Orchestral Tools have released Mirrors, available at the intro price of €169.00, increasing to €239.00 after the promotion.
Mirrors blurs the boundaries between experimental synthesis and expansive orchestration.
Mirrors explores both experimental analog synthesis and traditional orchestral sampling. The collection originated from synthesized source material from our Bristol-based collaborators—glitched textures, fractured oscillations, and hyper-processed ambiances. Together, we then put these sounds through a prism of orchestral performance, recording their precisely orchestrated mirror images, all with unwavering attention to the minutest details.
As an object approaches a mirror, it becomes harder to tell where it ends and its reflection begins. Likewise in Mirrors, synthesized sounds give way seamlessly to orchestral performances, resulting in a set of tools tailor-made for your creativity, creating atmospheres, or setting scenes.
SLATE + ASH created the source material for Mirrors under the guiding principle of making sounds that evoke a distinctly acoustic feel. With their labyrinth of patch cables, modular devices, and analog synths, they tapped into more organic soundworlds, sculpting breath-like fluttering, microtonal harmonics, and warm tones that evolve over time.
Hugh Brunt of the London Contemporary Orchestra then re-orchestrated these sounds for live performance, capturing all the minutae—every texture, swell, and flutter, and even the synthetic idiosyncracy of pitch stretching. This called for traditional strings, brass, and woodwinds, but also out-of-the-box instrumentation like verrophone, bowed crotales, or even rustling plastic bags. With Brunt conducting, and additional aesthetic guidance of composer-producer Yair Elazar Glotman, we recorded the orchestral ensembles at Teldex Studios in Berlin with our typical attention to detail and fidelity.
Features include:
- 45 pairs of synth and orchestral sounds
- Bespoke engine and interface
- 97 sound design presets, 232 Kontakt snapshots
- Evolving pads, long notes, and textures
- Three mixable mic positions with bleed control
- Source synth material made by SLATE + ASH
- Orchestral ensembles and synthesized source material sampled in Teldex
Watch the walkthroigh video HERE.
Mirrors requires a free or full version of Kontakt 7.10.7 or later.
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