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DRONAR Brass

Create Evolving Atmospheric Pads & Pulses With A Rich Brassy Core

DRONAR Brass is the seventh module in Gothic Instruments’ hugely popular atmosphere creation series for Kontakt and brings a distinctively different sound to the product line.

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Despite beginning its journey as recordings of a concert brass group in an English church hall, with DRONAR Brass what you DON’T get is a brass sample library. What you DO get are organic, evolving atmospheric pads and pulses with a rich brassy core that can convey a mood of peace as well as heroism. A soundtrack from a steampunk brasstopia where synths are made of brass and run on steam power…

The titles in the DRONAR series have repeatedly received 5 star reviews from Sound On Sound magazine as well as widespread acclaim from other press outlets, and the users themselves. DRONAR Brass is set to continue that success with its ability to quickly create a complete piece of atmospheric, expressive music with just the press of a few keys…

THE SOUNDS

The audio for the DRONAR Brass module was recorded with a concert brass group in a church hall in Northern England, after which it was heavily processed and looped. Once fed into DRONAR’s glorious award-winning engine, and animated by its independent arpeggiators and modulations, these textures take on a further dramatic new life.

The result is organic, evolving atmospheric pads, textures and pulses with a rich brassy core – a futuristic world of brass, if you will.

WHO’S IT FOR?

From breathtakingly majestic to ethereal and uplifting, suspenseful to relaxing…

DRONAR Brass is useful for any project that requires interesting atmospheric pads – from electronic music and pop music to film and media jobs.

The brass texture lends itself to warm, rich sounds and can convey a mood of peace as well as heroism and will blend well with the DRONAR Live Strings module to give enhanced orchestral colours.

Furthermore, DRONAR Brass is both beginner and expert friendly… Needing to only play a few notes and move a few dials to get such rich expression is inviting for newcomers to the DRONAR series, but an expert will get further by knowing which notes to play and how to express emotions using the dials.

Beyond the shimmering immediacy of the ‘Main Page’ awaits a whole other world of expert control, turning DRONAR into a vast modular multi-timbral synth/sampler with multiple independent arpeggiators.

Interactions between crazy internal modulations (rhythm sequencer, arpeggiator, LFOs and delays) take DRONAR Brass into another dimension…

HOW DOES IT WORK?

DRONAR creates mind-expanding atmospheres from a very small number of notes played. It automatically spreads out the chord in the mid-range, adds a root bass note, a high note and then adds evolving sound effects. 8 simultaneous different sounds are then animated with LFOs, a rhythm sequencer and arpeggiators to bring them to life. The results are rich and dramatic.

SUMMARY OF FEATURES

• Create Evolving Atmospheric Pads & Pulses With A Rich Brassy Core
• Includes 248 .nki presets
• Total library size: 5.91GB compressed from 9GB of audio
• Evolving, rich and complex pads and textures that would otherwise take hours to create
• Sounds range from breathtakingly majestic to ethereal and uplifting
• The perfect companion with DRONAR Live Strings for enhanced orchestral colours
• Highly suitable for movie, tv and video game soundtracks
• Great for electronic and pop music
• Expert and Beginner friendly
• 6 pages of simple controls deliver massive control
• Create your own rhythm patterns in amongst the pad magic with the Rhythm Editor
• Dive deeper with DRONAR’s unique independent arpeggiators
• Onboard FX provide further sound design options

Incredibly innovative and addictive, there is nothing quite like DRONAR for offering so much live expression control – it will change the way you create atmospheric sounds!

Want to learn more? Read the in-depth PDF manual HERE.

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.7.3 or higher (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player).

DRONAR World Flutes

Create Atmospheres & Soundscapes From Darkness & Trepidation To Hope & Promise

Conjure a complete universe of sound that evolves from darkness and trepidation to hope and promise with one of Gothic Instruments’ most versatile DRONAR modules released to date – DRONAR World Flutes.

Combining rich organic Chinese dizi, Irish whistle, ocarina and pan pipes textures with DRONAR’s deep, expressive and innovative atmospheric sound creation tools, it’ll take you just a few clicks to craft otherworldly yet deeply human atmospheres, pads, soundscapes and more to whisk your listeners on a journey from fear and suspense to uplifting optimism.

With preset categories ranging from Horror, Fear and Dark to Dreamlike, Inspirational and more, DRONAR World Flutes is an essential, flexible resource for composers of movie, tv and video game soundtracks, as well as ambient music producers.

MAIN PAGE

Hear the immediate impact on the sound and get a good understanding of the way DRONAR works simply by tweaking the six dials on the main page…

INTENSITY DIAL (also controlled by the Mod Wheel) takes you from silent to powerful by fading up through different velocity layers.

MOVEMENT DIAL has a global effect on the intensity of the arpeggiators – set it high for strong effects and zero for a flat pad sound.

