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Panacea

Kontakt Player

$ 149.00

OVERVIEW

Step into a world of mesmerizing harmonics, tonal warmth, and resonant mystique. Panacea brings together eight of our most inspiring tuned percussion libraries — a journey across the musical spectrum of steel tongue drums, handpans, kalimbas, and ancient slit drums. From the Sierra foothills to underground bunkers, each instrument was lovingly recorded in rich detail to give you an unparalleled sonic canvas. Ideal for ambient, cinematic, world, underscore, electronic, and hybrid compositions, this 25 GB library is packed with 168 presets made for NKS and the free Kontakt 8 Player. Discover the sound of soul, steel, and space with Panacea.

Hapi Drums, Cosmic Hand Pans, UFO Tone, Steel Tones, Kalimba, Whale Drum, Tiny Thumb Pianos, and Lenguita Drum each have custom sonic character, perfect for blending together or doubling a melody. Panacea includes everything you need to compose your best work ever, with an efficient modular 4-layer GUI for instant inspiration.

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Existing owners of Hapi Drums, Cosmic Hand Pans, UFO Tone, Steel Tones, Kalimba, Whale Drum, Tiny Thumb Pianos are eligible for a discount on their upgrade to Panacea. Log in and click My Upgrades to see yours.

Our interface for Kontakt offers a full suite of intuitive sound-shaping controls and professional features to give you complete artistic freedom. You can easily blend and customize sounds to create your own unique instruments with 4 independent sonic layers. Dial in every detail with a full range of deeply customizable options, or leave it stock and start playing right out of the box! You can even roll the dice to randomize settings for instant inspiration.
Our interface for Kontakt offers a full suite of intuitive sound-shaping controls and professional features to give you complete artistic freedom. You can easily blend and customize sounds to create your own unique instruments with 4 independent sonic layers. Dial in every detail with a full range of deeply customizable options, or leave it stock and start playing right out of the box! You can even roll the dice to randomize settings for instant inspiration.
The UI includes a flexible LFO system with tempo sync, assignable shapes and control targets, and a selection of 12 modulatable filter types for shaping motion and tone. Each layer has its own filter, LFO, and ARP systems. The flexible arpeggiator module includes standard, hold, strum and gliss modes, with pitch offset, a variety of directions and patterns, and other options make it easy to get in the flow.
The UI includes a flexible LFO system with tempo sync, assignable shapes and control targets, and a selection of 12 modulatable filter types for shaping motion and tone. Each layer has its own filter, LFO, and ARP systems. The flexible arpeggiator module includes standard, hold, strum and gliss modes, with pitch offset, a variety of directions and patterns, and other options make it easy to get in the flow.
The Space panel gives you full control over stage position, including pan and proximity for each independent sonic layer. You can drag any layer's icon around the XY pad, with optional Hall and Room Reverb modes. You have full control over each layer's position in the sound field.
The Space panel gives you full control over stage position, including pan and proximity for each independent sonic layer. You can drag any layer's icon around the XY pad, with optional Hall and Room Reverb modes. You have full control over each layer's position in the sound field.
Our interface for Kontakt is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of the 8 available slots, in any order that you wish.
Our interface for Kontakt is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of the 8 available slots, in any order that you wish.

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customize the sound your way

customize the sound your way

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. We've also included unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.

Sonic possibilities

Sonic possibilities

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

powerful fx rack

powerful fx rack

The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of e8 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Kontakt Player 8.1

The Kontakt Player version of this library is NKS encoded for the free Kontakt Player by Native Instruments. It is fully compatible with the NKS Standard software and hardware ecosystem, and VST, VST3, AU, and Pro Tools AAX plugin formats. Version 8.1 or later is required. This product can be registered, downloaded, and installed through Native Access. Learn more about Kontakt Player from Native Instruments: https://www.native-instruments.com/products/kontakt-player

NCW Samples 24 bit 48 kHz

The samples in this library are losslessly compressed 24 bit 48 kHz NCW files. They can only be played by Kontakt or Kontakt Player.

Product Specs

  • 168 NKI instrument banks in Kontakt 8 Player format
  • Strikes, Taps, Slides, FX from 8 tuned percussive instruments
  • 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format
  • 44,365 Stereo Samples in locked .ncw format
  • 25 GB Installed
  • Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 8.1+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
  • Works with the Kontakt "Libraries" browser and Native Access.

System Requirements

  • Kontakt 8.1 requires Windows 10 (or higher), or MacOS 12 (or higher). The free Kontakt Player and full version of Kontakt are both supported by this library. Native Access is required for product activation and installation, and is available for download from Native Instruments: https://www.native-instruments.com/pages/native-access

  • A Multi-Core CPU, 8+ GB System Ram, and SSD hard drive are recommended for this library.