Hybrid Instrument
Silver Screen Toolkit by Instant Sonics Review
2025
Silver Screen Toolkit
Silver Screen Toolkit published by Instant Sonics is a Kontakt library for the composer working on cinematic music, including film and game, soundtracks, trailer cues, and ads. Instant Sonics did send a review copy with no strings attached. Silver Screen Toolkit includes effects, pulses, drums, and melodic instruments.
Installation
After purchase either on gumroad via the developer when you buy direct or alternative through Kontakt Hub. After purchase, you receive the full library, after download you only need to unpack it. The full version of Kontakt 5.8.0 is required, this library does not work with the free Kontakt Player.
Sound
Silver Screen Toolkit is a characteristic sound design library which contains bends, booms, hits, drops, whoosh, ornaments, tension builders, drumkit, rhythms and much more.
The library is overall 4.5GB of sample data in Kontakt and WAV format. For a composer working on trailers, this library has a broad mix and range of sounds, great to access all sounds needed when you compose for a trailer.
https://soundcloud.com/user-890954073/sets/silver-screen-toolkit-demo-tracks-1
User interface & Usability
The interface is primary and very easy to use. Central navigation through the content is made by loading one of the more than 40 included Kontakt files. An included preset browser would have been helpful or alternative to combine the material into a hand full of categorized data.
https://youtu.be/x0Prl5B4hHo
For a first release, you can get away with the sheer amount of Kontakt files you can load. I would expect the developer to include a browser to reduce the Kontakt patches to one or less than four.
Silver Screen Toolkit by Instant Sonics Review Sound Banks
The integration did partially happen in some instruments where you can select in the patch a different category, instead of having sounds mapped across the keyboard.
The interface contains three parts – Waveform, General and Effects.
Waveform
The waveform section shows you the actual waveform of the last played sample.
General
The general section includes essential controls, for example:
- Attack – adjusts, fade-in time of volume
- Release – changes fade-out time of amount after releasing a key
- Speed – improves the speed of sample playback. You can turn it off to achieve better sound quality
- Gate – controls the intensity of a rectangle gate effect. By clicking the white triangle you can choose the rate of the gate
- Glide (in Instruments) – controls the magnitude of the glide/portamento effect
- Offset (in Instruments) – adjusts the start point of sample playback. Replaces the dragged cursor on the waveform
- Slice shape (in Pulses) – adjusts the envelope of loop slices from sharp to soft
Effects
The included effects give you some millage, with these libraries you get the most out of them if you use additional third-party effect tools.
Rating: Three out of five stars
Silver Screen Toolkit includes an impressive variety of content. To use the material, you would need to add some third-party plugins to enhance the tone and vibe. The vast array of content gives this library the high rating. The Interface is essential, and the usability can be improved. Looking beyond the Interface and many patches you get this library for the total content. Other producer split the included content across several libraries.
The Hybrid Elements CORE pack by Master Sampling contains 4GB+ of content and more than 1400 high-quality samples.
Scoring Collection
This is the ultimate collection for scoring with a wide variety of Hits, Swipes, Effects, Soundscapes, Percussion Pads Drones, and more! With this pack, you will be able to create your own unique soundscape that will take your productions to the next level!
Wanna hear something really cool?
This library has got the deepest, most thunderous drums around! Check out all those impacts and drones. You’ll be in awe when they’re panned at high volumes on your speakers or headphones – just don’t tell anyone else because they might think you get off on violence (even if it is artificial).
Soundscapes
The Hybrid Elements CORE pack by Master Sampling also includes a wide variety of Soundscapes, perfect for adding emotion and tension to your music. Whether you need pulsing pads to build up the energy or dark and brooding soundscapes to create a tense atmosphere, this pack has you covered!
The soundscapes range from dark to textured with some risers here too- but not very many downers this time around which will make things less dreary than usual during those rough days…
Modern Sound Design Toolkit
The Hybrid Elements CORE library is a modern sound design toolkit specifically designed for the needs of movie music. It’s perfect if you’re looking to create action-packed themes or liner notes in minutes instead of hours!
These are some of the many types and styles that you can find in this library. From hits to swipes, percussion to tonal sounds, there is something for everyone!
World of Sound Design
In the world of sound design, a library is an important tool. A collection with all your favorite sounds at hand and ready to go whenever you need them typically saves time in production because it reduces waiting around for samples or having too many instruments open while working on other projects.
Not to mention how much more enjoyable creativity can be when exploring new sonic territory with familiar sounds you love.
The Hybrid Elements CORE library is something that I feel anyone who loves sound design will benefit from! The wide variety of samples means there’s always something new to discover and the quality is simply top-notch. Whether it be for music or movies, this collection can do wonders in enhancing your projects exponentially!
What is Cinematic Underscore?
Cinematic Underscore is high-quality Cinematic music designed for composition for trailer productions, film, television, media, and more.
Cinematic Underscore features original compositions that are flexible and adaptable to any kind of production.
Each piece starts with an attention-grabbing intro that draws the listener in before progressing into the body of the track which contains illustrative elements like piano, percussion, drums, and sound design elements.
What are Epic Trailers?
