
Instruments and sound design for the big screen
In a world...in a land...coming to studios near you: Vir2 Instruments´ Q, a massive sound design and scoring instruments library designed for the unique needs of television, film, game, and media composers and music producers who want to add a fresh and previously unheard dimension to their sonic palette.
Q (as in, cue, or, if you prefer, as in the master spy´s gadget man), contains almost two thousand patches and 16GB of sample material including cinematically thunderous drums, percussion, winds, vocals, ethnic instruments, metallic textures, glass, guitar, toy, ambient atmospheres, synth landscapes, and trailer-ready effects. The library includes both playable melodic pitched instruments and multisampled one-shot percussion and effects. A large collection of epic percussion loops which automatically sync to tempo and are playable both whole and by the slice, are also included.
Q´s easy-to-use interface provides one-click effecting of the library, including the famed EZRoom convolution, delay, chorus, filters, chorusing, flanging, and more. Other advanced functions include a special legato mode for melodic instruments, and crossfade controls for multilayered instruments.
While everything in Q is mapped in Kontakt format ready to play from a MIDI controller, as a bonus many of Q´s one-shot effects (such as booms, whooshes, metal scrapes and hits, and special sound effects) are also available on the disc in open 24-bit WAV format, allowing instant drag-and-drop into a film mix.
The collection is divided up into twenty-three main category folders:
- Ambient Chordal Pads
- Cymbals
- Gongs
- Rolls and Effects
- Drums and Percussion
- Granular Orchestra
- Guitars
- Hong Kong Cinema
- Horns and Winds
- Impacts and Low Drums
- Loops and Construction Kits
- Metallic and Glass Melodies
- Middle Eastern
- Morphstruments
- Multilayer Dreamscapes
- Multilayer Drones, Mystery
- Pedal Steel Ambiences
- Pulp Surfer
- Sound Effects
- Stylistic Phrases
- Tempo Textures
- Toys and Character Keyboards
- Voices and Western
SoundsAndGear 03/2011
Excerpt:
I give this library 4 out of 5 subs, the interface is very clean and useful, the library is fast loading, and it’s just so dang deeeeeeeeeeeeeep you’re sure to find many gems.
Amazona.de 9.3.2011
Auszug
Fazit
Für alle Musiker, die im Bereich der Filmmusik, Werbung, Games oder Multimedia arbeiten, ist Q eine gute Möglichkeit, das bestehende Sound-Repertoire zu erweitern. Dem Einsatzgebiet sind bei weitem keine Grenzen gesetzt, so dass genreübergreifend sehr gut klingende und leicht einzusetzende Sounds vorhanden sind. Die einfache und reibungslose Installation und Einbindung in den NI Kontakt Player sorgt dafür, dass die Sounds ohne große Arbeit zur Verfügung stehen und eingesetzt werden können. Der Preis von rund 249 Euro mag für eine Soundlibrary zunächst sehr hoch erscheinen, aber bei Q handelt es sich eben um weit mehr als nur ein paar angesammelte Sounds auf DVD. Ein vollwertiges Instrument samt Effekteinheit wird geboten - und dafür ist der Preis absolut gerechtfertigt.
SoundsAndGear, 4 subs
Amazona, Sehr gut
The latest NI Kontakt Player is included in this product!
Please check the product description for the required Kontakt version.
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Download latest free Kontakt Player Windows (~ 450MB)
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Download latest free Kontakt Player Mac INTEL (~ 600MB)
You want more?
This library qualifies for the reduced Crossgrade of full KONTAKT at Native Instruments.
The following list shows, whether the respective Kontakt version is compatible with your operating system:
Mac
Kontakt 4:
- OS X 10.6 & 10.7 = until 4.2.4
- OS X 10.8 and higher = no longer supported
Kontakt 5:
- OS X 10.6 = until 5.0.3
- OS X 10.7 = until 5.3.1
- OS X 10.8 = 5.0.3 - 5.5.1
- OS X 10.9 = 5.3.0 - 5.6.6
- OS X 10.10 = 5.3.0 - 5.7.3
- OS X 10.11 = 5.5.1 - latest
- Mac OS 10.12 = 5.6.1 - latest
- Mac OS 10.13 = latest
- Mac OS 10.14 = latest
- Mac OS 10.15 = latest
Kontakt 6:
- Mac OS 10.12 - 10.15 (latest update)
Windows
Kontakt 4:
- XP = until 4.2.4
- Vista = until 4.2.4
- Windows 7 = until 4.2.4
- Windows 8 & 10 = no longer supported
Kontakt 5:
- XP = until 5.2.0
- Vista = until 5.2.0
- Windows 7 = latest
- Windows 8 & 10 = latest
Kontakt 6:
- Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack)
FOR ALL SYSTEMS:
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1GB free disk space
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Additional hard drive space according to the library’s size
SUPPORTED INTERFACES
Stand-Alone | VST | Audio Units | ASIO | CoreAudio | WASAPI | AAX Native (Pro Tools 10 or higher)
Product activation:
An internet connection is required to authorize / activate the product.