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Sonespheres 4 - Direction

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OVERVIEW

Sonespheres is a series of uniquely sound-designed atmospheric synths, textural pads, evolving soundscapes, nuanced drones and tonal ambiences for Native Instruments Kontakt. Each volume explores film and tv composer and long-time Soundiron collaborator Blake Ewing's unique creative vision, delving into deeper aesthetics, stylized niches and specialty production concepts. This volume was crafted using an array of acoustic and electronic instruments, with a full array of essential user controls to unlock virtually limitless creative potential.

Blake brings to his craft a brilliant ear for nuanced layering, rich detail, fluid textures and powerful emotional weight. Blake is an American composer with a concentrated interest in creating music for visual media. His compositions have been commissioned, licensed and well received by film directors, producers, videographers, sample developers, advertising firms, music supervisors and fans from around the world. He believes in music - and in its wonderful power to support and elevate storytelling.

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Unlocked WAV Samples 24 bit 48 kHz
WINDOWS 7 OR LATER REQUIRED, MACOS 10.9 OR LATER REQUIRED
Sonespheres 4 - Direction
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!
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!
This library 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 a variety of directions and patterns, and built-in key and scale lock options make it easy to get in the flow and stay in key.
This library 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 a variety of directions and patterns, and built-in key and scale lock options make it easy to get in the flow and stay in key.
The Legato Design panel allows you to select between legato and portamento modes, with an intuitive click-and-drag interface to control interval transition speed.
The Legato Design panel allows you to select between legato and portamento modes, with an intuitive click-and-drag interface to control interval transition speed.
Our interface for Kontakt is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of the 10 available slots, in any order that you wish.
Our interface for Kontakt is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of the 10 available slots, in any order that you wish.

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Reviews & Endorsements

Serj Tankian (System Of A Down, Soil, Axis of Justice)

"Sonespheres 4 - Direction is really a cool library. It's perfect for moody scenes, anticipation etc. The default piano feature is gorgeous with nice custom presets as well."

David Norland (Film/TV Composer, My Dinner with Hervé, ABC's 20/20)

"I love SoundIron’s Sonespheres 1 and 2. They are inspiring go-tos for building textural layers. I’ve been using them as I design soundscapes for ABC’s news docs, like 20/20."

Jacob Yoffee (Best Shot, Andi Mack, Finding Carter, Ingress: The Animation)

“The subtle textures that bring life to sustaining tones is perfect for those cues where you need to 'say something without saying anything'. They are instantly interesting without being in your face and overly busy. And, as with all the Soundiron offerings, I love the crisp & clear attacks in the default settings --- it's so much faster to audition sounds. And the bottom end is GREAT."

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 20 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 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 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!

Artist

"In my mind, with few exceptions, music supports and invokes a certain storytelling. Hearing certain timbres and frequencies together triggers something in most of humanity. A place. A time. A memory. An emotion. A sense of urgency or hope. A needed comfort. A broken heart. Real or concocted, the effect is universal. This belief and these experiences affect me not only as a person, but inspire me as an artist.

To that end, I’m proud to have helped create a set of tools that will hopefully act as a canvas for your own productions. My hope is that you as musicians will use these sounds as the hazy, ethereal, ambiguous base, on which to bring into sharp focus your own artistic visions - Be it in support or your stories, or those of the others with whom you work. In Current, I’ve tried to be thorough without being repetitive - to offer sounds that might work in a range of production styles and musical sensibilities. There is a pervasive sense of movement throughout the content, which includes handcrafted piano samples, harps, tidal rhythms, and massive impacts that coexist alongside achingly beautiful evolving pads and atonal textures, timeless synth keys and bass. I truly hope there’s something here for everyone."

Blake Ewing
Kontakt 5.6

The Kontakt version of this library requires the full standard retail edition of Kontakt by Native Instruments, engine version 5.6 or higher for VST, VST3, AU, and Pro Tools AAX. Kontakt Player is not supported. Learn more about the full version of Kontakt at: https://www.native-instruments.com/products/kontakt

Open WAV Samples 24 bit 48 kHz

The samples in this library are standard 24 bit 48 kHz wave files. They can be used in any audio software or hardware that supports common wav files.

Product Specs

  • Product Version 1.0
  • 2.36 GB installed
  • 680 Samples
  • 21 .nki instrument presets
  • 24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
  • Unlocked wav samples can be directly imported into almost any wav-compatible plugin or DAW

System Requirements

  • Kontakt 5.6 requires Windows 7 (or higher), or MacOS 10.9 (or higher). The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt is required to use .nki instrument presets in this library. The free Kontakt Player, Libraries Browser, Native Access integration, and some NKS hardware features are not supported.

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