Lasting Piano

KLANG love shaping new sounds by freezing reverb tales and by stretching any sound source to infinity. They have done this with the FREEZE collection in order to create hauntingly beautiful pads, ambiences or even completely abstract rhythmical instruments. The instruments here in this category were also created using various unique effects and modular systems.

Air Piano consists of an upright piano which was played with damped strings and the sustain pedal to create a characteristic sound. Damped piano strings are a quite famous playing technique in contemporary music. But KLANG tried to achieve a sound that is more suitable for modern pop and hip-hop music.

Relaxed Surface

KLANG love shaping new sounds by freezing reverb tales and by stretching any sound source to infinity. They have done this with the FREEZE collection in order to create hauntingly beautiful pads, ambiences or even completely abstract rhythmical instruments. The instruments here in this category were also created using various unique effects and modular systems.

This time KLANG layered several granulated sound sources asynchronously and created an instrument completely focused on sound design. This instrument has an unstable but lovely pad sound as the base and a second layer to bring chaos and darkness.

Tranquil Meadow contains a Darkness knob to control the mix between the two layers, a knob to control the amount of a quite fast tremolo and a tone knob. You can further shape the sound with chorus, distortion, delay and reverb.

Evolving Pads

KLANG love shaping new sounds by freezing reverb tales and by stretching any sound source to infinity. They have done this with the FREEZE collection in order to create hauntingly beautiful pads, ambiences or even completely abstract rhythmical instruments. The instruments here in this category were also created using various unique effects and modular systems.

By sending an orchestra through a vocoder and resampling reverb tails, KLANG took a selection of analogue sound sources and re-synthesized them. Combined with a wobbly synth and a crazy tremolo an interesting hybrid between analogue warmness and digital glitchiness was created.

Infinite Blur contains a balance knob to control the mix between the sound sources, a knob to control the amount of a tremolo (which is switchable between a random and a triangle wave) and a tone knob that is linkable to the mod wheel. You can further shape the sound with chorus, distortion, delay and reverb.

Charming Air

KLANG's SYMPHONIC range consists of orchestral instruments like violins, flutes, french horns and other instruments. KLANG tried to capture recordings of these familiar instruments from rather different perspectives, like playing with special and uncommon articulations or sending through various modular effects and much more.

In KLANG’s recording room they have a lot of xylophone mallets and old broken piano hammers lying around. KLANG wanted to create a different type of violin sound, so they played a violin with a piano hammer and a xylophone mallet instead of the typical bow. They ended up with a unique violin sound. Additionally, they programmed a sequencer so that you can easily play rhythmic patterns in any way you like.

Unique Rhodes

KLANG love tape sounds. So the TAPED collection of instruments are all about the inspiring potential of the nostalgic feelings around tape. Listening to radioplays before sleeping as a child, recording demo tracks on a four track.

Bringing back the warmness and imperfection with saturation, wow & flutter by playing instruments through all kind of tape gear and experimenting with it. TAPED is a nostalgic journey emphasizing the beauty of imperfection.

KLANG wanted more metal in their tape collection. So they send a Rhodes through tape hardware to create a warm and fluttering tape sound. In order to enrich the sound, KLANG layered a grainy processed vibraphone sound.

Swayed Keys contains a balance knob to control the amount of the grainy layers which is linkable to the mod wheel, a knob to control the amount of a tremolo and a tone knob. You can further shape the sound with phaser, distortion, delay and reverb controls.

Swirling Air

KLANG love tape sounds. So the TAPED collection of instruments are all about the inspiring potential of the nostalgic feelings around tape. Listening to radioplays before sleeping as a child, recording demo tracks on a four track.

Bringing back the warmness and imperfection with saturation, wow & flutter by playing instruments through all kind of tape gear and experimenting with it. TAPED is a nostalgic journey emphasizing the beauty of imperfection.

One can achieve so many sounds from an old Tube Tape Delay, that were not originally intended. So KLANG sent various sound sources through an old tape delay, turned the feedback knob to insane and let the machine sing in self-oscillation and captured some beautiful moments. You can now hear the old tube’s distortion which is wonderfully warm and organic.

Pure Inspiration

KLANG love tape sounds. So the TAPED collection of instruments are all about the inspiring potential of the nostalgic feelings around tape. Listening to radioplays before sleeping as a child, recording demo tracks on a four track.

Bringing back the warmness and imperfection with saturation, wow & flutter by playing instruments through all kind of tape gear and experimenting with it. TAPED is a nostalgic journey emphasizing the beauty of imperfection.

When you think of a flute, elegant, clear tones might be the first thing that come to mind. Detaching themselves from this, KLANG recorded a flute through an analogue tape delay while changing settings as the recording went on. Combining a calm and a noisy layer KLANG created a unique sound that they call Taped Flute.

