Sonora Cinematic has announced a beautifully dark-sounding instrument for Audiomodern’s free Soundbox sampler platform.
The first in a new “The Founder’s Locker” series of experimental instruments is a textural instrument that makes sublimely playable cinematic drones and immersive atmospheres.
Originating with recordings of bowed instruments from the North Caucasus, revealing a dark, textural beauty, the sounds of Dark Veil were ran through pedals, amps, effect chains and more, reshaping the raw performances into something entirely new.
Recorded, processed and curated by Sonora Cinematic founder and sound designer Alessandro Mastroianni, each title in The Founder’s Locker doesn’t begin with a product idea or market research. Instead, it starts with experiments in sound, building creations from curiosity rather than by design. Only those that remain compelling at the end of the process earn their place in the series.
Elaborating on the concept, Alessandro says:
“When we create products at Sonora Cinematic, we have to think about the market. That’s not wrong, it’s necessary, but it also shapes the kind of tools that we make. When I take the company owner hat off and I wear the composer’s, the sound designer’s… a different way of working appears. The musician’s way. This is where ideas come first, not features.
Some ideas are strange, some lead to concepts that are too narrow, too personal, too unconventional to ever become ‘proper’ products. For a long time, those ideas stayed hidden, The Founder’s Locker is where they live now.”
Dark Veil includes 15 presets many of which take full advantage of Soundbox’s MPE capabilities. For those users who don’t have an iPad or an MPE controller or simply prefer to use their own standard MIDI keyboard, the presets are also available in a ’Modwheel’ version, where the Modwheel controls the same parameters.
Dark Veil for Soundbox v1.1.1 (or higher) is available to purchase for £9 GBP (+ VAT).
More information: Sonora Cinematic / Dark Veil
