Sonora Cinematic

The Founders Locker line-up has just gained two new libraries that began life as source recordings for the Sonora Cinematic's popular Movimento Strings series.

While Pure Nylon offered “warmth and intimacy” and Pure Steel String brought “vibrancy and definition”, Pure 12-String rounds off the collection with “an unmistakable shimmering, glassy sound”.  

Movimento Strings Inflections builds on the capabilities of its predecessor by introducing extended techniques that promise to bring some “new textures and fresh colours” to users’ cinematic strings palettes.

The third instalment in Sonora Cinematic's Transfigured Orchestra series delivers a versatile collection of brass sounds that range from “quiet, intimate tones to bold, majestic textures”.

The latest addition Sonora Cinematic's range of Soundbox instruments throws some chamber strings into the mix, and aims to tackle the issue of long, sustained notes sounding too clean or static. 

In contrast to Pure Nylon, which was designed with warmth and intimacy in mind, Pure Steel is said to sound “bright, crispy and resonant”, capturing the unmistakable sound of a steel-string acoustic guitar. 

Built from a collection of recordings that captured bowed instruments from the North Caucasus, the sounds that make up Dark Veil have been crafted using a selection of pedals, amps and effects, with the developers blending multiple signal chains together in search of new and interesting tones. 

Recorded during the sessions for the developer's Panorama Acoustic Kontakt library, Pure Nylon delivers the same warm tone and musical detail, but reimagined for Soundbox’s MPE-capable platform.

Refraction has been built using high-quality samples of a premium upright piano, but rather than aiming to recreate the acoustic instrument, it instead uses the recordings to craft an array of evolving pads and hybrid acoustic-electronic soundscapes.