Time+Space is giving away the Altered States Pads sound library by Zero-G as a free download until March 29th this year.
Altered States Pads is the eighth part of the Altered States collection by Zero-G, a sound library that dates all the way back to the days of Kontakt 2 (here’s a really old review of the library). The collection (the Pads part, not the complete Altered States collection) is normally priced at £11.97, however Time+Space is now giving it away as a free download for a limited time. What’s good to know, though, is that you get to keep these sounds for good (and use them in your music, of course!) if you download them before March 29th.
Interestingly enough, the free version of the library doesn’t contain any Kontakt patches. As far as I know, Altered States packs usually come with a set of NKI patches for Kontakt 2, however this free download only contains the WAVs. That’s not too much of a bummer, though, as the samples are clearly labeled and there aren’t more than a dozen multi-samples per patch to choose from, so building mappings manually in your sampler of choice should be a breeze. Speaking of samplers, the excellent (and completely free to use) Grace by One Small Clue should work very well in tandem with these samples, as you could use its powerful modulation features to add even more movement and depth to the sounds.
See also: Download Grace Sampler By One Small Clue For FREE!As for the quality of the included samples, there’s quite a lot of good stuff to be found inside Altered States Pads. It is an old school sample library and some of the included samples do sound quite dated, however there are more than a few absolute gems in it as well. The pack contains a whole bunch of wonderfully lush atmospheres and layered pads which are practically begging to be loaded in a modern day sampler and processed, sliced, pitched and time-stretched into something completely new.
To grab your free copy of Altered States Pads by Zero-G, visit the product page linked below and add the product to your shopping cart. Please note that the offer is only valid through March 29th this year. Once you’ve completed the checkout procedure, you will receive a confirmation email containing the download code which is supposed to be used with the Continuata downloader app. Luckily, it is possible to completely skip the installation of Continuata on your computer if you visit your user account area at the Time+Space website and open the Orders page. On that page, you will find a direct download link which will allow you to download the ZIP archive without any sort of additional hassle.
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Altered States Pads is available for free download via Time+Space (333 MB download size, ZIP archive, contains 216 audio samples in 16-bit WAV format).
10 Comments
Aleks
onThanks for the tip on how to download the files directly! Almost gave up on this.
Tomislav Zlatic
onCheers Aleks! The download is actually quite smooth once you find that link. :)
Vibhor Tiwari
onNice, downloading it right now will check it once its done! hope its good :) Thanks
dowe
onnowadays I just keep a samples vault and put everything I can find in there, then dig up something when I need it, so anyways, thanks for the tip(s)!
Bannazkit
onSo much free stuff! Is it possible to use Kontakt as a host for these without having to buy the full version?
Esol
onSweet. Downloading now :)
Adam
onNot that I brag or something, but NKI for Kontakt 5 would be nice..
Anyway, thanks for the info Tom!
ConsUme
onThey have now sent updates to this product which includes the missing konktakt files.
Qrchack
onCan confirm, works no problem here on Kontakt 5.5.2, the only issue I have is the samples aren’t mapped to key, so e.g. playing an E note triggers a pad that plays C Major. Also, any FX you might want to have, you need to add yourself. Still sounds great though!
Qrchack
onUpdate: it was “All ambient pads” patch, the separate ones are mapped correctly