Audio Plugin Deals are offering 70% off Swords To Ploughshares by Histibe for a limited time, now only $45.00, (usually $149.00). The offer ends February 5th.
Swords to Ploughshares is a unique virtual music instrument that weaves real-world field recordings and expressive sound design together into a unified creative toolbox.
The sounds in this library were recorded during the invasion of Ukraine between February and May of 2022, by sound designer and video director Histibe.
With a thoughtful concept, Swords to Ploughshares includes a wide range of categories of sounds, such as: Alarms, Sirens, Blasts, Boomers, Falls, Hits, Risers, Stingers, Impact FX, Animal FX, Nature FX, Tool FX, Transport FX, Ambient Tones, Grooves & Textures, Radio Tones, Voices & Textures, City & Mountains Environments, Klaxons, Sub-Synth Sustains & Staccatos. At the same time, they are transformed into notes to create modern melodies by playing on a MIDI keyboard.
This is not a Hollywood-style war SFX collection, or a traditional instrument or sound library. These sounds were recorded in uncontrolled real-world city and forest environments, by an ordinary person, under less-than-ideal conditions, using basic hand-held recording equipment, under war time conditions.
Needless to say, some of the edges remain naturally rough. The field-recorded sound effects and live environmental soundscapes captured in this library allow a glimpse into our observer’s unique frame of reference at a specific place and time in the world. The sound-designed content follows the artist’s mental journey from that subjective experience as they mentally process and re-articulate it from raw kinetic energy into more musically constructive forms.
Using this tool, you can mix different layers of original field recordings to create complex melodies, textures, solo instruments, and synthesizers. It also allows you to craft unique percussion and cinematic drum sounds. This version of virtual instrument comprises 45 original .NKI presets by Histibe.
This library offers the artist’s unique vantage point during a transformative place and time in their life and the world around them. His goal is to transmute an act of oppression into a tool for expression.
It is not meant to be a definitive, unbiased, unvarnished or complete representation of the artist’s entire experience or those around him. It is intended as a work of constructive and reusable sonic art.
It is a dim and hazy window into another human’s personal experience, crafted with the simple hope that it serves and inspires your own creative process.
Features include:
- One master NKI instrument bank made for Kontakt
- 45 Custom Sound-Designed FX, Drums, Melodic, and Ambient presets
- 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
- 637 stereo samples
- 79 SFZ Presets, for use with any player or sampler engine that supports the SFZ format
- Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
- Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments
Swords To Ploughshares requires a full version of Kontakt.
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