Cinematic Sounds with Panorama Acoustic & Thunderstorm Chaser – Sounds and Presets
Plus some freebies for classic GForce synths and more!
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From Thunderstorm Chaser to the delicate sounds of Panorama Acoustic, there’s a definite cinematic feel to this week’s Sounds and Presets!
Sounds and Presets
Thunderstorm Chaser by Boom Library
Who doesn’t love a thunderstorm? Ok, maybe some people still get a little freaked out by them but for me, I love the magnificence and majesty of mother nature doing what she does best. And since the dawn of time, recreating a thunderstorm has always added drama to a scene.
From large sheets of metal to analog synths, we can fake the sound, but capturing the real deal is not as easy as you might think. Mother nature doesn’t have a timetable, so it’s great to have people who make it their job to capture such things.
In today’s world of Dolby Atmos, the ability to create a convincing thunderstorm in sound has never been easier and libraries like Thunderstorm Chaser by Boom Library is exactly what you need. Now, I don’t necessarily see lots of straight up electronic musicians wanting to invest in this, but if your work involves foley design or effects dubbing, this is definitely for you.
Delivered in both stereo and 3D versions, Thunderstorm Chaser is likely to be as definitive a collection as you might ever need. Recorded by Matt Mikkelsen, he combined the knowledge of meteorologists with a cutting-edge recording rig to capture as many extreme weather events as possible.
Recordings are embedded with rich data to make finding the right sound as easy as possible. Everything is provided as WAV files, so the compatibility of this library is as broad as can be. Demos are also available so you can try before you buy.
Thunderstorm Chaser is available to buy direct from Boom Library with 20% off for a limited time. The 3D Surround version is priced at £229 and the Stereo version just £85.
Panorama Acoustic by Sonora Cinematic
Sticking with the cinematic feel, next on our list is Panorama Acoustic by Sonora Cinematic. I always wanted to play guitar as a kid, inspired by the likes of the Beatles, Kinks and Rolling Stones, and latterly by more modern rock influences, but my short, stubby fingers didn’t like the guitar and so I ended up being a drummer and messing with synths instead!
But the joke was on the guitar in the end because whilst it defeated me, I won in the end because amazing sound library developers and scripters were able to faithfully recreate the guitar as software I can use on my computer with my keyboards! Yay for technology!!
The number of guitar sample libraries available today would make any discerning guitarist weep. There’s something for every style, genre and taste imaginable. Sonora Cinematic’s Panorama acoustic is, in case you hadn’t already guessed, is a lush, cinematic acoustic guitar library for Kontakt Player as well as the main Kontakt app itself.
That alone is music to most people’s ears as you won’t need to buy the full version of Kontakt to benefit from this collection. They’ve taken three premium acoustic guitars, played by Matteo Nahum, and then crafted them into a library with a very simple yet powerful interface.
The three guitars samples are a steel string acoustic, a nylon string acoustic and a 12-string. Sonora have used their Aria Engine that delivers two customisable layers that can be blended between using an X-Y control, the motions of which can be recorded and saved for use later.
But sampling the strings is one thing. Capturing the playing and articulations is quite another. Fear not, as Sonora have captured a wealth of different articulations to choose from to give you that natural sounding performance.
Each layer also features sound-shaping tools including filters so that you can make everything you play your own. There’s full NKS integration and over 100 presets to get you started. Panorama Acoustic is available to buy directly from Sonora Cinematic for just £49, normally £59.
DS Audio Thorn Preset Collection by Ocean Swift
Ocean Swift can’t stop producing stuff right now, and that’s not a bad thing at all! This week, they’ve launched a bundle of four libraries for the highly regarded DS Audio Thorn spectral software synthesizer from Plugin Alliance, now part of Native Instruments.
If you’re not familiar with DS Audio Thorn, check out this introduction…
So yeah, it’s a pretty powerful synth and the team at Ocean Swift think so too, hence the big bundle they have for sale! This bundle contains four soundbanks:
- Digital Heresy
- Invisible Landscapes
- Perceptronic Vol.1
- Perceptronic Vol.2
With its distinctly digital nature, these banks really show off the synth’s capabilities for creating sounds that range from big, evolving pads to searing basses and leads. and at the special offer price, these banks are incredible value for money, with 712 presets contained therein!
You can pick up the Thorn preset Collection for a measly €22 from the Ocean Swift website.
Free Patches for impOSCar 2 and Oddity 2 by Mr Arkadin
I can you some of you already… “Why are you featuring presets for out-of-date synths?” Well, that’s a good question is that not everyone upgrades to the latest and greatest and, chances are, those who have might still have the previous versions installed.
And when those banks are completely free of charge, there’s all the more reason to let you lovely lot know about them. Developed by Mr Arkadin, these two banks have a huge collection of sounds in each. Arkadin 01, for GForce’s impOSCar 2 has 176, whilst his Oddity 2 bank has a whopping 192.
There are the usual suspects when it comes to sound types and there’s plenty of variety. But even if there’s only a handful of ones you really like, you won’t have had to pay anything for them. So it’s winner, winner, chicken dinner!
You can pick up Arkadin 01 for impOSCar 2 here and Arkadin 02 for Oddity 2 here.
Ad Astra for bx_Oberhausen by OCTO8R
There has been a glut of Oberheim SEM recreations in both hardware and software in recent years, at all ends of the market. the bx_Oberhausen by Brainworx is at the upper end of the market, but with good reason.
bx_Oberhausen is an excellent recreation of the module that launched a thousand synths. Well, three or four, maybe. But it also adds things like frequency modulation, an arpeggiator and, of course, the ability to load and save presets!
Ad Astra by OCTO8R is, so the blurb says, “…a celestial journey of 47 meticulously crafted presets!” Bold claims indeed. However, if you listen to the demo video below, these aren’t half bad at all! Making full use of that huge “Oberheim” sound, this collection is a lot of fun.
The trick up Ad Astra’s sleeve is that each patch is effectively two in one. In a feature that resembles the brilliant Morph feature found on Arturia’s PolyBrute 6 and 12, moving the mod wheel changes the patch into something new and entirely different!
And best of all, it’s just two of your American Dollars! That’s right, buy it here for just two measly bucks! Bargain!
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