STIGMATA

STIGMATA is a software synthesizer for Kontakt (full version 6.7 minimum) combining two types of synthesis: sample playback and wavetables.
It was designed as a generator of both melodic and "noisy" soundscapes for all your musical creations and sound illustration projects. Many Kontakt instruments offer this kind of combinations that are often associated with "Ambient" music.

STIGMATA's working principle is based on two types of synthesis, resampling and wavetables.

To create the samples used in STIGMATA we spent a considerable amount of time researching timbres using instruments with rich sounds.

Rather than investing in an insane amount of equipment that we would probably only need once or twice, it seemed obvious to us to call on friends who have the equipment we don't. This is how we were able to record hours of various sounds from complex modular synthesizers, historical machines, but also acoustic and electroacoustic instruments.

Whatever the source recorded, it took us days to transform simple recordings into raw material for STIGMATA. Because STIGMATA is not a simple player of prefabricated sounds, it takes full advantage of Kontakt's gigantic capacities in terms of resynthesis. All this to bring you a composition tool that is both easy to use and extremely rich and inspiring.

What makes our proposal different is that it is meant to be simple, without being completely "turnkey". STIGMATA is not a bank of prefabricated samples. Its modulation capacities, its complex filtering network and its specifically adjusted processing make it a fully-fledged instrument.

Once the desired sound has been obtained, STIGMATA allows you to modify it in real time using a few controls chosen by you, via a MIDI controller or the automations of your sequencer. By assigning even the big central rotary controller to a potentiometer on your MIDI controller or to a modulation wheel, you can modify the presence of the 4 sources at will. It's not just a regular low pass filter, it's a set of filters that work in sync.

STIGMATA offers a set of 13+1 instruments in NKI format for Kontakt full version only (minimum v6.7).
STIGMATA is an instrument designed with experimentation in mind. The many accessible modulations, those using randomness, the chosen treatments : all this makes it possible to obtain sounds between complex pads and special noises.
In some cases it is possible that "glitches" or noises appear. This is completely normal and intentional. Mod cycles can create clicks, as can envelopes and moving loop points in a sample. Despite extensive testing on several computers with different configurations, it is not possible to certify that STIGMATA will work smoothly on all existing machines, PC and MAC. Please refer to Kontakt's CPU requirements in case of doubt. A 7th gen Intel i5 should run the instrument flawlessly depending on the ASIO driver of your audio interface. Please note: the UI's background is now blue. The videos were made with the BETA version. This change was made upon request by our beta-testing team.