Over the last decade, Soundiron has built up an impressive range of virtual instruments and sample libraries aimed at music producers, classical musicians and film/TV/videogame composers. There’s everything from synths to choirs, from a Theremin to apocalyptic percussion. Quadral 3 is the company’s latest title, an instrument that packs in an impressive set of dramatic sounds – with plenty of control over them – yet retails for barely the price of a simple plugin effect. It also sees the Kontakt format stretched into one of the fullest proper instruments we’ve tested.
Made for Kontakt
You’ll need the full version of Kontakt to run Quadral 3, but it’s an easy setup via Soundiron’s installer: it downloads the 4.5GB library in chunks, then strings it together for you with presets in your chosen location. Open Kontakt (either standalone or in your DAW), and locate the library: the presets should load in as normal.