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SONUSCORE was founded in 2012 as a label of the award winning music and sound production studio Dynamedion and was created by the same team that founded the highly acclaimed BOOM Library.
Dynamedion has a great international reputation for high quality music composition, sound design and live orchestra production and is the biggest game audio studio in Europe. With over 1800 projects in the last 17 years, Dynamedion has been delivering excellent audio for almost two decades now.
BOOM Library only started in 2010 but has already built a world class record for its highly acclaimed Sound FX collections, giving all sound designers the perfect flexibility and workflow for any type of media production.
Now they are doing it again! The three founders are combining their vast experience in orchestral music production, high end sound quality claims and a cutting edge approach to perfectly balanced usability, in order to shape some of the most incredible virtual instruments out there!
Sonuscore
A label of Dynamedion –
Langer & Sillescu GbR
Kästrich 6
55116 Mainz
Germany
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www.sonuscore.com
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AWAKEN THE ANCIENT MELODIES OF MOROCCO
Discover MOROCCAN VOCAL PHRASES featuring Nadia Kaawad, designed to enrich your soundtracks with the rich and powerful vocal traditions of Morocco. This collection offers emotional and dynamic phrases, bringing a unique human dimension to your music.
CAPTURE THE RICH MUSICAL HERITAGE OF MOROCCO’S ANCIENT DYNASTIES
Our MOROCCAN VOCAL PHRASES library showcases expressive live phrases, encapsulating true human musicality in authentic artistic performances. You’ll be fascinated by how easy it is to use and the immediate emotional impact it brings to your music. Even better, you’ll be inspired to use them in music from other genres and cultures, bringing imaginative musical fusion to your projects.
A TRULY SPECIAL PIANO
CHROMA – UPRIGHT PIANO stands out, not just because of its rich history and impeccable restoration, but because of its unique character and emotional depth that set it apart.
The journey began a few years ago in a small studio, where our team initially focused on recording a grand piano. However, an unassuming upright piano in the same studio captured our attention. Though we were committed to recording the grand, the upright’s distinct sound and emotional resonance left a lasting impression. We just had to record it and share it with the world!
The CHROMA – UPRIGHT PIANO isn’t just another virtual instrument; it’s a culmination of passion, serendipity, and meticulous craftsmanship.
Warm, mid-focused tonal character with rich low-end
Multiple unique articulations including felt, muted, plucked, flageolet, and bowed
Recorded with a diverse array of microphones for a comprehensive sound
Unique core engine that both recreates the piano’s original sonority and also creates new and abstract soundscapes
27 velocity layers for nuanced and dynamic playability
91 presets designed to inspire and enhance creativity
Empower Your Compositions with Authentic Medieval Phrases.
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT or Steinbergs free HALion Sonic]
Embark on a journey through time with the latest addition to the MEDIEVAL PHRASES series: FIDDLE & NYCKELHARPA. With the Fiddle, with its rich and expressive tones, coupled with the Nyckelharpa’s distinctive resonant strings, we invite you to capture the mood of medieval times. Composers and producers can now use dramatic live performances by outstanding performers or freely play their instruments with varied articulations.
Imagine the bustling markets and vibrant festivals of late medieval Europe, where the rhythm and bounce of the Fiddle & Nyckelharpa set feet tapping and light the hearts of weary travelers. These instruments were the lifeblood of celebration, often heard at markets and taverns above the chatter of merchants and the laughter of children. Their history is woven through countless generations, where they not only provided entertainment but also served as a cultural heartbeat during times of both hardship and prosperity.
MEDIEVAL PHRASES FIDDLE & NYCKLEHARPA carry within tales of the past, each string resonating with stories untold. The Fiddle’s bow dances across strings to produce a vibrant, rhythmic melody, while the Nyckelharpa’s keyed fiddle design adds an otherworldly depth. These sounds, once echoing through medieval tavern halls and open markets, are now crisply captured for the modern composer. With MEDIEVAL PHRASES, breathe new life into your medieval compositions, delivering an authentic experience that is both profound and exhilarating.
HORIZON LEADS – Discover A New Sonic Dimension!
Enter a realm where synthesizers meet Hollywood scoring aesthetics – HORIZON LEADS opens the door to a new sonic dimension for cinematic scoring. It is your gateway to a revolutionary cinematic scoring experience. Unleash the power of cinematic synth leads meticulously sampled and infused with the warmth of acoustic instruments. Crafted to perfection, these sounds carry a unique human and artistic touch, elevating your compositions to new heights and let them resonate with the essence of Hollywood.
