romantic flair that is irresistible and has easily stood the test of time. We just can't get enough of sweeping
string passages, the sound of a trumpet's harmon mute, a big band sax section, flugelhorn and trombones with
french horns. For many years we've felt the urge to create a product encompassing this style of music and now
we have
Noir is our first foray into what hopefully will turn out to be a new line in the Sonokinetic range. As always we
have added some twists to our existing engine, but in this case it was more of a rewrite. For those familiar with
our other orchestral libraries, Noir is different! Because of the nature of the musical content we decided to
deviate from our usual four high-mid-low presets and go more in the vein of the atonal Espressivo, with 12
preset keys that each hold a single performance. This makes it even easier to combine different presets and
experiment with intertwining melodies and harmonies, which achieves a more horizontal composing process. A
lot of thought when into how to translate this concept into a useable interface and we hope you like what we've
come up with and encourage this new direction.
In Noir we put all three recorded orchestral sections in a single Section instrument, which makes combining
different instrument groups super easy, and of course we have our trusted randomize button that will serve up
twelve fresh phrases with every press.
There are two instruments in Noir, the solos come separately. Solos are a collection of improvisations on Tenor
Saxophone, Trumpet (with harmon mute), Flugelhorn, Clarinet and Piano that are recorded in the same hall as
the main instrument. The performances blend perfectly with the phrase material in the Sections instrument, or
can stand perfectly well on their own with a gorgeous sound and intuitive no-fuss interfacing.
Producing Noir was a massive effort, and we consider it a new milestone. We hope you feel the same way!
Overview
Demos
https://soundcloud.com/sonokinetic/sets/noir/s-gcpJh
Further videos are available at https://www.sonokinetic.net/products/instruments/noir/
Noir is NKS compatible and will also run in the free Kontakt Player version 5.7.1 and above.
In addition to the release of Noir today, we are delighted to announce that ALL our current catalog has been upgraded to be NKS compatible and will run in the free Kontakt Player 5.7.1 and above. To celebrate this milestone, we are running a HUGE sale across our entire catalog with 50% discounts on all single purchases. Noir is also discounted by 50% to €149.90 during this promotion. There is a special 25 instrument bundle available with 85% discount that contains 2 new libraries available on early access; The Oud, and The Watchmaker. Both these libraries will become available for general release on March 1st.
The good news doesn't stop there! ALL existing owners of the products now upgraded will receive a FREE NKS compatible, Kontakt Player update added to their account over the coming weeks.
More details available from: https://www.sonokinetic.net/products/instruments/noir/
– there are solo instrument phrases and ditto improvisations. In other words, apparently no user individually playable instruments in Noir.