Go to the Land of the Ice and Snow
The majestic landscapes and epic tales of Nordic countries have long captured imaginations the world over. Now, your compositions can evoke those far Nothern locales with Nordic Spheres from Sonuscore. Designed in collaboration with Mats Lundgren and Amina Hocine from Sweden-based Pole Position Production, Nordic Spheres is a raw and ambient Kontakt instrument blurring the lines between music and sound design. It comes with more than 200 presets across three categories that can combined in four layers, each with its own independent ADSR, arpeggiator, and effects. Sweetwater composers and sound designers have found that Sonuscore’s advanced Grain, Arpeggiator, and Motion Engines make crafting your own sounds and presets effortless and enjoyable. Finally, Nordic Spheres’ Mixer Page lets you balance sounds plus add global compression, delay, and reverb. Drive your music to new lands with Nordic Spheres from Sonuscore.
Note: Nordic Spheres requires Kontakt Version 6.7.1 or higher. Please contact your Sweetwater Sales Engineer if you have questions or concerns.
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Music of the spheres
Four layers form the heart of Nordic Spheres’ granular glacier, represented on its beautiful interface by spheres. Each has its own ADSR, arpeggiator, and effects like EQ, saturation, chorus, and tremolo. The top two layers use sounds from Sonuscore’s Grain Engine, while the bottom two layers add energy with hits, sustains, and particles. Weave them in combination to create sounds with all the beauty of the Northern Lights or all the fury of a volcanic eruption.
More than 200 presets
Begin your journey to Valhalla with Nordic Spheres’ 200+ presets, each carefully crafted by Pole Position Production’s Mats Lundgren and Amina Hocine, and laid out in a logical Preset Browser. Use the Character tags to quickly peruse appropriate sounds that fit your desired mood, or find your perfect preset by selecting its Category, Tone, Sound Type, and Feel.
Sonuscore Nordic Spheres Features:
- Raw, ambient virtual instrument that blurs the lines between music and sound effects
- 4 independent sound layers, each with its own ADSR, arpeggiator, and effects (EQ, saturation, chorus, and tremolo)
- Powered by Sonuscore’s Grain, Arpeggiator, and Motion Engines
- Grain Engine — granular synthesis engine with Sequencer, Density, and Randomization controls to create unique sounds
- Arpeggiator Engine with controls for rhythm stepper, time signature, subdivisions, transposition, octave, and more
- Motion Engine with modulation wheel adds incredible movement and depth to effects
- More than 200 carefully crafted presets across 3 categories — Spheres, Pulses, and Animated (plus User category)
- Spheres: atmospheric pads
- Pulses: basic rhythmic patterns
- Animated: most complex arrangements and soundscapes
- 2 Tones: Tonal and SFX (atonal)
- 2 Sound Types: Hard and Soft
- 3 Feels: quarter-, 8th-, and 16th-note subdivisions
- Many Character tags in the Preset Browser for quickly locating sounds that fit your desired mood
- Mixer page for balancing sounds and adding global Master compression, delay, and reverb
