Strings of Dread is designed to produce bone-chilling sounds that will send shivers down your spine. Whether you’re a composer or a sound designer, Strings of Dread is perfect for creating soundtracks for eerie movies, horror games, and haunted performances. You can start with one of its 300 dreadful presets, or with its intuitive interface and easy-to-use controls, you can create spooky melodies and creepy sound effects in no time. So why wait? Embrace the dread today and start creating your own terrifying soundscapes!”
“Strings of Dread” is a four-oscillator sample-based subtractive synth designed to create eerie pads, melodies, and rhythms for drama and suspense.
It can be used to form ambient backgrounds, aggressive themes, and hybrid elements for inclusion in a variety of genres but is most adept at discordant and haunting sounds. We painstakingly recorded discordant, strange harmonics and sub-harmonics in order to achieve ghostly and malevolent sounds.
It includes four instruments “Strings of Dread,” “Box of Dread,” “Ghost Strings,” and “Staccato,” for a total of sixteen multi-sampled oscillators.
96 Khz. 24 Bit. Includes Kontakt 7 player. Runs on PC, Intel Mac, Apple Silicon
Features:
Sixteen 96 khz multisampled oscillators across four instruments
7 octave transpose per oscillator
Two resonant selectable filters per oscillator (Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Ladder Peak, Ladder Notch)
Three LFOs and three envelopes per oscillator (Triangle, Sine, Saw, Square, Attack-Hold-Decay-Sustain-Release-Curve)
Full Polyphony
Portamento - Unisono
64 note Arpeggiator
Ring modulator
Velocity sensitive
Chorus, Reverb, Delay, Flange, Flair, Per-oscillator saturation
Expression control
Over 300 patches
Synth View
Filters/Main Envelopes
Filter Envelopes/Returns
The Knifening is a cutlery-based sound effects collection for slashing, dripping, splattering and includes unique tools for the manipulation of these sounds. It provides a large variety of high-quality sounds for extended usefulness.
These were all recorded at 96 kilohertz with a wide frequency response so that you can match them up with your mix using our eq and stereo positioning controls. We recorded these with close mics in a controlled environment using a variety of implements and techniques. Includes Kontakt player. Runs on PC, Intel Mac, Apple Silicon
Strings of Dread for the free Kontakt Player
A dark portal opened in the landscape, like the maw of Hades revealing the wails of the damned. Through the mist, we could see an alien edifice towering over the eldritch wasteland beyond. Then came the pulse.
Pulse of Dread is a four oscillator polyphonic synth designed with multi-samples and wavetables to create dramatic tension and cinematic dread. It requires full version of Kontakt 7.
It uses an engine similar to Strings of Dread and shares its user interface for ease of use. It contains 100 user-editable dark patches and 50 multis for tension and action. Its features include pulse width modulation, 96 khz samples, and an asynchronous lfo-based pitch shifting macro.
Something waits beneath the waves.
Waves of Dread is a wave-folding, wavetable, and multi-sampled oscillator subtractive synth for the full version of Kontakt 7. It uses the same user interface as Strings of Dread, but with the addition of a wave folding oscillator and a wavetable. It includes 75 chilling patches from the depths and 24 multis from the bathypelagic zone.
Its features include wave folding, 96 khz samples, and an asynchronous lfo-based pitch shifting macro.
Hammer of Dread is a wavetable, and multisampled oscillator subtractive synth for the full version of Kontakt 7. All of its samples and wavetables were created with hammered string instruments. It has two wavetable oscillators as well as two 96 khz multisampled oscillators. There is also a 64 step apreggiator and portamento. There are 11 resonant filter options with LFO and envelope modulation.. It comes with over 50 striking patches and 14 impactful multis, from harpsichords to distorted filter drones. Every filter and every oscillator has both envelopes and LFOs to control modulation. All of these are editable.
Hammer of Dread also incorporates a new pitch section, with detuning up to an octave and asynchronous LFOs that can be adjusted live for wailing effects. There is also a randomness control which randomly assigns pitch to all four oscillators independently.
We hammered cellos, violins, dulcimers, guitars and ran these through additive synthesis. Then, we flattened them with compression, molding the attack to preserve the hammering string action but allowing envelopes to control it.
