Volt II: Kontakt Instrument for Electronic Music Sound Design

Volt II's central control is the Volt Meter, a dial that can drive most of the front panel controls from a single movement. You choose which controls it affects and set the depth or range for each. You can also assign it to your mod wheel or another external controller, which makes it a practical macro for automating parameters on the fly.

Each patch uses two layers, and each layer has 58 sound sources, so you can blend two sources into one sound. Every layer offers 40 filter types, individual ADSR envelopes for volume, filter and resonance, and a filter LFO with depth, speed and sync controls and five LFO shapes. Effects include chorus, phaser, flanger, bit crush, delay and distortion, plus a convolution reverb with 10 impulse responses.

Clicking the Volt logo randomizes all settings, which is useful when you want unexpected starting points.

The library contains 792 samples stored in NCW format to save disk space, taking up 2.33GB on disc. It includes 130 snapshots and 22 multis, and the developer notes that most snapshots are already set up to respond to the Volt Meter.

Loot Audio positions Volt II for electronic production, including ambient, abstract electronica and techno, and as a tool for writing breakdowns. The developer's audio demos use just a few instances with simple chords, with the instrument handling slow evolving textures, gritty basses and distorted arpeggios.