Orchestral Tools releases Korven - Acoustic Textures of Terror for the free SINE player

Orchestral Tools has announced the release of Korven, a set of horrific, playable sounds created by composer Mark Korven (The VVitch, The Lighthouse, The Black Phone).

The collection features organic sounds in Mark's signature style, all based on acoustic instruments. It's a vast, terrifying, and inspiring orchestra for you to use in your own music: Folk horror, primordial dread, tense underscoring, or anything intended to create unease and apprehension.

Acoustic textures of terror

Stray from the path in the dark wood, or venture alone into the cellar in a strange house, and you'll hear these sounds. Mark Korven (The VVitch, The Lighthouse, The Black Phone) understands like no one else the organic roots of real fear, and has developed a signature style based on acoustic instruments. Korven captures Mark's vision in a vast, terrifying, and inspiring orchestra—for folk horror, primordial dread, tense underscoring, and any kind of music that creates unease and apprehension.

Sounds of mystery and imagination

Korven offers a vast array of fear-inducing sounds, all created acoustically. This focus on acoustic and organic audio sources, along with some careful effects processing and sound design, is a big part of Mark's signature sound.

This unique approach manifests itself in physical form as The Apprehension Engine—a complex instrument created by Mark and luthier Tony Duggan-Smith. But the same approach can be applied to other sources, such as strings, woodwinds, or traditional instruments.

It's this vision that has captivated and terrified audiences, and it's this vision that we've captured in this collection.

Highlights

• 622 playable instruments and patches.
• Includes 49 layered instruments and 83 processed patches.
• Includes sounds from the Apprehension Engine.
• Includes specially orchestrated experimental strings and wind quintet.
• Includes the experimental 8-foot Symphonae instrument, hurdy-gurdy, oktav harpa, waterphone.
• Special selection of risers, downers, pulses, and plucks.
• 5 mic positions plus a mix for the processed patches.
• Designed and recorded by Mark Korven at Revolution Recording in Toronto, Canada.

Pricing & Availability

Powered by the free SINEplayer, Korven is available for the introductory price of €129 until November 11, 2025 (Reg. €199).

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