Bloom KSHMR

Indian Musical Heritage with Modern Production

Step into a world where tradition meets innovation with Bloom KSHMR. Crafted in collaboration with globally-acclaimed producer and sound designer KSHMR, this expressive instrument seamlessly blends Indian and South Asian musical heritage with modern production - no matter your genre.

Explore over 250 presets that feature a rich tapestry of drum circles, tablas, sitars, bansuri flutes, and expressive vocal performances. Each sound is royalty-free and infused with KSHMR's unmistakable flair, channeling the sound of India, South Asia, and Bollywood-inspired orchestration, brought to life by Bloom's sequencer engine and powerful effects.

"Bloom KSHMR has Indian sounds and Indian culture to offer you. But as you play with the Bloom interface, the effects that are there, the sequencer that is there, you'll realise that it can create almost anything." - KSHMR.

What Bloom KSHMR Can Do:

• Provide rich Indian, South Asian, and Bollywood-inspired instruments for your music.
• Combines one-shots and loops into phrases that are perfectly in-sync with your project.
• Shape your sound with three versatile effects and four powerful macros designed by KSHMR (Lo-Fi, Tube, Width & Space).
• Get instant inspiration with 250 presets, expertly designed by KSHMR and Excite Audio's team of professional sound designers.
• (New!) Personalise the instrument completely by importing your own samples.

Sound Sources

"One of the things that I'm most proud of with Bloom KSHMR is the process and the people involved in making the sounds for it" - KSHMR.

KSHMR himself carefully curated every sound in Bloom KSHMR. He collaborated with talented instrumentalists who captured the recordings throughout India and the wider South Asian region. They meticulously recorded using a blend of high-end analog gear and contemporary production techniques to preserve raw character while enhancing sonic depth.

The result is a library where every hit, strum and shake bursts with organic detail and expressive energy, ready to drive your music forward.

Inside Bloom KSHMR, you'll find a wide range of instruments to explore from light percussive tablas and dhols through to massive bollywood-style drum circles, a variety of bansuri flute loops and one-shots, strummed and stringed instruments including sitars, rababs and ouds as well a variety of authentic and expressive vocal loops.

How it Works

Stay in the creative flow on the Main Page - trigger individual sounds with white notes and launch phrases or tweak properties with black notes. Four powerful macros (Lo-Fi, Drive, Slap Delay & Multi Delay) let you shape your sound, while a range of 250 presets get you moving fast.

There are eight banks of sounds to choose from - organised into easy to find categories. Swap sounds by loading a new bank or dragging individual samples onto the 14 white notes for instant variation.

The Edit Page: Sculpt Your Sound

"You can chop any section of every loop, pitch it, add different effects, combine it with other sounds, and very quickly the results start to become enormous." - KSHMR.

For those who want to go deeper, programming entire sequences, chopping up hits and loops and using custom samples, it's all unearthed in the Edit page. Bloom KSHMR's Edit Page houses parameters like playback type and direction, attack and release, pitch and panning and everything else you'd expect in a modern sampler.

Adding your own samples to use as sources in Bloom KSHMR is perfect for those who want to put their personal stamp on things. Drag and drop an audio file onto the sample display in the Main Page to replace the existing sample. Swap in your samples in complex patches to transform them while keeping KSHMR's production as your foundation.

Unlike traditional sequencers, the Bloom Sequencer is designed for triggering and layering one-shots and looping sequences, allowing for endless rhythmic creation. In the modulation section, automate pitch, volume, and filter settings as well as three effects to add depth and dimension to your music.

In addition to high-pass and low-pass filtering, three effects await you in the Edit page. Noise helps to add layers of crunch and texture to a sound by mixing in a layer of noise from a choice of Vinyl Crackle, Cassette, White Noise and more. Reverb adds space to sounds with characterful Plate, Hall, or Spring types. A Dynamics processor helps to shape transients as well as Gate or Compress the signal to bring out the details.

Features:

• 14 Sample Keys.
• 5 Factory Modifiers: Half-time, Double-Time, Reverse, Octave Down, Octave Up.
• 5 Custom Modifiers (A, B, C, D, E) for Triggering Sequences.
• 8 Sample Banks / 112 Percussion Samples.
• Samples Synced to Host BPM.
• Key Selection.
• Sample Randomise.
• 4 Macros: Lo-Fi, Tube, Width, Space.
• 5 Main FX Parameters: Noise, Reverb, Dynamics, Lo-Cut, Hi-Cut.
• Global Bypass.
• 250 Presets.
• All samples that come with Bloom KSHMR are royalty-free.
• Import up to 112 of your own samples (these can be swapped at any time).

Edit Page - Sample Edit:

• Waveform Display.
• Playback Direction: Forwards, Backwards, Pendulum, Loop.
• Playback Modes: Hold, Latch, Relative.
• Playback Speed: Normal, Double, Half.
• 4 Choke Groups.
• Start / End Markers with Snap to Grid, Snap to Transient.
• Sample Crossfade, Attack, Release, Pan, Volume.
• Sample Pitch, Fine, Formant, Pitch Warp.

Edit Page - Sequencer:

• Sample Mode for triggering sequences.
• FX Modulation: Reverb, Dynamics, Reverb, Lo-Cut, Hi-Cut, Pitch, Volume.
• Playback Direction: Forwards, Backwards, Pendulum, Loop.
• Sample / Modulation Randomise.
• Global / Track Step Rate, Sync, Swing, Steps, Latch, Beat Retrigger controls.
• Track Trigger, Velocity, Probability, Attack, Release, Timing and Perform.

Edit Page - FX:

• 3 Rearrangable Effects: Noise, Reverb, Dynamics.
• 15 Noise Types: Vinyl Crackle, Cassette & Tape Static, Crowd Noise, White Noise, Amp Hiss & more.
• Noise Mode: Constant, Dynamic, Ducked.
• Noise Parameters: Level, Envelope Threshold / Release, Tone.
• Reverb Modes: Plate, Hall, Spring.
• Reverb Parameters: Length, Size, Mix, Pre-Delay, Duck, Lo-Cut, Hi-Cut, Input, Output.
• Dynamic Parameters: Attack, Sustain, Mix, Gate, Comp, Attack, Release, Input, Output.
• Global Lo-Cut, Hi-Cut, Tone, Dry, Wet.