ASPIRE: Modern Mallets

A Striking Cinematic Experience

ASPIRE showcases the innately flexible range of deeply-sampled marimba and vibes sources—from the dark ambience of bowed and processed performances to the percussive movement of the traditionally struck. Combined with Heavyocity’s world-class sound design, and the inspiring ASCEND engine, the emotional textures these instruments are capable of have finally been realized.

• Cinematic Strikes - Discover the innately flexible range of these pristine sources—from the dark ambience of bowed and processed performances to the percussive movement of the traditionally struck.

• Creative Echoes - This proprietary feature accentuates your performances with a layer of lush, musical randomness.

• Three-Point Mixer - Explore an intuitive canvas to blend, manipulate, and fine-tune these inspiring sources.

• Essential Tools - Tuned percussion are an integral part of the composer's toolkit, and ASPIRE delivers you an inspiring new take on these essential tools.

• Design Your Sound - With ASPIRE, Heavyocity uncovered a new cinematic potential for these beautiful instruments, using creative performances and processing to transform them into the realm of modern scoring.

• Ascend Engine - The gorgeous ASCEND engine is a whole new world to explore - complete with a library of rhythmic convolutions and dozens of layerable sources and FX.

What´s Included:

• 8,728 Samples

• 16 Sound Sources: Marimba (Close Mic, Room Mic, Under Mic, ppp), Vibraphone (Close Mic, Room Mic, Under Mic, ppp), Muted Vibraphone (Close Mic, Room Mic, Under Mic, ppp), Sustained: Bowed Vibes, Grained (granular vibes), Shine (granular vibes), Clouds (ambient pad)

• 112 Custom Presets: 17 All-Stars, 16 Core Mallets, 27 Extended, 27 Rhythmic, 25 Rhythmic Melodic

• Intuitive Sample Browser

• ARP for building complex, rhythmic arpeggios

• Three Point Mixer for realtime source blending

• Echoes feature adds lush, musical randomness to performances

This product requires the free Native Instruments Kontakt Player, the latest version can be downloaded through Native Access, Native Instrument’s download manager!

The minimum required Kontakt version for this product is stated in the product description or can be found on the manufacturers website.

System Requirements:

Mac:

• macOS 10.14 or higher
• 64 bit
• Intel Core i5 or Apple M1 (native)
• RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Windows:

• Windows 10 or higher
• 64 bit
• Intel Core i5 or similar CPU
• RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Supported Interfaces:

• Mac (64-bit only): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX
• Windows (64-bit): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AAX

Legacy Versions:

If you require legacy installers of Kontakt Player please refer to this Knowledge Base Article.