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DRIFT PREQUEL

The origins of SOUND DUST — pulled apart, rebuilt, and CROSSBRED into a modular drift playground

  • 20 INSTRUMENTS in 1 Kontakt interface

  • 80 curated modular stacks (multis)

  • 220 snapshots

  • 4GB download

  • modular DRIFT layering system FOR UNLIKELY instrumentIONAL INTERMINGLING

  • tape-like pitch and tone drift engine

Instruments shouldn’t always behave themselves

Combine sounds, create strange hybrids and let them gently drift.

DRIFT PREQUEL also stacks with the other DRIFT instruments, creating even stranger hybrids.

...below are the results of instruments being stacked together and left unsupervised.

SLOW FOLK_all sounds by DRIFT PREQUELPendle
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HYBRID PIANO_PREQUEL_modular stack
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HYBRID TAPE WARBLE KEYS 3_PREQUEL_modular stack
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HYBRID KEYS 4_PREQUEL_modular stack
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a hybrid Kontakt instrument built from retired Sound Dust classics

Some of the earliest Sound Dust instruments are heading out to pasture.
Before they disappear, they have been dismantled combined with new sounds and textures, and quietly re-engineered into the DRIFT ecosystem.

The result is a strange modular playground where instruments can stack, crossbreed and drift into new forms.

Pitch wanders like old tape, noise percolates, tone shifts subtly, nothing stays perfectly still.

That's how we like it.

DRIFT _PREQUEL stacks

a 20-instrument modular laboratory built for collision, mutation and beautiful instability 

 

DRIFT instruments are simple machines for making complex accidents​

20 of the 220 snapshots...

Some are delicate.
Some are broken.
Some are just wrong

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DULCITONE 1884
This is where it all began

An electric piano without the electricity

This was  the worlds first multi-sampled rare and beautiful 150 (ish) year old DULCITONE.

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DULCITONE 1900

The lovely younger sister to Dulcitone1884, with a slightly jinglier and more even tone which really compliments the butch woody clunk of the 1884 version.

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AUTOharp

Simple, small and sharply plucked

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mute AUTOharp

Palm muted for extra thud

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wide AUTOharp

Recorded binaurally for extra width

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PLUCKED GRAND

Recorded binaurally with a head deep inside a mighty grand piano

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HARPSICHORD

A small portable Alfred Dolmetsch instrument 

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MUTE HARPSICHORD

A small portable Alfred Dolmetsch instrument - mute switch engaged

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SHIPS PIANO

A tiny clunky portable piano used for onboard singalongs

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MORSE PIANO

Custom-built synced piano loops

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INFINITE GUITAR

Endless guitar notes from Fernandes sustainer guitar system

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BAD RECORDERS

Really bad childs recorders

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NOISE STRINGS

Crafted from pure noise

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MUTE STRAT

Palm muted clean Fender Stratocaster Custom - a green one

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MUTE PIANET

Take the top off a Hohner Pianet and stick your thimb on each note.

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MORSE FOLK

Custom-built synced 8 string Ukulele  loops

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SUPERSYNTH

Compound analogue synth - part Moog Voyager, part Roland MS 20

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ATONAL METAL

Rusty old gubbins,untuned steel pans

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kits

5 character drumkits with GM mapping

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LOOPS

Character tempo syncing drum loops

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the interface
Some handy controls to build your universe

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What's Inside ?

1 Kontakt instrument (for FULL 6.7.1 or above)

  • 80 curated modular stacks (multis)

  • 220 snapshots

  • 5 GB uncompressed samples - 4GB download

  • modular DRIFT layering system

  • morph EQ knob with 100 settings

  • morph ADSR knob with 100 settings

  • grist knob for noisy filth

  • 50 custom impulse response reverbs

  • space knob adds IR reverb and goes to 100% wet

  • BPM synced drift control for tape like chaotic wow and flutter

  • 2 x BPM synced tremolo for complex throbbing

 

Compatible with all other DRIFT instruments for larger hybrid stacks.

Things can get strange quite quickly.

Requires a FULL version of Kontakt 6.7 or above.

DRIFT PREQUEL instruments will load into Player but time out after 10 minutes, so please don't buy this if you are using the free Kontakt Player.

£50/$70/€58 inc VAT

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