Linking synths, acoustic orchestral instruments and nature in exciting new ways, this is a great new resource for pads and creative textures

€229

PC MAC

Habitat is the culmination of a partnership between Orchestral Tools and polymath Dominik Eulberg; apart from his professional career as a producer working in electronic music, Eulberg is also a traned biologist, conservationist, artist and author. His working environment is heavily influenced by nature, being set in the heart of Germany’s Westerwald mountain range.

Habitat operates within OT’s SINEplayer plugin format, providing layering between synthetic and electronic sounds, and orchestral instrumentation. The brief for this suite is to create interesting textures and pads, but with an earthiness and degree of control that allows the user to sculpt the musical form very easily.

Analogue to orchestral

The patches are organised into 11 different categories; the first 10 contain instrumental elements for creating pads and textures, while the 11th category is entirely comprised of Atmospheres. These atmospheric elements from nature have been recorded on location by renowned sound recordist Jan Heft. Recordings from mountains, forests and streams are presents here in a literal form, although these elements are also scattered throughout the library, combined with some of the acoustic and electronics textures.