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Showing posts with label cinematic sounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cinematic sounds. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
75% off “The Forge” by Epic Sound Lab (Epic Cinematic Sounds for Kontakt)
“The Forge” is an intuitive and powerful cinematic sample library that excels at sounds for Epic Hybrid Electronic, Orchestral and Trailer Music.
Designed to offer a flexible environment for you to customize the individual sounds to your needs, this library offers an enormous range of Loops, Drones, Drums, Impacts, SFX and morperfect for every Film, TV and Game composer!
Massive, Cutting Edge, Epic Cinematic Sounds for Kontakt
The sounds of “The Forge“” have been designed and built to enhance modern Action Movies, Cinematic Trailers, Underscore and Video Games and includes a vast selection of Loops, Drones, Drums, Impacts, SFX, Melodic Instruments, Risers, Downers, Tuned Percussion and more!
The library comes comes complete with 200 presets, which form a fantastic starting point for you to mould and manipulate the sounds.
Geared towards Film, TV, Video Game composers and Sound Designers, it provides everything you need to take those epic tracks to an entirely new level!
3.4GB of Cinematic Instruments, Drones, Drums, Impacts and SFX!
There are nine sound categories in “The Forge” a which cover every conceivable sonic area you might need for your next blockbuster track, including:- Drones – Dark drones for horror and sci-fi
- Drums – Several acoustic drums and sound designed ones, the stack function can make them sound huge!
- Impacts – Aggressive and big impact sounds
- Loops – Several agressive/distorted drum, percussion and bass loops
- Melodic – Atmospheric pianos, bowed classical guitar, ghost picked cello and more
- SFX – A selection of atmospheric and unusual SFX
- Sweeps – Noise and synth sweeps, downers and some modern hybrid synth stabs/hits.
- Synthetic – Contains the categories drums, arp, basic, bass, pads and poly
- Tuned Percussion – Acoustic tuned percussion
Each of these presets has a different low pass filter type. One is a more aggressive sounding “Daft” filter, the others with a more “analog” sounding 4 pole and 2 pole filter.
All of the sounds in this library are also available as over 3GB of open .WAV files!
Powerful Built In Effects Engine
“The Forge” is blessed with a simple to understand but highly effective user interface (GUI) that is divided into several sections and each comes with a myriad of creative tools to help you explore the sound design possibilities of the instrument, including the following:- Highpass/Lowpass filter
- ADSR envelopes for the filter
- ADSR envelopes for volume
- A Step Sequencer/Arpeggiator with various modes (more about this below!)
- An FX section at the bottom
“The Forge” also provides a generous selection of effects that will enable you to mangle your sound even further, resulting in sounds that are uniquely yours! The effects rack includes:
- Distortion
- Saturation
- Punch
- EQ
- Delay
- Reverb
The “Stack” function
The Stack function will stack multiple voices/versions of the same sample for an ensemble style sound. You can control the amount of voices, detune, stereo spread and note start time. Clever combinations of all these can result in some truly monstrous sounds!
Multiple Ways To Manipulate The Sounds
“The Forge” offers a unique multi-function take on the classic step sequencer in which the user can choose one of three different options to manipulate the sound, all of which are tempo synced to the host DAW:- Arpeggiator – the order of arpeggiated notes is the order in which you play them
- Polyphonic Sequencer – Works the same as the arpeggiator but all the notes are played at the same time
- Rhythmic Gater – Only affects the sound amplitude.
The Arpeggiator also offers a lot of scope for refining the sound of your sequences, per step you can change the all of the following controls:
- Velocity
- On/Off value
- Octave and semi-tone
So What Exactly Can I Do With “The Forge”?
“The Forge” is packed to the brim
with some very unique and atmospheric sounds. With 200 individual
patches and a wide range of easily adjustable effects it is perfect for
but not limited to:
- Cinematic Trailers – Hits, Risers and Whooshes for maximum impact!
- Underscore – Subtly evolving and shifting ambiences for those high tension scenes.
- Video Games – Alert the player to danger with dramatic FX and Hits!
- Sound Design – Enhance action sequences with carefully placed impacts and Booms!
Normally €159 – get it at 75% off before its gone!
- Absolute no-brainer at 75% off the normal price (normally €159)!
