Custom Instruments Bundle
- 4 Totally Unique String Instruments
- 15,000+ Samples // 28.92 GB
- Unique Sustains & Bowings
- Percussive FX & Hits
- Traditional & Unique Short Notes
- Special FX Banks
- Tempo-Synced Grooves & Phrases
- Delivered by Download
- Kontakt 5.8.1 Full Retail (or later) Required
One-of-a-Kind Strings
The Custom Instruments Bundle includes 4 one-of-a-kind instruments physically built from the ground up. Each instrument is totally unique, but they all started with the same philosophy: exploring uncharted sonic territory.
Circle Strings was designed by our master luthier with experimentation in mind. It is a peculiar instrument that can produce sound in every possible way: bowing the strings, plucking the strings, hitting the instrument, and every sound effect that sounded interesting. Since it had never been done before, we decided to capture its sounds from any possible angle and microphone in mind. Contact mics, overheads, close mics, but also shotguns, dynamics, below mics and even inside mics.
EverWave was designed with the same philosophy: transcending the boundaries of traditional string instruments and creating never-before-heard sounds. Each note took almost 30 minutes to tune, and we continued to push the instrument and record every type of sound possible until the instrument broke. Fear not! The eternal sustains of EverWave are preserved forever in the software instrument.
The Bazantar is a custom bass created by Mark Deutsch. The five-string bass was fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings. It has a melodic range of over five octaves, with a sympathetic range of four octaves. This results in an interplay between melodic, sympathetic, and drone strings which weaves an unexpected landscape of resonance that is remarkably rich in texture. The instrument features traditional multi-samples as well as phrase-samples. Don’t worry! We didn’t destroy this one.
The Basstard, on the other hand, was not so much custom made as it was custom destroyed. We took an orchestral Double Bass and recorded all the unique incredible sounds that can only be achieved by destroying it, pushing the instrument into a darker, grittier, more percussive, and even disturbing realm. The library contains four core categories of sounds: "Tonal," "Percussive," "FX" and "Grooves."
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EverWave & Circle Strings were physically built by our master Luthier using wood, metal, and A LOT of strings. Suspended in the air, EverWave uses its body to generate a beautiful resonance that floats in the air from every corner. Circle Strings features a sympathetic sound box that adds a completely unique realm of sound to every technique. The Bazantar was designed & created by Mark Deutsch, a visionary artist with a background in nonlinear mathematics, sacred systems, and cosmology.
GROOVES & PHRASES
The Bazantar and Basstard include live performances that would otherwise be impossible to capture with traditional multi-sampling. These include over 300 grooves on the Basstard: percussive phrases that sync to your host tempo, recorded at 7 different core tempos. The Bazantar’s phrases cover a wide range of effects & styles to get you started.
PERCUSSIVE HITS & UNIQUE SOUND
We recorded percussive hits on Circle Strings and the Basstard. The Basstard’s percussive hits were quite aggressive, since we planned to destroy the bass all along, playing with drumsticks, forks, and even power tools. The Circle Strings’ percussive hits are a bit more nuanced, recording the unique resonance inside the instrument when struck.
