Massive Darkscore V by The Unfinished - now on sale!
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2096 posts since 24 May, 2008 from London, UK
Hello KVR. It's 2015 and time for a new synth soundset...
This Friday I'm releasing Massive Darkscore V. It's been a while since the last Massive soundset, but the old beast still retains its charm.
Biting basslines, shadowy pads, crunchy leads, grinding soundscapes and punchy basses fill this soundset. Designed for sombre and action-packed cinematics, and fluid and lo-fi electronica, Darkscore V delivers earth-shattering lows and stratospheric highs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-EB584Qwwg
This collection of gritty electronic cinematic sounds can at turns be used delicately and aggressively. Distorted bass sequences can be pulled back to subtle, pulsing textures; glimmering padscapes can be pushed into rupturing, muscular drones. Emotion and atmosphere meets anarchy and violence.
As usual, deep programming has gone into the Macro controls, creating numerous ways to manipulate the patches on the fly – a huge amount of expression is possible, meaning that hundreds more sounds are at your fingertips, with some judicious tweaking.
https://soundcloud.com/the-unfinished/s ... re-v-demos
Massive Darkscore V contains 128 patches and will be available for £19.99 (+ VAT).
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2096 posts since 24 May, 2008 from London, UK
- KVRist
- 316 posts since 3 Mar, 2014
Very dramatic, intense and dark sound set.
As is usual with this kind of specific focus, maybe the presets are "too good". Some presets are so ready that they form a song by themselves. Of course there more generic presets too, but there is surprisingly few ones which are not useful.
These are not bread and butter sounds. However, there's a lot to learn by seeing how these are done.
You could score some intense action thriller or sci-fi epic without much effort with these. I guess you can add some drama to any genre with these, but it hardly is good stuff for happy and relaxing themes...
For darker genres it fits very well.
Massive Darkscore series is heavy dose of intense drama. Good stuff.
As is usual with this kind of specific focus, maybe the presets are "too good". Some presets are so ready that they form a song by themselves. Of course there more generic presets too, but there is surprisingly few ones which are not useful.
These are not bread and butter sounds. However, there's a lot to learn by seeing how these are done.
You could score some intense action thriller or sci-fi epic without much effort with these. I guess you can add some drama to any genre with these, but it hardly is good stuff for happy and relaxing themes...
For darker genres it fits very well.
Massive Darkscore series is heavy dose of intense drama. Good stuff.
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- KVRAF
- 7795 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
In listening between the differences of 'dressed' and 'naked' demos...
Can you give a general description of what was used to 'dress' them?
Nice BTW... bought!
Thanks for the discount!
Made it a no brainer.
Can you give a general description of what was used to 'dress' them?
Nice BTW... bought!
Thanks for the discount!
Made it a no brainer.
- KVRAF
- 35294 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Just bought, Darkscore is a great resource for Massive users, nice to have a complete set now.
btw for any Kore 2 users left I made ksd versions of I-IV so will no doubt be doing the same for V soon.
btw for any Kore 2 users left I made ksd versions of I-IV so will no doubt be doing the same for V soon.
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2096 posts since 24 May, 2008 from London, UK
@Markku
Thanks for all those kind comments, really appreciate that.
@BBFG#
The dressed demos are allowed to use orchestral sample libraries, live instruments, some percussion. As a rule, nothing that can be confused for what's in the soundset, basically. So, absolutely no other synth sounds/sfx and often no synthetic percussion. Most of the time it is strings, piano and epic percussion that get added.
@aMUSEd
Thanks for that. Maybe next time, I'll remember to contact you beforehand!
Thanks for all those kind comments, really appreciate that.
@BBFG#
The dressed demos are allowed to use orchestral sample libraries, live instruments, some percussion. As a rule, nothing that can be confused for what's in the soundset, basically. So, absolutely no other synth sounds/sfx and often no synthetic percussion. Most of the time it is strings, piano and epic percussion that get added.
@aMUSEd
Thanks for that. Maybe next time, I'll remember to contact you beforehand!
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- KVRAF
- 7795 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
Thanks, the added instruments are evident. I thought there might be some compression/dynamics added also though since the patches take on a 'smoother' quality in the mix is all.synaesthesia wrote: @BBFG#
The dressed demos are allowed to use orchestral sample libraries, live instruments, some percussion. As a rule, nothing that can be confused for what's in the soundset, basically. So, absolutely no other synth sounds/sfx and often no synthetic percussion. Most of the time it is strings, piano and epic percussion that get added.
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2096 posts since 24 May, 2008 from London, UK
There may well be a little bit of compression and stuff in the mixes and mastering of the tracks, as they're designed to show how the sounds work in a full-blooded mix. But certainly, there shouldn't be any colouring EQing or plugs that cloud the tone of the presets.
That's why I also do the walkthrough videos, to show them in their completely raw state too.
That's why I also do the walkthrough videos, to show them in their completely raw state too.
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- KVRAF
- 7795 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
I understand that, and don't think it detracts from the sound set in either way. I was just interested in how they were complimented by those fx to be able to get something close to the 'dressed' versions myself. FX seem to help a lot in helping smooth out those qualities I don't care for from the synth itself.synaesthesia wrote:There may well be a little bit of compression and stuff in the mixes and mastering of the tracks, as they're designed to show how the sounds work in a full-blooded mix. But certainly, there shouldn't be any colouring EQing or plugs that cloud the tone of the presets.
That's why I also do the walkthrough videos, to show them in their completely raw state too.
TBH, I haven't been much of a fan of Massive. But I picked up your bundle in the last auction and jumped on this deal too. And your sets are getting me to like the synth more and more each time.
And I like this last one quite a bit!
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2096 posts since 24 May, 2008 from London, UK
Thanks. Glad you're liking it. I started to learn synth programming with Massive, so it will always have a special place for me.
Demos are an interesting subject. I've often ben disappointed by sample libraries that seem to bury their own sounds in a demo track, even without having a 'naked' version sometimes. Seems an odd thing to do. I think it's particularly goo fun to try and do a demo only using the soundset... but it depends what mood I'm in!
Demos are an interesting subject. I've often ben disappointed by sample libraries that seem to bury their own sounds in a demo track, even without having a 'naked' version sometimes. Seems an odd thing to do. I think it's particularly goo fun to try and do a demo only using the soundset... but it depends what mood I'm in!
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2096 posts since 24 May, 2008 from London, UK
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