Publisher: Waverley Instruments
Website: waverley-instruments
Format: KONTAKT FULL & K’ed 6.6.1+
Quality: 24 bit 44.1 kHz stereo
Description : Synthetic Materials is a simple yet powerful KONTAKT-based instrument filled with a rich assortment of modern classic analog and wavetable synthesizer sounds, complete with a semi-generative sequencer with a quantization scale.
All base sounds (60 in total, compressed to around 5 GB) have been sampled in 24-bit ultra-wide stereo and include a lot of interesting content for long, evolving and atmospheric pads. The instrument comes with 100 snapshots plus 25 sequencer demos, but Synthetic Materials actually creates these sounds in its own way. There are also 50 Multis showing what can be achieved by layering tools from Synthetic Materials.
Create your creations by choosing from two different LP filter types (envelope and LFO) or add some graininess with a drive effect that has its own dedicated envelope. Enhance your sound even further with the instrument’s built-in effects, including 4-band EQ, stereo ping-pong delay, rotation, chorus, reverb, and compression.
Add pitch-based expressiveness with legato slide, vibrato, and stompbox-inspired pitch shifter. Pitch Shift lets you generate up to two extra notes for each octave or chord effect you play, including velocity scaling, auto-panning, and fine tuning.
Control all of these parameters from a single screen in the instrument’s GUI or with the NKS controller.
Last but not least, the step sequencer has been designed to be easy to use, creative and musically inspiring. Although it has a maximum of 16 steps, the sequencer is driven by a probability-based generative engine that allows you to develop patterns that will never sound the same twice. The step length for each sequence can be set from sixteenth notes to a massive 8 bars to develop soundscapes. Velocity and gate are adjustable for each step.
But the real fun begins when you explore some of the sequencer’s more unusual features…
The A/B option allows you to set musical variations with alternate pitches for each step. Add anything from subtle directional shifts to total chaos by assigning steps to “bump” or “jump”. All this, of course, is probabilistic! And finally, you can even sketch out musical ideas using the sequencer’s “shift automation” feature, which automatically transposes your sequence as it’s running, while keeping everything perfectly in key and mood with the built-in quantization scale.
