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Paper Stone Instruments is a new Kontakt Library development company formed by the team at Paper Stone Recording Studios in Nottingham, UK.

Our mission is to create unique, organic and expressive instruments that we as writers find exciting and useful to incorporate into our own projects.

Working from studio 2, a converted cinema auditorium dating back to the early 1900s with incredible acoustics, we have have taken our time to experiment with microphones, preamps and positioning to create the best possible sound quality. The resulting close, stereo and ambient room recordings can be blended on the Kontakt interface to tailor make the sound that suits your needs.

Our first instrument is the Palm Mute Piano for Kontakt V4.2.3 or above.

The Palm Mute Piano is a 2.6GB 64 note Kontakt instrument. Each note of our PaperStone Grand Piano has been meticulously sampled using finger dampening, resulting in a unique cinematic tone. The PaperStone house piano is a Danemann Grand Piano 6’8”; Mahogany c1960, chosen for it’s rich character and mellow tone. Perfect for cinematic and jazz music.

It has been sampled in short (staccato) long
(sustain) and pedalled articulations at 3 velocity levels, with 5 microphones:
Close (mono) Stereo and Room.

Have you seen the amazing System 1000M Instrument from SynthMagic and Tronsonic? Truly inspired! http://www.sampleism.com/tronsonic/system1000m

terradaptil:

Tronsonic and Synthmagic are very pleased to bring you the System1000M modular style synthesizer for Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1.0  (full version only).

http://www.sampleism.com/tronsonic/system1000m

This is based on a famous Japanese modular, with a few alternative features.
Plenty of modulation possibilities, its great fun to use. The instrument is streamlined to make it as cpu efficient as possible - it handles very well in fact.

There’s an arpeggiator, with 2 ‘interval’ sections, allowing some very interesting patterns to be made. 

There is a dual polarity Keytrack function assigned to the mod-wheel. This acts as a great alternative to filter cutoff, as it is pitch specific.

- Over 275 presets
- From raucous laboratory experiments, acid house and techno to serene radiophonic bliss-scapes 
- Optional new ‘add-on’ banks and presets (coming soon)
- Sampled with vintage valve equipment to quarter inch tape for maximum analogue texture

25% Off introductory price until 20/5/13