Morphestra

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Morphestra is een eigentijds instrument voor filmmuziek. Sample Logic’s veelgeroemde team creëerde een krachtige verzameling, creatieve en vernieuwende, organische instrumenten. Morphestra is volledig gebaseerd op orkestopnamen en Psycho-akoestisch klankontwerp. Morphestra is een Native Instruments Kontakt Player 3 instrument van Sample Logic, in samenwerking met Kirk Hunter Studios. Het pakket omvat een epische collectie van meer dan 27 GB en 1200+ instrumenten en multi’s, voorgeïnstalleerd op een compacte Glyph harddisk. Zonder enige moeite haalt ook de minder ervaren gebruiker uit Morphestra de beste klanken en sounds voor film, tv, videogames, elektronische muziek, ambient muziek, multimedia en nog veel meer…

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Systemrequirements

NI Kontakt Player 3 is included in this product!

PC

• Pentium or Athlon 1.4 GHz
• Windows XP or Windows Vista
• min. 2 Gb Ram

Mac

• G4 1.4 GHz or Intel® Core™ Duo 1.66 GHz
• OS 10.4.x
• min. 2 Gb Ram

for all

• 300 MB free disc space for player installation
• additional hard disc space according to the library size
• DVD drive

You can use this library with the free Kontakt Player 4 (or higher):

Download free Kontakt Player Windows (362MB)
Download free Kontakt Player Mac INTEL (458MB)

Note on Support for KONTAKT Player products:
Native Instruments only provides Registration/Activation support for KONTAKT Player products. Technical support is managed by the manufacturer of the respective products/libraries.

Product activation:
An internet connection on any computer is required to authorize / activate the product (Challenge/Response).

Beoordelingen

Music Tech UK, April 2010

Morphestra offers a well-organised set of imaginative sounds that are ideal for media-based music (or, for that matter, any musical style that benefits from an unusual and abstract sound palette). By providing the samples o n a hard drive, Sample Logic has produced one of the fastest installations we’ve seen of a samples-based instrument (even if you factor in copying samples onto an internal drive, should you choose to do so), although there’s no doubt that this must contribute significantly to the cost of the package – which isn’t cheap at more than £400.

Although there are several strong alternative solution available, the sheer size of Morphestra means there’s plenty to explore – and, more importantly, enough breadth to make it a one-stop shop for anyone involved in contemporary cinematic scoring. From sinister-soundng waterphones to complex, textured soundscapes, Morphestra has it all, and a few composers will be able to resist its evocative ‘cine-organic’ charms.

Verdict: Full to the brim with high-impact hits, deep pulsing undercurrents, ambient effects and reverse stings that wouldn’t sound out of place on any Hollywood trailer.

Rating: 8/10

Keyboard Magazine 1/2010

Scoring From a Synthetic Pit by Jason Scott Alexander

PROS
Diverse, powerful, highly evocative material. Capable of huge textures right out of the box. Simple interface with easy controls for morphing. Mood-based preset organization is musically intuitive. Near-zero install time. No impact on current storage space.

CONS
Not as many electro beats as in previous Sample Logic libraries. Some redundancy in Instrumentals bank.

NEED TO KNOW
Who’s this for? Any film, TV, or video game composer looking for modern, edgy, relevant sounds. Creators of electronic and experimental music will find a lot to love here, too
How was it created? Samples were recorded in studios, concert halls, warehouses, machine shops, and natural habitats all over the world.
Can the included hard drive keep up with high track counts? Absolutely. Under the hood is 7,200rpm SATA-II drive with 8MB cache, bus power, and FW800 and USB2 connections.
What about street cred? Multis were programmed by Mark Isham, Rupert Gregson-Williams, David Lawrence, and Bill Brown, so if the street is in Hollywood, you’re set.

Morphestra puts a fresh spin on how we view and approach orchestral film scoring. Developed in association with Kirk Hunter Studios, it serves up an epic collection that’s anything but traditional. It comes pre-installed on a Glyph 80GB PortaGig hard drive, filling about a third of its capacity. The library itself is powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player 3 (standalone, RTAS, AU, VST, DXi). Sounds come in three top-level categories: Atmospheres, Instrumentals, and Percussives.

The Atmospheres bin is arguably the crown jewel, containing around 230 presets grouped in subcategories such as Dark ’n’ Scary, Disturbed, Euphoric, Mystery/Suspense, and so on. What sets these programs apart from the rest is their deep internal movement and complex, evolving nature, ideal for initially building the mood of a piece. In “Days of Old,” for instance, random phrases of mournful sax are seamlessly, almost incidentally, woven between droning organ and reversed string loops, conveying a sense of blurred emotion.
The Instrumentals are less complex but just as animated. You get imaginatively tweaked renditions of solo and ensemble strings, metal and bamboo flutes, classical guitar, banjo, sitar, harp, vibe, chimes, music box, Clavinet, harpsichord, and more. Morphestra isn’t about usual suspects such as orchestral brass, woodwinds, or legato strings — all you get here is a trio of Kirk Hunter bonus programs. While the 225 main Instrumental patches loosely run the gamut of what you’d expect, there does seem to be a lot of repurposing from the same few dozen multisample sets, which results in some timbral redundancy.

Still, all the patches are all individually compelling. With five tabs of more than 40 onscreen performance and effects parameters to pick from on the clean and simple interface, Kontakt’s advanced scripting is leveraged to create exciting morphed material that you can further sculpt. Likewise, a built-in arpeggiator/gater is the secret weapon behind tempo-synced layers that give movement to many of the melodic instruments, in a stepping Wavestation-esque sort of way.

In the Percussives category are hundreds of dynamic impact sequences, world and symphonic drum loops, bowed and struck orchestral percussion, scraped and reversed transitions, altered and prepared instruments, and more.

Finally, over 130 jaw-dropping multis amount to ready-made soundtracks in construction kit form. You can literally hit any combination of keys in nearly any order and generate minutes of mind-blowing aural scenery. Morphestra truly impresses, offering some of the most inspiring and relevant modern cinematic material I’ve heard in any synth or sample library. If you can’t whip up a killer score to any edgy film, TV drama, or video game thrown at you using Morphestra, maybe gear isn’t the problem.