55% off “Ambition” by Sound Yeti

Breath-Taking & Evolving Keys, Pads, Motion & Textures For Kontakt Player

“Ambition” sets the stage for pioneering new sympathies between sound and picture.

Forging a powerful alliance between the musical scale and visual scope, Ambition imagines a new harmony between music composition and visual production.

What’s Inside?

• 1 Master NKI template
• 31 Multi(s) heavily designed presets
• 252 sample sources
• 221 snapshots (uniquely designed)
• 3,351 high quality chromatic samples
• 30,000+ sample combinations
• 5.1 GB of (compressed lossless ncw’s)
• 3 powerful global performance effects
• 25 custom sampled impulse responses
• 1 Master Lemur NKI template (coming soon)

Ambition runs in the free Kontakt Player 6 which you can download HERE!

Get Creative & Deep Dive Into Ambition’s Big Picture Synth Engine

Overview

Ambition features three main pages; Browser, FX, and LFO pages. These pages are the core of Ambition’s engine and let you edit samples, patch selection, channel effects, modulation of effects and more. All housed in a global section referred to as The Frame.

Within the frame you’ll gain access to intuitive global controls, per channel parameters and functions for designing, layering and processing sounds.

Ambition is super “playable” because all the essential controls to rapidly shape your sound are instantly accessible. The frame will allow you to edit, sculpt, mix each of Ambition’s sounds and presets rapidly and creatively. In the blacked out section of the frame, there are three page insert sections; FX (effects), LFO, Instrument Browser.

Channel Settings

The first part of the frame is the channel settings section. Much like a mixer, channel settings give you full control over the basic aspects of the selected sound/samples for each channel. Channel settings are where you will choose the channels instrument patch, volume mix, envelope shape, tuning and stereo imaging.

• SAMPLE NAVIGATION – Each channel, A/B, provides an easy way to cycle through Ambition’s sound banks of unique sampled instruments. Navigate to different instruments with the arrows to the left and right of the sample name.
• SAMPLE BROWSER – When you get to this page that means you clicked the sample instrument name on a channel. The Browser is an expanded way to select one of Ambitions 252 high quality and diverse sample instruments for each channel.

Mixer

The Mixer consists of 3 faders. Mix A on the left, Master in the centre, and Mix B on the right. Each fader functions just as you would expect for a volume fader.

• MASTER FADER –  The fader controls the boost of the master volume of the instrument.
• CHANNEL FADERS –  Use either of these faders to boost the volume of the channel instrument.
• MUTE – Each channel can be muted/soloed easily by clicking the channel indicator “A” or “B” in the top left and right of the instrument.

Channel Controls

The Channel controls are the basic controls to make quick changes to your sound and sonic character.

• TUNE – This knob will set the tune of the channel voice. This has a range of -36 to +36 semitones (note this is not midi pitch control).
• PAN – Sets the Stereo Pan of the selected voice channel.
• WIDTH – Increases the stereo width from 0% – 200%.
• BYPASS INDICATORS – These are indicators to let you know if you have any Effects or LFOs activated on the channel. They also act as a fast way to bypass All Effects and LFOs on a channel.
• ATTACK – Adjusts the initial time it will take the envelope to reach its maximum level after it has been triggered. Ranges from 0 ms to 15 seconds.
• DECAY – Adjusts the time it will take the envelope to fall from its maximum value to the level set by the sustain control. Ranges from 0ms to 25 seconds.
• SUSTAIN – Adjusts the level the envelope will stay at for as long as a key is being held (measured in decibels), after the attack, and decay phases. Ranges from -∞ dB to 0 dB.
• RELEASE – The time it will take the envelope to fall from its sustain level back to zero after the key has been released. Ranges from 0ms to 25 seconds.
• A > B – B > A – The fast and easy way to mirror your ADSR channel settings. Mirroring or swapping settings from channel to channel will be a pattern you’ll see across the instrument.

