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Fracture Sounds ARCO – Bowed & Plucked Piano Ensemble KONTAKT

Arco is a beautiful ensemble of four pianos, meticulously sampled in a concert hall with a range of bowed and plucked articulations. Arco is perfect for dramatic swells, shimmering textures and lush melodic lines. Over a year in the making, and the first of its kind, Arco’s unique sonic flavours will be a welcome addition to any composer’s toolbox. Runs in Kontakt 5.3 or above.

The sound of Arco could be described as a hybrid between a piano and a string ensemble. We took four pianos (two grands and two uprights), put them in a concert hall and performed each note with a range of techniques. After weeks of planning and experimenting, we settled on using nylon fishing line, coated in two types of rosin – bass rosin for the lower range and cello rosin for the upper range.

In addition to bowed articulations, the library also contains ensemble plucks, a specially scripted plucked tremolo, and a range of atonal and aleatoric FX and glissandi.

Developed with the modern film, TV and game composer in mind, Arco is extremely playable out-of-the-box, and features a clean, accessible user interface for controlling the performance.

The Recording
We spent 3 days in a modern concert hall recording studio, recording the ensemble with 20 top-shelf microphones (including Neumann, DPA, Royer, Coles and Schoeps), through a pristine signal path (D.A.V. pre-amps, RME converters). The hall we chose features a deliciously rich, thick, yet fairly short reverb tail, perfect for creating a sense of distance while being dry enough to add your own reverb to taste. The three included microphone mixes make it easy to dial in the perfect sound for your music, and the unique ‘perspective’ control gives you a single slider to easily shift between a close or distant mix.

The Patches

Main Patches

• ARCO – Bowed Sustains.nki
• ARCO – Spiccato.nki
• ARCO – Soft Spiccato.nki
• ARCO – Plucks.nki
• ARCO – Plucked Tremolo.nki
• ARCO – Glissando Effects.nki

Economical Patches (reduced voice count)

• Bowed Sustains (Open).nki
• Bowed Sustains (Muted).nki
• Bowed Sustains (Super Eco).nki
• Bowed Sustains (Hyper Eco).nki
• Plucked Tremolo (Eco).nki

Separate ribbon mic patches are also included, which give a thicker, warmer character to the sound.

Patch ranges: C1 to E5 (Bowed), G1 to G6 (Plucked).

Features

• Meticulously recorded in a modern concert hall environment.
• 3 mixable microphone positions, including our easy perspective mixer.
• Separate ribbon mic patches for a warmer character.
• Range of inspiring articulations: Sustain, soft and hard spiccato, plucked, and tremolo.
• Atonal/Aleatoric effects.
• Smooth dynamic morphing with the mod wheel.
• ‘Texture’ control for morphing between different performance styles.
• Simple and user-friendly interface.
• High quality 24-Bit samples.
• 6GB download size (NCW compressed from 11GB sample pool).
• Requires the full version of Kontakt 5.3 or above.

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Westwood Instruments Percussion Untamed KONTAKT

A percussion instrument made from the sounds of tapping, knocking, hitting and scraping a violin, viola, cello and bass. Recorded during the Solo Strings Untamed sessions, we captured 40 unique sounds. With a really human feeling behind each one, some of the sounds are more traditional, whilst others are much more experimental.

Included are over 200 drag-and-drop MIDI loops written and performed by percussionists. A brilliant starting point if you need a hit of instant inspiration. Equally helpful if you’re on a tight deadline and just need something that works.

Either way this is a percussion sample library that’s just a bit different. It’s right at home in rhythmical string quartet arrangements as well as full-on action cues when you need something that doesn’t sound like every other composer’s taiko drums.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Over 1200 samples
• Over 700 MB uncompressed WAVs

REQUIREMENTS

• Full version of Kontakt 5.6.8 and above
• Will NOT work in the free Player

USER INTERFACE

Everything to hand

As with all our custom designed interfaces, we want you to have a logical and clear layout with everything to hand.

To help you easily understand the instrument, you can hover over any control and instructions appear in the info panel of the Kontakt window.

Played by humans, not programmed by robots.

If you just need an instant hit of inspiration, there are 220 beat-syncable and instantly playable 4-bar loops. You can trigger them with a single key or drag the raw MIDI data into you DAW for further editing and manipulation.

These loops haven’t been programmed by robots, but been played by humans. Written and performed by talented percussionists, drummers and composers, who live and breathe rhythm. Please resist the urge to quantise.

With a range of film-influenced styles and 5 different time signatures, you’ll be sure to find something to either drop into an existing composition, or use one to kick-start a blank page.

MINIMAL TO COMPLEX

Grouped into 60 different sets of ideas, each with 4 loops of varying intensities; Minimal, Simple, Standard, Complex.

You can easily get something that matches both the feeling and the energy of your composition.

GET RID OF THE GRID

If you want a looser feeling to the loops, you can further humanise them using the built-in timing and velocity controls.

These controls relax the natural performance even further to get as far away from the grid as possible.

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Dark Intervals Guitars In Space KONTAKT

GUITARS IN SPACE is instrument based on electric guitar sound source. We mainly used Jazzmaster style guitar in recording process, and baritone fretless for additional effects.

This instrument is a tool for ambient and cinematic indie genre, with very little space required and without (in our opinion) patches you will never use, since often there is a case where customer purchases big sample library and uses only small part of it.

This is NOT a fully sampled guitar with many various articulations. This is a tool that has several complementary elements created for composers seeking “that” specific sound. It is simple, compact and easy to use and it blends perfectly with pianos and ambient string sounds.

