Snack - Micropaks - virtual instrument sample library for Kontakt by Soundiron
Snack - Micropaks - virtual instrument sample library for Kontakt by Soundiron
Snack - Micropaks - virtual instrument sample library for Kontakt by Soundiron
Snack - Micropaks - virtual instrument sample library for Kontakt by Soundiron
Snack - Micropaks - virtual instrument sample library for Kontakt by Soundiron
Snack - Micropaks - virtual instrument sample library for Kontakt by Soundiron

Snack

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Snack is a free library featuring raw cat vocalizations from our founder Mike's cat; as well as a cool set of ambiences and electro drum kit. This preset includes a variety of performance controls to shape attack, release, pitch, crescendo swelling and more.
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Welcome to Soundiron's Snack The Cat library!

Mike's cat Snack is a rather vocal and demanding studio companion. Chris and Gregg have often dared Mike to turn her into a library for years, so we finally flipped on our trusty field recorder to capture a few raw cat vocalizations just for fun. 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 cool little batch of ambiences and electro drum kit elements was born. We hope you enjoy this little snack-sized packet of sonic goodness.

This library's kontakt presets include a variety of performance controls to shape attack, release, pitch shifting, crescendo swelling and other automatable parameters. We've manipulated the raw source material to generate unique electro percussion kit elements, sustaining pads, organs and "synth" drones and of course, included a small collection of simple cat meow sound effects that we built these instruments from. It's compatible with the full version of Kontakt 3.5 or later. It can also be easily converted to other sampler formats and the audio files can be accessed in just about any audio software.

Fun fact: Snack will pretty much do anything for fish, including literally jumping through hoops, despite being rather well-fed. Check out the goofy little video of Snack in action that inspired us to make this fun little sample library. The jingle hoop you see Snack jumping through in the video came from a float in the San Francisco Chinese New Years parade was actually sampled a bit for our comprehensive Shake auxiliary percussion library.

Contents

  • Simple cat meows
  • Snack "Organs" (ambient pad instruments)
  • Snack "Electro Kit" (glitchy percussion drumkit elements)

Kontakt Format

This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 or later. Kontakt is an industry-standard advanced virtual instrument software platform. You can view screenshots of this library's custom graphical user interface in the image gallery above. This library is packed with features to provide you a wide range of sound shaping parameter controls, each one totally automation-ready in your host environment or Kontakt's stand-alone mode. Learn more about Kontakt by Clicking Here.

This is a standard Kontakt open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player does not fully support it and can only run it in a limited "demo mode". However, the sample directories are unlocked so you can use them in other wav-compatible software, sampler and synth formats. The special Libraries tab doesn't support this open-format Kontakt library, but you can use the standard File browser tab and import this library into the Kontakt Quickload window for easy loading and navigation.

Product Specs

  • 39 MB installed
  • 24 Samples
  • 9 .nki instrument presets
  • 16 bit / 44.1kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
  • Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization

System Requirements

The full retail vrsion of Native Instruments Kontakt version 3.5 (or later) is required to use this library. The free Kontakt "Player" and "Add Library" import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library. Windows XP or higher. Mac OSX 10.6 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 1 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

Soundiron's Snack (The Cat)