Zodiac: Experimental Kontakt Instrument by Big Fish Audio

Zodiac's sounds sit far from standard instrument models. Big Fish Audio describes them as ethereal soundscapes, inventive percussion and atonal textures that are hard to classify. You will not find conventional bass, guitar, keyboard or drum kit patches in the set.

The library is organized into Pads and Atmospheres, Melodic Instruments, Bass Instruments, Percussive Instruments, Experimental Instruments and Zodiac Kits. Many patches are designed to loop and morph while a key is held, which makes them useful as starting points for ambient beds and textures.

The interface uses two banks of six levers, one labeled AMP ENV and one labeled DELAY. The AMP ENV bank covers attack, decay, sustain, release, tuning and reverb amount. The DELAY bank covers delay time, damping, panning, feedback, bass and treble.

Four white-tipped levers per side group related controls with a range of 0 to 10. Red-tipped levers handle other functions, and three of them range from -10 to +10. A drop-down menu holds fifteen convolution reverb impulse responses for changing the reverb character.