Fountain Wires is an inspiring acoustic-synthetic plucked string library created by manipulating the sound of tightly strung steel cables with experimental sound design techniques. This collection offers a wide variety of punchy lead instruments, distorted guitar-like tones, undulating soundscapes, complex organ and e-piano-like elements, thumping bass notes and a wide variety of other very musical and deeply useful creative content. This 853 MB library is wrapped up in a customizable performance control system, with lots of sound-shaping tools, arpeggiation sequencing and flexible DSP effects. This library is perfect for chill-wave, new wave, EDM, glitch, post rock, soundtrack, down-tempo, dub, ambient music, general sound design and any situation that calls for conceptually familiar and yet slightly off-kilter sonic source material.
During a recent expedition to the California Southland, with it's sun-baked chrome, glass, plastic and steel landscape and high-octane energy, we happened across a cool piece of ordinary architecture with some very cool sonic potential - a shady fountain sanctuary ringed by tightly strung steel cable fencing, hidden in the midst of Hollywood's grit. We pulled out our trusty field recording gear and a heavy guitar pick and set to work, sampling a wide range of different wires, each with it's own tone and character. The bass-heavy, full-sounding resonance of each cable mixed with the peaceful white noise drone of the fountains surrounding us to produce a rather beautiful and curious result. We then took the raw material back to our studio, pulled it apart and wound it all back together into a unique experimental instrument toolkit. Our goal with this library was to combine authentic field-recorded muso-environmental sounds and specialized sound design techniques to craft a playable and inspiring soundset that brings together the best of both the acoustic and synthetic audio worlds.
Check out our demo MP3s. Most of them are totally naked, with just instruments and FX from the library itself:
Fountain Wires comes fully-equipped with a custom user interface that provides real-time automation control over note attack, sample start position offset, intensity swelling, release fade time, tuning and dual sonic layer blending. Each sound layer is fully independent and has its own control set so users can pitch, pan, swell and attenuate each one separately. Fountain Wires also features our powerful integrated "Uberpeggiator" arpeggiation system which allows to total customization and full preset saving and loading. We also included our full FX Rack which has an integrated EQ, convolution reverb selector, compressor, distortion, delay and much more. All of the samples are also included as categorized and clearly named stereo wave files that can be imported and used in any wav-format compatible audio environment, sampler, editor, sequencer or other audio software you like.
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Click Here for the pdf user manual.
This standard open-format library includes unlocked wavs and requires the full version of Kontakt 5.1 or later. The free Kontakt Player and Player Libraries rack don't support this format. Fountain Wires is on sale for only $15 through November 22nd, 2013. The price goes to $20 after the intro period ends.
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