Iron Throne

IRON THRONE is a very, very eerie and dark collection of metallic percussive and semi-melodic effects, ideal for use in horror and suspense scoring, sound design, trailer effects and post production, experimental and ambient music, or anything else you can think to do with it. The origins of this strange creation/discovery will remain a forbidden secret – even though we had a contest where over 130 people tried to guess its origins. What we can tell you is that we beat and played the hell out of it… or into it, depending on how you look at it. We used bows, mallets, metal rods, rubber balls, fingers, fists, drum sticks, nylon, metal brushes, rasps and files, water, and earth to lift all manner of demon song from this contraption.

We used viola bows on various edges of the throne to create eerie melodic and dissonant tones. There are several types of bowed instrument sets included, including long sustains, medium length gliss effects, short staccato and spiccato articulations, and tremolo sustains. There are a number of different kinds of mallet rub, brush, finger, and comb effects to explore. The finger drabs, rubber ball, and flat mallet rubs were created by dragging the edge of the mallets (or fingers) along various surfaces on the throne, in long arcs and lines. This causes it to resonate in a similar fashion to a gong when rubbed in the same manner. The mallet strikes were produced with wooden, felt, and metal tipped mallets and sticks, to produce standard metal percussion sets. Generally, the results are atonal, but with pitch stepping/shifting, these instruments can be played semi-melodically. This library was originally released by Tonehammer as part of the Microhammer collection in 2010.

The interface is rounded out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator, and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers, and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Key Features:

• One master NKI instrument bank: In open Kontakt format
• Variety of effects: Bowed Sustains, Stabs, FX, Brush, Finger, Comb Percussion, Rubber, Felt, Wooden Mallet Rubs, Strikes
• Ambience patches: 30 created from the source content
• High-quality samples: 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• Custom presets: 20 Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• Extensive sample library: 899 Stereo WAV files, 1.1 GB installed
• Intuitive controls: Flexible and multi-layer user interface with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
• Comprehensive FX rack: Includes convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers, and FX environments