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In this week's short 'How To Use' video Protoculture's checking out the awesome Knifonium synth available from Plugin Alliance. This emulation of the pricey 26 tube monophonic synthesiser handcrafted in small batches each year is now more accessible for everyone to get their hand's on, and here Nate demonstrates its own unique sound and what makes it stand out compared to others.

The first hybrid X3M product featuring a vast collection of organic and electronic high frequency percussion designed for adding tension and speed to your music. The concept behind LIGHTNING X3M is not only to introduce different types of high frequency percussion, but also to create unique instrument combinations, similar to our previous percussion series, as well as some new sounds and effects. From clocks, shakers, pencils, hurdy gurdy, electronic drums, guitars, accordions and many more we sampled everything in a way which is perfect for adding tension and speed to your music.

Synthetic Shadows is a library born in the shadow of a fully realized Synth Cinematic Orchestra. A synthetic library dedicated to bring you analog and digital synths, to augment your existing compositions.

8Dio Studio Steel Drum represents an extreme deep-sampled Steel Drum. The instrument is comprised of more than 55.000 samples, 5 true vintage microphone positions, 2 world-class reverbs (Bricasti & TC6000).

Rhythmic Revolution was created by Academy Award, TEC and G.A.N.G Award Winning Composer, Troels Folmann and one of the world's leading sound designers, Professor Mario Bajardi and acclaimed Percussionist, Nino Errera.

AetherArp is a 4 Sound Engines and Cloud Arpeggiator library for Kontakt 5.8.1 which creates evolving soundscapes, overtime mutating sounds, and ethereal/out-wordly moods that add movement and unpredictability to your ambient productions and filmscores.

Authentic Middle Eastern frame Drums recorded in various sections and ensembles, suitable for all kinds of dynamic music and especially film/videogames. For years the Middle Eastern frame drum has been a constant colour in soundtracks and music productions all over the world. Applying our sampling philosophy to the various instruments of the frame drum branch yielded some very organic and fresh sounding results, which combined with our X3M percussion engine are simply a joy to play.

Highly flexible collection of orchestral percussion instruments recorded in a large hall and ported into the X3M Engine for maximum playability. Perfect for all kinds of music.

DEEP - SPACEY - EPIC!VIEGO is a collection of 256 rich cinematic pads and soundscapes. Each instrument is a combination of sampled waveforms and wavetable synthesis.

CREATIVE BEAT PROGRAMMING.SODIUM is a creative drum and beatsequencer for KONTAKT 6.2.2. It features 200 inspiring contemporary factory kits. It also comes with hundreds of included drum sounds to get you started. (You can also import your own WAV samples via drag and drop).

CENTURIES OF DAZZLING SOUND Tap into the authentic sound of a treasured instrument from the world’s most renowned violin maker. Built in 1727 by Antonio Stradivari, the ‘Vesuvius’ violin embodies the Italian master luthier’s unparalleled skill. STRADIVARI VIOLIN captures the sound of this historical instrument in painstaking detail, as played by master musicians in the rich acoustic environment of Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi, Cremona. Chromatically sampled notes, phase-aligned velocity crossfades, performance-captured vibrato, a wealth of articulations, and mixable mic positions enable you to produce highly expressive, realistic solo strings with a unique timbre famous for 300 years.

An ambient electric guitar library for Kontakt. Easily create swells, pads and textures. 3.29 gb. For full version of Kontakt 5.8 and above.

Studio Saxophones marks 8Dio's continual commitment to pushing boundaries not only in technologies but also in advanced techniques to achieve a modern, playable and fully customizable studio sound.

The Clanky Metal Bass is an aggressive sounding midi bass instrument built in Kontakt, is an easy-to-use tool when composing heavy music at home or in studio. Originally sampled from an active 4-string bass guitar, in a series of 2 round-robins, and with 3 different velocity layers. The samples were run through distortion and amplifiers, giving you an evil sounding Metal Bass Guitar. The 3rd velocity layer holds the most clank!

CYBER is a cinematic sound design toolkit, combing sonic elements of techno music and morphing them into cinematic sounds, perfect for trailer music and sound design. The library contains over 500 modern techno cinematic sounds including Textures, Synth Rhythms, Risers, Stingers, Glitches and more, that are ideal for adding a very unique, electronic / cinematic sound to your tracks.