A 21st Century Mellotron?

Sound Dust's Flutter Dust Kontakt instrument uses multisampled acoustic wavetables   07-Jun-16

Described as a 21st century Mellotron, Sound Dust says that the Flutter Dust Module is a new Kontakt sample instrument that uses long and complex multisampled acoustic 'wavetables' that scan in real time to create beautiful organic, evolving and unexpected new sounds. Here's the story in their own words...

Like the Mellotron, Flutter Dust Module is based on recordings of acoustic instruments– but the extra functionality of the Kontakt engine takes the Flutter Dust Module to places of which the tape-based Mellotron could only ever dream. Creating woozy, ghostly versions of real world timbres, users can just move the playhead position or loop points to construct new sounds - punch-drunk orchestral pads, delicate flute-a-matones or majestic organ-celeste...and more, all at the touch of a button.

If you are beguiled by the music of genre defying artists like Tim Hecker, Ben Frost, Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Radiohead, Bjork and James Blake, then the Flutter Dust Module could be your new best friend – enabling you to make music which inhabits a sonic 'other' space by sounding both acoustic and electronic.

To demonstrate some of the lovely possibilities, the demo track 'Fading of the Light' is a version of an orchestral cue from hit BBC drama The A Word (kindly lent by Sound Dust user and Bafta winning composer Rob Lane) re-imagined using only Flutter Dust Module. Dreamy, crepuscular, luminous, authentic, ambigious, hazy, enchanted, disquieting – the Flutter Dust Module is all of this, and more.

What's inside?

• 1.3GB (compressed) 24bit stereo samples
• three multisampled, five octave wavetable sets
• six .nki instruments in two variations LOOPER and Wavetable
• 160 snapshot sound presets
• acoustic wavetable sample sets made from cunning variations of Sound Dust favourites
• micro and macro pages for easy or deep editing
• BPM synced trigger repeat modes: saved per note or for whole keyboard.
• chaos and order controls: for instant parameter randomisation and re-organisation.
• flutter control: modwheel hard wired to unique 'flutter' effect -wiggle it and you'll soon find out what it does
• effects - adjustable per note: two convolution reverb and one delay send, chorus (Wavetable), filter LFO (LOOPER), autopanner (Wavetable)
• 20 custom reverb convolution impulses
• poly, mono, legato and glide modes
• RTFM tab -so you can't lose the manual

FULL version of Kontakt 5.5.1 or above is required. Flutter DM will load into Kontakt Player but time out after 10 minutes, so please don't buy this unless you are using the full paid-for version of Kontakt 5.5.1

Pricing and Availability:
£35

More information:

• Flutter Dust