Keys
The Attic 2 by Soniccouture updated to Version 2 – Now With 18 Vintage Synths
2025
Soniccouture has extended The Attic. They added 8 brand new instruments to give an incredible collection of 18 individual vintage synth & keyboard instruments. Featuring Minitmoog, Logan Vocalist & Crumar DP-80, there are some really quirky rarities in there.
The Attic was first conceived as a project to sample obscure, characterful synth instruments (mostly from the 1970s) that may not always be the obvious choice when Soniccouture think of ‘classics’. – a term usually reserved for the likes of Prophet 5, Minimoog, Jupiter 8. Nonetheless, instruments which, when added to a track, instantly add some kind of special magic or charm, even if it may be based on the fact that it sounds a bit cheap. Now a mature collection, Attic v2 adds a further 8 instruments to a total of 18. Soniccouture has tracked down some of the more esoteric instruments that seem to come up often when musicians discuss classic tracks online – mostly out of Soniccouture own curiosity to see if they really do make the sound it’s claimed they did.
The Attic 2 Instruments
- ARP Omni 2 (New in Attic 2)
- Cheetah MS800 (New in Attic 2)
- Crumar DP80 (New in Attic 2)
- Farfisa VIP 345 (New in Attic 2)
- Moog MinitMoo (New in Attic 2)
- Siel Orchestra 2 (New in Attic 2)
- Solina String Ensemble (New in Attic 2)
- Logan Vocalist (New in Attic 2)
- Mini-Korg 700s (New in Attic 2)
- Jennings Univox
- Suzuki Omnichord
- Philips Philicorda
- Roland RS202
- Korg LP10 Electronic Piano
- Hammond Solovox
- Godwin String Concert
- Roland SH2000
- EMS Synthi AKS
Moog Minitmoog was the big brother of the more well known Moog Satellite. One unique feature was a metal touchplate above the faders for modulation effects. It has several preset tabs, in the same style as the more well known Roland SH2000, all of which we have sampled individually, on every key. It has a second de-tunable oscillator which gives it an unstable raw quality.
Sampling the historic Synths
Traditional sampling wisdom has it that when sampling a synth, one or two samples per octave is enough, and you stretch the sample in between keys. This may have been ok in the days of limited memory chips, but today there is no need for such an economy. Soniccouture believes that each individual note of a vintage synth contains its own unique imperfections and anomalies; so that when you record every single note of a synths keyboard, you aggregate this character many times over. A complete set of waveform samples from any analog synths recorded in this way instantly feels ‘alive’ and raw to us, rather than that sanitized workstation-type synth sound you hear in competitor sampled synths.
The Attic 2 specifications:
- 24-bit 48kHz sampling.
- 18GB library (Kontakt NCW compression)
- Requires Kontakt 5.7.3
- Full range individual note sampling
- Authentic behavior modeling
- Custom IR reverb processor with Soniccouture IR library
- 473 presets including sounds by sound designer Ian Boddy
Pricing
Existing users of Attic1 can upgrade, log in to your account to see the offer. Without having Attic 1 your special price is MSRP €79 | $99 – The Offer ends July 5th 2019
RE:COIL an Omnisphere 2.5 Soundset is Released
Re:Coil is a cinematic Soundset for Omnisphere 2.5 based on string soundsources from its Core Library. Re:Coil contains patches made from violins, cello, guitar, cuatro and many odd devices which contain strings as the source.
The onboard sound sources in Omnisphere are amazing and vast. The limit to only strings (mostly metal) helps not only spark creativity but also make a cohesive soundset thats easy to make any score sound like you’ve hired a profesional musicians and sound designer. Isnt there anything else more common in film music that string instruments? From Cellos to Guitars and Ethnic to DIY wired instruments, using these soundsources will provide an instant familiarity that will make your score feel like a million bucks.
This focus creates a sophisticated sound that is instantly cinematic. Re:Coil is great for Documentaries and dramatic productions and as soon as you listen to these patches you will know it will make any score sound like a million bucks!
Useful for TV dramas, Sci-Fi Video Games, and Music Libraries. Pulsating basses, organic tones, and emotive pads, these 200+ bring in that Hollywood feels to any project. Simple categories: Pulses, Pads and Keys. Mod Wheel assignments for the most useful in a media scoring environment.
Pricing and Availability
RE:COIL is available at an introductory price of $29.99 (Normally $35).
A Destroyed Piano – Sale on Cinematic Keys by Sample Logic
Sample Logic brought together a wide variety of musical instruments for Cinematic Keys (Affiliate Link). This creative library covers everything from a beautiful acoustic concert grand piano to a toy xylophone is featured.
