HAUNTED SPACES
CINEMATIC SOUNDSCAPES
- Chris Watson Recordings
- VECTOR CUBE
- Load User Samples
- Kontakt Player NKS
Renowned field recordist Chris Watson has spent years collecting audio recordings from what he describes as Haunted Spaces.
Ancient Temples, Ice Lagoons.
Cold War Bases, Abandoned Silver Mines.
Places rich with human drama & significance.
Charged auras and ominous atmospheres saturate the acoustic DNA of every recording in this unique collection.
TWINS | DARK + LIGHT
ADD-ON SOUND PACK
Twins is a collection of 128 snapshot presets by sound design team K/V (Ramon Kerstens + Richard Veenstra)
A collection with a new concept - each preset has a Twin: Dark and Light.
These can be used together (as demonstrated in the video) or as separate sounds in their own right.
Available as an extra purchase for Haunted Spaces users.
THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT
HAUNTED SPACES SOUND DESIGN
PRESET LIBRARY TOUR
Haunted Spaces features a huge library of over 400 presets, created by a team of incredible sound designers.
The core sample library contains 128 original Chris Watson field recordings, combined with hundreds of custom synth, acoustic and percussion waveforms to blend with the ambiences. Notable sample sets include special versions of Soniccouture's Novachord, Array Mbira, Bowed Piano, ebow Guitar and many more.
This video showcases a small selection of the preset sounds.
ADD YOUR OWN SOUNDS
DRAG AND DROP SAMPLES
You can add your own sounds to the Haunted Spaces cube.
Simply select a 'User Wave' slot from the browser, then drag your audio file directly onto the interface - the sample will be automatically mapped ready to play.
RECORDING LOCATIONS
THE CONTROL CUBE
VECTOR / XY CONTROLLER
Haunted Spaces is based around a 4 point vector, or 'XY' controller.
This allows you to fade between 4 different waveforms, each with their own synthesis setup. Choose between Chris Watson recordings, synth and acoustic samples, or drag your own sounds in.
The Cube can be fully automated, all movements are recordable and sync to the DAW tempo.
CHRIS WATSON
Chris Watson is one of the world's leading recordists of wildlife and natural phenomena.
Born in 1953, in Sheffield, Watson was a founding member of the influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire. His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television. Since then he has developed a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with sound design in post production.
His television work includes many programmes in the David Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012).
KONTAKT PLAYER 6 COMPATIBLE
This is a Kontakt Player instrument. This means that you do not need to own the full version of NI Kontakt to use it. It will run as a plug-in instrument in any VST/AU/RTAS/AAX/WASAPI,compatible host program or DAW eg: Cubase, Logic, Ableton Live, DP, Reaper, Pro-Tools. No extra purchase necessary.
System Requirements:
Windows 7 or higher (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit), Intel Core Duo or AMD AthlonTM 64 X2, 4 GB RAM (6 GB RAM recommended)
Mac: OS X 10.9 or higher, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM
Requires KONTAKT 6 or KONTAKT 6 PLAYER version 6.2 or later (a Kontakt 5 compatible download is also included, without drag and drop function).
Sound Packs are compatible with all Kontakt versions, 5.6.8 upwards
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