Swords to Ploughshares – Standard: Kontakt Instrument Built From Field Recordings

The library is built on everyday field recordings, sirens, blasts, nature sounds and distorted late-night shortwave radio broadcasts. Mask Movement describes the material as raw and unpolished, recorded with basic hand-held equipment in uncontrolled city and forest environments. Its sounds are grouped into categories including alarms, risers, stingers, impact FX, nature FX, radio tones, voices and textures, and sub-synth sustains and staccatos.

Because the samples are mapped to a keyboard, they can be played as melodies, pads and percussion. Layering different recordings lets you build complex textures, solo instruments and synth-like sounds from the same source material.

The Kontakt interface gives you control over volume, attack, release, transient offset, vibrato and octave layering. A glide control supports legato and portamento leads. The LFO section offers selectable shapes, targets, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time.

Thirteen low-pass, high-pass and FX filters are available with assignable modulation sources such as velocity, mod wheel, expression, aftertouch and key position. The arpeggiator includes a velocity sequencer table, direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration controls. A modular FX rack offers 18 DSP effect modules across 10 assignable slots, including convolution reverb with custom rooms and halls.