose weapon for many music genres.
Welcome to The Basstard, an instrument focused on recording the gradual destruction of a full-scale orchestral bass. The library contains four core categories of sounds: “Tonal”, “Percussive”, “FX” and “Grooves”. The tonal category covers traditional multi-sampled articulations like plucked, staccato, rubber mallet on strings, regular drumstick on strings, fork on strings, and other tools that could be used for tonal sampling. The percussive category contains a variety of heavy round-robin based articulations, playing the instrument like a drum kit (containing 6-10 round robin articulations). The FX category has a gruesome number of effects such as bowing the bass with a baseball bat, using a power drill on the strings, recording sustained notes from it, and actually power-drilling the bass and reconfigureing the instrument, separating its neck from its body and essentially reassembling the instrument in horrible ways. The Groove category contains unique tempo-synched grooves recorded at several core tempos (80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140). The result is a deep-sampled instrument that pushes the concept of orchestral bass into a more dark, gritty, percussive and disturbing territory.
Rumble, the world’s first Kontakt Player virtual instrument to combine the finest in traditional marching drums with cutting-edge sound design. This superbly flexible virtual instrument gives educators, composers, and musicians an imaginative, innovative, and inspiring new sonic palette for creative music-making. Featuring the legendary DCI World Champion Blue Devils drum & bugle corps and Scott Johnson–one of the most sought after marching percussion arrangers and clinicians in the world–and recorded by Leslie Ann Jones on the Scoring Stage at Skywalker Sound (a Lucasfilm Ltd. Company). Rumble delivers a comprehensive set of pristine, carefully crafted marching drum samples. Each instrument was captured using modern-day film score recording techniques at multiple dynamic levels, round-robins, and at close, mid, and far microphone placements, affording composers, producers, arrangers, and performers a solid foundation for realizing accurate, dynamic musical productions.
The Music Box is a sample library for Kontakt and EXS24. Also included in the library are wind up/wind down/crank/scrape sounds. The library has at least 6 velocity layers on each instrument (some with over 40!) with over 750 samples. The Music Box is an intuitive instrument that is sure to stimulate creative ideas. It is capable of childlike nursery rhymes, eerie melodies, enchanting passages and much more. The Kontakt version of The Music Box not only contains the basic instrument patch but also 10 highly useful factory patches derived from our samples. These patches range from pads and electric piano-like sounds to extra terrestrial sound fx Recently updated to V2 with Random Round Robin Scripting.
The Music Box is a 19th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pluck the tuned teeth of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and called carillons à musique. Some of the more complex boxes also have a tiny drum and small bells, in addition to the metal comb. Note that the tone of a musical box is unlike that of any musical instrument (although it is best described as somewhere between the timbres of an mbira).
A small hand-crank music box, with each pitch sampled and spread across the full keyboard for maximum playability. The music box was recorded sitting on an open snare drum, giving more body through the resonance of the drum.
The Patch: Full range -The music box is spread across multiple octaves, giving extreme bass and high key options. Low/High Balance – The original 96k samples were pitched down to create a lower octave set of tones for a clear low end option. You can control the balance between low and high tones with the user interface. Mod Wheel for octave blend – Use the mod wheel to select the high, low, or both octaves. Allows for quick changes of timbre. The balance knobs further shape the sound when using both octaves. Pure/Rough Balance – an included convolution impulse response (preloaded in the patch) gives an option for a sharper edge to the tone. Great for darker uses or tension, and easily adjustable from the user interface. For a pure sound, just keep Pure at 100%
