8DIO

Hybrid Tools 4 by 8Dio Review

Published

6 years ago

Thursday, 1 March 2018

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Hybrid Tools 4 by 8Dio Review

Several years ago 8Dio launched the legacy version of Hybrid Tool (1). Since then a significant market with modern hybrid sounds has been developing. 8Dio has led, pushed and served this market with several libraries, other developers have entered this market with their own solutions. Now a new Hybrid Tools library was released by 8Dio.

Hybrid Tools 4 is the fourth installment of the contemporary, heterogeneous, sophisticated and modern sounding sample library for Kontakt produced by 8Dio.

8Dio invited StrongMocha to review the beta version of this library with no strings attached.

Installation

After purchase 8Dio will send you the codes that you can use to download the library through the 8Dio download tool. Do a batch resave after the download and installation are finished in Kontakt (Full version required), and you are ready to use the library. The Full Retail version of Kontakt is expected, and this library is not compatible with free Kontakt Player, for final technical requirements see the latest details with 8Dio.

Sound

8Dio’s Hybrid Tools series is all about compelling sound design, ruthlessly destroying collections and principal artistic composition components.

Hybrid Tool 4 comes according to 8Dio “with a strong sonic identity and amazingly flexible when used together” or in short “Bad-Ass”. To be honest I was skeptical if anyone can launch in this conquested market new sounds that are so remote from other sounds that they become special or how 8Dio calls them “Bad-Ass.

Hybrid Tools 4 features various primary sounds: Bender, Boomer, Downers, Swooshes, Pass By, Separation sounds, Starfall, and unique sounds with an unusual name: Wind Downs, Lightning, Badass, Runner Bends, and Fireflies.

Hybrid Tools 4 Wind Downs Lightning Badass Runner Bends and Fireflies

The included sounds are new and a fresh approach to the hybrid library market. You can combine the sounds to create more complex textures, motion, and tension. The sound quality and effects are of excellent quality as you would expect from 8Dio.

Use the included effects and sequencer to come up with new sounds. Don’t be shy to process the sounds through an external plugin or if available inside a hardware sampler. It all helps to generate sounds which are unique to you with this new library.

Overall you are are getting new hybrid sounds that are very usable for your next project.

User interface & Usability

Hybrid Tools 4 is a hybrid library with a remarkably fresh and natural interface. It follows the current design of 8Dio for similar libraries. If you did use those, you would feel right at home. After some time spend and working with this Kontakt library, you can add the needed bang to your compositions.

8Dio has created the UI with productivity and agility in mind. Everything is aimed to enabled the composer to be creative and make minor adjustments. If you understand the idea behind the UI, you do hit the ground running.

Rating: Five out of five stars

8dio is pushing the envelope with this bad-ass library. With Hybrid Tools 4 you get convincing sounds that are unique and can be stacked with other sounds from this library. It is a match for your next task, be it sound design, working on a trailer or needing some underscore. Hybrid Tools 4 is a solid extension of your available sounds. Hybrid Tools 4 sounds will be used heavily in the next months in new productions.

8Dio is in a unique position. In the past, they influenced on a large scale the hybrid library market. Since several years 8Dio has been recognized as one of the leading company in this space, and they delivered another library that meets the high expectation. Music producer and composer will excellent hybrid sounds for their next assignments.

Virtual Instrument Library

Solo Clarinet – Warm Studio Woodwinds – The Next Evolution of 8Dio’s Woodwind Ensembles

Published

3 years ago

Thursday, 6 May 2021

Thorsten Meyer

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Warm Studio Woodwinds: Solo Clarinet

Warm Studio Woodwinds is the latest creation in 8Dio’s range of contemporary studio ensembles. It is derived from 8Dio’s Intimate Studio Woodwinds library. With over 160 hours of session material recorded at Scotland’s Premiere Recording Studio – Gorbals Sound, and countless more in post-production, Warm Studio Woodwinds continues 8Dio’s notion of a fully modular ensemble.

Unprecedented control over your sound

The sound of the Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet is easily customizable with the wealth of options in the advanced user interface. You’ll have extreme control over the stereo image with individual volume, panning, output routing, and the new distance control, enabling you to freely blend between a direct signal and a more spacious and ambient microphone position.

Every articulation needed for your next composition

Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet contains a vast collection of 26 articulations covering everything you need to create authentic-sounding woodwind melodies. Each articulation is sorted into four main categories making them all quickly and easily accessible from the inbuilt browser. Choose from articulations such as a Staccato, Staccatissimo, Sustains, Trills and Legato from the Traditional Category. Or choose more nuanced techniques such as Measured Tremolo and Tempo Sync’d phrase such as Tuplets and Triplets from 8Dio’s Performance category. Finally, the Arcs and Effects categories contain Dynamically layered Arcs of varying lengths and a range of effects such as directional Runs, Scoops, and Flutter Tonguing. The User interface allows you to load and unload the articulations of your choosing, so you only have to have to load the sounds you need for your project.

