Snack
Snack 2.0 is a powerhouse of animal sounds: Cats, Dogs, Birds, Lion, Tiger, and even a cricket. Have you ever wanted to make a cat choir? Well now you can! How bout dogs eating wet food in close stereo? Say no more. we’ve got you covered.
Soundiron founder Mike Peaslee's cat Snack is a rather vocal and demanding studio companion. Over the years, Chris and Gregg often dared Mike to turn her into a library, so we finally flipped on our trusty field recorders to capture a few raw cat vocalizations just for fun: Sounds like meows, hisses, eating, purring, and more. We then started exploring the audio with a few digital manipulation tricks to see where that would take us. After a bit of creative sound design, a unique batch of catbiences and an electro drum kit was born. We hope you enjoy this pet project of sonic goodness. Fun fact: Snack will pretty much do anything for fish, including literally jumping through hoops, despite being rather well-fed.
Snack 2.0 is a powerhouse of animal sounds: Cats, Dogs, Birds, Lion, Tiger, and even a cricket. Have you ever wanted to make a cat choir? Well now you can! How bout dogs eating wet food in close stereo? Say no more. we’ve got you covered. Did we mention this is free? Disclaimer: no animals were hurt in the making of this library.
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Contents
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.
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.
The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 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 Format
This library has been licensed for use in the free Kontakt Player virtual instrument engine. It can be used in Kontakt Player or the full retail version of Kontakt (version 7.1.8 or later) for VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin formats. You can add this product to the Kontakt “Libraries” browser. It requires online serial number registration through the Native Instruments Native Access app. This library is also fully compatible with Komplete Kontrol and all S-Series Keyboard Controllers by Native Instruments. Purchasing this library qualifies you for a great cross-grade discount toward the full unlocked version of Kontakt through Native Instruments!
Product Specs
- 1 master NKI instrument bank in Kontakt 7 Player format
- Animal sounds from a variety of cats, dogs, birds, a lion, and more.
- 20 Ambience patches created from the source content, 13 Wavetables
- 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
- 911 stereo samples
- 817 MB Installed
- Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 7.1.8+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
- Works with the Kontakt "Libraries" browser and Native Access.
Documentation
System Requirements
This Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by the latest version of the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special “Libraries” rack. Windows 7 or higher required for PC. OSX 10.12 or higher required for Mac. Dual Core CPU, 3+ GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library. This software is delivered as a digital download, so a broadband connection is required. All sales are final. Please see our Help Page for download and installation instructions, tutorials and the End User Licensing Agreement before ordering.
Videos
Walkthrough: Snack v2
Composing With Snack v2
Snack - Blake Ewing Demo