Sawmonium – Cinematic Bowed & Struck Handsaws!

A basic woodsaw, a small mitre back saw, a basic hacksaw…. who knew what musical awesomeness these everyday tools held? Welcome to the horror… welcome to, THE “SAWmonium”!

SAWmonium brings you 10 very unique Kontakt patches which are geared towards the horrific, quirky, or even mysterious! unEarthed Sampling utilized a cello bow on the wood saw and hacksaw to create some very strange and unique FX sounds… some of which harken back to the odd FX from the Jerry Goldsmith scores of the 60s and 70s. The bow also helped them to create some very usable tonal staccs, really creepy growls, and one patch which is a definite nod to Zimmers’ Joker motif from The Dark Knight. The bowed sustains patch is tuned and loops… it has the sound of a gritty glass harmonica and is very playable.

They also banged on each saw using a concert mallet, a rattan, and traditional drum sticks. The HITS patch contains all of these and each hit has 4 X RR to help fight repetition. These, when used with the built in Arpeggiator, are highly useable. You are also given full control over the EQ, Attack / Decay, and the Pitch in addition to the 13 custom impulse responses to put these strange sounds in a varying degree of different rooms.

Geared towards the Quirky, Horror, and Sci-fi genres… SAWmonium is an avante garde approach to music and will give your next piece of music or Film / Video Game score a very unique touch!

Note: Requires the FULL retail version of Kontakt 4.2.4.5316+ or above (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)