Relaxed Surface

KLANG love shaping new sounds by freezing reverb tales and by stretching any sound source to infinity. They have done this with the FREEZE collection in order to create hauntingly beautiful pads, ambiences or even completely abstract rhythmical instruments. The instruments here in this category were also created using various unique effects and modular systems.

It all started with an experiment in a modular system, manipulating the self-oscillation of a delay with a filter. The result of this experiment is a dystopian sounding pad sound with lots of movement.

Dusted Home contains a balance knob to control the mix between the two layers, a knob to control the amount of a tremolo and a tone knob. You can further shape the sound with phaser, Lo-Fi, delay and reverb controls.

Charming Noise

KLANG love tape sounds. So the TAPED collection of instruments are all about the inspiring potential of the nostalgic feelings around tape. Listening to radioplays before sleeping as a child, recording demo tracks on a four track.

Bringing back the warmness and imperfection with saturation, wow & flutter by playing instruments through all kind of tape gear and experimenting with it. TAPED is a nostalgic journey emphasizing the beauty of imperfection.

The KLANG team noticed that this old cassette radio laying around in the corner of their studio had a recording function. With no time to waste, they fed it with a kalimba and a xylophone to offer a mix between wood and metal. Completed with a decay layer KLANG got the warm percussive tape sounds they aimed for.

Breakbeat Drum Kits from the 80s

Breakdance Drums bring to you the Hottest, processed drum sounds from the 80s era of Breakbeats and Breakdancing.

All of the inclusive drum sounds are already compressed/eq’d with hardware outboard gear, and were sampled using vintage samplers such as the EMU EMAX, SP-1200 and MPC 60... bringing you the original grit and upfront drum sounds that cut through mixes with organic sounding results - this is something special. Load up the plugin or sounds (wavs included) within your DAW or hardware sampler, and start making the hottest breakbeats which have come around again to top the charts!

Have you seen TV, Netflix, and closely listened to the scores of many contemporary movies today? If yes, then you can’t miss the fact the 80s/ 90s Sound is back BIG TIME!

We wanted to pay homage to the sounds of the great soundtracks from the 80s from composers and tv series /movies such as John Carpenter, Harold Faltermeyer, Jan Hammer, Michael Jackson, Prince, Night Rider, The Terminator, Commando etc..

Certain iconic sounds showed up in many such projects, and we decided to embark on the journey of bringing you the very sounds you know, sounds you can identify immediately as soon as you hear them!

We sampled and tweaked these patched from original synths such as Fairlight, Synclavier, Yamaha DX7, Roland D-50, EMULATOR II, KORG M1, OBERHEIM OBX, PROPHET 5, SYNTHEX and many more…

These sounds were recorded using analog outboard gear such as NEVE 1073, Thermionic Culture Rooster, and Electrodyne pres, Distressor, API 2500 and Drawmer 1978. Also, External effects were used for Eventide, Lexicon.

Hardware Eq, compression and reverbs were applied to the dry samples to re-create the original 80s vibe. These sounds will be instantly recognizable and will inspire you to work fast and sound great.

What is Retro Keys?

Retro Keys is a Virtual Instrument rompler inspired from 80s Soundtrack for Films and TV series, as well as Pop Music. Features sounds that you have heard countless times from that era and always wanted but couldn’t find! Here they are, sampled from original 80s Synths and samplers using high outboard gear for maximum fidelity.

As the 80s sound is back and has been creeping up in modern chart topper tracks by major artists, as well as new soundtracks for tv series and film, we couldn’t hold back and had to release a drum plugin based on the hit sound of the 80s. Retro Hit is inspired from the pop/ dance and rock sound of popular bands and artists from the 1980s. The plugin provides 50 Drum kits of Kicks, Snares, Hats, Cymbals, Claps, Toms ,FX and Percussion which are available as processed versions already treated with eq, compression and reverb, and also some dry versions. We wanted to provide the processed sounds as well, so that the producer/ musician can be instantly inspired and can get to producing music , rather than tweaking the raw sounds from scratch. Dry untreated versions are also provided for those who want to tweak them on their own. The Plugin provides drum kits of 12 sounds per patch. These as visible as buttons that light up when played on the GUI.

Individual control per drum is also provided for Volume and Pan. Global settings for Pitch, Reverb, Attack and Sustain are also provided. Find mixed kits, kick drums, snares, hats, cymbals, toms, percussion and fx and mixed kits as preset kits to inspire you. All of the 600+ Drum samples are also provided as .wavs to use in other samplers such as hardware samplers and also controller based beatboxes such as Akai mpc and NI machine. You can also load them in any other soft sampler of your choice, or simply place them in your audio track. You can choose your method of production, making this a very versatile library.

