Polyscape 2: Hybrid Soundscape Instrument for Kontakt by Karanyi Sounds

Karanyi Sounds recorded bowed acoustic strings and processed them with analogue modular effects. The developer says this approach keeps the sounds massive while retaining an organic character.

The instrument runs on Karanyi's Kontakt engine and combines four sound modules with a sub synth layer. The modules can be blended together, giving a wide range of textures from pads to plucked and sustained tones.

On-board effects include Prophet-type low-pass filters, analogue and tape-style delays, and algorithmic room and hall reverbs. Chorus, EQ, limiting and compression are also included, along with tape-style pitch modulation.

Polyscape 2 offers over 160 controls, all MIDI-learnable, so you can map them to hardware or automate them in your DAW.

The Advanced Randomizer includes more than 40 random setups. These cover four articulation setups (Straight, Keys, Pads and Pluck), random instrument sources, random LFOs, random effects and random master EQs. A Smart Random All option randomizes the whole instrument with one click, which is useful when you want a starting point quickly.

Because the library is loaded inside Kontakt, it fits into a standard Kontakt-based workflow.