8DIO
Hybrid Tools – Dark Prophecy by 8Dio Review
2025
Dark Prophecy (Part of Hybrid Tools Series) by 8Dio Review
Hybrid Tools Dark Prophecy which is under review today enters the dark mood that is needed for so many compositions in the modern action driven world of cinema.
Several years ago 8Dio launched the first version of Hybrid Tool (1). Since then a significant market with modern hybrid sounds has been developing.
8Dio has led, pushed and served this market with several libraries, other developers have entered this market with their solutions. 8Dio did send a review copy with no strings attached. We started to work with this library since it was in beta.
Installation
After purchase you download the library through the 8Dio download tool, the Full Retail Version of Kontakt 5.7 (or later) is required. The free Kontakt player will not work with this library.
Sound
Dark Prophecy includes 17GB of analog synth content, delivering 22 sampled instruments. You may ask yourself: How does this library fit into the other 8Dio’s libraries? The sounds and vibes include in this hybrid library are dark and provides exactly what you have been missing from the other 8Dio hybrid libraries.
Features
- 17 GB of all-new analog synth based content
- 22 New Deep-Sampled Instrument Categories
- 100s Evolving Textures and Phat Analog basses
- 100s of Cinematic Sub-booms and Dark Pads
- 100s of Dark Pads and Deep-Sampled Analog Synths
- Stackable Deep-Sampled Analog Synths
- TM Pro Hybrid Effects and Textures
- In Built CHAOS Effects
You receive a stylish set of mysterious sounds. For 8Dio it is the largest collection of dark and tenebrous sounds they offer. It is great to score to picture or alternative when you score ambient music.
User interface & Usability
8Dio uses its excellent New Hybrid Tools engine. 8Dio did move some years away from the same look for every library and split the look and feel combined with the design guidance these days by library type.
The UI works very well when you are using more than one 8Dio library. You can also go deeper into so-called Chaos FX that are included. In the Effect tab, you control Filters, Step-Based Filtering, 3 Band EQ, Stereo Delay, Bit Crusher, Distortion, Dual-Convolution reverb with host synced Textural Convolution FX.
With most of the Kontakt libraries, I would strongly suggest to use external 3rd party plugins to mangle the sounds your produce.
Rating: Four out of five stars
Hybrid Tools – Dark Prophecy is an excellent collection for a composer working on the trailer, ads and a full feature and are in need for a dark mood supported by booms, drones, pads, soundscapes.
The hybrid sounds library Dark Prophecy is an excellent collection of sounds for trailers, horror, tension-driven scenes, sci-fi, and other more suspense, action and anxiety stories. Hybrid Tools Dark Prophecy is one of the most exciting libraries 8Dio has in the Hybrid Tools collection.
Virtual Instrument Library
Solo Clarinet – Warm Studio Woodwinds – The Next Evolution of 8Dio’s Woodwind Ensembles
2025
Warm Studio Woodwinds: Solo Clarinet
Warm Studio Woodwinds is the latest creation in 8Dio’s range of contemporary studio ensembles. It is derived from 8Dio’s Intimate Studio Woodwinds library. With over 160 hours of session material recorded at Scotland’s Premiere Recording Studio – Gorbals Sound, and countless more in post-production, Warm Studio Woodwinds continues 8Dio’s notion of a fully modular ensemble.
Unprecedented control over your sound
The sound of the Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet is easily customizable with the wealth of options in the advanced user interface. You’ll have extreme control over the stereo image with individual volume, panning, output routing, and the new distance control, enabling you to freely blend between a direct signal and a more spacious and ambient microphone position.
Every articulation needed for your next composition
Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet contains a vast collection of 26 articulations covering everything you need to create authentic-sounding woodwind melodies. Each articulation is sorted into four main categories making them all quickly and easily accessible from the inbuilt browser. Choose from articulations such as a Staccato, Staccatissimo, Sustains, Trills and Legato from the Traditional Category. Or choose more nuanced techniques such as Measured Tremolo and Tempo Sync’d phrase such as Tuplets and Triplets from 8Dio’s Performance category. Finally, the Arcs and Effects categories contain Dynamically layered Arcs of varying lengths and a range of effects such as directional Runs, Scoops, and Flutter Tonguing. The User interface allows you to load and unload the articulations of your choosing, so you only have to have to load the sounds you need for your project.
