KONTAKT | 02/11/2021 | 5.30 GB
Synthetic Materials 是一种简单但功能强大的 KONTAKT 乐器，由丰富多样的现代经典模拟和波表合成器声音提供支持，并配有标度量化的半生成音序器。
所有基本声音（总共 60 个，压缩约 5GB）都在 24 位超宽立体声中采样，并包含大量有趣的内容，用于长、不断发展和大气的打击垫。该乐器带有 100 个快照和 25 个音序器演示，但合成材料实际上是让这些声音成为您自己的声音。还有 50 个 Multis 展示了通过分层合成材料乐器可以实现的目标。
从两种不同类型的 LP 滤波器（带包络和 LFO）中选择雕刻您的作品，或添加一些带有专用包络的驱动效果的砂砾。使用乐器的内置效果进一步增强您的声音，包括 4 频段均衡器、立体声乒乓延迟、旋转、合唱、混响和压缩。
添加带有连奏滑音、颤音和效果踏板启发的音高移位器的基于音高的表达。音高移位器允许您为每个演奏的音符生成最多两个额外的音符，用于八度或和弦效果，包括力度缩放、自动声相和微妙的失谐。
从仪器 GUI 上的单个屏幕或您的 NKS 控制器控制所有这些参数。
最后但并非最不重要的是，合成材料步进音序器的设计充满乐趣、创意和音乐灵感。尽管最多只有 16 步，但音序器由基于生成概率的引擎驱动，可让您开发出两次听起来永远不会相同的模式。每个序列的步长可以设置为从 16 分音符到 8 节拍，以适应不断变化的音景。每个步骤的速度和门限都可以调节，并且可以选择性地细分步骤以获得老式的“棘轮”效果。门时间也可以重叠以用于步骤之间的滑动。
但是当您探索一些音序器更不寻常的功能时，乐趣才真正开始……
A/B 选项允许您为每个步骤配置具有替代音高的音乐变化。通过为“碰撞”或“跳跃”分配步骤，添加从微妙的方向转变到全面混乱的任何内容。当然，所有这些都是基于概率的！最后，您甚至可以使用音序器的“自动移调”功能勾勒出音乐创意，该功能在您的音序运行时自动移调您的音序，使用内置的音阶量化使所有内容都保持完美的音调和音调。
下面的演示是用 100% 合成材料制作的 – 除了对主混音进行一点压缩和限制外，没有额外的处理。
兼容 KONTAKT 免费播放器和完整版：6.6.1
Synthetic Materials is a simple, but powerful KONTAKT instrument fuelled by a rich assortment of modern-day classic analog and wavetable synthesiser sounds, complete with a scale-quantised semi-generative sequencer.
All the base sounds (60 in total, approx 5GB compressed) have been sampled in 24 bit super-wide stereo, and include plenty of interesting content for long, evolving and atmospheric pads. The instrument comes with 100 snapshots plus 25 sequencer demos, but Synthetic Materials is really about making those sounds your own. There are also 50 Multis demonstrating what can be achieved by layering Synthetic Materials instruments.
Sculpt your creations selecting from two different types of LP filter (with envelope and LFO) or add some grit with a drive effect that has its own dedicated envelope. Further enhance your sounds with the instrument’s built-in effects, including 4-band EQ, stereo ping-pong delay, rotary, chorus, reverb and compression.
Add pitch-based expression with legato glide, vibrato and an effects pedal inspired pitch shifter. The pitch shifter allows you to generate up to two additional notes for each one you play, for octave or chord effects, including velocity scaling, automated pan and subtle detuning.
Control all of these parameters from a single screen on the instrument’s GUI or from your NKS controller.
Last but not least, the Synthetic Materials step sequencer has been designed to be fun, creative and musically inspiring. Despite having only 16 steps maximum, the sequencer is driven by a generative probability-based engine that allows you to develop patterns that will never sound the same twice. Step length for each sequence can be set from a sixteenth note to a massive 8 beats for evolving soundscapes. Velocity and gate is adjustable for each step, and steps can be optionally sub-divided for old-school “ratcheting” effects. Gate times can also be overlapped for glides between steps.
But the fun really starts when you explore some of sequencer’s more unusual features…
The A/B option allows you to configure musical variation with alternative pitches for each step. Add anything from subtle direction shifts to all-out chaos by assigning steps to “bump” or “jump”. All of this is probability-based of course! And finally, you can even sketch out musical ideas using the sequencer’s “shift automation” feature that auto-transposes your sequence while it’s running, with everything staying perfectly in key and in tune using the built-in scale quantisation.
The demos below were made with 100% Synthetic Materials – no additional processing aside from a little compression and limiting on the master mix.
Compatible with KONTAKT Free Player and Full version: 6.6.1
