Bontastic!

Open Format

$ 29 $ 14.00

OVERVIEW

The BONTASTIC! Vintage Organ instrument captures with perfect clarity the retro sound of the rare Bontempi B4 Electronic Table Organ. The instrument's vivid orange plastic exterior echoes the popular aesthetics of the 1970s and early 1980s during which time the organ was produced. The Bontempi organ that Bontastic! recreates is deceptively simple -- 25 keys and 8 chord buttons, no stops or options. But with Bontastic! we've retrofitted a classic instrument and unlocked all the potential from a classic piece of music equipment.

The power of Bontastic! is really unlocked by the easy-to-use yet powerful UI. The front panel includes volume swell, attack, release, vibrato, and start offset to let you mold the sound anyway you want. The "Octave" knob can really beef up the instrument by doubling and tripling the notes being played at different octaves. This really unlocks the hidden character of the Bontempi organ.

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Unlocked WAV Samples 24 bit 48 kHz

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The "Glide" option adds an adjustable-speed portamento pitch bend between notes. The advanced tempo-syncable LFO system features configurable LFO shape, modulation target, speed, intensity, and fade-in time. A versatile filter system allows you to select between 13 filter types, modulation options, and control the frequency and resonance. As always, we included our customizable arpeggiator, which lets users control pattern direction, rhythm, swing, randomization and duration. The advanced GUI is rounded out by our modular FX rack, which lets users put any of 18 different effects (reverb, distortion, etc.) in up to 10 slots, in any chain order they desire. This also includes 119 of Soundiron's high quality impulse responses which can be loaded into the "Reverb" effect.

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Reviews & Endorsements

"Come for the cheese, stay for the sound design. Soundiron’s Bontastic Organ faithfully recreates a vintage classic with more capability than you’d expect."

Sample Library Review

Bontastic! was recorded using a stereo pair of low-noise Neumann TLM 103 microphones to capture the full acoustic range of the instrument. Sustaining notes for each key were recorded with two round robins, as well as four round robins for staccato notes. The same sustaining and staccato articulations were recorded for all eight of the chord buttons (A#, C, F, and G chords, both major and minor), as well as a variety of key and motor effects. The included octave, vibrato and FX rack give you an easy-to-use interface to completely customize and shape a classic retro sound.

The library comes equipped with flexible control features, like Swell, pitch Glide, Attack, Release, Vibrato, and Octave. There’s also a complete DSP effects rack, including convolution reverb with dozens of unique spaces, such as cathedrals, churches, halls, bunkers, garages, tunnels, chambers, rooms and plenty of otherworldly FX impulses to fully explore and endless variety of strange and unexpected sonic manipulations.

What's inside

2 Main Instrument Presets with advanced performance controls, vibrato, glide speed, LFO, Filter, Arp and full FX rack.
20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets.
Sustains, Staccatos, Chord Sustains, Chord Staccatos and Acoustic effects samples.
Glide control for legato speed.
Standard monophonic functionality or polyphonic when Glide is set to 0.
Octave feature which gradually adds a lower and higher octave.
Convolution Reverb with 119 different cathedrals, churches, chambers, rooms, halls and special effect impulses.
A full multi-effects rack, with EQ, filter, phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp & speaker simulation and more.

Artist

Bontastic! was recorded by John Valasis. John is a Greek-born composer, producer and sound designer. From his Athens based studio, he delivers scoring, foley and sound design services for many local and international clients. John's clientele includes prestigious brands like Native Instruments, Ableton, Soundiron, Virgin, Amazon Prime Video, Vice Magazine and BBC. John is also roster of Ninja Tune's imprint Just Isn't Music, alongside artists like Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Flying Lotus and The Cinematic Orchestra.

John's professional experience began in the 90s as a composer and producer for popular music and gradually expanded his skill-set across a large variety of genres. With the abilities he acquired through his 20-year professional career, as well as his genuine love for soulful music, he has crafted a strong, personal and diverse musical identity. When not working on tight deadlines, John uses Poordream as a vehicle to freely express his emotions and inﬂuences, to explore sound and composition beyond the boundaries of conventional electronic music.

John Valasis

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

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

1.2 GB Installed
358 Samples
22 Kontakt 5.5.2 .nki preset banks
24 bit / 48kHz Stereo uncompressed PCM wav audio
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.

Documentation

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