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by Unknown
Where Analog Dreams leans toward synthetic,Ethereal Earth leans toward acoustic and world-fusion. It’s built around processed world instruments (swarmed sitars, synthesized gongs, ethnic bowed strings) blended with atmospheric electronic textures. The Komplete Start edition is a streamlined version of the full Play Series instrument, with around 100 presets spanning ambiance, bass, brass, drone, FX, lead, pad, pluck, string, texture, and wind categories.
I love using it for ambient interludes and film-score sketches, because you can layer two or three presets and immediately sound like you’ve spent an afternoon in a Himalayan instrument shop. If you also have Hypha installed, the two libraries cover a wide range of modern electro-acoustic territory for zero dollars. Both need Kontakt 7 Player or the current free Kontakt 8 Player. Four proper piano libraries plus an experimental tuning-based instrument.
Heavyocity and Strezov are the most generous developers in this category.
Links to www.native-instruments.com — the article includes the official download links.
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