Audio Imperia have released Glade, available as a FREE download.
Glade is a fully featured, professionally recorded instrument available to composers who want to start writing music today. It fuses world color with symphonic craft into a playable toolkit for expression.
Use macros to sculpt color and contour, then drop into the instrument patches when you need precise articulation. Layer strings, winds, voices, and organic percussion to discover new harmonies and timbres.
It is lightweight to load, mix ready out of the box, and works in the free Kontakt Player. Glade moves sketches to finished ideas in minutes and feels at home in film cues, trailers, games, pop toplines, and electronic soundscapes. Traditional when you need it, adventurous when you want it.
Meet the Designer interface, a fast way to build living texture.Stack up to four parts from strings, winds, voices, and percussive elements. Use the two macro controls to evolve a single static chord into an evolving motion, or map them to almost any parameter for one-handed control.
- Layer contrasting sources, from orchestral longs and shorts to synth-leaning pads and organic percussion.
- 80+ curated presets to get you writing immediately, plus create your own.
- Per-layer shaping for EQ, filters, envelopes, and effects so a sketch can become a cue in minutes.
Prefer a intricate, detailed approach? Use the separate instrument patches with clear articulations and keyswitches. They’re stable, light on CPU, and ready for clean stems and fast mixes.
- Consistent dynamics and expression mapping.
- Straightforward controls you can trust on deadlines.
- Built on our proven Pyramid workflow but with a fresh, modern UI design.
Glade gives you a tight, expressive palette without fillers.
Glade includes orchestral staples such as high and low strings and ensemble woodwinds, as well as the ability to create solo lines and unique textures with a collection of world instruments, such as duduk, fujara, pan pipes and ney.
Each instrument was captured in exquisite detail, and mixed to create an instantly useable out-of-the-box sound. Light on resources, big in the mix.
All content was meticulously recorded with our long-term partners at Budapest Scoring (Solo, Chorus, Poseidon, etc.) and Clockwork Sessions (Kithara).
Glade is shipped in two versions, Glade and Glade Studio.
Glade is designed to be as portable as possible, meaning only our Classic and Modern mixes are included, to reduce the download size to just over 4GB.
For those won’t more control, we have created Glade Studio, complete with four different mic positions on top of these mixes.
Neither product is better than the other, and neither of them compromise on quality, features or content. The choice is simple yours – no strings attached.
Watch the walkthrough video HERE.
Glade requires a free or full version of Kontakt.
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