sonokinetic - Official Demos pt. 1

http://www.sonokinetic.net/products/classical/minimal

With Minimal, Sonokinetic BV delivers the fourth installment in our current range of orchestral instruments. We have listened to our users, and built an entirely new system from the ground up, defining what we think is a revolutionary novel direction in orchestral pattern-based sampling. 

Minimal would suggest a particular music style, and many of the patterns available in this instrument are very well suited for that style. However, we’d like to stress that this is indeed a very flexible instrument, capable of enhancing a broad range of musical arrangements and compositions in a wide variety of styles. Where Minimal differs from libraries like Tutti and Vivace is in its section-based approach. All phrases are recorded per orchestral section and can be used separately or together and in any combination, allowing for a great deal of variations at your fingertips.

The first thing that would strike you is the non-apologetic interface style without any gloss.  Apart from this being a respectful nod to our Dutch art heritage on the outside, it also very much references the “form follows function” approach that Dutch design is famous for. There are no superfluous elements and we’ve arranged everything in an intuitive way. You have every control in one screen within an uncrowded workspace. You might not suspect it from just looking at it, but there are a lot of complex functionalities at your disposal from this one screen. Discover more about those in the detailed descriptions right here in the user manual and on the tutorial videos available on our website: www.sonokinetic.net.

Recordings for Minimal took place in Zlin, Czech Republic, in the same hall and with the same team responsible for recording Tutti and Vivace. The performances have been edited with the same meticulous attention to detail and quality.

Many innovative functions grace this instrument, mostly under the hood, as we believe that technology is at its best when you don’t notice it. One of the functions that might need a bit more introduction is the harmonic shift function. This element of Minimal can lead to great sounding results and also serve as a very rewarding inspirational tool.  So please read and digest the part of this manual dedicated to that function. 

More visibly, and in lieu of popular request, we have found a way to greatly improve the score view. Despite the pixel restrictions of the Kontakt window we’ve managed to squeeze in a clear and accurate score view, although you can still order a digital full-scale copy of the score, if you so desire.

We, at Sonokinetic BV, are very proud to introduce Minimal to you, and can’t wait to hear the amazing things you, our valued customer base, will produce with it.

Sonokinetic has established a name as one of the best value & quality sample producers and with this product we’d like to underline that statement. We stick with our unbeatable pricing module and high quality sampling.

We wish you the best inspiration and creativity. 

With warm regards, The Sonokinetic Minimal Production Team

Minimal demo "Stop Motion" by Sonokinetic

Minimal demo "Migration" by MarieAnne Fischer

Minimal demo "Interstellar Affairs" by Stuart Fox (Minimal Only)

Minimal demo "Glimmer of Hope" by Ivan Torrent (Minimal Only)

Minimal demo "Stargazer" by Dirk Ehlert (Minimal Only)

Minimal demo "Nightfly" by Valentin Boomes

Minimal demo "Nightfly" by Valentin Boomes (Minimal Only)

Minimal Demo "Reflections" by Craig Sharmat

http://www.sonokinetic.net/products/classical/toll
Way back when, when Sonokinetic was in its infant stage, we recorded two carillons and turned them into a simple kontakt instrument. Ever since, we have felt the urge to revisit that, and do it with the knowledge and experience we have gained over the past years. That time has come, and this time it is not just a carillon, but a large collection of different sized bells, from various periods and places of origin.
Each hit on these bells will spark a very unique and authentic sound that can only be generated by pure weight and age. Sonokinetic sampled historical valuable bronze cast bells as old as a 1000 years, proceeded through the ages of innovation in bell casting and tuning and ended in our time of hi-tech computer calibrated pitch perfect bells, and sampled all of those with great attention to detail, preserving their original tails of up to 30 seconds.
The swiss pocketknife of the collection is the Carillon, sounding just amazing!  This is the best pitched and sound callibrated Carillon you will find. Originally cast by the foundries that made the new bell in the Notre Dame in Paris, the Olympic Games 2012 bell and several renowned carillons all over Europe. Where Sonokinetic Mallets is there for your subtle orchestral needs, this product will literally blow you away, and make everything sound epic and Majestic, and add a weight to your compositions, pun intended, in a way that not many instruments are able to.
It’s just amazing when you think of it, that you can now have things like this in your composing arsenal, complete church organs, orchestras and clocks weighing thousands of kilos, on a laptop or desktop computer, literally at your fingertips.
All samples for this product are recorded and sampled in 24bit 96Khz, and all processing is done in that resolution, after which we converted them to 24 bit 48Khz, making a convenient package of just over 3 GB.
Over a timespan of more than a 1000 years of production, assembly, usage and preservation this very unique collection of bells are sampled here for the fist time and offered to you in an original Sonokinetic library.
Sonokinetic climbed a cathedral, risking permanent hearing loss, to capture the original sound of 6000kg heavy cast bells that sound from the Dutch Saint Johns Cathedral and traveled back in time to ancient Dutch Glory of the Golden age in the 16th and 17th century where the production of tower bells was perfected. Toll covers bells from European countries like Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and an in depth study and recording of South-East-Asian ceremonial bells covering ground from Vietnam to China.
We believe in offering very high-quality sample libraries at very attractive pricepoints. Thank you for joining us in making that a reality!
We wish you the best inspiration and creativity.