• HORIZON LEADS contains meticulously sampled synthesizer sounds treated like acoustic instruments
• Hollywood scoring aesthetic for powerful cinematic synth leads
• Sonuscore ensemble engine for pulsating rhythms and animated themes
• Play complex patterns with simple chords
• 80 freely playable synth instruments offering limitless creative possibilities
• 150 customizable cinematic themes
The first instrument of the WORLD MUSIC BUNDLE, the Ethnic Flute Phrases, was put together on the back of the success of our Lyrical Phrases series. We decided to start a new series to bring together unique voices from around the world and have them contribute to the music we compose.
Each instrument included in the WORLD MUSIC BUNDLE has been recorded and designed to preserve their authentic human musicality. Use these very expressive and straightforward compositional tools to create truly original music. Get these three together as a bundle and take advantage of the reduced price.
EVERYTHING • ALL-IN-ONE • OUT OF THE BOX
Composing professional film music is a difficult task. In addition to musical creativity, a great deal of technical knowledge is also required. Until now.
THE SCORE is our groundbreaking all-in-one scoring-tool, covering a massive palette of genres, styles and instruments. Our goal is to provide you with the perfect assistant, making composing as creative and free as possible, without any limits. Skip all technical burdens and start making music now.
– THE SCORE is a perfectly matched scoring toolbox, guiding you from the start to the end of your composition
– THE SCORE has a massive, colorful instrument palette: 46 orchestral, 37 synth, 20 band, 34 world and 18 drum instruments and more (160 in total)
– THE SCORE comes with 120 animated Stories to inspire you. Each Story includes four different arrangements with a vast dynamic range, meant to help you spin your own musical tale
– THE SCORE comes with various groundbreaking power tools: Chord Studio, Melody Studio, Dynamic Mixer, Adaptive Customizer, MIDI export
TRINITY DRUMS 2 allows for seamless arrangements and manipulation of groove elements. Featuring three layers with varying complexity that can be used independently or in combination with each other, it’s suitable to rock your socks off both in your studio or on stage.
THE POWER OF THE PIECES
A fresh percussion instrument that takes its cues from the beat of the city. FRAGMENTS – MODERN PERCUSSION combines snippets of organic sounds to generate refreshing and complicated, low-key rhythms and beats that work well in both cinematic, ambient, and experimental contexts alike.
Capture the unpredictability of human nature with our deep randomization options, unlocking limitless variation to your rhythms. FRAGMENTS – MODERN PERCUSSION makes it easy to determine new sequences or subtly fill in the gaps and make a tremendous cacophony of chaotic slaps, ticks, and kicks. And all the SONUSCORE way – with the turn of a knob.
Introducing SONUSCORE’s CELESTIAL HARP
Where words fail, music gains its power. The magical fairytale pulls of our Celtic harp transport the listener to magical worlds in heavenly places.
A Celtic harp with a divinely inspired sound, CELESTIAL HARP has a unique tone that is warm and soft in its plucks, but lush and enveloping with its full strums. It is perfect to transport your listeners to fantasy worlds and ancient settings, especially when paired with the particle power of our Glow slider, which transmutes the sound into an incredible, soothing, and airy pad. Control the particle effect further by adjusting speed and dynamic range.
Recorded with 5 round robins, it also includes the flageolet technique to create a Harmonic layer. The Natural and Harmonic layers can be balanced to your preference, adjusting between a natural pluck and one with more shimmer. The 10 presets included are crafted to take full advantage of both the natural harp tones and the full ethereal pad effect of the Glow slider.
The Celtic harp is much smaller and more compact than a classical harp like HA•PI. Because of its size, it’s more commonly used in folk and traditional music, as well as in taverns and at Elven festivities.
Available as a DOWNLOAD
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
Immerse yourself in cultures across the world with these inspiring pairs and create a musical journey for your listeners. Unlock the potential of these instruments that are often not found in the same musical spheres and let our pairs of arpeggiators bring true compositional power to your fingertips.
The ORIGINS BUNDLE VOL. 6-10 features 10 beautifully recorded instruments combined into 5 intriguing sets, each powered by their own arpeggiator creating unique rhythms and patterns.
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
Fusing musical instruments and sound effects TO CREATE FASCINATING SCORES
From the frozen reaches of the North, icy spirits reach out across the eternal expanse to seize the listener in their song. NORDIC SPHERES captures the frosty tone of the ancients, a transportive granular instrument that creates rough, pulsating atmospheres echoing through time and desolation.
THE SPIRITUAL SOUNDS OF THE VOICE
Invoke the old magic with these mysterious voices from beyond. These otherworldly calls will deliver you into strange and unknown places, enticing your primordial inner self to break your compositions free from all inhibitions.
For the MONGOLIAN VOICES – ANCIENT PHRASES library, we tapped into the shamanic sounds of traditional Mongolian singing. Divided into three categories, Female, Male, and Throat, the library delves into the more mystical places of vocalizations. The Female and Male parts are based on the traditional long song, or Urtiin duu, a most ancient art loudly sung from the mountaintops, each long, drawn-out syllable evoking the deep, vast, open spaces of the Mongolian steppe.
