Cacophony is a Kontakt instrument from Soundiron, a library of live concert hall sound effects, room tones, audience reactions, orchestral tuning drones and incidental sounds for music, film and game sound design.
Cacophony is built from recordings of orchestras, ensembles and solo performers made by Soundiron over nearly two decades. It collects the small sounds surrounding a live performance: the murmur and applause of an audience, players tuning up, warm-ups and hall ambience. Soundiron describes these elements as useful for adding a sense of place to a track, scene or sound design project. The library runs in Kontakt and includes 765 stereo WAV files totaling 12.6 GB installed.
The library is organized into four groups: orchestra tuning and warm-up, audience noises, concert hall sound effects and roomtones. Soundiron also created 20 ambience patches from the source recordings, along with 20 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets.
The samples are 24-bit, 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV files, so they can be used as raw material in other wav-compatible software and samplers as well as in Kontakt.
The Kontakt interface offers layering, cross-fading, articulation switching, and controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter and pitch, including coarse and fine tuning.
An adaptable LFO system offers selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. The library includes 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters with assignable modulation sources, a customizable arpeggiator with velocity table, swing and randomization, and a key and scale lock for constraining notes.
A modular FX rack provides 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, which can be ordered as needed. The reverb section uses convolution impulse responses with 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus 40 custom FX impulses.
Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.
| Developer | Soundiron |
|---|---|
| Type | Plugin |
| Category | Kontakt Instrument |
| Requires | Kontakt |
| Formats | Kontakt |
| Operating systems | Windows, macOS |
Cacophony requires the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. The free Kontakt Player only runs it in a limited demo mode.
Cacophony is listed for Windows and macOS. Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.9 or higher are the stated minimum versions.
Yes. The sample directories are unlocked, so the 24-bit / 48 kHz WAV files can be used in other wav-compatible software, samplers and synths.
The library takes up 12.6 GB once installed. Soundiron recommends a SATA or SSD drive for this library.
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