Native Instruments has announced that Damage is now available.
Created by sound design house Heavyocity and powered by the Kontakt 5 engine, the new software instrument provides ‘hard-hitting cinematic percussion for professional movie scoring and high-impact music production’.
In the video, above, Heavyocity talk about the recording process behind Damage, in an in-depth look at their sound design process.
Damage contains over 700 percussive loops as well as 58 kits, based on over 25,000 individual samples recorded in 24bit/96kHz. As a Kontakt-powered instrument, Damage offers all relevant playback and sound shaping functionality through the free Kontakt Player software. All sounds can also be loaded into the full version of the Kontakt 5 sampler for advanced sound editing.
Damage is available now for US $339/229 EUR.
… Wow! I’m seriously sold! They actually dropped a friggin’ bus for us to use as an instrument!
This thing sounds amazing!
Sounds great and the interface looks neat!
I bet the guys behind Two Steps From Hell would use this 🙂
This is actually really cool. The thing about being able to place individual drums anywhere on the stereofield is interesting as hell.
I like the concept but the price is just way too high for me right now. I wish I could just get a sample pack of clanging metal and falling cars. Is there anything like that?
I saw a whole bunch of “interesting tools” in that video.
If you think about it, you can learn and spare a lot by designing all that percussion on your own.
Not if you have a deadline to meet.
yeah, like you could totally save money if you just buy a used car and blow it up, then rent a crane, buy a bus, lift the bus up 30 feet and drop it. Also, you’d have to buy a fairly good field recorder and have some nice mics on hand, etc. etc. I don’t think you’d be saving money.
But you’re right about learning a lot. like how much your neighbors appreciate exploding cars outside their homes.
Oh, NI, you are dead to me now — much like Kore. Bastards.
I like the looks/sounds of it.