Experimental percussion and sound design with oceanic sfx and ambient soundscapes
About
Glass Beach is a unique sample library for composers and sound artists that combines experimental percussion and sound design with an oceanic sfx and ambient soundscape library. We explore a wide variety of different natural beach, bay, estuary, marsh and wharf environments in wide stereo with a richly-detailed quality that puts you right there in the scene.
Glass Beach itself is a unique place on shore of the old village of Fort Bragg, on the northern coast of California. For decades during the last century, the town dumped its trash in the sea, heaping it into heaps towering 30 feet above the waves. “The Dumps” were finally shut down in 1967. After years of clean-up efforts, all that remains are the tons of broken glass too small and plentiful to pick from the sand. However, the relentless years of tide and waves have turned this glass into something magical. These millions of glass beads tumbling in the gentle surf create a remarkable effervescent sound you won’t find any other place on earth.
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On our visit to Glass Beach, we captured a wide variety of tiny glass percussive hits, taps, clicks, steps and scrapes, perfect for sound design and creative rhythmic composition. We’ve also gone into the field to record sea and bay ambiences from a variety of coastal, bay, marsh and estuary environments, including crashing waves, lapping tide pools, busy wharfs, peaceful marshes, tricking waterfalls, drippy sea caves and even the strange “Wave Organ”, an aquatic sound sculpture located near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Lastly, we’ve created plenty of custom sound-designed atmospheric pads and custom FX presets to get your creativity flowing. And for users that prefer to work with the wavs directly, we’ve clearly named, categorized and catalogued them for easy browsing.
We’ve packed the user interface with powerful controls to give you total flexibility. You have control over 4 sound layers, each with swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, tuning, articulation switching, cross-fading, layering and more. The advanced window provides arpeggiation, filters and LFO with multi-parameter modulation and routing options. The modular FX Rack window offers 18 DSP effect modules freely assignable to 10 rack bays. You’ll find reverb, phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb includes 139 halls, chambers, rooms, outdoor environments and special FX impulses to completely transform the sound and open up new worlds of creative possibility.
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Product Specs
requirements:
mac:
ram: 2
disk: 3
version: Mac OSX 10.9 or higher.
additional_requirements: Full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5.2 or later
internet required: no
plugins:
VST-2
VST-3
AU
AAX
STAND-ALONE
windows:
ram: 2
disk: 3
version: Windows 7 or higher.
additional_requirements: Full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5.2 or later
internet required: no
plugins:
VST-2
VST-3
AAX
STAND-ALONE
trial: no
notes: This product is built for the full version of Kontakt
feature: 2 master NKI instrument banks in open Kontakt format
20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
Multi-sampled acoustic articulations, field recordings and atmospheric sound-design.
289 stereo samples
2.73 GB Installed
24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo PCM Wav Format
Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator.
Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments.
platforms: mac
windows
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