Publisher : Slate + Ash
Format : Kontakt (7.10.9+)
Quality : Mono 44.1 kHz 24 bits
- 20.64 GB
Description :
A malleable, open system of interconnecting signals, pulses, and patterns, CHOREOGRAPHS explores the principle of designing sound through sequences of movement. It is a map of perpetual animation, where dynamic forms dance in space, shape, and time.
With over 150 individually modulatable controls scattered throughout its signal path, CHOREOGRAPHS has movement at its beating heart.
Three sample-based oscillators feed into a refined architecture of unique musical devices to form a sound design environment that begins as a polyphonic synthesiser, but augments into a drum machine, drag-and-drop sampler, or granular processor. Movement is injected almost anywhere by selecting from a broad range of modulators including complex LFOs, MIDI CC, fluctuating random signals, and highly versatile step-modulators.
Like a choreography, a synthesis system is a map of motion – a blueprint of moving parts.
CHOREOGRAPHS is an exploration of this idea; an instrument where movement finds its own sonic expression. As the choreographer plots out the movements to be performed, CHOREOGRAPHS sets the parameters for the performance to emerge. It is the meeting of the composition and the performance: half-spontaneous, half-designed.
CHOREOGRAPHS is comprised of a large collection of expertly sampled analogue, digital, and modular synthesisers, drum machines, acoustic instruments, and noise sources.
Over 400 sample sources cover everything from the warmth of prized analogue classics to the plucks and bursts of modular oscillators; the bell-like twinkles of physically modeled materials to the rompler-like blend of acoustic samples. Included also is a bank of characteristic noise layers – crackling static, buzzing amplifiers, fumbled cloth, scraped membranes, distant bird calls – that layer together to break down generic synth sounds into half-erased, dusty textures.
The CHOREOGRAPHS preset library contains over 650 patches, each of which can be picked apart within the engine.
Anything from churning, tangled arpeggios to heavy drones dripping in reverb; buckling swirls of deep bass to cross stitched rhythms of sharp percussion; beastly, cinematic gestures to circular pulses full of kinetic repetition; and angular polyrhythms that twist and turn at will, untethered from the traditional four-bar grid.
Contents :
• 8387 samples
• 661 engine preset patches
• 427 sample sources
• 122 curated engine states
Full + Update :
The distribution contains two folders in the root directory:
• Choreographs 1.1.0 [Slate + Ash] – a full-size library
• Choreographs 1.1.0 Update [Slate + Ash] – an update for owners of the previous version
Owners of the previous version must:
1. Delete the following files from the library you are using: • Snapshots \ CHOREOGRAPHS \ .previews \ – Init -.nksn.ogg
• Snapshots \ CHOREOGRAPHS \ Pad \ .previews \ Karelian Machine.nksn.ogg
• Snapshots \ CHOREOGRAPHS \ Pad \ Karelian Machine.nksn
- Copy and replace the contents of the Choreographs 1.1.0 Update [Slate + Ash] folder into the root directory of the library you are using.
You can ignore step 1, in which case the library will simply contain extra files.
