Sick 1: Horror Sound Design Instrument for Kontakt

The instrument's samples come from creature, demon, zombie and spirit voices, plus gore impacts and organic textures. Used raw, they work as one-shot horror hits and transitions. Run through Kontakt, they can be reshaped into darker pads, drones and experimental textures.

The interface gives control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering. Every parameter is automation-ready in your host or in Kontakt's stand-alone mode.

An adaptable LFO offers selectable shapes, modulation targets, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. Twelve lowpass, highpass and FX filters can be modulated by velocity, mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and step-sequencer tables.

A modular FX rack offers 10 slots that can be filled in any order from 18 DSP modules. The developer lists phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ and rotator among them.

The reverb uses convolution impulses for 99 rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses for more radical transformations. Twenty custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets are included.

The arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. A key and scale lock keeps notes within common scales for melodic patches.