HI, MID and LO DIALS control the automatically generated high notes, mid-range notes and bass notes. Moving these dials has a huge expressive effect on the music. It’s only like using a mixing desk and yet – having it so accessible in front of you encourages you to work with the balance as part of the original creative expression, instead of a mix decision later on.

FX DIAL controls the level of 20-second futuristic, unpitched sound effects loops in the mix and adds instant movement and complexity.

SOUNDS PAGE

Each of the 4 layers (FX, HI, MID and LO) consists of 2 different sounds. On the SOUNDS page you can choose the category of sound (the “Module”) then the two sounds themselves (“Sound”) for each layer.

Because DRONAR Glitchscapes is very heavy on interesting FX (unpitched) sounds, in the top FX layer you have 7 categories to choose from compared to the 2 categories in the HI, MID and LO layers.

The ‘common’ category contains sounds included with every Dronar module: a selection of useful synth, strings, guitar and other sounds to blend with the special Glitchscapes collection.

RANDOMIZE SAMPLES BUTTON

Hitting this button will keep all your settings but instantly swap all the samples in the 8 named sound slots (2 per layer). This is wonderful for quickly finding new sound variations and if you’re not happy with the result, just hit the button again!

THE EXPERT PAGE

The Expert Page shows you all the settings for the current, last played Drone from the 12 Drone Keys. Each drone has four layers – FX, HI, MID, LO, and the Expert page presents a separate set of controls for each layer, like a rack of four synths, or four mixing desk channels. Each layer consists of two different sounds.

Need some inspiration? Hit the ‘Randomize samples’ button on the Expert Page and DRONAR will keep all your settings but instantly swap the samples in the 8-named sound slots (2 per layer). New sound variations will abound and if it’s not quite the sound you’re after, keep hitting the button for more. Want to thicken up your sound? Each layer has a THICK button which adds in extra notes. Hearing the sound you want? Easily save the settings with the ‘Store Drone’ button.

LFO & FX PAGE

Add movement to your sound, including panning, vibrato or siren effects with the LFO settings. Or tweak the Drone Effects to distort or dampen the sound, or add thickness, interest and colour. Reverb and Delay sends can also be controlled from this page.

ARPEGGIATOR PAGE

Get sounds really moving or pulsing over time, synced to your DAW’s host Tempo with DRONAR’s multiple and truly unique independent arpeggiators including PITCH, INTENSITY and FILTER.

PITCH: Whereas other arpeggiators re-trigger the note at every step, DRONAR’s pitch arpeggiator plays all the notes that you are holding down but cross-fades between them. This is like having the different notes of a chord all going through different channels on a mixing desk, then turning the faders in succession to create the impression of an arpeggio. The beauty of this approach is that you can choose how strong the arpeggiator is.

INTENSITY: Where other arpeggiators control the volume of a sound, the INTENSITY arpeggiator is more expressive by controlling the dynamic velocity layer of the sound. It is as if the values you set here are moving the Mod Wheel up and down in a pattern, fading up and down between soft and intense samples.

RHYTHM EDITOR PAGE

Rhythm samples were performed live for a natural sound where no two adjacent notes are exactly the same and they therefore have a certain flow compared to triggers of single samples. They were also recorded at 3 dynamics (soft, medium, loud) allowing you to accent your rhythms using the Mod Wheel to fade between dynamics.

The Rhythm Editor page allows you to change the patterns of the rhythm samples. Under the hood, the DRONAR engine is creating your new patterns in real-time by jumping around the original loops and playing different sections of them in a different order.

MASTER FX PAGE

DRONAR’s Master FX page features standard effects including EQ, Compressor, Delay and Gate. DRONAR also includes a couple of digital (algorithmic) reverbs and a set of convolution impulses including some creative and unusual impulses for sound design – again, experimentation is the key!

SUMMARY OF FEATURES

• Expressive atmospheric sound creator
• Includes 192 snapshot presets
• 2,535 samples
• Total library size 10GB compressed to 6.5GB by Kontakt
• Sounds derived from Chinese Dizi, Irish Whistle, Ocarina and Pan Pipes
• Evolving, rich and complex soundscapes, pads and textures that would otherwise take hours to create
• Craft sounds ranging from dark and ominous to uplifting and hopeful
• Highly suitable for a wide range of cinematic genres
• Adds interesting textures to ambient tracks.
• Expert and Beginner friendly
• 7 pages of simple yet powerful features deliver massive control
• Dive deeper with DRONAR’s unique independent arpeggiators
• Create your own rhythm patterns in amongst the pad magic with the Rhythm Editor
• Onboard FX provide further sound design opportunities

Want to learn more? Read the in-depth PDF manual HERE.

Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.8 or higher (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player).