Nordic Metal Cello Crossgrade from Nørdic Cello: Distorted Cello Expansion for Kontakt

The instrument offers two sound sources: a natural acoustic cello and a distortion channel that runs through two high-gain amplifiers. Each channel can be soloed, muted or mixed with the other, which gives you two distinct tonal flavors from one patch.

The articulations are organized across eight keyswitches. They cover single strokes with short, snapped and long variations, power chord loops in three sets, metal sustain notes, cello bends, double bends, sliding power tremolos and metal FX such as string scratches and scraping.

The phrase collection is organized into twelve keyswitches, one for each pedal tone from C to B. The phrases are tempo-synced, and a Time Warp control lets you slow down or speed up playback in both host-sync and free modes.

Built-in tools include the ICE sample blender for layered cinematic results, a Host mode that syncs loops to your DAW tempo, an arpeggiator with five modes, up to 32 steps and four octaves, a reverse effect, dynamics control, 82 convolution reverb and IR effects, a delay, six additional effects and four FX macros.

Nordic Metal Cello Crossgrade suits producers who want heavy, distorted cello textures for metal, rock or cinematic scoring. Its sounds are drawn from the Nørdic Cello library, and the developer cites Apocalyptica and Two Cellos as reference points for the playing style.

The product requires the full version of Kontakt 6.6.1 or later. It will not run in the free Kontakt Player. The uncompressed size is 6.4 GB across 3,879 samples in NCW format.