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After a series of soundsets for Native Instruments Absynth and Massive, Polish sound designer Artur from Eclipse Sound Design takes on the Zebra synthesizer by u-he with Zebra Botanica.

Ethno-tropical sound set with a gentle breeze of warm equatorial regions.

The soundset includes a total of 54 patches:

• 32 Abstract Instants.
• 4 Lead/Bass.
• 3 Sequence Patterns.
• 15 Texture Pads.

Most patches have all 4 macro XY pads assigned for maximum expression.
At 54 patches, this soundset is rather small. However, it is surprisingly versatile.

Check out a few of the patches included in this audio clip.

For a demonstration of the sounds in a musical context, Torben Hansen created this lovely track.

So what do I think?

Zebra Botanica is a really nice set of sounds. I don’t know if it’s the concept, patch titles and the cover art for the soundset, but the whole thing feels very organic to me. Almost like a collection of real instruments, found scattered around a tropical forest.

There is a lot of color in the instruments, they’re vibrant and alive. Interestingly enough, Artur has shared that he likes to start off with the artwork of a soundset, using a wallpaper of it as an inspiration while designing the sounds. I think this approach works really well, resulting in a cohesive collection of original sounds.

The patch count is kind of on the low side, but the soundbank is priced accordingly.

More information: Eclipse Sound / Zebra Botanica

analogfactory has announced the release of AMBIENT SIGNAL-SOURCE, a new soundset for the Absynth 5 software synthesizer by Native Instruments.

ABSYNTH – AMBIENT SIGNAL-SOURCE including Soundscapes, deep electronic and beautiful Lead Sounds, Atmospheres, Drum Loops and Sound FX perfect for film scoring, ambient soundscapes and electronic music productions.

Every sound is categories with attributes in the browser. AMBIENT SIGNAL-SOURCE contains 64 Patches.

The soundset is available to purchase for the introductory price of $10.99 until July 1st, 2013 (regular $14.99 USD).

More information: analogfactory / Ambient Signal-Source

Bluezone Corporation has announced the release of Deadspace, a sample pack featuring a collection of Sci-Fi Ambiences, Drones and Soundscapes.

‘Deadspace – Sci Fi Ambiences, Drones and Soundscapes’ features over 815MB of dark cinematic production elements, evolving drones, a vast selection of deep soundscapes & atmospheres, desolate drones, epic transition textures & pads and twisted sound FXs.

This sound library in WAV format is the perfect sample collection destined for producers working in the genres of Ambient, Dubstep & Drum and Bass, Cinematic and dark modern Electronica.

The sample library costs 14.95 EUR.

More information: Bluezone / Deadspace

Prime Loops has launched Essential Ambient Presets for Massive, a collection of 64 atmospheric presets for the Massive software synthesizer by Native Instruments.

Inside this pack are synth swells, textures and ambiences in the form of presets, each one of which has been precision-designed by the Prime Presets team to make full use of all the oscillators, filters and routing options available in your synth.

Trust us, we leave no rock unturned and have spent hours making sure every single sound is bang up-to-date with current musical flavors, tweaking every dial and fader to bring you the very best your synth has to offer.

The soundset is available to purchase for £14.95 GBP.

More information: Prime Loops / Essential Ambient Presets for Massive

Kevin Holland and John Staskevich have launched a Kickstarter project for the Luminth, which lets you generate melodies, percussive grooves, and ambient soundscapes.

The Luminth USB controller: click, turn, push+turn!

The Luminth is a minimalist USB control peripheral. To use the Luminth, simply click, turn, and push+turn. The Luminth changes color with the music.

Luminth Orbiter is a generative music software application. Make dramatic changes to the music with a single click. Dive deeper to make refined, subtle adjustments. Or, let Orbiter work autonomously to create music that morphs over time.

The Luminth is the best way to control Luminth Orbiter software, but Orbiter is fully functional with or without the Luminth.

The project is aiming to get $8,000 USD by June 13th, 2013. The Luminth software is available for a pledge of $30 USD, the USB controller is included with pledges of $100+ USD.

More information: Luminth

Synth Magic has announced the release of Phobos Interstellar Fantasy MKII, an updated version of the sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt.

This update takes the original 3 layer system of Phobos and expands it with a much larger sample library, updated Filter/Res sequencer which can now store patterns as well as switch voice selection on and off within each sequence, the effects sections has also been updated and there is also a new graphical user interface by Anders Hedstrom aka Flavours of Lime.

Phobos features

• Over 150 presets included to get you going on your interstellar trip.
• From ambient spacey alien communications, distant drones, spacey choirs, haunting strings and pads, atmospherics, space organs, Jungle stabs/ progressive house stabs and atmospheres.

The sound library is available for the introductory price of £10 GBP (regular £19.99 GBP).

More information: Synth Magic / Phobos