40% intro offer = £30/$42/€35
Strings played with string
22 x 2 articulations from CLOUD BASS, CLOUD VIOLA & CLOUD CELLO
Cloud layers = deep multi samples with all the gubbins
Shadow layers = pliable micro loops so tight they oscillate wildly
New advanced DRIFT engine with added wander (& wonder)
210 snapshots
9GB download
for FULL version of Kontakt 6.7.1 & beyond
DRIFT CLOUDs
A brief history of twine
The Cloud instruments were a dysfunctional clan. Each one started as an ordinary 17th-century classical stringed instrument - a cello, a viola, a double bass.
Conventional bowing has been done a million times, so that was out. What sounded more interesting was a ball of coarse garden twine, the agricultural stuff. But to record a smooth note an impossible 5 metre bow was needed, and I know thats impossible because I tried to make one. The solution, after many experiments and many cups of coffee, was a retractable dog lead, an elaborate pulley system and a vintage fishing reel, enough to hold five metres of twine under tension and drag it evenly over the instrument string. I also did some hitting and rough short bowing for extra accenting.
DRIFT CLOUDs takes all of that distressed string material from the original CLOUD series: the twine, the accents, the col legno, the beatings, the granular grist, the dark and pale reverb clouds and rehouses them inside a custom DRIFT engine. Every Cloud articulation is now an oscillator you can stack, morph, warp, detune and bend for a universe of obtuse, impossible string like sounds.
THE CLIMATE CHANGE
CLOUD - the signature string on string sound. Long, slowly distressed, faintly agricultural.
BOWED - a real bow, briefly applied for the moments you need people to remember these were once respectable instruments.
LEGNO - Latin for "gently thwacked with the back of the bow." Still true.
BEATEN - hit gently with a large soft beater (double bass only)
HYBRIDS - pre mixed terrifying combinations of clouds and reverb
SUB - multisampled analogue synths, supplying the low end that the originals politely declined to provide.
The new weather
The new style drift engine stacks an upper 'cloud' layer of 22 deeply sampled articulation possibilities - including noise and silence. With the lower 'shadow' layer which has the same sounds but in a looping engine that turns an articulation into a tuned string oscillator at its tiniest setting.
A semi random 'wander engine' adds subtle analogue shifts to extreme drunken staggering to lots of the controls. Layer mix, layer pan, drift speed and depth, tremolo depth, layer impulse reverb depth, layer shelving EQ and master glue can all go for a little wander. As far as you let them.
What's Inside ?
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22 x 2 deeply multi sampled complex sounds sources = 9GB
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210 snapshots
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Cloud and Shadow layers with mix control
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wander system with unreliability depth control
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morph EQ knob with 100 settings - shared but selectable
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morph ADSR knob with 100 settings - shared but selectable
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poly or paraphonic envelope mode
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grist knob for noisy filth
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50 custom impulse response reverbs
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space knob adds IR reverb and goes to 100% wet
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BPM synced drift control for tape like chaotic wow and flutter
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2 x BPM synced bipolar ducking modulators for complex throbbing
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polyphonic, monophonic, legato and offset play modes
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portamento
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up to 8 voices of detuned girth
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full automation capability
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portal page lets you behind the curtain
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Handy built in instructions in RTFM page
