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Zodiac is a unique-sounding Virtual Instrument designed to provide composers and producers with a collection of original sounds and instruments suitable for film or TV scores, video games, and all types of ambient and experimental music.
No synthesizers were used to create the instruments in Zodiac. Instead, all instruments were created from organic sources such as found sounds, sonic manipulations inspired by classic Musique Concrete, Experimental and Avant Garde Music compositions, prepared or heavily processed musical instruments, and audio recordings subjected to extreme sound design techniques.
Zodiac features over 200 patches and Multis (over 8GB of uncompressed wav data), divided into six categories:
Pads & Atmospheres
Melodic Instruments
Bass Instruments
Percussive Instruments
Experimental Instruments
Zodiac Kits
Zodiac’s instruments range from beautiful and ethereal soundscapes to wildly inventive percussion and mysterious, haunting, atonal and experimental sounds that defy easy categorization. Search through Zodiac’s patch folders, and you won’t find anything like a regular bass, guitar, keyboard, or drum set. Instead, you’ll find a collection of sounds that are quite unlike those made by any standard instrument.
To find out more about Zodiac and to listen to demos, visit the product page.
Hi –
This is Steve Sechi of Funk/Soul Productions, here to talk about our newest virtual instrument, Zodiac.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Zodiac doesn’t sound like any other VI on the market – it’s true. We created all the “instruments” in Zodiac from scratch, using found sounds, extreme sound design techniques, prepared or heavily processed musical instruments, and sonic manipulations inspired by classic Musique Concrete, Experimental and Avant Garde Music compositions. No synthesizers were used for any of the 150+ instrument patches that we created for Zodiac – just real, organic sounds.
Zodiac’s instruments range from beautiful and ethereal soundscapes to wildly inventive percussion instruments, and to mysterious, haunting, atonal and experimental sounds that defy easy categorization. You won’t find anything like a regular bass, guitar, keyboard, or drum set. What you will find is a collection of fresh and original sounds and instruments suitable for film or TV scores, video games, and all types of ambient and experimental music.
Zodiac is also very easy to use. All the controls you need to handle anything from subtle tweaks to drastic changes are right there on the interface. That’s a big help if you’re a composer, sound designer, producer who’s on a tight deadline.
If you’re looking for a set of totally unique sounds for your compositions, we hope you’ll check out some of the Zodiac demos on the Big Fish Audio website.
View Zodiac Page
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This months production department picks of the month highlights two extremely well done Indie pop products by a couple of my favorite brands we carry, Majorn9ne and Dieguis Productions. These products cover the entire genre from soft acoustics and vocal melodies to gritty basses and punchy drums. All samples and loops are expertly recorded in the highest possible quality, cut to bar lines for quick and easy arrangement and formatted in Apple Loops, Acidized WAV and REX Formats. In addition to these formats, both products have been formatted for Big Fish Audio’s new KLI series that takes advantage of the power and flexibility of Native Instruments’ “Kontakt” engine.
This massive 6.5 GB collection of Alternative, Indie and Pop-Rock is a showcase of groups like Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Keys, Imagine Dragons, Young the Giant, Snow Patrol, The Fray, Neon Trees and many more. Crush contains Drum Elements that contain individual drum kit pieces (kick, snare, hi-hat, toms, cymbals; etc) that you can use individually or mix n match to create an unlimited variety of drum grooves and rhythmic textures.
The library contains an enormous collection of Instrument Kits that give you the freedom to simply use one layer of the instrument by itself or increase the depth, complexity and beauty by adding additional complimentary instrument parts.
Crush includes Vocals (Female and Male) Acoustic Drums (Stereo, Hits and 24-bit WAV Multi-Drums) Electric Bass, Electric Guitars, Pianos, Keys, Synths and many additional instruments that provide you with today’s rock sound.
By giving you the ability to add the amount of depth and texture needed, along with multiple variations and rhythmic figures, Crush gives you total creative freedom and allows you to tweak to your hearts content!
Crush also includes over 3 GB of Multi-Drums from the “Drum Loops” sections of the instrument kits for you to mix n match, remix and adjust anyway you like it. Pick up Crush and Inject your projects with the raw emotion of today’s hottest Alternative, Indie and Pop-Rock music.
Acoustic Collection nails a sound that has become very popular in the last few years. From Grammy Award winning bands, to major commercials and even contemporary film scores, these sounds are a must have for any producer. This collection features not only acoustic guitars but also, drums, vocals, hand claps, snaps, glockenspiels, and a whole lot more.
In addition, a folder of hand claps and snaps one shot hits and multi-track drum stems have been included to create your own custom mixes.
Indie Acoustic Collection is a truly amazing and usable product that feels familiar and current but still brings something new to the table.
Epic: Cinematic Drums & Sound Design is a virtual instrument created for use with Native Instruments Kontakt 5 engine. Truly epic in scope (over 10.3GB uncompressed) but also simple to use, Epic is ideal for composers and sound designers working in film, movie trailers, games, television, production music, web design, or advertising. Epic not only includes a huge variety of cinematic drum loops and sampled drums – it’s also a powerful and flexible tool for cinematic-style sound design.
Use Epic’s deep collection of drum and percussion loops to quickly compose cinematic rhythmic beds in a wide variety of styles…
Create your own rhythmic fills and patterns with Epic’s multi- sampled instruments.
Add a professional edge to your cues with Epic’s powerful array of cinematic sound design elements…
Customize your sonic creations using the sound design tools on Epic’s graphic interface…
Includes 58 multi-sampled drums and percussion instruments, 24 Performance Kits (total of 1711 loops and one-shots), and 388 high-quality cinematic sound effects.