Habitat by Dominik Eulberg

Playable natural landscapes

Instantly evoke vivid scenes from the natural world through distinctive blends of electronic and acoustic sounds. Created with electronic music producer and conservationist Dominik Eulberg, Habitat mixes analog synth textures and orchestral samples, to provide new inspiration for creating living, breathing soundscapes. Perfect for underscoring, sound design, electronic production, and foley, Habitat gives you new ways to conjure the natural world in sound.

Inspired by nature

How would you describe a forest in music? To create the playable soundscapes for Habitat, Orchestral Tools crafted sounds that summon distinct natural environments—mountains, forest, pond, lake, stream, meadow, wetland, heathland, coast, and ocean. For each natural setting, Habitat offers variations that represent all four seasons in the night and the day. Sounds range from lush, shifting pads and airy sustains to bubbling runs and assertive leads. Additional field recordings enable you to further enliven your compositions, coloring tracks with the sounds of nature.

Building the soundscapes of Habitat

Habitat features the sounds of highly sought-after analog synths, including the Roland Jupiter-8, Moog One, MacBeth Elements, Oberheim OB-Xa, Sequential Prophet-5, Deckard's Dream MK2, GRP A4, and Omega 8. All synths were programmed by Dominik and expertly recorded using analog outboard gear at his studio at the heart of Germany's Westerwald mountain range. Though some synths are mono instruments, Habitat lets you play them in full polyphony.

Orchestral samples include midsized string and woodwind sections plus horn, guitar, and piano. All were recorded by the Orchestral Tools team on the famed Teldex Scoring Stage in Berlin. By using the same studio as other Orchestral Tools collections, Habitat enables you to easily integrate sounds from other libraries and create custom virtual orchestras.

For additional inspiration, Habitat includes a collection of atmospheres—meticulous field recordings of the same 10 natural environments and seasons represented in Habitat's other sounds. The atmospheres were recorded in the highest possible sonic quality by Jan Haft, an acclaimed filmmaker and founder of nautilusfilm. These recordings blend perfectly with the other sounds in Habitat, enabling you to integrate authentic natural elements into film scores, games, sound design, or any kind of music production.

Specifications:

• Works with Orchestral Tools' SINEplayer—NOTE: Very latest version required.
• SINEarc compressed: 39,3 GB // Uncompressed: 101 GB.
• 24-bit / 48 kHz patches.
• System requirements SINE:
• Mac OS 10.13, i5, 4 GB RAM (16+ GB recommended).
• Windows 10, Intel Core i5 or similar (Windows 7 is not officially supported).
• Interfaces: VST, AU, AAX.

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