Sound Dust have released Drift Clouds – Bowed String, available at the intro price of $42.00, increasing to $70.00 after the promotion. The offer ends July 31st.
The Cloud instruments were a dysfunctional clan. Each one started as an ordinary 17th-century classical stringed instrument – a cello, a viola, a double bass.
Conventional bowing has been done a million times, so that was out. What sounded more interesting was a ball of coarse garden twine, the agricultural stuff. But to record a smooth note an impossible 5 metre bow was needed, and I know thats impossible because I tried to make one. The solution, after many experiments and many cups of coffee, was a retractable dog lead, an elaborate pulley system and a vintage fishing reel, enough to hold five metres of twine under tension and drag it evenly over the instrument string. I also did some hitting and rough short bowing for extra accenting.
DRIFT CLOUDs takes all of that distressed string material from the original CLOUD series: the twine, the accents, the col legno, the beatings, the granular grist, the dark and pale reverb clouds and rehouses them inside a custom DRIFT engine. Every Cloud articulation is now an oscillator you can stack, morph, warp, detune and bend for a universe of obtuse, impossible string like sounds.
Features include:
- 22 x 2 deeply multi sampled complex sounds sources = 9GB
- 210 snapshots
- Cloud and Shadow layers with mix control
- wander system with unreliability depth control
- Morph EQ knob with 100 settings – shared but selectable
- Morph ADSR knob with 100 settings – shared but selectable
- Poly or paraphonic envelope mode
- 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
- 2 x BPM synced bipolar ducking modulators for complex throbbing
- Polyphonic, monophonic, legato and offset play modes
- Portamento
- Up to 8 voices of detuned girth
- Full automation capability
- Portal page lets you behind the curtain
- Handy built in instructions in RTFM page
Watch the talkthrough video HERE.
Drift Clouds requires a full version of Kontakt 6.7.1 or later.
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