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Icescapes

Open Format

$ 19.00

OVERVIEW

Icescapes is a unique collection of sound-designed atmospheric leads, ambient synths, textural soundscapes and snow and ice sound effects capturing the heart of winter. The wintery pond instruments were created by skipping a variety of stones, ice chunks and pebbles across the surface of a large frozen pond in a narrow canyon, high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. These skittering impacts across the ice sheet emit a strange sci-fi ray gun zinging effect caused by an acoustic phenomenon called flexural waves, a type of bending sound wave produced by the acoustic ripples that radiate out at supersonic speeds from the point of each impact, amplified upward by the pond's large resonant ice membrane into the high craggy canyon walls that surrounded us. The ice and snow instruments are built from a variety of ice block impacts and slides, and from hand and boot foley recorded in deep fresh snow.

WINDOWS 10 OR LATER REQUIRED, MACOS 10.13 OR LATER REQUIRED
Icescapes

The natural snow and ice sound effects work well when used creatively to replace traditional kicks, snares and hi-hats or as pure sound-design source material. Each sound bank is arranged to create percussive playability and organized logically to allow efficient use as SFX. Then from these organic sound sources, we've used a bit of our signature sonic alchemy to cultivate a broad selection of 83 playable sound-designed tones, pads, synth-scapes, creative effects and tuned drones for use in any kind of musical creation.

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Reviews & Endorsements

Chris Dudley (Film/TV Composer, Underoath)

“While scoring Whelm, I was in search of unique percussion and wanted something outside the norm that was still able to pack a punch when needed. I was turned onto Snow Drums and it fit the bill perfectly. Also couldn’t believe the price!”

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.

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 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 6.6

The Kontakt version of this library requires the full standard retail edition of Kontakt by Native Instruments, engine version 6.6 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

Decent Sampler 1.11.18

The Decent Sampler version of this library requires the free Decent Sampler plugin by Decent Sampler, engine version 1.11.18 or higher for VST, VST3, AU, and Pro Tools AAX. Learn more at https://www.decentsamples.com/product/decent-sampler-plugin/

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

  • Ice crush, hammer, slide, smash, thud, skip, skitter, smash, splash
  • Snow steps, landing, scuffs
  • 83 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content
  • 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
  • 12 Decent Sampler 1.11.18 .nki instrument presets
  • 24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed PCM wav audio
  • Unlocked Kontakt and Decent Sampler presets and wav samples to allow complete flexibility and freedom
  • 632 stereo samples in unlocked .WAV format
  • 1.24 GB Installed

System Requirements

  • Kontakt 6.6 requires Windows 7 (or higher), or MacOS 10.13 (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.

  • Decent Sampler 1.11.18 requires Windows 10 (or higher), MacOS 10.11 (or higher), or Linux (x86-64 and ARM64).

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