Kontakt 55.8.1

Featuring Nashville's finest string players at Ocean Way Studios – a world class scoring environment – we dedicated over two years to capturing the expressive performances of the incredible musicians we worked with. Using performance-based sampling techniques, we were able to preserve the subtle details and expressiveness found in real live recordings, all while maintaining the sense of depth found in the room. Every note was analyzed in real time during the sessions to make sure we maintained timbrel consistency.

Apollo 2: Cinematic Guitars is the highly anticipated sequel to our best-selling virtual instrument! We took the most loved features of the original Apollo and incorporated them into a fully redesigned interface with all brand-new samples. The end result is the new gold standard for cinematic, ambient, post-rock, and sound design productions! Recorded with top-of-the-line amps, guitars, and pedals, there is nearly 36GB of meticulously recorded shimmering swells, fuzzy drones, playful licks, and 63 chromatically sampled instruments! With unprecedented power and simplicity, Apollo 2 provides you with the tools to score your dreams.

Binaural Piano is a truly inspirational virtual instrument suitable for any task, from classic mock-ups to film scores, trailers and pop productions. As always, Neocymantics' goal was to get as close to the real thing as possible. This captured the resonances of all possible key combinations, resulting in a whopping 7,744 samples for the resonances alone. The same goes for the sustain pedal resonances and the release samples. Also, the hammer sounds were recorded in isolation to use either as an effect or as an additional percussive layer.

CineHarpsichord is a modern adaptation of a Franco-Flemish 1624 Iohannes Rückers Colmar harpsichord sampled by hand at the legendary MGM Scoring Stage at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles. With four stops and three distinct sonic characters, CineHarpsichord will be suitable for use in scoring and classical applications.

ARCTICA is a stunning instrument that features various types of synth and pad sounds. You can create sharp and epic polysynths, pads, as well as cold, ambient and dreamy atmospheres and drones. ARCTICA is based on the same architecture as our previous release, DEEP BLUE, but with some extra features.

Rudimentary: Odd Meter Drums draws outside the lines when it comes to traditional time signatures. Each fully fleshed out session includes main mixes for quick and easy arrangement, and a full suite of stems for more in-depth mixing.

Harmonic Tides is an aetherial sound-designed string library crafted from delicately resonant cello and double bass string harmonics. Soundiron collaborator Pierce Constanti created Harmonic Tides with the specific goal of making a uniquely expressive textural sound designed instrument ideal for film scoring. His goal was to create a custom scoring tool that could be just as expressive, versatile, and nuanced as a typical orchestral string library. It's perfect for modern arrangements and film/game scores whenever lush swells and huge waves of intense feeling are called for.

The ultimate virtual 8-string for rock and metal. The ultimate badass 8-string guitar for rock and metal music! Write crystal-clear clean tones, screaming leads, or brutal chugs with incredible realism. With two distinct pickups, 30,000+ samples, and over 50 included tone snapshots, Shreddage 3 Hydra is the most complete Shreddage guitar ever.

GAMELAN includes over 750 soundsources, 700 soundcores, 1,700 instruments, and a 14 GB compressed sample library using Kontakt’s lossless sample storage compression. All samples were recorded at 88.2kHz and are delivered at 44.1kHz/24- bit.