About Landforms :

Landforms is a sample library designed for Native Instruments Kontakt. It’s also compatible with the free Kontakt Player, which makes the product appealing to users who don’t own the paid, full version of Kontakt.

The library’s content is vast and includes close to 13,000 different samples. Landforms is for the biggest part based on a core sound source of 200 orchestral articulations. The inspiration for these is, according to Slate Ash, the movement and shapes of the natural world. Also included in Landforms are over 400 handcrafted sound design presets. After the installation, the library occupies about 66 GB of hard drive space.

NATURALLY EXPRESSIVE

Landforms is a multidimensional sound design environment that takes a novel approach to orchestral samples. Diverse combinations of creative modules and expressive controls, from cassette machines to modular and granular synths, blend to create abstract sound collages. Import your own samples or explore from thousands of raw, expressive performances – orchestral in origin, organically reimagined.

ABOUT SLATE ASH

Slate Ash is one of the most exciting sound design studios to emerge in recent years, delivering a stunning variety of tools for creating sonic textures and timbres. Their background of collaboration with some of the world’s leading film composers combines with their modernistic approach to creative sound processing to deliver instruments which are suited to a huge range of audio production purposes.

Features :

ORGANIC ORCHESTRAL PALETTES

Summary

Landforms by Slate Ash is a highly unique sample library that not only offers a collection of intimate and evolving hybrid orchestral sounds that keep on changing over time, but also features its own sampler/synth engine that allows users to import an process their very own sounds. The original sound material is top-notch and gives composers and producers a more direct and personal orchestral sound through the use of smaller ensembles and soloists. The over 400 processed sound design presets stand well on their own but also blend exceptionally well with Landforms’ many orchestral patches.

Though in our tests, the initial level of the majority of patches was somehwat low compared to other sample libraries, this is nothing that can’t be put right by adding a gain plugin or cranking up Kontakt’s level slider. Maybe S A will find a cure for that in a future update.

At £291 (roughly $400), Landforms is definitely geared more towards professionals as the rather high entry price could potentially scare away aspiring hobby producers. This also shows in the sheer complexity and depth this sample library has to offer. For people who are willing to dive in and invest some time in the engine, Landforms is truly a gold mine of evocative soundscapes and unique sonic textures.

System Requirements :

Mac OS

Windows