The story
I’m thrilled to be submitting my first Kontakt Instrument to Pianobook. Since I’m stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, I followed Christian’s advice and have been “Nerding for the Weekend”. I took two samples I recorded last year and created a granular drone sound.
I’m a mechanical engineer who does metal 3D printing for a living, and the first sound was an unexpected screech at work. The machinist was experimenting with some new machining parameters that made an awful (and wonderful) noise! He thought I was weird for recording him…
For extra pizazz, I mixed it with the sound of me hitting a pot lid with a wooden spoon. I morphed both samples using the granular synth engine in Arturia Pigments 2.0. Then I brought those sounds into Kontakt for all to enjoy!
The Mod Wheel controls the low pass filter cut off frequency. I mapped the envelope with knobs on my first ever GUI.
Check out my walkthrough video of how I created the instrument at:
It was fun working on this. It helped improve my sound design skills and I got to learn how to video edit for my first long YouTube video!
Enjoy!
Jared
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Great Haunting Ambience
Perfect for ominous, brooding cinematic pieces...great sonic expression...Love it!
Dark and haunting feels
I think I would personally never use this sound, but I can see it being very interesting to dark sci-fi lovers. The GUI is good, but the mod-wheel LPF is not visible anywhere. It's a nice instrument overall!
Huge ominous drone
This library contains a huge sounding rather ominous drone. The sample itself has a very slow attack and reverb, so there's not a lot you're going to do to change that, but I found the sound very playable and usable just as it is. It's a great dark and foreboding drone!
Doesn't work for me
Unfortunately, this instrument says files missing for me and nothing happens when i open it up even though i tried multiple times. If anyone knows how to fix this let me know cause judging by the other reviews this is a really cool instrument
Eerie Tones. Eerie Drones
Perfect haunting sound for October! This can be used for a haunting halloween suspense thriller project. Or layered with pads to create an ambient soundscape. Enjoy!
