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3 Remarkable Keyboard Instruments In A Next Level Kontakt Engine

It’s a feeling. Something that can’t be captured in words. When you press a key and the sound just draws you in. It’s that moment of inspiration that skybox Audio strives to capture and deliver directly through your speakers.

Features

• Sample Rate: 48k 24bit
• Over 16,000 samples
• 16 velocities sampled per note
• 16 release samples per note
• True sympathetic resonance samples
• Hammer return samples
• Velocity sensitive intelligent pedal and damper samples
• Pre-Strike mode for enhanced realism
• 2 blendable mic positions (close/far)
• 150 meta-tagged NKS compatible presets
• Compatible with all DAWs

So How Does it Work?

All of the instruments in this library are powered by the new Hammers + Waves Engine. A truly powerful playback engine that was developed by skybox Audio exclusively for this series.

The innovative flexibility of the engine unleashes a torrent of new sonic possibilities for creative tone shaping. Extreme timbre shifting, deep granular synthesis and hyper-realism controls, are just a few of the unique features that are packed into Hammers + Waves.

As deep as the potential for sound manipulation is, a great deal of time was spent making the workflow as effortless and intuitive as possible. To put it simply, skybox Audio made something cool and they’re super stoked you’re going to use it to make music.

Home Screen

The main screen contains amount controls for a three available sound layers, SOURCE, SWARM and FRACTALS, controls for the amount of global MODULATION and SPACE, as well as access to PRESET NAVIGATION/SAVING and SETTINGS.

• Sound Layers (SOURCE, SWARM, FRACTALS) – These knobs control the amount of the three sound layers.
• Global Sound Manipulation (MOD, SPACE) – control the amount of modulation, reverb and delay applied to the instrument.

Presets

Browse the huge variety of inspiring presets from this page. Every instrument in the Hammers + Waves collection has presets that range from natural and intimate to giant and cinematic. Find inspiration and explore them all to find the perfect sound for your track.

TIP – You can use Komplete Kontrol’s Native Browser and Snapshots to browse through all available presets if you prefer. Hammers + Waves is a fully encoded NKS compatible library.

Source

SOURCE handles the playback of the original sample recordings in an expected way. But, don’t let this fool you. This page is very capable of creative and interesting sound design through its various controls.

You access this page by clicking on the label that reads SOURCE located under the SOURCE knob. This area contains 5 powerful sound shaping controls that alter the SOURCE sound in unique ways.

Fractals

FRACTALS is an arpeggiation engine that is designed specifically for keyboard instruments. Unlike conventional arpeggiators, it does not typically replace the main source sound. It compliments it.

Create evolving rhythmic textures or thundering pulses easily with the intuitive controls. You access this page by clicking on the label that reads FRACTALS.

Swarm

SWARM is part granular synthesis, part innovative sampling. skybox Audio are calling the technique Deep Granular. Under the hood, SWARM performs complex sample playback while offering an easy to use set of controls.

From gentle evolving pads to gritty angular textures, SWARM is sure to kickstart your imagination. You access this page by clicking on the label that reads SWARM.

Mod

Evolve your sound with MOD. From subtle changes to extreme creative effects, MOD is capable of modulating 3 main parameters of your sound; VOLUME, PAN and PITCH. Set different amounts of modulations independently to SOURCE, SWARM and FRACTALS. The flexibility is right at your fingertips.

Under the hood, MOD uses custom scripted LFOs built from the ground up. These periodic waveforms allow for much greater efficiency in CPU processing performance all while maintaining super tight sync to your host tempo.

You access this page by clicking on the label that reads MOD.

Space

Instantly adjust the amount of depth and fullness of your sound with a single control, SPACE.

SPACE consists of Native Instrument’s REPLIKA DELAY and CONVOLUTION REVERB with a collection of skybox Audio’s custom made impulse responses.

You access this page by clicking on the label that reads SPACE.

QUICK ACCESS – You can also adjust SPACE values from within the SOURCE, SWARM + FRACTALS pages (located bottom right corner).

For more detailed information read the [User Manual].

So What Exactly Can I Do With “Hammers + Waves – Acoustic”?

The jaw dropping presets included with every instrument in “Hammers + Waves – Acoustic” were meticulously created by the worlds most in demand sound designers and producers, and are perfect for but not limited to the following music genres:

• Cinematic Underscore
• Solo Piano Music
• Classical Music
• Jazz
• Pop

This library is compatible with the free [Kontakt Player version 6.0.0 or higher], no other purchase is required!

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