CELESTIA: Heavenly Sound Design, available now from Impact Soundworks! New video/demos!

[Numanoid]

Even at the sales price (Time & Space) I think it is a tad expensive as is it not a Kontakt Player instrument

[Mystic]

Not sure what not being a Kontakt instrument has to do with the price. There are a lot of standalone libraries that are amazing and not in Kontakt.

[Numanoid]

+1 SynthMagic, HollowSun, Hideaway Studio and Rigid Audio are examples of devs that make libs for Kontakt that are not Kontakt Player compatible.

They are much less expensive than Celestia.

[Fleer]

Would be nice if Impact Soundworks would make Celestia a Kontakt Player library with NKS compatibility.

[Numanoid]

Just got another Easter bonus deal from Time+Space, meaning I can take a further £8.88 off the price of Celesta, as I don't have to pay VAT the final price is £28.12

Not bad, not bad

But still I am on the fence, watching the product vid, I feel I already have this kind of instrument with the Pads lib I bought for Kontakt last year from Insusurro

[Fleer]

At that price, I wouldn't hesitate.

[Numanoid]

I have until tomorrow to see if I can fight off the GAS

€38 (or thereabouts) is still a bit of money, and I also hunger for the Sunrizer synth

[zircon]

Would be nice if Impact Soundworks would make Celestia a Kontakt Player library with NKS compatibility.

Stay tuned....

[Fleer]

Would be nice if Impact Soundworks would make Celestia a Kontakt Player library with NKS compatibility.

Stay tuned....

Wonderful news. Impact Soundworks rocks

[Numanoid]

...like Celesta v2?

And will it then become more expensive?

[Fleer]

I'm sure there will be a grace period. Andrew?

[zircon]

The plan is to create a Celestia 2 with an all-new engine. We've done some extensive R&D for another upcoming instrument and I know we can knock it out of the park, of course including all the original sound sources with many new ones. It's too early to talk about pricing specifics but there would definitely be an upgrade path and the list price would be similar to Celestia 1's launch price (maybe less)

[Fleer]

Sounds great. I do believe Kontakt Player libraries with NKS compatibility are the way to go, confirming Impact Soundworks as one of the finest library providers.

[Mystic]

The plan is to create a Celestia 2 with an all-new engine. We've done some extensive R&D for another upcoming instrument and I know we can knock it out of the park, of course including all the original sound sources with many new ones. It's too early to talk about pricing specifics but there would definitely be an upgrade path and the list price would be similar to Celestia 1's launch price (maybe less)

Do you know yet whether or not Celestia 2 will include everything from 1 or will it be it's own thing?

... and FREE ZIRCON.

[zircon]

Sounds great. I do believe Kontakt Player libraries with NKS compatibility are the way to go, confirming Impact Soundworks as one of the finest library providers.

Super Audio Cart (aforementioned big R&D project) will be NKS compatible. We'd like to go that direction moving forward.

Do you know yet whether or not Celestia 2 will include everything from 1 or will it be it's own thing?

It would have all of the same sound sources and a better engine. We developed a complete 64-slot mod matrix for this upcoming instrument... map any CC, velocity, X/Y pad, custom LFOs etc to any parameter. We'd include tech like that, which will allow for even deeper preset design. The old presets themselves would not be compatible since this would be made from scratch but we would probably try to just recreate them (much like Spectrasonics did with Atmosphere -> Omnisphere)