Glade

Glade is a fully featured, professionally recorded instrument available free of charge to composers who want to start writing music today. It fuses world color with symphonic craft into a playable toolkit for expression.

Use macros to sculpt color and define contour, then drop into the instrument patches when you need a precise workflow. Layer strings, winds, voices, and organic percussion to discover new harmonies and timbres.

It is lightweight to load, mix-ready out of the box, and works in the free Kontakt Player. Glade moves sketches to finished ideas in minutes and feels at home in film cues, trailers, games, pop toplines, and electronic soundscapes. Traditional when you need it, adventurous when you want it.

New Designer Interface

4 Layer Preset Workflow | Macro Control | Factory Presets

Meet the Designer interface, a fast way to build living texture. Stack up to four parts from strings, winds, voices, and percussive elements. Use the two macro controls to transform a single static chord into an evolving motion, or map them to almost any parameter for one-handed control:

• Layer contrasting sources, from orchestral longs and shorts to world based flutters, textures and organic percussion.
• 80+ curated presets to get you writing immediately, plus create your own.
• Per-layer shaping for EQ, filters, envelopes, and effects so a sketch can become a cue in minutes.

Full Set of Articulations

Multisample patches for a traditional workflow

Prefer a intricate, detailed approach? Use the separate instrument patches with clear articulations and keyswitches. They're stable, light on CPU, and ready for clean stems and fast mixes:

• Consistent dynamics and expression workflow.
• Straightforward controls you can trust on deadlines.
• Built on our proven Pyramid interface but with a fresh, modern UI design.

19 Instruments, No Compromises

Glade gives you a tight, expressive palette without fillers.

Glade includes orchestral staples such as high and low strings and ensemble woodwinds, as well as the ability to create solo lines and unique textures with a collection of world instruments, such as duduk, fujara, pan pipes and ney.

Each instrument was captured in exquisite detail, and mixed to create an instantly useable out-of-the-box sound. Light on resources, big in the mix.

All content was meticulously recorded with our long-term partners at Budapest Scoring (Solo, Chorus, Poseidon, etc.) and Clockwork Sessions (Kithara).

1 Product, 2 Instruments

Glade is shipped in two versions, Glade and Glade Studio.

Glade is designed to be as portable as possible, meaning only our Classic and Modern mixes are included, to reduce the download size to just over 4GB.

For those who want more control, we have created Glade Studio, complete with four different mic positions on top of these mixes.

Neither product is better than the other, and neither of them compromise on quality, features or content. The choice is simply yours – no strings attached.

Key Features

• Made for Kontakt Player, Version 7.10.9 or higher.
• Requires Native Access 2 to install. See system requirements.
• NKS Ready.
• 19 orchestral and world instruments.
• 4 layer designer interface for enhanced compositional possibilities.
• 2 different versions - Glade (4GB) or Glade Studio (12GB) for added flexibility.