Manufacturer: Rhythmic Robot Audios
Format: NCW, NKI, NKR
Quality: 24-bit; Sample Rate – 44.1 kHz; Channels – stereo
System Requirements: Native Instruments – Kontakt 4.2.4+
Size: 161 MB
Rich Pads is a Kontakt instrument that blends analog waveforms into truly meaty and warm sounds. The instrument contains two sound sources: soft and lush pads and massive sawtooth sounds. Combining these two sources creates a wide variety of string sounds, pads, and soundscapes.
Cool Reeds blends a fan-operated acoustic reed organ tone with a tensely harmonic synthesized pulse wave, giving you a whole spectrum of pipes, reeds, and eerie textures.
Wave 1 is a classic warm fan-based reed organ tone, taken from ShelTone. It has a bit of organic instability, a bit of crackly antiquity, and a typical reed-organ soft attack dynamic that we’ve left in place. Blends that favor this will have an acoustic, “realistic” air to them.
Wave 2 is generated from multiple detuned and layered pulse waves, and was synthesized to give a larger-than-life synth reed timbre. It has a strong harmonic presence and is much thicker than Wave 1, so this is the end of the dial to turn to when you want a bigger, more aggressive sound.
Cranking up the Warmth control and slowing the Shimmer can yield some great out-of-pitch ethnic reed sounds, while typical synth patches suddenly acquire a more organic texture. Background drones or melodic lines, soft washes or squawking bagpipe chanters; even full-on grinding organ patches – it’s all here!