Then there’s the famous throat singing – the Mongol Khoomei – which relies on guttural vibrations and circular breathing, creating a completely alien, otherworldly sound. At first listen, it inspires visions of far out sci-fi/fantasy worlds or ancient religions.
MONGOLIAN VOICES – ANCIENT PHRASES is the perfect vocal instrument to add a raw, esoteric flavor to your music.
CAPTURING THAT HOLLYWOOD TRAILER SOUND
Have you heard about this little secret that successful soundtrack composers often use? About every one of them has this little folder stashed away that contains nothing but a selection of their favorite .wav sounds.
It might sound banal, but it actually is one of the fast lanes to that epic Hollywood sound: a folder hidden away full of pre-designed sound material, like cinematic hits or whooshes. When needed, they can be placed directly into the DAW and enhance your music with that big cinematic vibe.
For this first edition, TRAILER SOUNDS VOLUME 1: CINEMATIC HITS, we’ve compiled 150 jaw-dropping, bass-pounding cinematic booms, hits, and whoosh hits with our friends from the world-famous BOOM Library. You’ll never have to search for fat, cinematic hits or whoosh hits in various software instruments again. Just do like many successful soundtrack composers do: keep them all in one folder, drag & drop into your DAW, and done!
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
The deep sonority of the Contrabass Panduri perfectly complements the twangy drones of the Tanbur. Though the two instruments come from neighboring regions, the Contrabass Panduri is so rare that this excellent pairing has perhaps never occurred. Until now.
Tanbur
The Tanbur is an ancient Middle-Eastern, long-necked lute-like instrument whose drones and picks have graced musical tradition from the Balkans, Turkey, and Arabia to Persia, India, and Central Asia. It goes by as many names as countries that claim it in their traditions, and is a definite classic instrument to add that “Eastern” sound.
Available as a DOWNLOAD
WOODS OF THE WILD – MYSTERY UNVEILED
Illuminate the beautiful, mystical side of orchestral music with WOODS OF THE WILD, the latest expansion into the world of THE ORCHESTRA COMPLETE. This fresh, individually recorded woodwind section is obligatory for a rich and complete orchestral pallet. With triple tongues, rips, and trills, we’ve packed articulations not just for woodwinds but even for other wind instruments such as piccolo and alto flute and English horn. The library also includes mallets and other wooden drums to pound out a proper dose of savage intensity.
WOODS OF THE WILD is invoked by:
13 solo wind instruments with 5+ articulations each, plus bonus winds
4 ensemble articulations
Massive percussion sounds, including: Taiko, Tom Ensemble, Snare Drum, and more.
More wood-based percussion, such as: Marimba, Vibraphone, Crotales, Celeste, and more.
A MIDI-export feature
34 voicings for the powerful new Ensemble Engine
Pure Performance Legato – Makes legato instruments more intuitive to play
WOODS OF THE WILD works as a stand-alone instrument. It is also included in THE ORCHESTRA COMPLETE 3.
a Best Service by SonuScore product
THE ORCHESTRA COMPLETE 3 is the brand-new version of our flagship “The Orchestra” product family, combining the powerful orchestration features that have made THE ORCHESTRA renowned in the world of composition with new articulations and the most powerful new features ever. It has never been easier to compose more individually, more freely and faster.
Containing all three THE ORCHESTRA expansions, this third release is brimming with exciting possibility and power. Included are HORNS OF HELL, with its diabolic “evil brass” section, STRINGS OF WINTER, with a 41-piece string orchestra that captures the untamed spirit of nature, and WOODS OF THE WILD which re-invigorates the woodwinds to capture all that is evocative in their breath.
On top of these expansions comes the all-in-one package of the base orchestra, a top-quality-recorded 80-piece orchestra with a massive array of articulations and a groundbreaking ensemble engine that has been rebuilt and expanded upon. Never has it been easier to convert your ideas into music.
Immediately playable. Completely customizable. Surprisingly simple.
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[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
Two similar, but different, instruments that reach around the globe in their origins. Bouzouki from the Aegean and Ronroco from Latin America reach across the seas to come together. The metallic sounds of the Bouzouki with the pastoral nature of the Ronroco ignite a beautiful, yet disparate timbre.
THE INSTRUMENTS
Ronroco
The aggressive strums of this Andean instrument recollect the vast, indomitable landscapes of Patagonia and beyond. Larger than a charango, the Ronroco is double stringed, unique in that the higher pairs double in unison while the lowers double in octaves, creating a mystical, otherworldly sound.
Bouzouki
The long-necked, metal-stringed style of lute known as the modern Bouzouki was developed in Greece in the early 1910s. The locals modified it to handle steel strings, endowing it with its trademark twangy sound.
