1.45GB of Content – 2 Completely Unique Libraries for Ambient Soundscapes!
With the “Genera Studios Bundle” you will find endlessly inspiring ambient atmospheres and soundscapes that will lift your next musical project to the next level:
- Ambient Tape Machines: C1 – Created by recording the raw sounds to cassette and playing them back on a vintage Library of Congress C1 tape machine at full and half speed.
- Lush Atmospheres – 3 incredible ambient instruments in one that will add that secret sauce to your mixes to give a lush ethereal sound.
Together these libraries provide everything you need for Cinematic Underscore, Ambient Music, Ethereal Soundscapes and more!
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Epic Slow Tapes – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Winter – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Dorian Jam – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Adrift – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Pluck Lead – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Ambient Tape Machines: C1
Ambient Tape Machines: C1 was created by first capturing 3 unique raw sets of samples, recording them onto cassette tape, and then playing them back at full and half speed on a vintage Library Of Congress C1 cassette player.
Analog tape helps give music a certain warmth that is hard to emulate in the digital world, and playing back sounds at half speed on tape is a truly incredible experience.
Ambient Tape Machines: C1 allows you to blend and control these lush sounds so you can sculpt the perfect ambient soundscape.
The Tape
The Library of Congress C1 Cassette player is a vintage piece of gear originally intended for the vision impaired to listen to audio books from the Library of Congress. Its unique variable speed playback controls make it a very powerful ambient sound creation tool.
The unit used in this instrument seems to introduce a slight slow-down, some noise, and some wobbling at half speed – giving these samples a truly unique sonic fingerprint. To reduce the noise the samples were de-noised using industry standard tools, but to maintain the integrity of the raw sound we purposefully left some noise in. The samples were tuned in Kontakt to counter the slight slow-down effect of the tape machine.
The Sounds
There are 3 unique raw sample sets in Ambient Tape Machines: C1. These are broken down by Digital, Analog, and Acoustic. The Digital sound was produced using a modern digital synthesizer performing virtual analog synthesis.
The Analog sound was captured from a 3 oscillator analog mono-synth set on a huge/ambient patch. The Acoustic sound was captured from an electric guitar playing palm muted notes through a clean patch on an Axe-FX II XL+ with some very lush shimmer reverb applied.
Through the GUI you will be able to change the play back speed between full and half, tune them, set the volume, and pan each of the sounds individually. Each sound is incredibly detailed on its own, but the real magic happens when you blend them together in creative ways.
Tons of Presets – Collaboration
To show you the potential of what Ambient Tape Machines: C1 can do, we teamed up with two excellent musicians and sound designers to create over 70 presets. Jetfire Prime contributed a collection of incredible ambient and FX sounds that are some of our favorites of the collection. Franklin Vanderhyde of Music For Film and Media contributed diverse patches in almost every category and wrote several demos showcasing what the instrument could do (check the song demos above).
Included in Ambient Tape Machines C1:
- Total Sample Size – 805MB
- 184 Samples
- Over 70 Snapshot Presets
- Intuitive GUI with Plenty of Control
- Custom Dual Arpeggiators
- Open script for all you KSP scripters out there!
Features:
- 3 sound sources with volume, pan, tuning, and tape speed controls
- Two ADSR’s for VCA and VCF (with VCF ENV depth)
- Switchable LFO synced to your host tempo (with mod depth)
- Vibrato depth and rate control
- 4-pole LPF and HPF
- Delay, Reverb, and Saturation Controls
- Custom dual Arpeggiators for LPF cutoff and resonance
Recorded at 24 Bit and 48kHz
Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)
Lush Atmosphere: Ambient Kontakt Library
Lush Atmosphere is an ambient Kontakt Library featuring 3 ambient instruments, and a master patch to mix and control them. Lush Atmosphere will be the secret sauce you throw in your mixes to add that lush ethereal sound.
Mix & Control
Use the master Lush Atmosphere patch to blend the three ambient instruments together. The GUI contains plenty of control without being too complicated – you can control filter cutoff, filter resonance, volume envelope, level and pan for each instrument. Then at the bottom of the GUI are humanization settings, reverb, and chorus.