Toll Demo "Night of the Bells" by Sascha Knorr (TOLL Video Promo)

Toll demo "Invitations" by Marie-Anne Fischer

Toll demo "For Whom The Bell" by Reuben Cornell

Toll demo "iAmsterdam" by Arthur Hendriks

Toll demo "God Rest Toll" by Reuben Cornell

http://www.sonokinetic.net/sleighbells/
Q: 	What does every Christmas track need but has been sadly overlooked by most sample developers?

A:	Sleigh Bells

Q:	What are Sonokinetic going to do about it?

A:	Program a ridiculously comprehensive collection of tempo-synced sleigh bells and give it to you for FREE as an extra special xmas gift.

Sonokinetic brings you this treat, free for anyone to enjoy, but no less powerful than our paid-for libraries. We figured it’s a time for giving presents, and we wanted to thank all of you for the 5 years you kept Sonokinetic going strong, and growing to the company it is today…Thank You!

So for this special package, we donned our comedy Santa hats and recorded 6 different sizes of sleigh bells, ranging from just one bell to a 25 bell stick. The samples were captured using apogee hardware and a violet audio flamingo stereo microphone. 

We’re providing loops in two tempi. Using Kontakt’s Time Machine function and our in-house developed ITM (Intelligent Tempo Mapping) the loops will adapt to your carol seamlessly. We have captured two meters (3/4 and 4/4) and two feels… straight(ish) called ‘trot’ and a shuffle-feel ‘gallop’ which Rudolph tells us keeps him in perfect sync with the other reindeer.

We’ve also captured a sleigh full of single hits, to create a set of round robins for maximum realism… that’s between 23 and 41 different hits per instrument.

The interface is themed around an advent calendar (what else?!) You can open doors by either clicking them, or playing any of the keys associated with that door. The numbers refer to the number of bells of that particular sleigh bell, and in number 0 there is a general options field.

Did we mention it’s free?

Please help us spread the holiday spirit by telling all your friends and family (or at least the ones that own a full version of Kontakt and know how to use it). We might be a bit early, but we figured you were gonna need this for your Christmas composing, which is happening right now.

So enjoy, and until the next release God rest Ye all…


Sleighbells Demo "Christmas On My Own" By Arthur Hendriks

Sleighbells Demo "Toboggan Ride" by Reuben Cornell

Sleighbells Demo "Wild Sleigh Ride" by James Wingrove

Sleighbells Demo Jingle Bells by Sascha Knorr

Sleighbells Demo "Something in the Snow" by Blake Robinson

Minimal demo "A New Life, A New Journey" by Robert Douglas

https://www.sonokinetic.net/products/classical/dacapo/
This library captures the full sound of the symphonic orchestra. A library that keeps things simple and straightforward. All sections and the most common articulations are provided in this collection. Recorded with a highly professional and renowned orchestra that is also credited for their work in our libraries “Tutti” and “Vivace”. Making this multi sampled orchestral sample collection the pivotal accomplishment to complete the Sonokinetic cinematic orchestral tools.
It has been a dream to create a library like this. Sonokinetic has put in their utmost best to produce this unique instrument. And after a long production we proudly present to you ‘Da Capo’. 

Da Capo 2.0 

What has changed:
- the instrument has become much more efficient in terms of processor use
- we expanded the top end playable range
- legatos are smoother
- we ironed out inconsistencies in the instrument’s guts
- overall modernising of the innards
- less clicking: cmd/ctrl clicking an articulation will update all

What has not changed:
- the great unprocessed raw sound people have come to love
- the sample content (the update is script and nki only)
- the interface (we still really like that)

Da Capo demo "Enigma Challenge" by Sascha Knorr

sonokinetic - Official Demos pt. 1

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