Meditation
Meditation
A combination of acoustic sound sources and a layer of additive synthesis.
A combination of acoustic sound sources and a layer of additive synthesis.
$49
$49
Hear Meditation In Action
Hear Meditation In Action
- Walk Under Water (Dressed) Brad Jerkins 1:08
- Sea of Harmonics (Naked) Andrew Aversa 0:42
- Night Light (Dressed) Henning Nugel 2:10
- Cultivating Thoughts (Dressed) Pixelee 1:10
- New Alchemy (Dressed) Christian Yoder 1:32
- Time Again (Dressed) Chris Porter 1:27
- Crushed Ivory (Naked) Titanio 1:18
- Night Light (Naked) Henning Nugel 2:01
- Time Again (Naked) Chris Porter 1:27
- New Alchemy (Naked) Christian Yoder 1:32
- Walk Under Water (Naked) Brad Jerkins 1:08
Reviews
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Mark Portmann
Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones
"[ISW]'s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire."
Neal Acree
World of WarCraft, Diablo III, StarCraft II, Overwatch
"Impact Soundworks has some of the most creative and innovative libraries out there. From world instruments to the insanely deep sampled Shreddage guitar series the Impact catalog is full of must-haves and unexpected and inspiring surprises. Highly recommended!
Stewart Winter
Co-founder, VideoHelper
"I'm a keyboard player -- I can't even make a REAL guitar sound convincing. But Telos and Rosette are my go-to guitars because they sound incredible, sit well in a mix and are so easy to configure to my personal playing habits. I'm constantly discovering new ways to play them and they've saved my ass more times than I can count. And the pedal Steel is still my favorite library of its kind for Country, Folk and organic layering behind synths."
Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
"I never would have thought that sampled guitars could sound as good as ISW's do. The fact that I can use them to lay down a realistic solo is unprecedented. They’ve pushed the boundaries of realism."
Rosette Mandolin – Sound on Sound
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"The sound of the library is very pleasing...the more I used the library the more I felt I was learning how to write idiomatically for the instrument." "Rosette Mandolin provides a good sound that could have many applications, with versatile input options that cater to writing realistic mandolin lines, impossible 5+ note chords and everything in between." Thomas Field, September 2024
Richard Jacques
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
"I'm a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It's so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments... from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further."
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
"ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch's Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!"
Audio Demos
- Walk Under Water (Dressed) Brad Jerkins 1:08
- Sea of Harmonics (Naked) Andrew Aversa 0:42
- Night Light (Dressed) Henning Nugel 2:10
- Cultivating Thoughts (Dressed) Pixelee 1:10
- New Alchemy (Dressed) Christian Yoder 1:32
- Time Again (Dressed) Chris Porter 1:27
- Crushed Ivory (Naked) Titanio 1:18
- Night Light (Naked) Henning Nugel 2:01
- Time Again (Naked) Chris Porter 1:27
- New Alchemy (Naked) Christian Yoder 1:32
- Walk Under Water (Naked) Brad Jerkins 1:08
Overview
An inspiring collection of acoustic mallet, gong, and glass sounds combined with a revolutionary Kontakt-based additive synthesizer! With both easy tweaking and advanced modulation design tools, you can create an endless variety of evolving and subtle tones, perfect for scoring, ambient and atmospheric music.
An inspiring collection of acoustic mallet, gong, and glass sounds combined with a revolutionary Kontakt-based additive synthesizer! With both easy tweaking and advanced modulation design tools, you can create an endless variety of evolving and subtle tones, perfect for scoring, ambient and atmospheric music.
Product Info
21 acoustic sound sources
- Aquarion
- Boltophone
- Brass Urn
- Crotales
- Gamelan Ensemble
- Glass Gong
- Glockenspiel
- Kenong
- Koto Harmonic Pluck
- Marimba
- Muted Prayer Bowl
- Pipe Harp
- Pot Lids
- Rubber Mallets
- Shou Drum Brushed
- Stonaphone
- Toy Piano
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Violin Pick
- Waterglasses
Glass, mallets, gongs, and found sounds
Sine, saw, and square waveforms
High fidelity synth sampling
Over 2,500 samples included total
21 acoustic sound sources
- Aquarion
- Boltophone
- Brass Urn
- Crotales
- Gamelan Ensemble
- Glass Gong
- Glockenspiel
- Kenong
- Koto Harmonic Pluck
- Marimba
- Muted Prayer Bowl
- Pipe Harp
- Pot Lids
- Rubber Mallets
- Shou Drum Brushed
- Stonaphone
- Toy Piano
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Violin Pick
- Waterglasses
Glass, mallets, gongs, and found sounds
Sine, saw, and square waveforms
High fidelity synth sampling
Over 2,500 samples included total
Features
Revolutionary additive synthesis in Kontakt
Up to 24 partials with per-partial pan/volume
Inharmonicity controls and intelligent randomizer
64-slot modulation matrix
Digital and analog-modeled FX
Revolutionary additive synthesis in Kontakt
Up to 24 partials with per-partial pan/volume
Inharmonicity controls and intelligent randomizer
64-slot modulation matrix
Digital and analog-modeled FX
Requirements
1GB of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
4GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Intel i3 or equivalent processor, 3ghz+
A faster CPU with more cores will allow you to play more simultaneous voices.
Kontakt 5.5.2+ Full Version
This library is NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OSX
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update).
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Library Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
Ben Prunty
FTL: Faster Than Light, Into the Breach, Subnautica: Below Zero
“I’ve been using ISW since 2015, and their instruments have shown up in Into the Breach and Subnautica Below Zero, and in nearly all of my solo albums. Shreddage helped me fill in the gaps around my own guitar performances. Super Audio Cart provided some great raw synth sounds for parts of Below Zero. Impact Soundworks is often the first place I go to when I’m shopping for a new project. Everything they make works and sounds great.”
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
“Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit.”
Featured Artists & Composers
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
“ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!”
Mark Portmann
(Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones)
“[ISW]’s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire.”
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
Meditation is a revolutionary Kontakt library that produces an infinite variety of unique mallet, bell, and key tones. It combines a treasure trove of unique acoustic sound sources (glasses, metals, bells, gongs, etc.) with an additive synthesis layer, the first of its kind in a Kontakt instrument. Whether you need harsh, dissonant textures, smooth evolving sounds, morphing plucked beds, subtle resonant strikes, or anything in between, Meditation is a perfect addition to any composer’s virtual instrument repertoire.
Although the library includes very deep synth and modulation tweaking, you don’t need to be an additive synthesis expert to enjoy it. We’ve included a wide variety of presets to inspire you and adjusting basic parameters of each sound is very easy. We even added a hearty selection of randomization options for the additive section, so you can create instant variation without any prior experience. Combined with our powerful analog/digital FX rack, you’ll have no trouble creating beautiful sounds for your music!
Reviews
Testimonial – Jimmy ‘Big Giant Circles’ Hinson (Black Ops 4, Borderlands 2, Threes)
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”