SONUSCORE Dark Horizons Virtual Instrument (Download)

SONUSCORE Dark Horizons Virtual Instrument (Download)

Modern producers and score composers in search of extraordinary and dark bass sounds will be thrilled with SONUSCORE DARK HORIZON, a software instrument based on ELYSION s famous ensemble engine that has been hijacked, augmented, and vaporized. Discover dystopian atmosphere of massive basses, cosmic arps and drifting pads. Easily turn simple chords into unreal nightmarish spacescapes, while moving the mod wheel bends time and transports you into the dark disparate corners of eldritch furies.

Master sound designer Tobias Menguser conjures twisted sounds that have been experimented upon, crafting a full sound palette of dark and low bases. They mutated into growling instruments, screaming oscillations, and groundshaking subs. For ambient, modern electronic, and experimental music, DARK HORIZON can bring a new power into your work with its library of grinds and grooves. For scoring and blockbusters, these sounds make for perfect tension-building underscore.

Key Features

• Earth-shattering bass-heavy synth for extraordinary and dark bass sound
• Designed by renown sound designer Tobias Menguser
• Built from the same engine as ELYSION with a modified ensemble engine, a motion engine, and a pan engine
• Familiar and intuitive user interface known from ELYSION and The Orchestra
• 180 complex animated and fully customizable themes, featuring up to 4 fully controllable instruments
• 80 instantly playable bass-heavy instruments
• 765 individual samples. All carefully recorded, sampled, and handcrafted
• MIDI Export: Unleash the power of the ensemble engine onto your personal template

DARK HORIZON What s Included

As the deep underbelly of the ELYSION series, DARK HORIZON is a powerful Kontakt instrument that resynthesizes orchestral sounds and sound FX along with a great variety of rare analog synths and FX boxes. The resulting instruments are mind-crushing sounds, gut-wrenching themes, rhythmic arps, whirling pads, and a set of effects to push them even further beyond the imagination.

• Ambient, Resynthesized, Cinematic: DARK HORIZON pushes sounds into unrecognizable extremes, utilizing analog rack effects and extraordinary sound sources. Use DARK HORIZON as a scoring tool for any project that needs a dose of profound bass and gritty depth or use it as a really exceptional synth to create innovative melodies with outstanding sonic power.
• Layered, Dirty, Powerful: With four layers of sounds and an onboard compressor, delay, and hall reverb, create unique and disturbing combinations for a truly original experience. Each layer is linked to an independent arpeggiator and two pan engines, allowing you to easily create complex, evolving pads.

Supernatural Workflow

DARK HORIZON features our critically acclaimed ensemble technology, empowering you to create complex sounds by playing simple chords.

• Modified Ensemble Engine: DARK HORIZON uses a modified version of the ELYSION ensemble engine. This means you can play up to four different instrument modules at the same time, and each module allows independent controls for arpeggiators. Using the mod wheel unlocks an astounding filter effect that produces a great number of kinetic digital possibilities.
• Motion Engine: DARK HORIZON comes with its own unique dynamic FX engine. It allows the fundamental customization of the instruments, e.g. steering attack or decay via MIDI CC. Besides other FX, the Motion Engine also includes two Pan Steppers, breathing life and variation into every pattern in no time.

Maximize Your Creativity

DARK HORIZON comes with 180 complex animated and fully customizable themes spread across five different categories. Each category has its unique style and purpose, providing you with either rhythmic elements, dark textures or sounds that are perfect for playing melodies.

• Poly Animations: Complex rhythms for chords that push the audio floor with movement and vibration. The mod wheel modifies the arps and filters, increasing the tension, while introducing horn blasts, braahms, and drones.
• Rhythmic Pulses: Low pulsing basses with complex arpeggiations reveal great dynamic range when the mod wheel is pushed, morphing the rhythms and raising the filters.
• Mono Arpeggios: Legato arpeggios arranged in danceable grooves with the mod wheel pressing the frequencies and creating a much sharper tone.
• Lowest Textures: Dark, tension-filled drones complimented by screeching impulses, filter swipes, and stellar reverb effects at the turn of the mod wheel.
• Playable Sounds: Wide cosmic pads and gently gliding legatos, this set includes the bulk of the playable content. The mod wheel releases all the built up anger and tension as the frequencies push.

Export Your Custom Performance with MIDI Drag and Drop

Once you have been inspired by a theme in DARK HORIZON, drag and drop the arrangement of your performance to your DAW. Now you are free to use it within every library you own. Unleash the power of the ensemble engine onto your personal template, change notes, combine different patterns, and make them your own. Experience the incredible efficiency of DARK HORIZON, ELYSION 2, and The Orchestra merging together within your DAW.

Tobias Menguser, Sound Designer

• Tobias Menguser has been working in sound design since the 1990s and started out programming synths for companies like Waldorf, Ensoniq, and Clavia, and pioneered producing sample CD-ROMs for Ensoniq EPS16+ and ASR10.
• Tobias has been working for Native Instruments for over 10 years He helped make Komplete what it is today, and in the last ten years, he has contributed sounds for over 450 US movie trailers.