Riot Audio releases Candyfloss - Cinematic Ambient Pads for Kontakt

Riot Audio has released Candyfloss, a virtual instrument for Kontakt designed to easily produce glossy ambient/cinematic pad sounds. Here's what they say:

Based on a category-based sound architecture (Body, Granular, Texture), Candyfloss is a sample-based virtual instrument for Native Instrument's Kontakt 6 that is tailored to producing pads with rich, complex high frequency elements. It draws on 60 organic sounds processed through various forms of granular treatment as a basis for musical sound design. Although technically a sample library, Riot Audio says the architecture and resulting sounds are more reminiscent of a synth.

Candyfloss's pulses, pads and other sounds combine glistening high frequency pearls, frothy mid-range rasps and grainy streaks with close-mic'ed acoustic instrument drones and washes inside an engine that allows for extensive time-based modulation and motion.

Features at a glance:

• Custom sound design engine based on three sonic categories (Body, Granular, Texture).
• Three sound layers.
• Original Source sounds: Acoustic Guitar Ebow, Bass Pluck, Braguinha Ebow, Charango, Electric Guitar, Glockenspiel, Gong/Prayer Bowl, Lap Steel, Low Flute, Piano.
• Plus 50 detailed processed sounds derived from these original sounds.
• Over 200.000 possible sonic combinations.
• 160 presets (snapshots) in total – 90 pads, 30 pulses, 15 pad/pulse combinations, 15 experimental patches, 10 risers.
• Evolving Soundscapes easy to create with Morphing and Movement tabs.
• Morphing Parameters: High/Band/Low Pass, Formant, Distortion.
• Movement Parameters: High/Low Pass, Phaser, Distortion, Pitch, Volume.
• Intelligent Randomizer function for instant new workable sonic combinations.
• Total size of sampled content: 2.05 GB (1.7GB compressed).

Kontakt 6 Full version required - not for Kontakt Player.

Intro Price: £59 until 24th April 2024 (Reg. £89).

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