Sonora Cinematic has announced the release of the follow-up to the developer’s best-selling Kontakt Player library Panorama Guitars, this time recorded inside a medieval church with an interesting acoustic twist.
Nestled amid the Scottish countryside, in the small village of Whitekirk, stands the historic, yet humble-looking, St Mary’s church. Step into this (almost) 900-year-old building and you experience a room sound that is warm and tight courtesy of the striking curved wooden ceiling. Continue towards the chancel in the oldest part of the church with its dense stone walls and ceiling, and the acoustics shift to something much bigger and completely organic. This is where the idea for Panorama Whitekirk was born.
We recorded two guitars in the church: an electric and a semi-hollow, captured in a stereo setup through two guitar amps and a massive pedalboard loaded with effects. Everything was covered – from pristine cleans that sound massive in the church, to washed-out fuzz tones, to granular textures soaked in reverb.
The result picks up where our bestseller, Panorama Guitars, left off: dreamy post-rock, shoegaze and cinematic guitar sounds, ready to use in your music.
Panorama Whitekirk features
- Captured in a Scottish historic church with unique sound spaces.
- Electric and a semi-hollow guitar, recorded through two amps and a huge effects pedalboard.
- Pristine cleans to washed-out fuzz and granular, reverb-soaked textures.
- Perfect for dreamy, atmospheric guitar work in film, ambient and experimental productions.
- Two distinctive room sounds from warm and tight to huge and organic.
- Blend between the two room mixes in real time using your modwheel.
- Drag your listener position around a visual plan of the church to simulate walking through the space.
- Custom effects section with a fine-tuned Plate reverb plus two unique atmospheric effects.
- Ready to use pedalboard effects from the recording sessions.
- Includes 35 carefully curated presets.
- Full NKS Integration.
Available for Kontakt and the free Kontakt Player (v8.9+), Panorama Whitekirk is on sale for the intro price of £39 GBP until October 9th, 2026 (regular £49 GBP). Prices exclude VAT.
More information: Sonora Cinematic
