Gratis

Gratis - Free Instruments

Our free instruments offer composers of all levels access to top-quality sounds. It is our way of saying thank you to the community for supporting as as we continue to grow.

Gratis replaces our previous Shelter line of instruments, and offers many new features, sounds and accessibility. Some of the previous shelter instruments have been moved into the new Gratis engine, and some Gratis instruments are made with new sounds as well as handfuls of sounds from our other releases.

Version 1 includes a Trailer Hits & Booms Designer, Cinematic Rise Designer, the Randonspiel (unique take on a travel glockenspiel) and the Broken Toy Piano.

Fully NKS1 & NKS2 compatible, and made for the Free Kontakt Player or Full version of Kontakt, Gratis truly can be for everyone.

These instruments are 100% free, however if you feel like making a donation, it would really help us continue to cover the costs of native access delivery.

RISE DESIGNER

The Gratis rise designer provides you with more than 30 sources, each recorded in 2, 4 and 8 bars. With the 2 layer engine it is simple to create unique risers for your compositions.

It is extremely simple to generate cinematic risers that are completely unique, all at the touch of a button.

• All sources recorded at 24bit, 48k quality
• Sources created in 2, 4 and 8 bars
• Randomization of everything or limited to sound sources
• FX on a per-layer basis, including phaser, distortion, freak and delay
• Configurable main reverb with wet/dry mix via XY pad
• Blending of layer volume configurable via XY pad
• XY pad assignable to midi CC of your choosing
• While the sources have been recorded at 140bpm, they will stretch to match your project's tempo

HIT DESIGNER

The hit designer provides you with over 30 unique hit and boom sources in a 2-layer engine. With hard hitting hits and deep, powerful booms combined with various FX and processing, you can create hits across any genre that will add power and trailer-ready sound to your mixes. 

• All sources recorded at 24bit, 48k quality
  
• Randomization of everything or limited to sources only
• FX on a per-layer basis, including phaser, distortion, freak and delay
• Configurable main reverb with wet/dry mix via XY pad
• Blending of layer volume configurable via XY pad
• XY pad assignable to midi CC of your choosing

BROKEN TOY PIANO

Broken Toy Piano is a simple playable instrument created from Randon's toy piano. Of course, the range was extended artificially to give you more than 2 octaves.

The piano was a bit broken to start with, but completely destroyed by the time recording was completed. This allowed capture of the main keys, followed by just the key click noises and then some extra rattling key noises (once the toy piano was filled with a layer of screws, nuts bolts and random metals).

Further customizations are available with the onboard FX.

• Randon's broken toy piano sampled at 4 velocity layers and pitched to span a 5 octave range
• 3 Channel Mixer to mix the main sound with the extra 'woody' key clicks and the rattling key recordings
• Global FX, including reverb, phaser, distortion, freak and delay
• ADSR controls, filter and EQ
• All sources recorded at 24bit, 48k quality

RANDONSPIEL

Randonspiel is a quirky, unique instrument based on the sampling of Randon’s travel glockenspiel. The instrument was sampled with 4 velocity layers across the entire range (2.5 octaves). Then the bottom half was unnaturally extended to five a full, playable range with some strange and unique sounds in the lower registers.

To take it a step further, the instrument was then morphed in 4 different ways for each of the 4 velocity layers, giving 4 different characters and sounds to the instrument. The 4 different layers are then blended to your wishes using an XY controller. 

Further customizations are available with the onboard FX.

• Randon's travel glockenspiel sampled at 4 velocity layers 4 times with different processing
• 4 Channel Mixer to mix the dry, wet, and dual-warped layers of sound
• Global FX, including reverb, phaser, distortion, freak and delay
• ADSR controls, filter and EQ
• All sources recorded at 24bit, 48k quality

Kontakt 8.1 or the Free Kontakt 8 Player required

Requires 1 gb hard drive space

Downloaded via Native Access.

Full NKS 1 and NKS 2 integration

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