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Silence+Other Sounds ‘Maleventum’: A Kontakt Library providing Cinematic Sounds of Epic War Horns from Ancient Nordic and Celtic Cultures
Silence+Other Sounds ‘Maleventum’: A Kontakt Library providing Cinematic Sounds of Epic War Horns from Ancient Nordic and Celtic Cultures
'Maleventum' is a Kontakt library based on the sound of medieval and Viking horns that provides cinematic sounds of epic war horns. It was initially released in October 2020 by Silence+Other Sounds, an Italian boutique sound design company. Each sound and instrument of Maleventum instantly evokes scenes of ‘forgotten dark ages’, ‘Viking armies and warriors’, ‘epic ancient battles’, ‘vast frozen landscapes’, ‘mystical pagan cults’ and ‘supernatural presences hovering in the wind of the nordic woods’.
Maleventum is for TV, film and game composers and sound designers looking for unique, carefully crafted sounds to enrich their compositions. It fits particularly well the ‘epic genre’, with specific regard to fantasy and dark age movies. It will be a very useful tool to provide plenty of inspiration for horror and thriller composers as well as producers of dark electronic music and ambient.
All of these sounds have been processed and layered to create a collection of 'epic braams*', 'hunt horn calls', 'war horns', 'low tone brass sounds', 'high pitched screaming trumpets', 'animal-esque wailing sounds' and much more.
*Braams is a mega powerful “horn-like” sound that blasts with a long sustain and screaming. You can think of a Braam sound as a mix between huge brass instruments playing at high dynamics and a big cruise ship horn sound.
Maleventum features an useful Global Tuning function to tune all the samples to the same root key with just one knob, which turns very useful for more minimalist and aggressive compositions such as trailer music. The UI in Maleventum also includes a 'cinematic low end boost' function, which instantly invigorates the bass frequency register of the samples with just one click, to make your braams really roar. Since Maleventum is compatible with MPE, you can easily MIDI map Volume, Low Pass Filter, High Pass Filter and LFO rate for each of the 4 layers of the playable instrument by using Mapping screen. All of these parameters can be controlled per note, allowing you to create custom patches of rich, evolving and expressive pads and melodies from over 120 selectable horn pad sounds and textures, 58 MPE Multis and over 100 snapshots.
Features
Playable Kontakt Instrument
One-Shot SFX Sampler
Compatibility
You don't necessarily need Kontakt to use the sounds. You can import every sounds in your DAW, in your favorite audio sampler, in video editing software or in any software able to handle .wav files. However, if you want to use provided the Kontakt instruments, at least a Full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 is required. The free version of Kontakt player is Not supported.
Price $59.00 USD (Excluding VAT)
*Maleventum 2 (based on Aztec flutes and whistles) is currently at 33% discount until July 31st, 2021: here
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About 'Silence+Other Sounds' (https://silenceandothersounds.com) Silence+Other Sounds is the project of an Italian sound designer and media composer Giuseppe SMHERTZ Caiazzo. Started as a personal musical outlet of experimental electronic music, S+OS evolved as a boutique sound design company oriented to modern, finely crafted sound assets and tools. We aim to create evoking, vivid, unmistakable sound design and serve the wide community of composers, filmmakers, game developers and editors.
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