These samples were recorded directly from vintage drum machines namely, EMU sp12, OB- MX, LINN DRUM and Fairlight. The sounds were tracked and recorded through a selection of tube and solid state pre-amps and compressors such as NEVE 1073, Thermionic Culture Rooster, and Electrodyne pres, Distressor, Api 2500 and Drawmer 1978.

Hardware Eq, compression and reverbs were applied to the dry samples to re-create the original 80s vibe. These sounds will be instantly recognizable and will inspire you to work fast and sound great.

What is Retro Hit?

Retro Hit is the 80s inspired Drum Plugin features over 600 drum hits (both dry and processed) inspired from the pop/ dance and rock sound of popular bands and artists from the 1980s. The plugin provides 50 Drum kits of Kicks, Snares, Hats, Cymbals, Claps, Toms, FX and Percussion which are available as processed versions already treated with eq, compression and reverb, and also some dry versions. We wanted to provide the processed sounds as well, so that the producer/ musician can be instantly inspired and can get to producing music, rather than tweaking the raw sounds from scratch. Dry untreated versions are also provided for those who want to tweak them on their own. The Plugin provides drum kits of 12 sounds per patch. These as visible as buttons that light up when played on the GUI.

80s Sci-Fi & Horror Sounds Rompler

Features 50 professionally crafted presets to get you the amazing soundtrack sounds inspired from the 80s. Includes Pads, Choir, Leads, Drums, Fx, Basses, Atmospheres and otherworldly sounds!

Sounds inspired by the works of John Carpenter, Jerry Goldsmith, Jan Hammer, Harold Faltermeyer and others.

Meticulously sampled and designed from the ground up using Oberheim, Sequential, EMU, Akai Moog and other synths and samplers. Treated with legendary outboard effects, EQ, compression and saturation to inspire you instantly. Just Load & Play!

Synthwave / Vaporwave & Nuwave are 80s revival genres of music with a modern twist. This style has soon come up from the underground to the mainstream with countless artists releasing new tracks with the “Synthwave flavour”.

This virtual instrument is a collection of 100 fabulous sampled presets from various analog synthesizers running through legendary effects and outboard gear. This process brings a rich and unique “analog” quality that is different from other virtual emulations of real synthesizers.

A wide palette of instantly recognizable sounds from basses leads to pads and effects has been carefully designed and programmed to inspire you. Just plug and play is the motto at Beatskillz. This helps to focus on music and creativity rather than get lost in endless sound tweaking to get results.

Our sample playback engine includes effects such a global pitch, reverb, LFO, ADSR and a multimode filter for further tweaking of the sounds.

This sound set is inspired by the works of artists such as Kavinsky, The Midnight, Com Truise, Mitch Murder, Dynatron, Time Cop and many more!

The Idea & Process

Cassette Toy Piano is a collection of 5 instruments based on a children toy piano. First of the five included instruments is of course just a raw toy piano recorded on a cassette and while it is a nice and useful sound most toy pianos are very… imperfect in their nature. Because of that, the main aim for this collection was to create additional variations of the raw sound to embrace what’s good in it (with things like spring reverb, granular synthesis, etc.) without losing its original (and sometimes) creepy sound.

So to sum everything up - Cassette Toy Piano is a collection of 5 instruments recorded with 3 dynamic layers using 2 different cassette decks (one with a more neutral sound and the other with a much more lo-fi and degraded sound). Overall there are 1112 samples - 111 samples per deck, plus 2 noise samples from each deck (1,71 GB of uncompressed 24-bit WAV files).

Every note has been carefully denoised with a high-quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note (there’s still some noise left in the samples to avoid denoising artifacts). Noise can still be added with the noise knob - it’s much more flexible this way and allows the ability to adjust the volume of the noise independently whilst also applying parameters such as filtering. It also creates a more realistic sound, so when playing a five-voice chord, only one sample of noise instead of five stacked on top of each other will be heard.

The End Result

Useful and fun production tool

If you like vintage sounds and you're looking for something to enhance your production toolbox, then this product will be for you.

Variety of sounds

Aside from the sound of a cassette record with this instrument, you can easily create some weird sounds and there are already quite a few presets included to get you started (Kontakt & Ableton Live versions only).

The First Studio-Grade Melodica

State of the art Melodica. Offering Stereo and Binaural modes.

The Melodica has never been taken seriously until today. You won't find a professionally sampled one out there. This is why Sampleson made the first studio-grade Melodica. Adding a layer of scripting Sampleson recreated the expressiveness of a real instrument, including release velocities, noises, key clicks, air sound, and mechanics. Also Sampleson made it binaural for increasing realism.

Melox Pro is perfect for soloing and also for chord playing. Sampleson fine-tuned it until it sounds like no other one. Perfect tuning, fast attack, expressive releases and no chasis vibration.

Real Articulations From Real Playing

Sampleson have captured everything from a melodica. Even the key noises and air sounds. And they captured articulations from real playing. This technique makes MELOX Pro Melodica sound like a real one.

