Aevium

Aevium is a powerfully unique collection of fierce lead synths and atmospheric pads, developed in partnership with the premier sound effects and foley production house BOOM Library, sound designed by Soundiron's team using only source sounds from BOOM's Birds Of Prey avian sound effect library as the point of origin.

Soundiron love to challenge themselves as sound designers, seeking ever more exotic acoustic sources to explore and shape into musically compelling and intuitively playable virtual instruments. Birds Of Prey is a comprehensive post-production sound effects library capturing the essence of owls, eagles, crows, hawks, falcons, vultures and other raptors, corvids and large birds of prey. Perfect for creating natural wildlife soundscapes and character/creature sounds, it's an essential tool for sound design and post-production for video games, film, television, video, advertising and more. 

To build Aevium, Soundiron selected a wide variety of raw source sounds from Birds Of Prey and worked for months to warp, stretch, modulate, glitch, overdrive, and generally tear it to bits and bytes and re-synthesize them into a stunning sample-based virtual instrument library. They've hand-crafted 11GB of sound-designed content, with over 1800 samples. The preset browser tree makes it easy to explore and create! Everything is conveniently organized into a variety of helpful and efficiently searchable musical, textural and aesthetic categories.

The user interface is built on Soundiron's popular Oroboros ambient synthesis engine (Ambius Prime, Quadral), so the creative possibilities are truly limitless. Whether you're looking for classic punchy lead patches, warm fuzzy pads, dark drones, bubbling atmospherics, otherworldly textures or just pure flights of imagination, Aevium is your wingman!

The main user interface is built around four separate quadrants, an assignable XY Pad, quick modulator + filter routing menus, and arpeggiator system to expand your creative potential. Each layer has fully independent sound-shaping options including Attack, Release, Offset, Pitch and Pan. Every quadrant has its own individual filter with 39 built-in filter types, as well as modulators using a variety of sources: LFO, ADSR and Velocity with 5 selectable targets: Volume, Pitch, Pan, Filter Frequency, Filter Resonance.

The central XY Pad can be used in a variety of ways but defaults as volume control between the 4 layers. Each axis can be customized to affect a different parameter and can be used to control filters or a select amount of FX options. Rhythmic motion can also be added to the XY Pad, automatically adjusting each axis in a tempo-syncable way. You can also limit the X and Y range to create new patterns and fluctuations in tone.

Aevium comes loaded with over 400 Factory Presets in 20 categories, each one lovingly crafted. They can be easily perused using the Preset Browser. You can also save new patches you’ve made using the browser, or share presets with other users. Finally, don’t forget to fire up the FX rack panel and load your synth up with dozens of DSP effects, including convolution reverb with over 100 of Soundiron's custom real-world and special FX spaces to perfect your sound.

Features

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• Over 20 categories of sample-based synth sustains, staccatos, basses, leads, and FX
• Over 400 factory presets: inspirational rocket fuel
• 4-Layer Morphing Engine with XY Pad Mixer and Randomize capabilities
• 1,810 stereo 24-bit 48kHz PCM Wav samples
• 11.2 GB Installed
• Custom Preset Import and Export, with intelligent random preset generator
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

System Requirements

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.8 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt "Player" and "Add Library" import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library.

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OS X 10.9 or higher.
• Dual-Core CPU
• 2 GB System Ram
• SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

Important Notes:

• The FULL Version of Kontakt 5.8 (or later) is required in order to use this instrument.
• You will be stuck in DEMO MODE if trying to use this instrument in the FREE Kontakt Player.