Morphestra...I remember him—big dude, trench coat, called the shots in The Matrix...
Exactly! Only now he’s been reincarnated as a Sample Logic sound developer, dedicated to creating virtual
instruments and sound libraries that “blur the line between music and sound design.” (After all, once you’ve saved the world, what challenges are left?}
In reality, Morphestra is the latest/greatest offering from Joe Trupiano and Keith Robinson—the team that brought you the ground-breaking and award-winning AIR, Elements, and Synergy sample libraries. This time out, Joe and Keith have literally reinvented the orchestra, serving up a whopping 23GB of unique, inspiring, production-ready sounds that have their roots in the traditional orchestra, but have been blended, twisted, processed and, yes, morphed into entirely new classes of sounds
You mean Morphestra is “The One?”
Actually, it’s the many. Forming the basis of the library are samples recorded around the world, both in the studio and in the field. A small sampling (pun intended): Strings, brass, winds, symphonic & world percussion, vocals, guitars, waterphone, animals, warehouses, tools, machinery, and a huge assortment of world/ethnic instruments. Those sounds were then combined, Sample Logic-style, with a host of electronic synthesis elements to create never-before-heard instruments, but ones that still retain a recognizable, real-world flavor. You could describe the library as a collection of “Inventive Organic Ensembles”—Inventive, as in new and original, Organic, as in real (versus synthesized), and Ensembles as in instrument families.
Morphestra sounds are organized into three main categories: Atmospheres (Ambience, Stingers), Instrumentals (Melodies, Pads) and Percussive (Big Hit Ensembles, Impacts, Kits, Rhythms,Transitions). Within these broad categories you’ll find:
- Atmosphere/ambient soundscapes and stinger construction kits
- Traditional and morphed winds, brass, strings, synths, mallets, bells, solo and ensemble pads, and
melodic instruments
- Melodic and rhythmic tempo-synced loops, loop construction kits, and arpeggiated/gated melodic
and impact sequences
- Impacts, cinematic ensembles, and percussive kits
- Swipes, scrapes, and reverse transitional effects
Morphestra contains over 1100 instruments and multis (combination presets), including a number that were were created by honest-to-goodness award-winning, world-class composers. As with all Sample Logic libraries, the sounds are organized and grouped for easy access, and they’re given detailed, descriptive names
Morphestra is based on the new Kontakt Player 3. (sorry it is NOT compatible with Kontakt Player 2) All of the powerful new user-programming features of Morphestra come courtesy of Kontakt Player 3. So Kontakt Player 2 is now officially yesterday’s news. But you’ll be happy to know that Kontakt Player 3 is included free with Morphestra, and if you own the full version of Kontakt 3.5, you can use it with Morphestra if you prefer.
Morphestra comes pre-installed on a snappy new 160GB Glyph Firewire 800/SATA II hard drive that’s as rugged as it is portable. And it comes with a 3 year full replacement warranty.
Features:
- 23 GB, over 1100 instruments and multis.
- The library is divided into 3 main categories: Atmospheres, Instrumentals, and Percussives.
- All of these instruments are derived from orchestral studio and
field recordings, many of which were manipulated, morphed, and
processed at multiple stages of product development, including the
sample production phase, the programming phase, and in real-time via
Morphestra’s user controllable interface parameters.
- Atmosphere/ambient soundscapes and stinger construction kits.
- Traditional and morphed woodwinds, brass, strings, synths, mallets, bells, solo and ensemble pads and melodic instruments.
- Melodic and rhythmic tempo-synced loops, loop construction kits, and arpeggiated/gated melodic and impact sequences.
- Single impacts, cinematic impact ensembles, and percussive kits .
- Swipes, scrapes, and reverse transitional effects.
- Performance-ready multis (playable interactive presets templates made from multiple instruments) .
- Many multis have been designed by world-class award winning film, TV, and game composers (see below)
Specs:
- Comes pre-installed on a Glyph PORTAGIG 800, 160 GB Hard Drive
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FireWire 800 & USB 2.0 ports
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7,200 RPM 8MB cache
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SATA II hard drive
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Qualified for use in all major Digital Audio Workstations
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3-year warranty
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2-year free basic data recovery
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1-year overnight advanced replacement
Drive includes:
Morphestra software, Kontakt Player software, 160 GB hard drive,
FireWire 800 cable, USB 2.0 cable, Portable carrying case, External
power supply.
Morphestra.
contributors include:
Rupert Gregson-Williams
(Bee Movie, Bedtime Stories, Made of Honor, You Don’t Mess with The
Zohan, Click, Over the Hedge, Hotel Rwanda, I Now Pronounce You Chuck
and Larry) and
David Lawrence - (High School Musical, American Pie 1 & 2, Van Wilder, Cane, Jericho, The Cleaner, Harpers Island).
Special contributions also come from award-winning
Mark Isham
(Never Cry Wolf, Crash, The Black Dahlia, Bobby, The Cooler, Life as a
House, A River Runs Though It, Miracle, Point Break, reversal of
Fortune, Blade, Nell, October Sky, etc.),
Bill Brown (CSI; NY, The Devil’s Tomb, Lady Death, Ali, Scorcher, Trapped, Any Given Sunday, Finding Forrester, etc.),
Tom Salta
(Peter Gabriel, Junior Vasquez, Everything But The Girl, Deep Forest,
Mary J. Blige and Sinead O’Connor) and many others who will be in the final
shipping product.