Effects Page Navigation

Effects Page Navigation Buttons – when clicked, will take you to the following page inserts.

• Page insert – LFO – Modulation
• Page insert – FX – Channel Effects

When selected the button will be highlighted and glowing blue. If not selected it will be greyed out.

Page Insert – FX – Channel Effects

The FX Page is a key component of Ambition and offers a wide variety of tools for shaping and creating cinematic sounds, ambient spaces, overtone FX and more. Ambition offers 8 effects and an easy to understand interface bringing you an unprecedented level of creativity with a simple way to control the effect parameters.

There are eight built in effects for each channel in Ambition, as follows:

• EQUALIZER – Control the 3 band EQs – LF, LFG, BELL MF, MFG, HF, HFG, BELL – Frequency bands and Gains.
• COMPRESSOR – Control the Compression. Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release.
• DISTORTION – Control the Drive, Dampening and Gain of two types of Distortion. Tube or Transistor.
• LOFI – Controls the Bits, Sample Rate and the Gain of the LO-FI effect.
• SATURATION – Control the Amount and Gain for 3 types of (tube) Saturation – Classic, Enhanced, Drums.
• CHORUS – Control the Depth, Speed, Phase, Dry, and Wet signal for Chorus.
• DELAY – Control the Time, Sync to the tempo of your DAW or have it free form. The Feedback, Saturation, and Mix for 4 types of Delay; Modern, Analogue, Tape, Vintage.
• REVERB – Control the Size, Low Cut, High Cut and Mix of the Convolution Reverb. Ambition comes with 25 Custom IR’s (Impulse Responses).

Page Insert – LFO Modulation

One of the main staples of Ambition is Sound Yeti’s proprietary LFO modulation capabilities. Craft dynamic and evolving sounds and visualize them with the custom LFO visualizer. Ambition has 2 LFOs, 1 per channel. Sound Yeti built this to be simple to operate, but still have great flexible features to craft your sound.

Performance Effects

The performance effects were built to give you tools to quickly and drastically change the tonality and sonic texture of the sounds and patches you create. These controls are all built into fun to use X/Y pads. The 3 Performance Effects are:

• SCULPT – An HP and LP Filter Matrix
• ECHOES – A Dual Band Delay Effect
• BREATH – A Global (speaker) Cabinet Simulator

Footer

The last part of the frame of Ambition is the Footer and its settings. Remember these are always visible in any view of Ambition. Functions
in the Footer are:

• KEYBOARD LAYOUT – A/B Split Functionality
• RESET – Resting Parameters Functionality
• RANDOMIZE SAMPLES – By clicking on the Randomize Samples button Ambition will automagically randomize channel A’s and channel B’s sample selections simultaneously
• X/Y MIDI CC – Midi CC the X/Y Pads
• X/Y VALUES – Displays the X/Y pad control values

NKS Integration

Native Kontrol Standard (NKS) is Native Instruments’ extended plugin format for virtual instrument developers. NKS allows for intuitive and seamless interaction between plugin instruments and KOMPLETE KONTROL and MASCHINE hardware.

Ambition features a thorough and complete integration for the NKS plugin format, including Native Map, Light Guide, Integrated Browser and Snapshot Previews.

Native Map

The Native Map integration for Ambition features 4 pages of powerful mapping layouts. Sound Yeti exposed these controls because they are the most relevant controls of the instrument and will help you tweak your sounds quickly. Also remember if you need more, all controls are available to you via Midi CC for your own custom mappings.

For more detail on all of these functions read the user manual HERE.

So What Can I Do With “Ambition”?

With “Ambition” you can explore a panoramic trail to undiscovered and timeless soundscapes, emotion-filled pads, evolving textures, anamorphic rhythms, elemental keys, and experimental undertones that are perfect for but not limited to the following music styles:

• Ambient & Minimal Music
• Cinematic Underscore
• Video Game Music

… and much more!

Ambition runs in the free Kontakt Player 6 which you can download HERE!