Hybrid Tongue Drum for Kontakt 5

Mists Volume 1 – Hybrid Tongue Drum is a new library created by Beautiful Void Audio and Triple Spiral Audio for the full version of Kontakt 5 (please note that this will NOT work with the free Kontakt Player).

Key features:

• 165 snapshots
• 50+ sound sources
• 1 GB in size
• Dual layers
• Reversed version of the sounds (in a separate .nki file)
• FX – Reverb, Delay, Chorus, Phaser, Saturation, Skreamer
• LFO control
• ADSR controls for Attack and Mod Envelope
• Randomize feature for the sound sources
• Watermarked and installed via the Pulse Downloader (you will receive a serial key which can be used to download the library via PULSE)
• Requires the full (paid) version of Kontakt 5.8.1+ (does NOT work with the free Kontakt Player)

Erick from Beautiful Void Audio created a great collection of soundsources and what he did is the following:

“With the main sounds, I basically “deconstructed” a single pitch from a particular instrument, and sampled each frequency from its harmonic series. After that, I could then reconstruct various parts of that harmonic series from different instruments. For instance, with one of them, I combined a Flute, Harp, Piano and Tongue Drum. Tongue Drum took the fundamental, Harp took the octave, piano took the 5th above the octave, and then Flute took all of the top end (everything above the piano). So it’s a hybridization at a note/frequency level, rather than being a physically modeled hybrid or some algorithmic cross between 2 or more instruments – which I guess those could be argued to be more of a “true” hybrid.”

With this concept in mind, we created a Kontakt engine with 2 layers and a series of effects and created 165 snapshots (presets) for it. The style of the library is mellow, ambient, vintage, and even experimental and it contains a nice variety of sounds going from key-like instruments, to shimmering pads and textures, lo-fi and vintage sounds, and even a selection of arcade-like presets.

Pricing and Availability

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Mists Volume 1 – Hybrid Tongue Drum is available now.

Paradox Lost Redux – Strange, Beautiful, And Bizarre Soundscapes, Drones And Tones

Paradox Lost Redux is a complete overhaul of an earlier release, which was a collection of weird, strange, and dense soundscapes.

One of the things that Beautiful Void Audio wanted to address in with the initial release was that the sounds were not all that playable. They were rather fixed and static. Through reworking the original sound sources, and in many cases actually using the samples from the initial release as a source, Beautiful Void Audio created instruments that are much more playable, but still capture the strange and alluring vibe of the initial release. There is also a wider range of sounds.

Paul from Sound Aesthetics Sampling developed a really great engine which also allowed the sounds to be more playable (through random sample start, sample start off-set, and much more).

Special Pricing

The full price is $20, but it’s 50% off for the next 10 days. Those who’ve purchased the Halflight Sampling Collection on Kontakthub should have received an email with an additional discount code (PARADOX50). This code only works if you’ve purchased the collection previously.

Paradox Lost Redux Features

• 93 Samples (96khz, 24bit, lossless compression with NCW).
• 1.13GB (as NCW files) – uncompressed, 1.51GB
• 130 Snapshots in several different categories.
• 27 unique and enthralling Multis.
• 4 unique and strange NKI presets.
  Sounds by Erick McNerney
  Presets by Erick McNerney and Paul Lebküchner.
  Engine and GUI by Paul Lebküchner (Sound Aesthetics Sampling).
• 47 Samples (44.1khz, 16bit)
• 659MB uncompressed
• 48 NKI presets using the free Photosynthesis engine by Exotic States (Jeremiah Pena).
• The Full Version of Kontakt 5.8.1 is required for this library to function correctly.

Elixer: The Lost Tapes!

Elixer: The Lost Tapes! It features 40 instruments (most are multi-sampled, some very heavily), and 23 sound fx and dialogue sources from old public domain film (many of these are multi-sampled as well). GUI and engine were done by Glyn Lloyd of Divergent Audio Group.

Inspired by

The sounds were inspired, more or less, by Boards of Canada. In general, the goal was to create nostalgic sounds that have character and feeling.

Elixer: The Lost Tapes! Overview

Elixer is a powerful 4 voice instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt sampler.
There are 5 categories inside:

• The Lost Tapes
• All 4 In
• Dialogue and FX
• Instruments
• Reversed

Each category contains a selection of presets (snapshots). There are 199 of these snapshots available in total. You can use the snapshots as a starting point for your own sound design or as an instant inspiration for your compositions.
Included are extensive randomization controls. Each page can be randomized (Voices, Modulation, Effects, and Movement) or you can randomize individual voice selections.

Elixer and the ‘Motion’ engine was developed by Divergent Audio Group with Erick McNerney providing the wonderful sound design elements contained therein.
Please note: The FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above is required – Not for Kontakt Player.

Effects

A comprehensive onboard effects page is included with:

• Chorus
• Distortion
• Lo-Fi
• Delay
• Filter
• Spatial
• Convolution Reverb

The randomize button will randomize all effects on the current page

Modulation

Dedicated modulation controls give you the ability to shape your sound just the way you want it. There are 4 LFOs and 4 Envelopes with 24 destinations to assign them to. The randomize button will randomize the modulation control for the current page.

Movement

The centerpiece of the instrument is the highly creative XY blend control.
This control allows you to blend the levels for each of the 4 voices. We also added a unique Movement control which allows you to automate the movement of the XY control in exciting new ways. You can make the blend control move vertically, horizontally or in a circular motion on the movement page.
This allows you to create sounds that blend exactly how you want them to, in sync with your project.
The movement can be smooth and gradual or instant and choppy so you can set up gradual texture changes or even rhythmic pulses with this simple to use control.

Movement Panel

The Movement panel blend control can be dragged with your mouse while the automation engine plays in real time or you can use the sliders along the edges for precise control. You can also assign midi cc or host automation parameters to the sliders to create complex movements and record the results in your DAW.

Availability and Pricing

Elixer: The Lost Tapes is 20% off for the next 2 weeks:

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