Enrik Anton sent me a very cool video tutorial, where he shows how to use Native Instruments Battery for sound design. He show several things about building a palette of sounds in the sampler, grouping sounds, tweaking them, assigning different trigger options, layering, etc. He also put some kind words there:

This is a demonstration of how this software can be very useful for sound design work. I did it because I would like to return the effort that Miguel Isaza is doing in his blog “Designing Sound” that has been an inspiration to many of us.

Many thanks for the video, Enrik! Hope the readers enjoy it!

And what about you? Do you like to use samplers in your sound design work? Feel free to share your experiences with us!

I created 10 sounds with 10 different variations. As you can see in the video above, there are two individual templates where you can create different sounds. There are several controls includin freq range, scales, env generator, etc. Also, it has a dedicated reverb for each sound, with a lot of parameters to tweak. And finally, you can go to the B page and mutate the two sounds using an XY pad. It’s really fun!

And if you have an iPad or Lemur, Antonio also created several wonderful templates to control the synth.

Native Instruments has released Komplete 6, a new version of his amazing instrument collection. There is a new version of Absynth with new features and enhancements, among which is a new technology called Mutator, “an entirely fresh approach to sound design”allowing the intuitive combination of sound characteristics from several sounds of the factory library, without dealing with the complex Editor Pages of the oscillators, envelopes and effects sections.

If, for example, you want to add a “dirty” character to a soft pad sound, you could take the characteristics of a distorted bass from the ABSYNTH Library and apply them to the pad. This can be easily done using the KoreSound Browser, where you can find all your desired musical properties/attributes.

It’s also easy to define which elements of the sound should be mutated – e.g. Oscillator settings, filters, envelopes, effects – or everything together. The Randomize fader provides additional random variations. All of the newly-generated sounds and variations can be compared in the new Sound History window, and then be tagged with your desired attributes and saved for future use. In addition, the Mutator’s eight fine-tuning controls provide quick access to eight sound properties, such as brightness, bass, resonance, distortion and effects, for instant tweaking of your newly created sounds.defined

New Aetherizer Effect

A sophisticated granular effect “decomposes” the sounds in to the smallest particles (“grains”), which are then manipulated and re-assembled in a variety of ways. The results are unusual chorus and vocoder sounds, grain clouds, delays, pitch shifts, reverbs and strange reflections – and everything in between. This effect (as with all ABSYNTH effects) is also for working with external audio signals (e.g. audio tracks in a sequencer) – a playground for creative sound manipulation!

New Filters

The Cloud Filter has a similar structure as the Aetherizer’s granular effect, but acts in each of the three oscillator channels. It provides granular-based results such as unusual Chorus, Pitch Shift and reverb effects, and can make synth sounds that are dense and aggressive.

And new Comb Filter creates expanding physical-modelling-like sounds with finely adjustable resonance, which means even more realistic, acoustic and voluminous sounds can be achieved.

More info >> Native Instruments.