The recording sessions ranged from traditional to the slightly more unconventional using indoor and outdoor spaces. The standout sessions were where they utilized blowtorches, sledgehammers, axes, and other tools of torture on their acoustic victims; my heart goes out to them.
Weighing in at over 8 GBs, CINEMATIC KEYS is a complete collection of 850+ traditional and mutilated Instruments & Multis derived entirely from recordings of keyboard instruments powered by Kontakt Player.
CINEMATIC KEYS not only includes amazing, ready-to-play, psycho-acoustic sampled melodic and percussive instruments, but uses these instruments to enter into the morphed world of score-ready hybrid sound design. CINEMATIC KEYS is powered by Kontakt Player.
CINEMATIC KEYS™ is a complete collection of 850+ traditional and mutilated Instruments & Multis derived entirely from recordings of keyboard instruments. Weighing in at over 8GBs, CINEMATIC KEYS not only includes amazing, ready-to-play, psycho-acoustic sampled melodic and percussive instruments, but uses these instruments to enter into the morphed world of score-ready hybrid sound design. CINEMATIC KEYS is powered by Kontakt Player.
The bread and butter of CINEMATIC KEYS is in the inclusion of a massive collection of samples derived from the destruction of an upright and toy pianos all recorded in a huge multi-car garage, the result of which was amazing organic acoustics treatments. These piano instruments were dismantled and destroyed using an assortment of wrecking tools from a sledgehammer, scythe, machete, to a blowtorch, and way beyond, creating a truly “out of the box” innovative sound. Putting all of this together results in the transformation of these inspiring sounds into evocative, cinematic instruments ready for all styles of sound production.
Special Pricinging
The time-limited current price of Cinematic Keys (Affiliate Link) is $69.99, instead of $349.99.
Soundiron Releases Vintage Keys Series: Principessa Organ
Principessa is the newest addition to Soundiron Vintage Keys Series. Soundiron’s library captures the vintage and classic sound of the very rare “Princess” organ. This 2-tiered electric organ has a rich analog synthesizer tone with a creamy low and mid-range and soft rolled-off highs.
Principessa Specs
- 2 main powerful open-format Kontakt .nki instruments
- Synth Flute, Bass Clarinet, Trombone, Trumpet, Strings, Diapson, Harpsichord, Piano, Vibraphone
- 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
- 1.57 GB Installed
- 794 Stereo Samples
- 24 bit / 48kHz Stereo uncompressed PCM wav audio
- Unlocked wav samples can be directly imported into almost any wav-compatible plugin or DAW.
Principessa was recorded in a dry studio using a pair of Neumann TLM 103 large-diaphragm microphones. We recorded its stock presets with sustains and staccato samples for each key. The included octave, vibrato, and FX rack give you an easy-to-use interface to completely customize and shape its fat analog sound to fit a variety of creative styles.
The library comes equipped with flexible control features, like Swell, pitch Glide, Attack, Release, Vibrato, and Octave. There’s also a complete DSP effects rack, including convolution reverb with dozens of unique spaces, such as cathedrals, churches, halls, bunkers, garages, tunnels, chambers, rooms, and plenty of otherworldly FX impulses to fully explore and an endless variety of strange and unexpected sonic manipulations.
Itai Matos
Principessa was recorded by Itai Matos. Matos is a music technologist and a sound designer based at Tel-Aviv Israel. Matos is responsible for the sound design of some of the leading commercial productions in Israel. Many of these projects received great exposure and publicity when entering into leading radio station playlists, and primetime TV
spots. After his role at Waves audio as a product manager, Matos began creating interactive sound systems such as App-based instruments, virtual instruments, adaptive music for games, intelligent sound for sports broadcast, and accessible apps for the visually impaired.
Matos worked with leading brands such as SoundIron, 8Dio, Waves Audio, Natural intelligence, Baby Toons, BeachBum Gaming, Israel Museum of arts, and more. Through this understanding, a unique sound develops which expresses an internal world and becomes a musical signature. Each production is comprised of dedicated creative processes that affect the whole journey, starting from the arrangements, through recording techniques, finding specific sound/feel and working with great gear.
- Advanced performance controls, vibrato, glide speed, LFO, Filter, Arp, and full FX rack.
- Sustains, staccato, and sound-designed samples.
- Turn the Glide slider up for monophonic legato functionality, or turn it down to 0 for standard polyphonic mode.
- The Octave knob gradually adds a lower and higher octave doubling effect for more body and power.
- Convolution Reverb with 119 different cathedrals, churches, chambers, rooms, halls, and special effect impulses.
- A full multi-effects rack, with EQ, filter, phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp & speaker simulation, and more.
Availability
You can purchase Principessa on sale now for only $19.00 (MSRP $29.00). Hurry, Sale Ends May 12th, 2020!
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