Verve

A Quirky Analog Vintage Organ from the 1960s library built for Kontakt

Soundiron Verve revives the vintage analogue sounds of the quirky Jen Brio 61-CS. This Italian combo organ was brought to market by Jen in the early 1960s. It featured a 61-key keyboard and drum/rhythm machine with a built-in speaker, as well as a variety of knobs, buttons and faders to control layer volume, instrument type, accompaniment, and tempo. While it was most popular for cheesy string ensemble vibrato tones, it also had synth Trombone, Trumpet, Clarinet, Oboe, Tibia, Piano, and Harpsichord presets.

Soundiron's library includes synth sustains, staccatos, and key up/down sound effects. Soundiron recorded the instrument articulations in wide stereo and a direct line in, then created thirty evolving ambient pads and soundscapes from the source content to round out its versatility. Verve offers a snapshot of early synthesizer history, complete with warm tonal colours equipped to compliment any genre of music.

Soundiron packed the GUI with lots of great sound-shaping controls that give you the flexibility to warp the sound in many ways. You have control over Volume, Attack, Release, Transient Offset, Vibrato and Octave layering. The "Glide" control slider allows you to play legato and portamento leads. You’ll also find an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 13 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation control options, including velocity, mod-wheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. You can also use the customizable arpeggiator, with a built-in velocity sequencer table and control over arp direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, mod-wheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. The customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. They have also included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

Verve was recorded in a dry studio using a pair of Neumann TLM 103 large-diaphragm microphones and a direct line in. Soundiron recorded many stock presets with sustains, staccato, and key up/down SFX samples. The included octave, vibrato and FX rack give you an easy-to-use interface to completely customize and shape its fat analogue sound to fit a variety of creative styles.

Features

• 3 main powerful open-format Kontakt .nki instruments
• 30 Ambience patches created from the source content
• Synth Sustains, Staccatos, and Key up/down SFX in two microphone positions
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 3.4 GB Installed
• 4,482 Stereo Samples
• 24 bit / 48kHz Stereo uncompressed PCM wav audio
• Unlocked wav samples can be directly imported into almost any wav-compatible plugin or DAW

System Requirements

• Windows 7 or higher
• Mac OSX 10.9 or higher
• Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

Important Notes: 

• The full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or above is required to run this software.
• This software will not function in full within the FREE Kontakt Player engine and will only be available in DEMO mode.