WHAT IS INSIDE:

There are 6 instrument patches,

1. Guitar – Plectrum
2. Guitar Pad
3. Guitar Cosmos
4. Guitar Swell
5. Guitar Swell (wet)
6. Guitars In The Distance

– 1.Guitars-Plectrum is main patch. It is sampled in neck pickup position, 4 velocity layers and 4 round robins. It sounds very natural and responsive .
– 2. Guitar Pad – pad created by processing guitars into external reverb unit, and sampled as reverbated long notes.
– 3. Guitar Cosmos – similar to patch 2, but with added mystical phrases, licks and various sounds played on fretless baritone guitar, which can be heard when pressed on higher velocities. Very inspiring patch!
– 4. Guitar Swell – swell recorded with volume pedal.
– 5. Guitar Swell (wet) – swell recorded with volume pedal, but printed with external rever band chorus.
– 6. Guitar In The Distance – something between swell and pad, processed with outboard reverb.

PRODUCT INFO

• 800 MB Unzipped size
• 48000 khz, 24-bit quality
• 1 main (plectrum) patch
  5 additional patches

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Any PC or MAC that can run Kontakt 6.3.2 or higher
• Full Kontakt 6.3.2 or higher
• Free Kontakt Player is not supported!!!
• 4gb of RAM or more is highly recommended
• At least 800 MB of hard disc space

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Alex Pfeffer Tonal Risers KONTAKT

Your ultimate toolkit to create risers on the fly
Tonal Risers is the ultimate construction kit when you need that special sound before your track is hitting the climax.

All 72 samples per patch are synced to tempo and assigned on the keyboard enabling you to layer several sounds and create your own risers on the fly.

Last but not least they are tonal, so you can pitch them to your desired key

Tonal Risers contains:

Tonal Risers in 4, 2 and 1 Bars of length. Each of the individual bar lengths is also available as chopped 8th, 8th triplets, 16, 16th triplets and 32nd samples, giving you a total of 1296 samples!

• library size: 2,2 GB
• full access to the .wav files
• to run the Kontakt programs you need Kontakt 5.8.1
  
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Alex Pfeffer The Eridanus Transmissions v1.1 KONTAKT

Explore a little universe full of drones and pulses

The Eridanus Transmissions is a NI Kontakt driven library and consists of:
– Low Frequency Data – 25x Low Drones
– High Frequency Data – 25x High Drones
– Beta Eridani Voice Signals – 10x Voice/Choir-like Drones
– Exoplanet Archives – 25x processed Drones
– Magnetar Radio Emissions – 5x super-crazy processed Drones
– Supernova Remnants – 10x sort of crazy processed Drones
– Extracted Low Frequency Data – 25x Low Pulses
– Extracted High Frequency Data – 25x High Pulses
– Harmonic Photons – 4x designed multisample instruments
– Harmonic Neutrons – 2x designed multisample instruments
– Harmonic Bosons – 2x designed multisample instruments
– Harmonic Gravitons – 2x designed multisample instruments
– Supervoid Echoes – several designed soft and distant hits

– all samples are recorded in 24bit, 44.1 KHz
– library size: 2,2 GB
– you have full access to the .wav loops
– to run the Kontakt programs you need Kontakt 5.8

manual:
The Big Knob to the right is controlling the cutoff filter and connected to CC01 (Modwheel), the Small Knob to the upper left of the Big Knob is controlling the attack curve and the Knob below is controlling the release curve! That’s it, enjoy!

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Alex Pfeffer SOL KONTAKT

Everything revolves around the sun

SOL contains (in the key of C and G):

– The Core – 26x bass 8th note rhythm mapped for each key’s guitar chords
– Revolving COREds – 52x clean and distorted guitar 8th note rhythm loops in relation to each key’s root note
– Chromatic Core and COREds – 52x chromatically recorded bass and distorted guitar 8th note rhythms and fade-outs/endings
– Chromosphere – 10x distorted high pedal chord loops
– Prominence – 40x clean and dreamy guitar arpeggios and phrases
– Flares – 25x chromatically 16th note octaved shredding phrases
– The Photosphere folder – 10x multisample instruments from soft, bed and bell-like atmospheres to lead sounds hotter than 5800 Kelvin
– Ultraviolet Emissions – 45x guitar dives, scratches, wooshes, and other fx
– Rising from the Surface – 24x mighty tonal synth risers
– Sunsets – 20x distorted guitar ending phrases

• all samples have been recorded in 24bit, 44.1 KHz
• library size: 1.25 GB
• you have full access to the .wav loops
• at least Kontakt 5.8

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Alex Pfeffer Passionate Bansuri KONTAKT

The Passionate Bansuri consists of 120 recorded phrases of the Bansuri, a traditional Indian flute, played by none other than Girish Kale and recorded by Ashutosh Sohoni.

All of the phrases are timing synced and recorded in the key of C, D, and G.

In combination with the pitch keys, you can quickly adapt any phrase to your track’s existing tempo and harmonic structure.

As if this wouldn’t be enough, Ashutosh applied some personal magic reverb sauce on the 120 available samples, doubling the content up to 240 passionately played and recorded phrases.

• library size: 939 MB
• full access to the .wav files
• at least Kontakt 5.8.1

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Alex Pfeffer Lost Remnants KONTAKT

Guitars sent into space and back

Lost Remnants is a sound designed and processed clean electric guitar loop sample library which contains:

– 85x Lost Remnants: 1 bar, tempo 60, looped, dry
– 85x Lost Relics: 3 bars, tempo 60, not looped, wet
– 20x Forgotten Signals: 2 bars each, tempo 60, looped, dry
– 20x Forgotten Relics: 3 bars each, tempo 60, wet
– 135x Digital Traces I (01 – 70) + II (71 – 135): processed and chopped quarter note bits to create your own “Lost Remnants”

library size: 531 MB

you have full access to the .wav files

at least Kontakt 5.8.1

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