STRANDS is a cinematically sound designed collection of bowed and electronic instrumentation.
Bring your music to life with expressive, characterful and unique sampling.
Sculpt and customise with powerful sound design features and an inspiring interface.
Performance Controls
Simplified front page with instant control over your sounds.
Dynamic Background
Inspiring background design which reacts to the performance controls.
Deeper Editing
Additional parameters available under every performance control.
Bows
Raw acoustic and electronic instruments with lots of character and expression.
Effects
Mix of abstract real world samples, processed instruments and synths.
Waves
Utility synth waves and noise, providing the building blocks for sound design.
Morph
Blend between the two layers with crossfading or layering.
Sound Source
Choose sound sources for each layer which blend or contrast.
Pitch
Fast and intuitive pitch controls for each layer.
Envelopes
Amp, Pitch & Filter envelopes for each layer with optional Link.
Cascade
Delay the second layer to create movement and drama.
Filters
Low, Band & High pass filter options for each layer with linked cutoff.
Dynamic
Perform dynamics to layer with orchestral libraries.
Dampening
Use filtering to create more natural dynamics.
Velocity
Keyboard control of dynamics and dampening.
Layers
Blend additional voices to increase width and scale.
Motion
Expressive control of LFO amounts.
BPM Sync
Get modulation perfectly in or out of time.
Waveshapes
Switch between 8 available waveshapes.
Complex Mods
Modulate amount and rate of LFO2 with LFO1.
Lofi
Use a combo of four different lofi effects to dial in the vibe you're after.
Character
Create drastic effects using 3 FX slots then blend with the dry signal.
User Convolutions
Drag and drop your own impulse responses for advanced sound design.
Send FX
Flexible delay and reverb send for creating space or huge washes.
Mapping
Assign MIDI to the performance controls from the UI.
Visual Feedback
Get better visual feedback of what your MIDI is controlling.
Learn
Save time by learning multiple controls at once.
- Over 900 snapshots
- 2.5gb samples
- 32 Sound Sources
- 2 layer sound design engine
- User impulse response import
- NKS / Kontakt Player Compatible
- VST, AAX & AU
- macOS 10.14 or above
- Natively compatible w/ Apple Silicon
- Windows 10 & 11
- Download & install via Native Access
Requires Native Instruments Kontakt Player or Kontakt FULL v6.7.0 and higher!
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