Melodic Surprise Generator For KONTAKT

Sound Dust has released PLATO, a new sample library for NATIVE INSTRUMENTS KONTAKT. It is described as an otherworldly melodic surprise generator, shimmer machine, drone engine and all round lovely instrument. Here's more details direct from Sound Dust...

PLATO is the melodic counterpart to brutish percussion box HOBBES . Like its philosophical namesake, PLATO is open minded and inspirational, but at it's core it is dark, very dark.  It is a groundbreaking ideas machine for inventing your own genres.  Deep cinematica, beautiful ambient dronescapes, skittering minimalism, melodic rhythm shadows and seductively brutalized grind is in there along with the gorgeous tones of hybrid acoustics rubbing along nicely together. 

PLATO is built around a network of subtle to dramatic interactions; sounds, frequencies, transients, levels and effects all affect and can change each other in surprising ways. It is an instrument you try and steer. Fortunately the complex stuff is under the hood,  you use the intuitive GUi to wrangle new ideas and bend new sounds without getting bogged down with details. Merge and melt the unexpected into ravishing new music with a daft grin on your face.

Features:

• 4 HYBRID ARTICULATIONS : 2 pianos, strings and 'flute' - but  not really any of these..
• Intricate internal signal chain means everything interacts with everything else, often in unexpected ways.
• Merge and melt the unexpected into ravishing new music.  
• Every note/sound has its own sequencer, with 9 sub- divisions per note
• midi drag & drop per sequencer
• OOOF: sequenced multi effect tape effects: 128 morphable presets
• WOOF: sequenced EQ in 3 flavours: 128 x 3morphable presets
• DOOF: sequenced dynamics multi effects in 3 flavours: 128 x 3 morphable presets
• EBB:  sequenced master ducking
• PLATO-tudinator : handy Platonic words of wisdom for every note.

 

for FULL version of Kontakt 6.7.1 and above

Pricing and Availability:
£30/35 Euro/$42

More information:

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