The Solo Clarinet soulfully blends into any mix
The Legato articulation is incredibly agile and can play almost anything you throw at it. We recorded each player in this series simultaneously so that each musician would be working with one another and adapt their playing styles and coloration to match the overall sound of the ensemble. Recording each player this way means that no matter your combination of instruments, the Warm Studio Woodwind instruments will fit with any ensemble and beautifully blend together. So whether you compose for an ensemble setting or virtuoso Solo Clarinet lines, Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet will sound excellent in any setting.
Pricing and Availability
Warm Studio Woodwinds: Solo Clarinet is available now.
8Dio Hybrid Tools Terminus
8Dio Terminus is the latest in their Hybrid Tools series and has quickly made it into a wealth of blockbuster movies, games, and TV-shows. Terminus contains 1,200 custom cinematic instruments and FX. The sound is undeniably big, modern and studio clean with everything polished to perfection.
- Pro-Grade Cinematic Instruments
- Kontakt VST / AU / AAX
- 4 Core Instrument Classes (Drums, Hybrids, Orchs, Synths)
- 4 x 100’s of Cinematic Hits, Blockbuster Slams & Cres Slams
- 4 x 100’s of Subwoofer Hits, Short and Long Falls
- 4 x 100’s of Short and Long Risers
- 4 Epic Beautiful Instrument banks: Ear Candy
- 2 Transitional Banks of Tonal Strum Effects
- Built-In Chaos Effects & Embedded Meta-Data
- 4K Master Class w/ Troels (The Captain w/ MIDI + Stems)
- Full Retail Version of Kontakt 5.6 (or later) Required
Terminus is the result of over 18 months of deep production and contains four different types of core instrument groups, Percussive/Drums, Epic/Hybrid, Neo-Orchestral and Synth-Based. All four core groups each contain seven banks, Hits, Slams, Sub Hits, Short and Long Falls, and Short and Long Risers.
In addition, Terminus contains an array of new instrument categories, including 4 banks of Ear Candy. Ear Candy is designed to enhance your existing compositions with big, beautiful, ethereal, and angelic textural elements. We also created two additional banks of Strums. Strums are tonal and a-tonal transitional elements – creating a transparent, colorful movement of cinematic textures.
Terminus also comes fully ready for integration into the sound file management system of your choice with industry-standard embedded Meta-Data.
Pricing and Availability
Terminus is available now during the Eternal Summer Sale: $198 (goes $348 on September,23rd 2020)
8Dio’s Solo Violin & Solo Cello Designer SALE
The Solo Designer instruments are a massive collection of thousands of real cello & violin phrases. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic solo violin & solo cello by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases.
8Dio programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo violin & solo cello performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment, and in some cases replace existing solo violin libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform.
Solo Violin Designer
SOLO VIOLIN DESIGNER Virtual Instrument VST is a massive collection of over 4.000 phrases performed by renowned concert violinist: Thomas Yee. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic solo violin by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases. We programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo violin performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment and in some cases replace existing solo violin libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform.
SOLO VIOLIN DESIGNER comes with a variety of phrase sculpting tools, including pitch-control, time-stretching / time-compression, sample offset (which allows you to “scroll” into any phrase and trigger any part of it, FX and convolution reverbs. The pitch-control is not affected by tempo, so by controlling pitch, time-stretching/compression and sample offset you can essentially adapt the phrase to match the pitch and tempo of your composition.
Solo Cello Designer
SOLO CELLO DESIGNER Virtual Instrument VST is a massive collection of over 1.800 phrases. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic Solo Cello by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases. We programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo cello performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment and in some cases replace existing solo cello libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform. We call this concept, deep phrase-sampling.
SOLO CELLO DESIGNER comes with a variety of phrase sculpting tools, including pitch-control, time-stretching / time-compression, sample offset (which allows you to “scroll” into any phrase and trigger any part of it, FX and convolution reverbs. The pitch-control is not affected by tempo, so by controlling pitch, time-stretching/compression and sample offset you can essentially adapt the phrase to match the pitch and tempo of your composition.
Pricing and Availability
Solo Violin & Solo Cello Designer $38 Each. Plus, receive Requiem Pro FREE with any purchase of $298 or more.
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