• TIME TEXTURES uses a simple-yet-complex modulation system that allows intricate, ever-evolving soundscapes at the turn of a knob
• With TIME TEXTURES you can wonderfully enrich a traditional orchestral arrangement and immediately conjure up liveliness and emotion
• TIME TEXTURES is an orchestral instrument tapping into the power of the modern age
SOUNDS OF KNIGHTS AND TAVERNS
Our first phrase library focusing on plucked instruments, MEDIEVAL PHRASES LUTE & THEORBO brings you into a world of classic imagination, booming with bards and taverns, questing knights, and roving robber barons and bandits.
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the bards in courts and taverns constantly needed new ways to inspire their audiences. People looked back to the ancients for their inspiration, whether in science or medicine, or in music. The Ancient Greeks tapped into the divine in their epic recitations accompanied by the lyre and kithara. It was only natural that during the late medieval times – when all things ancient were coming into fashion again – that the lute and theorbo would take a centerpiece.
Our MEDIEVAL PHRASES LUTE & THEORBO brings back that flair of medieval castles and the inspiring spirit of the Renaissance, transporting you to rustic pubs and medieval markets, from Homer’s epics to the court of the Medicis. The light, heavenly plucks of the lute are richly accented by the deep voice of the theorbo, perfect for period pieces, experimental music, or ambient dwellings.
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
Available as DOWNLOAD
Libraries from Sonuscore are covered by a special EULA - read it here.Two string instruments that form the basis for Portuguese and Latin American music, the fado guitar and cavaquinho especially are also featured in styles across the world. They form a beautiful and compelling pair for the ORIGINS VOL. 8 ethnic string plugin. The cheerful strums of the cavaquinho make for the perfect bed upon which lies the soulful melodies of the fado guitar.
THE INSTRUMENTS
Fado Guitar
Traditionally performed in the dark city squares of Coimbra and Lisbon, fado is always accompanied by the metallic plucks and graceful slides of this special and timeless lute guitar. Also known as the Portuguese guitar, it has twelve steel strings set in pairs. With roots in old medieval music, it was played by troubadours and wandering musicians alike, spreading to the theater and taverns alike and now used not only in Portugal but across South America.
Cavaquinho
Cavaquinho is the mother of a whole family of smaller-sized strumming instruments. It brought to the world the ukulele, and still serves as the primary bringer of joy and rhythm in songs across Latin America, especially in Brazil and Venezuela and very important in samba and choro music. It was introduced to Brazil by the Portuguese, and from there reached across the world, becoming a treasure in island cultures from Cape Verde to Hawaii.
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
INSPIRING, COLORFUL SOUNDS OF HISTORY
Ancient Duduk Phrases lets you travel through space and time. Originating over 1,500 years ago in Armenia, the duduk instrument is listed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List and has found its way into endless music productions. The large reed creates a colorful timbre, perfect for atmospheric soundtracks, and is a wonderful complement to the orchestral palette. This imaginative instrument comes with live recorded phrases and a haunting legato patch.
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT or Steinbergs free HALion Sonic SE]
Where words fail, music gains its power. Now bringing together the soulful intimacy of our premier Felt Piano, LO•KI; the elegant delicacy of our mysterious Concert Harp, HA•PI; and the vintage analogue warmth of our Electric Piano, RO•KI. Use them together to compose unique melodies emerging from these extremely emotional and simple-to-use lyrical instruments. Previously released individually and as a duo, with the new GLOW Bundle, all three are now offered together at a reduced price.
While the LO•KI Felt Piano offers soft hammerfalls and mechanical sounds with multiple microphone positions, the HA•PI Concert Harp is a meticulously recorded set of strings with 5 round robins and variable dynamic tones and range. The latest addition, our Electric Piano RO•KI, lets you switch between the raw DI signal or the warmth of a vintage style amp with 20 velocity layers. All three instruments feature the GLOW knob, which turns their sounds into mysterious, ethereal soundscapes with shimmering tones and enigmatic ambiances. All with a single rotation.
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
Welcome to SONUSCORE’s RO•KI – Electric Piano
Where words fail, music gains its power. The Electric Piano brings the analogue warmth of the great 70s to your tracks.
Enrich your compositions with the vintage sounds of meticulously recorded mechanics, multiple microphone positions and 20 velocities or turn them into mysterious, ethereal soundscapes using the Glow slider. With the instruments vast sound melding capabilities you can switch between the raw DI signal or the warmth of a vintage style amp, change attack, release and dynamic range, as well as add mechanical noises and nine finely tuned effect modules.
To get you started we included 15 color presets for you to choose from – directly from our streamlined user interface.
Available as a DOWNLOAD
[Note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT. The free Kontakt player is not sufficient, as it only runs the instrument in DEMO mode.]
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