Trails: Cinematic Trailer Sound Library for Kontakt

Each of the five categories holds a set of sounds that can be played directly from the keyboard. The Atmos category includes 396 selectable voices, FX has 392, Oneshots has 289 and Rhythmic has 217. The Menus category takes a different approach, with 11 sub-categories of sounds mapped across individual keys for quick access.

Each voice is fully editable. You can adjust attack, release, speed and filter settings to fit a sound into your track. The waveform viewer shows the sample material as you work.

Tempo-synced rhythm categories let you lock patterns to your DAW tempo.

The 276 snapshots are custom performances rather than static patches. Holding a key in the atmosphere snapshots lets the sound continue and evolve.

The XY movement pad lets you build your own transitions. You can set horizontal and vertical speed, depth and smoothness, sync movement to your DAW or leave it free-running, and choose circular motion in either direction. Retrigger mode restarts the movement with each new key press. Setting smoothness to its minimum makes the pad jump between points, which can produce quick rhythmic effects. The pad is fully automatable.

Each of the four voices has its own pages for source, envelopes, filter and a three-band EQ, plus velocity sensitivity and sample start offset controls. Four LFOs and four envelopes can each route to seven destinations.

The FX page includes chorus, distortion, lo-fi, delay, filter, spatial processing and a convolution reverb with 16 selectable impulse responses.