Reimagine the Violin
- Formatted for the Kontakt player
- Bowed, scraped, hit and plucked
- Over 80 unique patches for endless creation
Violence is a multidimensional and innovative virtual instrument that harnesses extremely unusual textures, manglings, distortions, and perspectives on the solo violin.
Created for both musical use and sound design, Violence features an unprecedented deconstruction of a solo violin recorded from numerous angles: bowed, scraped, hit and plucked; played with mallets, chopsticks, guitar picks, and wet fingers. Then the sound design was re-pitched, layered, and post-processed through an array of unusual tools to produce sounds unlike any found in other virtual instruments. More than eighty unique patches were designed, each with a custom set of scripted knobs and controls all conveniently organized into four categories of sounds: Drum Kits, Melodic, Pads and Sound Effects, and Tempo-Synced.
The inspiration for Violence came from the influential American composer John Cage, whose extensive experiments with prepared piano yielded new timbres and effects. What Cage did on the piano, Violence brings to the violin: a new and unorthodox approach to a traditional instrument, yielding amazing and fresh new instruments, textures, and sound design elements. Violence combines physical alterations with digital manipulations for a sound that straddles acoustic and electronic realms.
Violence is powered by the industry-leading Kontakt engine. It is compatible with VST, AudioUnit, and RTAS (Pro Tools 7 & 8) plug-in formats allowing it to work seamlessly within any major sequencer, in addition to standalone use.
Features
Violence features a variety of controls that are custom-designed for each of its 82 instruments.
The instruments are subdivided into four major category folders:
- Drum Kits
- Melodic
- Pads and SFX
- Tempo Synced
Depending on the instrument loaded, appropriate knobs for tweaking the instrument appear in the interface, such as:
- Quantization
- Envelope Controls (Attack and Release)
- Stereo Spread
- Lowpass and Hi-Pass Filters
- Layer Blend Controls
- Effects (Reverb, Delay, Drive, Flanger, Vibrato, Rotator, Wobble, and others)
- Auto-Pan Control
- Repeater
System Requirements
- This product will work in all versions of Kontakt 4.1.1 and later.
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