The story
I’m thrilled to be submitting my first Kontakt Instrument to Pianobook. Since I’m stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, I followed Christian’s advice and have been “Nerding for the Weekend”. I took two samples I recorded last year and created a granular drone sound.
I’m a mechanical engineer who does metal 3D printing for a living, and the first sound was an unexpected screech at work. The machinist was experimenting with some new machining parameters that made an awful (and wonderful) noise! He thought I was weird for recording him…
For extra pizazz, I mixed it with the sound of me hitting a pot lid with a wooden spoon. I morphed both samples using the granular synth engine in Arturia Pigments 2.0. Then I brought those sounds into Kontakt for all to enjoy!
The Mod Wheel controls the low pass filter cut off frequency. I mapped the envelope with knobs on my first ever GUI.
Check out my walkthrough video of how I created the instrument at:
It was fun working on this. It helped improve my sound design skills and I got to learn how to video edit for my first long YouTube video!
Enjoy!
Jared
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Great Haunting Ambience
Perfect for ominous, brooding cinematic pieces...great sonic expression...Love it!
Dark and haunting feels
I think I would personally never use this sound, but I can see it being very interesting to dark sci-fi lovers. The GUI is good, but the mod-wheel LPF is not visible anywhere. It's a nice instrument overall!
Huge ominous drone
This library contains a huge sounding rather ominous drone. The sample itself has a very slow attack and reverb, so there's not a lot you're going to do to change that, but I found the sound very playable and usable just as it is. It's a great dark and foreboding drone!
Eerie Tones. Eerie Drones
Perfect haunting sound for October! This can be used for a haunting halloween suspense thriller project. Or layered with pads to create an ambient soundscape. Enjoy!
Doesn't work for me
Unfortunately, this instrument says files missing for me and nothing happens when i open it up even though i tried multiple times. If anyone knows how to fix this let me know cause judging by the other reviews this is a really cool instrument
