#Play sounds in reverse install
#Play sounds in reverse tv

Depending on the environment, it isn’t actually that hard to reverse sounds. At the same time, I do wonder if some of the claims here aren’t slightly overstated. I love the sounds, and I love that they committed to an idea. (Given the competition in sample engines, and for soundware, that sounds like an idea that could have some legs.)

#Play sounds in reverse install

US$199 for the whole library – not bad for a 14GB collection, even if having everything in reverse is more niche.Īnd in a novel idea for software distribution, a partnership with Native Instruments means you can install directly from NI’s own Service Center. (Well, “interfaces” might be as good a definition as engines these are different structures and corresponding UIs built atop the Kontakt engine.)īuilt-in filters, stutter-effects, real-time and “trigger” effects, and on-screen help. The specs:Ĥ engines: Instruments, Timed Instruments, Loops, and Rises. They’re organically unnatural, in some sense – physically impossible (or at least warped), but with shapes that connect to our perception of sound.īuilt in Native Instruments’ Kontakt. It’s strange: normally, artificial techniques wane in interest, yet reversed sounds for some reason always seem somewhat pleasing to the ear. And it sounds so far like they’ve done really beautiful sounds.Ī taste for reversed sounds is clearly widespread, too – none other than composer Harry Gregson-Williams chimes in with his desire for backwards instrumental textures in an endorsement. The producers of the content come from a strong pedigree in sound design and composition: Gregg Lehrman (scoring), Neil Hallimen (vocals and … polka, really), and John Nye (composition and scoring, out of the excellent Berklee program) all collaborate. Everything in REV, as the name implies (and the video demonstrates) is … well, reversed. Output is a new sound house out of Los Angeles that found a way to tell a story, by focusing entirely on a technique. It’s just that there’s so much out there, there isn’t always a story.

#Play sounds in reverse tv

There are good products out there, and sampled libraries are especially essential for anyone working on tight deadlines – no matter the joy of recording material, anyone working for markets like TV or film likely needs some assistance satisfying clients in a hurry. There’s just not so much to talk about – even when the quality is exceptional.