AURAS **PRE ORDER intro price NOW UP** - A New Sonic Landscape

[slateandash]

AURAS IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT THE INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF £149. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO...


AURAS is a sample library for use with NI Kontakt that explores the realm of musical sounds that are formless or undefinable in nature, encouraging exploration of texture and performance over sustained lengths of time.

It is the first Kontakt library designed for use with ROLI multi-touch technology (it is also compatible with traditional MIDI keyboards).

AURAS is a sample library for use with NI Kontakt that explores the realm of musical sounds that are formless or undefinable in nature, encouraging exploration of texture and performance over sustained lengths of time.

http://www.vimeo.com/273483209

It is the first Kontakt library designed for use with ROLI multi-touch MPE technology (it is also compatible with traditional MIDI keyboards).

This is Slate and Ash's first commercial release after producing 2 limited edition libraries REVERIE and RESONANCE that have been used in film scores by Johann Johannson, Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury, Daniel Pemberton, Dan Romer, Neil Davidge and many more.

Our bespoke work has featured on films such as Arrival, Ex_Machina, Annihilation and Darren Aronofsky's recent 10 part series 'One Strange Rock' for which we also composed half of the music score.

AURAS features a collection of multi layered instruments using sample recordings from strings, winds, modular synth, voice, guitar and all sorts of other random oddities. Performing patches from the library with Roli's multitouch technology allows you to polyphonically play with the shapes and forms of each patch in a dynamic and unique way.

http://www.vimeo.com/273541810

http://www.vimeo.com/273567510

As well the curated patches in AURAS there is a COLOURS section of the library which will the broken down layers in their own instances. It has its own GUI which features a mod matrix that allows for simple routing of multi touch parameters to various parameters inside Kontakt allowing for custom building of patches.

The library is available available at an introductory price of £149 (full price £179) until 11th July. There are 150 copies of a vinyl album of tracks made with the library by us and some amazing composers/artists available to the first orders.

If you want to find out more or place a pre-order visit http://www.slateandash.com

[DSmolken]

Looks very interesting, especially the strings.

[jancivil]

This looks like an important new development. I plan to peruse the videos; for now the thing I'm wondering is are these single instruments or multis?

Kontakt is not a VST 3.5 instrument; I understand pretty much what to do with a VST 2.4 instrument which is doable with an instrument in Cubendo via Note Expression using 'Any' (Omni) for the MIDI channel, which in Kontakt means an instrument for each expression each with its own channel so far.

This is going to get into some money! It's the first I've really been interested in Note Expression as MPE provides for a way using VST 2.

[slateandash]

This looks like an important new development. I plan to peruse the videos; for now the thing I'm wondering is are these single instruments or multis?

Kontakt is not a VST 3.5 instrument; I understand pretty much what to do with a VST 2.4 instrument which is doable with an instrument in Cubendo via Note Expression using 'Any' (Omni) for the MIDI channel, which in Kontakt means an instrument for each expression each with its own channel so far.

This is going to get into some money! It's the first I've really been interested in Note Expression as MPE provides for a way using VST 2.

Hi,

Thanks for the interest and good question.

Yes, they are technically multis but they are housed in a single interface with multiple groups assigned to different midi channels. There were a few challenges in the scripting to get it to work but its all looking pretty good now. You can shape envelope, adjust reverbs, layer volume etc from one GUI and it will effect all the voices the same. The website with full product info page, some proper videos and pre-order purchase should be hopefully be up first week of June.

You can sign up on the current holding page if you'd like to be notified!

[Tj Shredder]

Will it run in Kontakt player? What would be the introductory price roughly? (Between x and y would be enough to get an idea...)

[slateandash]

Will it run in Kontakt player? What would be the introductory price roughly? (Between x and y would be enough to get an idea...)

It won’t be a Kontakt player library on initial release. It’s something we’re talking about doing with NI maybe a little down the line.

Price is probably £150 intro £179 after.

[slateandash]

PRE-ORDERS NOW UP at intro price http://www.slateandash.com/auras

http://vimeo.com/273483209

[slateandash]

Hi guys,

Overview videos up for both the AURAS section of the library (multilayered, curated patches) and the COLOURS section (sample synth engine which uses the source material from AURAS).

Introductory price ends this Friday!

https://vimeo.com/277730100

https://vimeo.com/278334006

http://www.slateandash.com/auras

[zadillo]

I understand it can't load in the Libraries tab, but is there any way to at least get it into the Quick Load section? Otherwise it seems like you have to navigate down the file structure until you find it every time you want to use it

[zadillo]

I understand it can't load in the Libraries tab, but is there any way to at least get it into the Quick Load section? Otherwise it seems like you have to navigate down the file structure until you find it every time you want to use it

Never mind, I just discovered that the Quick Load section has different sections for quickloading multis, banks and instruments. Worked fine to add them to the Multis.