The Solo Clarinet soulfully blends into any mix

The Legato articulation is incredibly agile and can play almost anything you throw at it. We recorded each player in this series simultaneously so that each musician would be working with one another and adapt their playing styles and coloration to match the overall sound of the ensemble. Recording each player this way means that no matter your combination of instruments, the Warm Studio Woodwind instruments will fit with any ensemble and beautifully blend together. So whether you compose for an ensemble setting or virtuoso Solo Clarinet lines, Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet will sound excellent in any setting.

Pricing and Availability

Warm Studio Woodwinds: Solo Clarinet is available now.

Virtual Instrument Library

8Dio Hybrid Tools Terminus

Published

3 years ago

Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Thorsten Meyer

8Dio Hybrid Tools Terminus

8Dio Terminus is the latest in their Hybrid Tools series and has quickly made it into a wealth of blockbuster movies, games, and TV-shows. Terminus contains 1,200 custom cinematic instruments and FX. The sound is undeniably big, modern and studio clean with everything polished to perfection.

Pro-Grade Cinematic Instruments
Kontakt VST / AU / AAX
4 Core Instrument Classes (Drums, Hybrids, Orchs, Synths)
4 x 100’s of Cinematic Hits, Blockbuster Slams & Cres Slams
4 x 100’s of Subwoofer Hits, Short and Long Falls
4 x 100’s of Short and Long Risers
4 Epic Beautiful Instrument banks: Ear Candy
2 Transitional Banks of Tonal Strum Effects
Built-In Chaos Effects & Embedded Meta-Data
4K Master Class w/ Troels (The Captain w/ MIDI + Stems)
Full Retail Version of Kontakt 5.6 (or later) Required

Terminus is the result of over 18 months of deep production and contains four different types of core instrument groups, Percussive/Drums, Epic/Hybrid, Neo-Orchestral and Synth-Based. All four core groups each contain seven banks, Hits, Slams, Sub Hits, Short and Long Falls, and Short and Long Risers.

In addition, Terminus contains an array of new instrument categories, including 4 banks of Ear Candy. Ear Candy is designed to enhance your existing compositions with big, beautiful, ethereal, and angelic textural elements. We also created two additional banks of Strums. Strums are tonal and a-tonal transitional elements – creating a transparent, colorful movement of cinematic textures.

Terminus also comes fully ready for integration into the sound file management system of your choice with industry-standard embedded Meta-Data.

Pricing and Availability

Terminus is available now during the Eternal Summer Sale: $198 (goes $348 on September,23rd 2020)

Virtual Instrument Library

8Dio’s Solo Violin & Solo Cello Designer $38 each (normally $198)

Published

3 years ago

Sunday, 23 August 2020

Thorsten Meyer

8Dios Solo Violin Solo Cello Designer 38 each normally 198

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8Dio’s Solo Violin & Solo Cello Designer SALE

The Solo Designer instruments are a massive collection of thousands of real cello & violin phrases. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic solo violin & solo cello by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases.

8Dio programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo violin & solo cello performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment, and in some cases replace existing solo violin libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform.

Solo Violin Designer

SOLO VIOLIN DESIGNER Virtual Instrument VST is a massive collection of over 4.000 phrases performed by renowned concert violinist: Thomas Yee. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic solo violin by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases. We programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo violin performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment and in some cases replace existing solo violin libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform.

SOLO VIOLIN DESIGNER comes with a variety of phrase sculpting tools, including pitch-control, time-stretching / time-compression, sample offset (which allows you to “scroll” into any phrase and trigger any part of it, FX and convolution reverbs. The pitch-control is not affected by tempo, so by controlling pitch, time-stretching/compression and sample offset you can essentially adapt the phrase to match the pitch and tempo of your composition.

Solo Cello Designer

SOLO CELLO DESIGNER Virtual Instrument VST is a massive collection of over 1.800 phrases. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic Solo Cello by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases. We programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo cello performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment and in some cases replace existing solo cello libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform. We call this concept, deep phrase-sampling.

SOLO CELLO DESIGNER comes with a variety of phrase sculpting tools, including pitch-control, time-stretching / time-compression, sample offset (which allows you to “scroll” into any phrase and trigger any part of it, FX and convolution reverbs. The pitch-control is not affected by tempo, so by controlling pitch, time-stretching/compression and sample offset you can essentially adapt the phrase to match the pitch and tempo of your composition.