Rare Electric Piano

Electrix is the recreation of a rare suitcase model electric piano used by many famous rock bands in the early 70's.

Between Tines and Reed

A superb electric piano from the '70s. It uses reeds strucked by hammers and electronically converts vibrations transmitted to a transistorised amplifier.

Sound can be described as a half-way between tines and reed, but with a vintage dirty touch.

The '70s at Your Fingertips

Electrix Piano's is a sound modelled instrument and was made recreating every single detail from a legendary EP. Main sound, noises, releases, tines, resonance and effects has been carefully integrated into a serious dynamic range instrument.

Studio-Grade Instrument

Electrix is the result of more than 1200 hours of develop and testing. Native 64bit and perfectly balanced to fit into any professional mix. Available for Mac and PC, VSTi, AU and Standalone versions are included.

The Idea & Process

It's a unique mixture of physical modelling and fm synths recorded on a cassette with an old & wonky cassette recorder. It has a range from C0 to E6 and 4 carefully designed velocity layers. The GUI is very simple (Kontakt version), yet useful and almost synth-like - so just like its predecessor Cassette Piano, it’s very easy and fun to work with.

Every note of this instrument has been carefully de-noised with a high quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note. Noise can still be added with the noise slider - it’s much more flexible this way and allows the ability to adjust the volume of the noise independently whilst also applying parameters such as filtering. It also creates a more realistic sound, so when playing a five voice chord, only one sample of noise instead of five stacked on top of each other will be heard.

The End Result

Useful and Fun Production Tool: 
If you like vintage sounds and you're looking for something to enhance your production toolbox, then this product will be for you.

Simple, One Page Interface: 
Everything is laid out on one page allowing fast sound design possibilities.

Simulated Round Robin: 
Makes notes sound realistic when played ostinato (even when playing fast).

Features:

• 848 MB of samples
• Editable 'Sample Start' parameter (mapped to CC1 / Mod Wheel)
• REV (reverse) mode
• 4 velocity layers
• 5 presets

A Sample Instrument

The first instrument from Shout Audio with sounds by producers Dresage and Bad Snacks. Illustrated by Ruby Taylor. Both simple and inspiring to use. With enough sounds and variety to produce a whole track. Always available at a low price because Shout Audio believe good music software should be affordable.

Free for Non-Profits

Shout Audio are committed to the education of young people, which is why their products are always free for non-profit organisations. If you are a non-profit in need of some Shout Audio software, simply get in touch at [email protected].

Drums

Analogue and foley-inspired drum sounds. Four kits, each consisting of 24 samples.

FX

One more foley kit and two beautiful string patches of easy-to-play one-finger chords.

Vox

A fan favourite. Three vocal one-shot kits with runs, adlibs, and more.

Keys

Eleven playable polyphonic synth and sample patches with arpeggios.

Bass

Can't forget the low end with a synth and electric bass to fill out the bottom. 

The Idea & Process

Cassette Mallets.01 is a collection of 3 bell / mallet instruments recorded on a cassette with an old & wonky recorder. Every instrument from this library is a mixture of physical modeling & fm synthesis with a range of E2 to E6 and 3 velocity layers which were designed from the ground-up for good playability range.

The GUI is very simple, yet useful and almost synth-like, so it’s very easy and fun to work with. Every instrument has editable “sample start” parameter (controlled with the GUI or Mod Wheel), so you could easily get rid of the initial transients while designing your sound. Moreover, because of the fact that this kind of instruments sounds great when transposed down there’s an “-12” switch added to the GUI which transposes every instrument down by octave.

Every note has been carefully denoised with a high quality algorithm to avoid noise stacking when playing more than one note. Noise can still be added with the noise slider - it’s much more flexible this way and allows the ability to adjust the volume of the noise independently whilst also applying parameters such as filtering. It also creates a more realistic sound, so when playing a five voice chord, only one sample of noise instead of five stacked on top of each other will be heard.

Useful & Fun Production Tool:

• If you like vintage sounds and you're looking for something to enhance your production toolbox, then this product will be for you.

Simple, One Page Interface:

• Everything is laid out on one page allowing fast sound design possibilities.

Simulated Round Robin:

• Makes notes sound realistic when played ostinato (even when playing fast) - check out the introduction video to hear it in action.

Variety of Sounds:

• With this instrument you can easily create some weird sounds and there are already 31 presets included to get you started.

Features:

• 511 MB of samples
• 3 instruments
• 49 keys range
• 442 samples in total (147 per instrument + 1 noise sample)
• 3 velocity layers per instrument
• Editable "Sample Start" parameter
• Octave down switch
• Simulated round-robin
• REV (reverse) mode
• Mono mode
• 15 basic presets (normal, reverse 100%, reverse 75%, reverse 50% & reverse 25% for each sound)