SOUND ON SOUND
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Emergence Audio’s latest Kontakt Instrument completes a line‑up that already includes Violin, Cello and Double Bass.
Are Icon’s latest range of control surfaces the perfect interface between human and DAW?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. With its bizarre appearance and endearing‑but‑creepy sound, the acoustic instrument known as a waterphone has become a firm staple of the horror and soundtrack worlds.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. The tonal characteristics of orchestral brass instruments are notoriously difficult to capture and reproduce in sampled form. Does this library succeed?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. This new Kontakt instrument started life as a viola da gamba; a string instrument from the Baroque era, which is generally regarded as the precursor to the cello.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Jade Evolutions can be regarded as a partner product to Strezov’s existing Jade Orchestra, but with all‑new content and a substantially different instrument construct.
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. Double Bass Textures is capable of some pretty remarkable sounds, thanks to its enormous resonating cavity and potential to bow in numerous different styles.
Choreographs is not so much a Kontakt instrument as a perpetual motion machine.
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. Play a chord and Pathfinder Violin will react to the notes that you play, corresponding to selected patterns or shapes.
S‑CAT’s bespoke Bass‑Synth does exactly what it says on the tin...