At the top of the GUI there is a snapshot browser where you can find 10 presets to get you started.
Lush stRings
Lush stRings can best be described as ‘ambient bell-strings’ – not quite strings, not quite bells. The raw samples were run through Valhalla Shimmer reverb to give that ethereal sound. This instrument includes 2 dynamic layers for most of the range which gives a nice human feel to playing the instrument.
Lush Elements
Lush Elements is the more experimental instrument of the library. The tone is that of a bell-like percussive instrument with a ringing overtone. Many of the sounds start with a randomly generated ‘droplet’ sound, and decay into ringing.
Each note was sampled across the keyboard twice to enable round robins, and each time any note was played the ‘droplets’ were randomized.
This randomization makes Lush Elements great for adding a unique element (pun intended) behind your mix. We found that it sounds great for creepy or scary ambient sections, with the humanization tune setting up a bit. Increase the attack to get mostly ringing without droplets.
Lush Pluck
Lush Pluck is a more straightforward instrument. It is similar to Lush stRings except without the bell-like tones. It was run through a Valhalla Shimmer reverb to get that amazing ethereal sound, but the raw sound is similar to a plucked string.
Included in Lush Atmosphere:
- 270 Files – 650MB
- 3 Ambient Kontakt Instruments
- Lush stRings
- Lush Elements
- Lush Pluck
- 19 Presets NKI’s
Master Control Patch
- Individual level, pan, filter, and ADSR settings
- 10 snapshots
Recorded at 24 Bit and 44.1kHz
Lush Atmosphere Demo – Andrew Soutworth
Individual Instruments Improv Demo – Andrew Soutworth
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So What Exactly Can I Do With “Genera Studios Bundle”?
The two libraries that comprise “Genera Studios Bundle” both offer a completely unique approach to creating Atmospheric Soundscapes, Pads or Ambient Textures and will greatly reward deeper exploration.
The sheer amount of possible sound shaping and effects combinations that are possible within these Kontakt based libraries will mean that they lend themselves to many interesting and varied musical uses including:
- Cinematic Underscore
- Ambient Music
- Ethereal Soundscapes
- Sound Effects
Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)
Epic Slow Tapes – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Winter – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Dorian Jam – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Adrift – Andrew Soutworth and Franklin Vanderhyde
Lush Atmosphere Demo – Andrew Soutworth
Individual Instruments Improv Demo – Andrew Soutworth
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- Ambient Tape Machines C1
- Total Sample Size – 805MB, 184 Samples
- Over 70 Snapshot Presets
- Intuitive GUI with Plenty of Control
- Custom Dual Arpeggiators
- Open script for all you KSP scripters out there!
- 3 sound sources with volume, pan, tuning, and tape speed controls
- Two ADSR’s for VCA and VCF (with VCF ENV depth)
- Switchable LFO synced to your host tempo (with mod depth)
- Vibrato depth and rate control
- 4-pole LPF and HPF
- Delay, Reverb, and Saturation Controls
- Custom dual arpeggiators for LPF cutoff and resonance
- Lush Atmosphere: Ambient Kontakt Library
- 270 Files – 650MB
- 3 Ambient Kontakt Instruments
- Lush stRings
- Lush Elements
- Lush Pluck
- 19 Presets NKI’s
- Individual level, pan, filter, and ADSR settings
- 10 snapshots
- Recorded at 24 Bit and 44.1kHz
- Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)
- Perfect for Electronica, Pop, Alternative Rock, 8-bit chip tunes, Sound Design and much, much more!
What People Think About 80% off “Genera Studios Bundle” by Genera Studios
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"Lush Atmosphere is exactly what the name says. I have some expensive libraries that don't even sound this good out of the box. Believe it or not this library is a steal and is full of atmospheric euphoria that delivers on every level. For a Kontakt library that won't break the bank and quality that sounds this good, earns a 5 out of 5 Stars!"
Sample Sound Review
Music Industry Blog
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"As a budget Kontakt instrument I think [Ambient Tape Machine: C1] is a great companion to other ambient libraries. It took me a few days to play with it but I really found potential in this library. For now, this low cost library comes in as a high recommendation and another job well done by Genera Studios."
Sample Sound Review
Music Industry Blog
