Orchestral Hit System: High Intensity Transients
Explosive hits that will have you shouting “oh shi-”
Suggested Price: $5
Audio Demos
- Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat Theme) Oliver Adams (Arranged By Andrew Aversa)
- 2200 AD (The OHS: HIT remix) zircon
- Owner of a Lonely Heart (Intro) Yes (Arranged By Andrew Aversa)
Overview
An essential addition to any composer’s arsenal, Orchestral Hit System: High Intensity Transients (OHS: HIT) will quickly become what you reach for every time you need something truly epic. This powerful new tool lets you control every component of your ideal Orchestra Hit, whether you’re channeling your inner Stravinsky, writing hip-hop or techno, or just adding that extra oomph to scores, pop songs, and your own Greatest Hits!
Product Info
Streamlined articulation system
We’ve distilled the maximum impact for every section to a single articulation – THE HIT – so you don’t need to worry about any articulation switching whatsoever. (Take it from us: this impact sound works!)
Eight tutti orchestral sections
Includes strings, brass, winds, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, synthesizers, and piano, all lovingly and carefully orchestrated (where possible) with multiple octaves.
Two powerful dynamics
Switch between forte and fortissimo dynamics per section with the click of a button. No other dynamics are necessary.
Detailed sampling... or not
Play several octaves of sampled range across sections, or engage “Stretch Last Note” to play the last-played hit combination pitch-shifted, effectively turning OHS: HIT into the ultimate 90s Orchestral Hit ROMpler.
A Very Special Impact Soundworks Instrument
Released April 1, 2025, guaranteeing a truly unique sample library experience.
Features
Genuinely usable
Explosively inspiring UI
This orchestra hits hard
The only orchestra hits you need
Seriously, you can really use this
Requirements
100MB of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
2GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt 7.8+ Player compatible
This library IS compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 11, 12, or 13 (latest update)
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11, 12 or 13 (latest update).
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows: Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 2 GB RAM. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher.
Tutorials
Announcement and Overview
Featured Artists & Composers
Christopher Gordon
Ladies in Black, Mao's Last Dancer, Salem's Lot, Master and Commander
"Impact Soundworks' range of guitars and fretted instruments sound amazing and are crafted and nuanced with expert detail. Intuitively set up to get straight to composing. And I have a real soft spot for the juicy, screaming Shreddage 3 Hydra!"
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.
Jeff Broadbent
Assassin’s Creed Identity, Call of Duty Mobile, Resident Evil, Diablo Immortal, Transformers: Dark of the Moon
"ISW creates amazing, creative, and intuitive virtual instruments! I’ve enjoyed using them for over a decade, and they have found their way into many of my music scores. Their wonderfully realistic world instruments showed up in a recent Nexon video game, Shreddage 3 Stratus on the score for Grid, and Super Audio Boy is a favorite for retro sounds, effects, and fun nostalgia. Highly recommended!"
Epic. Glorious. Explosive. Intense. As April approached, we asked ourselves what could possibly top 2024’s Shredder, with its powerful voice and in-your-face presence. There was only one answer: the most high-intensity sound in all of music…
The Orchestra Hit.
When Igor Stravinsky invented the Orchestra Hit in 1910*, could he possibly have known that his creation would cross so many genres — that this hit would transcend the orchestra?
For decades, composers and songwriters have been constrained to whatever sample (ready-made and distinctly uncustomizable) of an Orchestra Hit had been made available to them in synthesizers. But that simply isn’t how we do things at Impact Soundworks; we like to spin knobs and press buttons until we’ve made a sound completely our own! So we thought we’d bring our signature level of customization and control to the Orchestra Hit, so it’s not just an orchestra hit… It’s a whole Orchestral Hit System.
* – In a manner of speaking…
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.”