Sonespheres 1 - Distance: Atmospheric Kontakt Instrument by Soundiron

Distance organizes its presets into eight families. Bowed and Textural presets cover tense strings and evolving soundscapes, while Tonal and Piano categories offer more pitched, melodic material. Vocal and Wind presets add breathy and human-like colors, and Guitar and Rhythmic sounds bring plucked and pulsing movement.

Blake Ewing describes the sounds as a starting canvas rather than finished productions, so many presets suit layering with your own material. The developer notes that the set was built to work across a range of production styles and musical sensibilities.

Two independent sample source modules each offer category and preset menus, with automatable controls for volume, attack, release, filter, pitch, pan and an LFO. The LFO can be routed to several targets and can sync to tempo. A cross-fader, legato glide and a step-sequencable arpeggiator add further movement.

The built-in FX rack includes 18 effect plugins, among them a convolution reverb with over 100 custom impulse responses. The library needs the full retail version of Kontakt 5.5.2 or later. It does not run in the free Kontakt Player, which will fall back to demo mode.