Epic Trailers are flexible and adaptable to any kind of production. Each piece starts with an attention-grabbing intro that draws the listener in before progressing into the body of the track which contains illustrative elements like piano, percussion, drums, and sound design elements.
What is Sound Design?
Sound design is the process of shaping sound for a particular purpose. This might include adding effects to make it more interesting or altering the pitch or tone to create a specific mood. Sound design is often used in movies and video games, where the soundtrack can be just as important as the visuals.
Kontakt Instrument
This Kontakt instrument pack has over 100 unique patches that cover most genres so there will always be something fresh sounding close by should any musical ideas strike us suddenly during practice sessions.
Hybrid Elements CORE has everything you need for Epic Trailers, Cinematic Underscore, and Video Games.
With an extensive range of royalty-free music sounds that span across the genres from orchestral to modern rock beats, this pack is perfect if you looking to build up suspense or add some tension in tense scenes within any video game!
Virtual Instrument Library
Elysion 1.1 – New Instruments & Themes, and Over 1.6 GB of New Sample Content
2025
Elysion 1.1 Available
Elysion is produced to expand the range of Sonuscore & Best Service library The Orchestra with hybrid sounds and the well-known Orchestra engine. “Elysion” was developed for Best Service by Sonuscore / Dynamedion, the makers of The Orchestra, Trinity Drums, and NI Action Strings, Action Strikes, and Emotive Strings. Elysion 1.1 update includes improvements and user-requested features as well as brand new samples and presets.
“Elysion” was developed for Best Service by Sonuscore / Dynamedion, the makers of THE ORCHESTRA, Strings of Winter, Trinity Drums, Horns of Hell, and NI Action Strings, Action Strikes, and Emotive Strings. Best Service and Sonuscore are dedicated to constantly improving their products and bringing new features and content to you. This time its Elysion turn, the Ensemble Engine-based scoring tool, which now has been updated with new sample content, additional instruments, brand new themes, and enhanced technical features.
The Elysion 1.1 free update adds over 1.6GB of new sample content (1.05GB in compressed), 12 new instruments, and 26 new presets (10 spheres, 6 pulses, 10 animated). Also Sustain Pedal Support, an INIT button and new Content Highlighting have been added.
You don’t know Elysion yet?
Learn more about this exceptional library for Kontakt in our Review of Elysion a Scoring Tool by Sonuscore & Best Service.
Elysion is a huge and incredibly fast scoring tool, perfectionated to fill the space with inspiration. It was built on handcrafted processed and synthesized sounds, treated like acoustic instruments. Integrated into the pathbreaking Ensemble Engine, Elysion is the massive hybrid twin to THE ORCHESTRA COMPLETE 2.
- Experience the simplicity of 154 instantly playable hybrid organic instruments.
- Experience the infinite depth of over 13.700 samples, all carefully recorded, handcrafted, and layered with up to 5 velocity layers.
- Experience the flexibility of over 250 complex animated and fully customizable themes.
Pricing and Availability
Discover the new sounds and features today by downloading the update for free. The update is available as a complete download in your Best Service user account or via our Update Installer.
STRIIIINGS Evokes Emotions
UJAM releases Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS – Modern String Ensemble Textures with a Sound Design Twist.
A must buy for Film, Trailer and Ad Composer
I did have the opportunity for some days to practice with Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS and it is a charming library packed with absolutely perfectly recorded phrases, textures, and sound beds that drive the desired emotion of a track or scene on the big screen. The possible themes span from more traditional orchestral film scores to multiple hybrid instruments making Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS also perfect for a score for a trailer or an ad. Did I mention that you also get fitting percussive sounds? Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS is wonderful and extensively versatile for your next score.
With this release, UJAM upholds its mission to let composers write and produce with instruments that they don’t play – by inventing instrument concepts that make them easy to use, without sacrificing the professional result. Since Hans Zimmer, one of the world’s greatest film composers is a co-founder of UJAM, the team had exclusive access to Hans’ studio and his multi-million-dollar library of string recordings honed and expanded for over a decade.
Joining up with Boris Salchow, UJAM won the perfect producer – a person who both recognizes the “everyman” and – being an acclaimed film and game composer himself – is absolutely competent of taming a super-complex system like Hans Zimmer. In Boris’ words: “Yes, it’s been a herculean task of many years to take something as complex and precious as the Hans Zimmer string library and make it accessible in a workflow that does not require a multitude of computers as well as a studio environment like it is normally used in. That was the main thrill – to turn it into an instrument that allows everyone now to enjoy such musical super powers”
Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS a collection of actual recordings of a leading symphonic orchestra that follow your musical lead through proprietary UJAM technology.
Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS was built by musicians for musicians. UJAM is a pretty diverse bunch – from DJ to weekend producer to Oscar-awarded Hollywood composer. UJAM builds every product for ourselves, and, like you, we’re all users of Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS too. Every Symphonic Elements product is optimized by UJAM for one clear, powerful purpose: To produce great-sounding strings tracks without distracting you from the complex endeavor that producing a song is.
Symphonic Elements STRIIIINGS by UJAM & Boris Salchow is out now! 
Pricing and Availability
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