Sound Dust have released Drift 001, a new Kontakt instrument that’s available at the intro price of £35.00 / $45.00 / €43.00. The offer ends May 9th.
Sound Dust like to create instruments that inspire and stimulate new music and new ways of making music. This often involves building impossible contraptions packed with possibilities…they also tend to have quite a lot of controls.
DRIFT 001 goes in a different direction – simple at the front, complex behind the curtain. The business end is just 4 large knobs: Grist, ADSR, Morph and Space combine multiple functions for uncomplicated and intuitive sound design. A minimal interface beneath which lurks a maximalists desire to warp, bend and squash millions of new sounds into the aether.
4 knobs wasn’t quite enough though – BPM synced drift control adds gorgeous woozy tape like wow and flutter and BPM synced tremolo adds movement and throb.
Instantly turn a wonky piano into a warped felt pad or reversed ghost Joanna. Create massive gnarly pads that can quickly be tamed to subtle gossamer. There is enough variation inside DRIFT001 and your brain to score an entire movie/game/box set/concept album/stage musical…there really is.
Drift 001 includes 5Gb of complex hybrid sounds conjured from a wide variety of organic and electronic sources. These include:
- Golden Arm – a soft piano + dulcitone with analogue synth and viola at lower velocities. Mod wheel = more felt.
- Rotational – Hammond percussion drawbar + ukulele, Hammond, bot choir and analogue synths at lower velocity. Mod wheel = Leslie effect.
- Dust Bunny – upright piano through mangled tape + mangled choir. Mod wheel = lightness.
- Micro Cassette – modular sines through tape + Oberheim Xpander. Mod wheel = phaser.
- Age of Chance – wind, bent FM + Oberheim Xpander. Mod wheel = eq smear.
- Radio Fluff – analogue synths + cloud strings. Mod wheel = eq smear.
- Lanugo – analogue synth, strings, feedback + spiderwebs. Mod wheel = fluff.
- Rothko – harpsichord, sponge piano + electronics. Mod wheel = softer.
- Seilchestra – Siel Orchestra string synth patch morphs. Mod wheel = ensemble.
- The Woods – music box, glockenspiel, analogue synth, organ + electronics. Mod wheel = eq smear.
- Bad Piano – REALLY bad pianos. Mod wheel = squash and warp.
Features include:
- 11 deeply multi sampled complex sounds sources = 5GB.
- 100 snapshots.
- Morph EQ knob with 100 settings.
- Morph ADSR knob with 100 settings.
- Grist knob for noisy filth.
- 50 custom impulse response reverbs.
- Space knob adds IR reverb and goes to 100% wet.
- BPM synced drift control for tape like chaotic wow and flutter.
- BPM synced tremolo.
- Custom modwheel settings per sound source.
- Full automation capability.
- Handy built in instructions in RTFM page.
Drift 001 requires a full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or later.
For more information on Drift 001, click here:
NOTE: Some of the links you click on may be affiliated. Clicking and purchasing using these links helps support and fund The Beat Community. Thanks for your support.
