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CINEMASSIVE is a library of 110 cinematic presets for Ni Massive.
All presets are meticulosly crafted to provide a new sonic weapon for modern hybrid trailer music composers, cinematic composers, film music and sound designers .
Please note: Requires Native Instruments Massive – not included, but can be purchased separately here.
Cinematic Trailer Hits is our latest Kontakt library with 400+ samples, covering everything from heavy low and mid impacts all the way to high percussion sounds, perfect for creating epic trailer music and effects for your film, tv and video game projects.
Our Audio Craftsmen recorded sounds ranging from explosive drums, metallic hits and impact sounds using sledge hammers, bricks, drums, scrap metal and smaller percussion instruments. We took a variety of recorded samples and layered them with other newly and carefully crafted sounds to give you that larger than life, end of world vibe to your music with a jaw dropping collection of sounds.
Our in house Composers also built a variety of patches which include heavy ‘braams’ and bass, low impacts, reverse fx, risers, pads and several other patches covering low, mid and high frequency spectrums. This gives film composers, music producers ,sound designers and game developers a vast array of options to create epic cinematic rhythms that cover all your needs.
Like our other Kontakt instruments, the 344 Audio user interface includes a variety of controls so that you can manipulate the sounds as needed and the inbuilt Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer allow you to create variations of cinematic rhythms and melodies on the fly.
We have kept the recorded sounds natural and created huge sounds by layering up different recordings maintaining a natural feel to samples. This library contains all impact, percussion and tonal sounds you need to create an epic, mind blowing cinematic trailer, and works especially well when combined with orchestral music.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’.
For Guitar Designed Vol. 3, our Audio Craftsmen bowed, plucked, tapped and played an acoustic guitar to yield a variety of sci-fi and abstract sounds, including eerie ambiences, distorted glitches and stuttering space engines.
Build up your sci-fi scenes, embellish your transitions or enhance the mood of your drama projects with this varied library!
Sounds have been separated into the following categories:
Abstract: 8 stingers, phrases and hits suitable for embellishing a variety of genres.
Ambiences: 5 designed ambiences for injecting tone your sci-fi or drama scenes.
Glitches: 5 distorted, aggressive guitar glitches for unnerving audiences and characters.
Sci Fi Engines: 8 spaceship engine sounds, including stutters, rotators and power ups.
Sci Fi Pass Bys: 25 dopplers and pass bys, ideal for adding weight to your sci fi vehicles.
Sci Fi Weapons: 16 laser and blaster impacts to complement your sci fi fight sequences.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 96kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation, and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
Cymbals From Hell is the seminal collection of bowed metal sound effects, crafted from recordings of both natural and broken cymbals. Bringing you the nastiest, gnarliest, and harshest set of design elements and raw recordings. Their dynamic range provides a palette that evolves and adapts over time.
All of the sounds have been recorded in a controlled studio environment and played by a professional percussionist, with the intention of providing the most dynamic range and disturbing playing style. Our Audio Craftsmen then meticulously designed and edited every included sound from the bizarre to the downright horrifying.
Cymbals From Hell contains a total of 197 files running at a huge 8.9GB. This library gives you everything you need to create compelling Horror and Sci-Fi soundscapes and add accents to your music, ideal for use in a wide range of projects. All sounds have been recorded in 24bit 96khz for further manipulation, and have been carefully edited so that you can easily drop them into your project timeline and get working right away.
Here are the included folders:
Bowed Cymbals: Harsh and dynamic bowed cymbals, perfect for musical or sound effects accenting.
Time Bending Risers: Sharp risers that have a feeling of movement in time.
Pulsating Dread Pads: The perfect Horror backdrops, built from organic elements.
Mind Bender Stingers: Warped cymbal effects that are equally at home in a Sci-Fi or Horror tracklay.
Metallic Oscillation Pads: The direct opposite of a Meditation Bowl, these sounds oscillate and move in an unnerving way.
Head Shaker Drones: Grit your teeth and cover your ears, these sounds warn of impending doom.
Gut Rumbler Subs: How low can we go? Very low. These sounds sit nicely under your tracklay and provide some serious sub frequencies.
Disturbing Risers: Distorted and mangled, these cymbals are bound to accent any jump scare with a dose of disturbing!
Bowed Alien Metals: Otherwordly vibes fused with a classic staple Horror sound.
Made in collaboration with Robert Pepper from EffectsWorks, The Horrorphone is a unique and disturbing cinematic Kontakt library built from 460+ sample recordings of a custom built percussion/effects instrument. Played with a bow, beater, and hands triggering the most horrifying and uncomfortable stingers, drones, hits and much, much more.
Our Audio Craftsmen meticulously edited, balanced and programmed 48 different patches and integrated them into our Kontakt interface, giving Film Composers and Music Producers a suite of unique textures to use in their tracks. These sounds are perfect for horror scores, trailer percussion loops, rhythmic tension, electronic music and film score cues with an element of atonality.
The Main Articulations include: Percussion, Cymbals, Knockers, High Mid and Low Hits, Metal Bars, Shakes, Springs, Wood Vibrations and Various Drum Kits.
