Nightmare Violin
This strings library features a collection of eerie articulations, including unsettling pizzicato swarms, weaving ponticello sustains, haunting ricochets, and violent tremolos that will send shivers down your spine. But that's not all—Nightmare Violin also comes packed with 40 ominous textural pads and evolving drones, ideal for crafting dark, immersive soundscapes that pull your audience into the depths of fear.
Introducing Nightmare Violin – an essential tool for horror composers. This bone-chilling library features a collection of eerie articulations, including unsettling pizzicato swarms, weaving ponticello sustains, haunting ricochets, and violent tremolos (6x round-robin) that will send shivers down your spine. But that's not all—Nightmare Violin also comes packed with 40 ominous textural pads and evolving drones, ideal for crafting dark, immersive soundscapes that pull your audience into the depths of fear.
We recorded this instrument in a dry studio environment, using a pair of Neumann TLM 102's and Sound Devices preamps to get maximum detail, clarity, fidelity and clean dynamic range. To take things further, we’ve also designed 20 custom FX presets to deliver an extra jolt of terror to your next film, video game score, soundtrack, or music project. These expertly crafted presets are engineered to instantly amplify the tension, creating nerve-wracking atmospheres that keep listeners on edge. Nightmare Violin is your key to unlocking a world of darkness, bringing haunting sound to life with every note.
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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!
Multi-Format
This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 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.
This library includes presets for the free Decent Sampler engine by Decent Samples (version 1.11.18 or later). Decent Sampler is a powerful platform that offers many of the same core features you’ll find in our Kontakt presets, with a broad selection of effects, customization features and host/midi automation support. It’s compatible with VST, VST3, AAX, Audiounit, Auv3 and Standalone for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Linux. You can view screenshots of this library's DS user interface in the image gallery above. Download Decent Sampler for free at https://www.decentsamples.com/product/decent-sampler-plugin.
To use this library in Decent Sampler, you can download and install the Decent Sampler plugin, load it as a virtual instrument in most DAWs or run it in stand-alone mode, and simply drag-drop any of the .dspreset files included with this library into the Decent Sampler plugin window to immediately load the preset. Learn more about Decent Sampler by Clicking Here.
Product Specs
- 8.07 GB installed
- 1,328 Samples
- 21 Kontakt 6.2.2 .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
- 40 Ambient Pads, Soundscapes and Atmospheres
- Dozens of our custom convolution reverb impulses with a variety of different room, hall and special effect acoustic environments.
Documentation
System Requirements
The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 6.2.2 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt "Player" and "Add Library" import process do not support these standard open-format Kontakt libraries. The free Decent Sampler engine is required to use the .dspreset instrument presets included in this library. Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10.12 or higher for Kontakt. Mac OSX 10.9 or higher for Decent Sampler. Linux x86 64bit supported for Decent Sampler. Multi-Core CPU, 3 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.
Click Here to learn about the differences between the full unlocked version of Kontakt and limited Kontakt Player. This software is delivered as a digital download, so a broadband connection is required. Please see our Help Page for download and installation instructions, tutorials and the End User Licensing Agreement before purchasing this software.
Videos
Walkthrough: Nightmare Violin
Composing With Nightmare Violin
Reviews & Endorsements
""I always need more interesting acoustic textures for horror scores, and Nightmare Violin is right on the money. The tentative, faltering sound of the ponticello sustains is ice cold, the tremolos will set your teeth on edge, and the big collection of processed ambiences are hugely useful to me. I’ll get some serious mileage out of this library, total nightmare fuel!"