Impact Soundworks – Super Audio Cart 2 是一款全面致敬游戏音乐黄金时代的 Kontakt 音源库，涵盖了 8-bit、16-bit 到 32/64-bit 多个世代的游戏主机声音。它从 19 款经典主机与音源芯片中逐一采样，包括 Atari 2600、NES、SNES、Game Boy 系列、Sega Genesis、N64、PlayStation、SampleCell II 等罕见平台，总共采集超过 6000 个真实音源，并支持 Kontakt 强大的合成引擎进行自由调制与设计。
不同于一般的简单波形或直接游戏音频提取，Super Audio Cart 2 所有采样均由团队原始制作或采样回放录制，保证 100% 正版且免版权问题，同时保留原始主机的硬件风格。库中还模拟了 Roland JV-1080、SC-88、Korg M1、Akai S1000 等经典 90 年代音源，再将这些声音通过 N64、PSX 等平台重采样，打造极致怀旧的声音体验。
Super Audio Cart 2 不仅仅是音色集合，更是一个强大的声音设计平台。它内置四层采样架构、全新合成引擎、多重滤波模型、进阶琶音器、包络、步进调制器等，还配备了全新开发的 MODRIX 调制矩阵系统，几乎可以实现任何参数的动态控制。无论你是游戏作曲人、声音设计师，还是复古音色爱好者，这款音源都将为你带来前所未有的创作自由与灵感。
Impact Soundworks Super Audio Cart 2 KONTAKT
KONTAKT – 8,22 GB
The legendary 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit/64-bit eras of gaming in sample library form.
Exhaustively sampled from 19 distinctive consoles, handhelds, and sound chips.
The first library EVER to delve into platforms like the Nintendo 64, SampleCell II, and PlayStation.
Over 6,000 authentic sound sources, from simple waves to timeless acoustic PCM samples.
Customize, tweak, and transform sounds with a massively powerful synth engine.
The ultimate compendium of video game musical history.
From the Atari 2600 (1977) to the Game Boy Advance (2001), Super Audio Cart 2 encompasses multiple generations of legendary audio hardware — even obscure chips such as the VRC6 (a Japan-only add-on to the Famicom), SampleCell II (a hardware-based sound card), and the MSX Home Computer.
Far beyond mere pulse waves, bleeps, and bloops — although it has plenty of those, too! — Super Audio Cart 2 includes virtually any instrument you can imagine, taken straight from the worlds of your favorite games and systems.
100% authentic and royalty-free.
Many of the included systems used PCM sample playback rather than pure synthesis. We did not ‘rip’ samples from existing games; we spent years painstakingly recreating thousands of classic sounds from scratch using our own sample catalog and careful editing. Where applicable, these sounds were then played back directly from the original hardware for maximum authenticity.
In other words, the sounds in Super Audio Cart 2 are as close as possible to the sounds you remember from your favorite retro games, without any need to worry about copyright infringement or royalties.
Our dream ROMpler comes to life.
Systems like the Nintendo 64 and original PlayStation could play full audio tracks, rather than individual samples. In this era, composers used gear like the Roland JV-1080 and SC-88, Korg M1, Akai S1000, E-mu Proteus, and many others, which were then colored by playback on the consoles themselves to create the distinctive (and now nostalgic) music of this generation.
We followed a similar process to ensure that Super Audio Cart 2 was equal parts authentic and usable. But rather than merely ‘ripping’ sounds from these hardware units, we took an insanely difficult (but much more versatile) path: we created our own virtual dream hardware with its own “Impact Factory Library” (IFL).
The IFL covers all General MIDI sounds and much more, just like the hardware that inspired it. We recorded and edited samples to match the style of a mid-90s sampler.. and then re-sampled them for the N64, PSX, SNES, and GBA, exactly as would have happened for video game music at the time — thus giving us the highest possible authenticity.
These are sounds you’ve never heard before. And yet they will seem immediately nostalgic if you’ve played games from that era or used classic MIDI hardware from the ’80s to the ’90s!
Created by game music fanatics.
Every developer who worked on Super Audio Cart 2 has a deep connection to video game soundtracks. Over the years, we have arranged video game music, studied it, owned an array of consoles and MIDI hardware, and written our own retro-inspired game soundtracks. We are obsessive perfectionists, especially about things we care about, and we care a lot about video game music.
Simply put, this is our ultimate passion project, a true labor of love. It’s everything great about the original Super Audio Cart and its later expansion Super Audio Cart PC, plus so much more.
Follow original console limitations or go way, way beyond.
Sound designers and synth heads, rejoice: Super Audio Cart 2 is far more than a staggeringly huge sample library. It’s also a mega powerful (dare we say Blast Processed) synth/sampler engine with loads of creative sound design possibilities.
Dozens of filter models, fine-tunable control over legato, portamento, and voice behavior, a super deep arpeggiator with gating and sequencer capabilities, step modulation, envelopes, and a four-layer architecture to truly inspire unique patches.
But that’s not all…
MODRIX: The most powerful modulation matrix ever?!
The original Super Audio Cart sported a flexible, versatile mod matrix, but we knew we had to do even better than that with the sequel. Enter MODRIX, the modulation system we developed in-house to offer every kind of movement and control imaginable.
Use a multitude of modulator types like envelopes, LFOs, MIDI values, key ranges, macros, X/Y pads… and connect them to basically any control you can think of: filters, pitch, volume, pan, effects, and even combine multiple routings for the same parameter together for complex, dynamic modulation masterpieces!
MODRIX routings can be tweaked to your heart’s content with curvature controls, min/max depth, adjustable base, and so much more.
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