But we didn’t stop there… As always with our Kontakt library releases, our in-house Composers designed an eclectic array of designed patches. Pads, arps, drones, EDM leads, horror alarms, pulses and even screaming cymbals give the user both tonal and atonal material to layer with their percussion, and build a haunting, metallic texture into their sound.
The 344 Audio Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation with the patches. The built in Arpeggiator is great for generating hundreds of percussion/lead variations on the fly, while the Main View provides a set of parameters perfect for shaping the sounds your way.
Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher is required.
NOTE: This library does not run in the free ‘Kontakt Player’
The Guitar Designed Bundle features a versatile blend of futuristic sonic elements originating from raw recordings of expert guitar performances.
Comprising all three of our Guitar Designed library, it offers a huge selection of transitions, backgrounds, drones, risers, articulations, stingers, impacts, phrases, sci fi pass-bys and weapons – all crafted by mangling, distorting and manipulating recordings of an electric and acoustic guitar.
This bundle’s versatility makes it ideal for a variety of moods, genres and projects. With it, you can build tension in game sequences, sweeten spaceship movements, design strange, discomfiting worlds, or even accent sitcom-esque comedy moments.
Explore a myriad of sonic opportunities with 344 Audio’s homage to an incredibly dynamic instrument!
Each library is delivered at 24Bit. Guitar Designed Vol. 1 is delivered at 48kHz, while Vols. 2 and 3 are delivered at 96kHz. The entire bundle is tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
We did recordings of interferences, hums, buzzs, dc noise and statics, using an electromagnetic sensor as microphone.
All recordings have been imported into Serum Noise Oscillator and Wavetable Oscillators to achieve a collection of organic sounding presets.
Generative Drones contains a wide variety of tonal drones generated through experimental synthesis and sampling techniques, perfect for abstract tracklays and leftfield music.
All of the sounds have been designed by our Audio Craftsmen, with experimental synthesis and sampling techniques in order to create the most engaging and interesting tonal elements for your projects. The drones have been recorded in 24bit 96khz for further manipulation, and have been carefully edited so that you can easily drop them into your project timeline and get working right away. The 30 included elements can be easily combined, mixed, and matched to allow your abstract soundscape to resonate infinitely through your timeline, offering a mix of tonal and atonal elements that entice and engage the listener.
Singing Slates is a unique cinematic Kontakt library built from sample recordings of a rare, custom built percussion instrument, perfect for adding an African or Tribal inspired melody into your music.
The handcrafted instrument we used was built from natural Welsh slate, by carefully tuning each piece and cutting it to size. Our Audio Craftsmen experimented with different types of beaters before recording to capture the most natural sound in this one of a kind instrument.
We then meticulously edited, balanced and programmed 13 different patches and integrated them into our Kontakt interface, giving Music Producers and Film Composers an extensive set of rare sounds. We have implemented 3 octaves of tuned slate sounds, which provides a positive, uplifting sound and can be used as a replacement for a Kalimba. This exotic instrument is perfect for creating cinematic scores, percussion loops and music of different genres.
As always with our Kontakt releases, our in-house composers designed 12 additional patches including kick drums, snares, kalimba, riser, creepy alarms, monster laughter and much more to add extra tonal and atonal elements to your music.
Our user-friendly Kontakt interface provides a variety of controls that encourage experimentation with the patches. The built in Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer are great for generating hundreds of percussion/lead variations on the fly. We also dedicated ADSR controls to shape your sounds while the main view provides various effects and controls to design unique sounds.
Cymbals From Hell Bundle is a disturbing collection of sound effects which includes three of our most popular horror libraries. Bringing you the nastiest, harshest set of designed elements and raw recordings, this bundle has more than 420 files with a total run time of 430+ mins. (18.94 GB).
Two of the included libraries are made in collaboration with Igor Tikhonov from KEDR Audio, who captured various types of gongs, Tibetan bowls, various bells in several performances using both Mid-Side and A/B microphone techniques to encapsulate an extensive stereo-field and different textures. Cymbals From Hell Vol. 1 has been recorded in a studio environment and played by a professional percussionist, with the intention of providing the most dynamic range and disturbing playing style. Our Audio Craftsmen carefully edited and designed the sounds to make the most frightening and bizarre effects.
This bundle contains harsh-bowed cymbals, distorted gong rumbles, horror stingers, heavy drones, risers, cinematic, mangled hits, gut rumbling sub sounds, dark-unsetting chimes, magical bells, weird sci-fi drones and much, much more.
This array of sounds is perfect for your films, video games and other projects, giving you everything you need to build compelling horror and sci-fi soundscapes.
You will be saving almost 30% of the total cost of the individual libraries when purchasing this bundle, an excellent value for money addition to your horror sound effects libraries.
Little Boxes is a curated collection of four unique sound sets designed to compliment one another sonically and texturally. These textures move from acoustic to electroacoustic to analog synthesis – all programmed into beautiful Kontakt 4 instruments (full NI Kontakt
4.2.3 or later required).
A small device meant to be hung flat on the wall, the balls will swing and strike the strings if the ground begins to move.
This box was shaken, plucked, strummed, performed and ebowed to produce a beautiful palette of acoustic string textures.
In Kontakt those sounds evolved into a group of instruments that ran from folksy, zither like patches to lush, shimmering pads.
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