- 3.4GB of content, including over 3GB of open .WAV files
- Over 200 Kontakt presets covering Drones, Drums, Impacts, Loops, Melodic, SFX, Sweeps, Synthetic and Tuned Percussion
- Customize your own samples
- An Advanced User Interface
- An Arpeggiator, Polyphonic Sequencer and Rhythmic Gater
- Comprehensive Effects Rack including Distortion, Saturation, Punch, EQ, Delay
- Dual Engine Reverb
- Unison / Voices Stack
- Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1 or higher (NOT compatible with the free Player)
- Approx 4GB of free disk space
- At least 4GB of RAM
- Perfect for Cinematic Underscore, Video Games, Sound Design, Trailer Music and much more! GET IT HERE
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Alchemist Bundle by String Audio - Review
In the video below, Sample Sound Review will Explore this mighty sample library bundle by auditioning a lot of the sounds and give the latest review. Read more about this instrument bundle below.
"Once in a while you
get immersed in a world of Soundscapes that transport your creativity to
a whole new level, Alchemist is it." - GARETH PROSSER - Composer,
Guitarist and Member of the BLUE MAN GROUP
---"From great percussive pulses to amazing pads and textures Alchemist is my perfect solution for a fast but advanced creation of dynamic and modern sounding score. I highly recommend!" - INON ZUR - 3 Times BAFTA nominated and multi award-winning composer (Fallout, Crysis, Syberia 3)
ALCHEMIST Cinematic Textures and Impacts are two powerful tools for Kontakt to create deep and complex cinematic sounds.
Each instrument is composed of six layers.
The libraries feature several GB of sample material, giving you a lot of combinations and sound colors.
Alchemist Engine is divided into four sections: Main, Color, Motion and Effects.
Alchemist Cinematic Textures:
18+GB of original sample material (7GB using Kontakt's lossless sample storage compression). 3000+ high-quality samples. 6 layers. 250 pre-programmed Snapshots. Dedicated Main Engine: Individual layer controls for pitch, volume, pan, solo, mute, effects bypass, layer lock, envelope, layer boost and cut, pan and amp LFO send. Powerful randomize function. Dedicated Motion Engine: Arpeggiator, Pan and Amp LFO. Dedicated Color Engine: 65 convolution Impulse Responses, Randomize function. Dedicated Effect Engine: skreamer, lo-fi, chorus, tape saturation, delay, chorus and distortion (controlled by the modulation wheel.
Alchemist Cinematic Impacts: 1.6GB of original sample material (full quality Wav files). 300+ high-quality samples. 6 layers. 151 pre-programmed Snapshots. Dedicated Main Engine: Individual layer controls for pitch, volume, pan, solo, mute, effects bypass, layer lock, envelope, layer boost and cut, pan and amp LFO send. Powerful randomize function. Dedicated Motion Engine: Arpeggiator, Pan and Amp LFO. Dedicated Color Engine: 65 convolution Impulse Responses, Randomize function. Dedicated Effect Engine: skreamer, lo-fi, chorus, tape saturation, delay, chorus and distortion (controlled by the modulation wheel.
Minimum System Requirements Requires FULL retail version (sold separately) of Kontakt 5.5.1.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
50% Forest Kingdom 'Sample Library'- Limited Time #Deal !!
7GB of Instruments, Voices, Percussion and Sonic Landscapes from Nature
“Forest Kingdom I” is a unique library inspired by nature and filled to the brim with incredible instruments, percussion and landscapes that will provide you with endless inspiration every time you sit down to play including:- flutes
- harps
- percussion
- fantasy creatures
- vocals
- sonic landscapes
Get this Deal here
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Limited Time Deal! Get 70% off “The Morpheus” by Xclusive-Audio
Get 70% off “The Morpheus” by Xclusive-Audio - 9GB+ of Dark, Epic Cinematic Sounds for Kontakt
Get it here
“The Morpheus” is a dark, epic cinematic Kontakt library filled to the brim with unique and powerful sounds, from Epic Guitars to Dramatic Strings, Lush Morphing Pads to Monstrous Bass and much more!
This library provides a huge sound palette and is absolutely perfect for film, TV and game composers in all genres of music!
“The Morpheus” is a dark, epic cinematic Kontakt library filled to the brim with unique and powerful sounds, from Epic Guitars to Dramatic Strings, Lush Morphing Pads to Monstrous Bass and much more!
This library provides a huge sound palette and is absolutely perfect for film, TV and game composers in all genres of music!
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