《The Sound of Love Lost》是一款极具个性与深度的 KONTAKT 音色库，由音乐人 Sam Thomas 历时近 20 年精心打磨并最终采样而成。这款乐器融合了吉他与合成器的特质，演奏体验如同风琴般厚重而延绵，音色则兼具数字与模拟处理的独特魅力，旨在打造一种“失落之爱”的沉浸式声音体验。
每个音符都被采样多达 13 次，覆盖 88 个键位，保留了长达 20 秒的自然延音，无需额外插件或处理便可轻松演奏出庞大、饱满、空间感十足的音墙。高低速击键会触发不同的共振频率，配合内置的 wah 效果器、饱和度、空间宽度与 EQ 调整，可轻松切换从温柔空灵到扭曲爆裂的情感氛围。这种极具动态表现力的声源最早出现在 Isamaya Ffrench 与 Sam Thomas 的《Love Lost》一曲高潮段落中，也被广泛用于他们的专辑《Mantle》。
乐器界面设计简洁，保留声音的纯粹性，并配备 A432/A440 调音切换与镜像立体声功能，用于创造“沉坠感”般的空间效果。无论是用于构建氛围铺垫、极简旋律，还是制作冲击力极强的电子摇滚与电影配乐，《The Sound of Love Lost》都能为创作者提供充满张力与深度的声音可能性。适用于 KONTAKT FULL 版本，兼容所有主流宿主 DAW。
Sam Thomas Music The Sound of Love Lost KONTAKT
KONTAKT – 3,57 GB
The Sound of Love Lost is a sound like no other. A pitched, synth/guitar hybrid that plays like an organ: utilising digital and analogue processing to create an effortlessly huge and harmonically encompassing field of force.
It features in the climax of the song ‘Love Lost’ by Isamaya Ffrench and Sam Thomas, as well as across their album ‘Mantle’ and Sam Thomas’ other work. It started life as the dirtiest bass sound that kept creeping further and further up the fretboard. It’s been tweaked and refined by Sam over nearly two decades and has now been meticulously sampled (13 times per note and across a full 88 keys/7 octaves) to take full advantage of all the harmonics that can be generated by the velocity-sensitive (or fixed), integrated wah effect. Each note has 20 seconds of natural sustain, achieved with just the force of the sound itself or by utilising an EBow or sustain pedal: the result being a no-compromise, musical hold and natural tail at every velocity. Each note was recorded on a max-character guitar, with guitar/pickup decision appropriate to pitch of note. After leaving Sam’s distinct pedal configuration it would pass through a blend of choice guitar and bass amps before undergoing yet more harmonic enrichment: through hand-picked outboard EQ’s and saturation/tape effects. As a final stage the full spectrum was EQ’d, widened and optimised/blessed by Sam and mastering engineer/audio priestess, Anni Abigail.
It stretches from a grounded lo-fi organ-ish sound (Love) to a face-melting, unrelentingly beautiful wall of sound (Lost), perfect for huge ambient drones but versatile too. It is HEAVY when needed, but can also be made sweeter and more ethereal: focusing on the lower velocities/upper registers and/or making use of the onboard space sliders.
V1 of TSOLL has been kept clean and simple so as not to detract from the purity of the sound itself, however there are plans for a V2 update with a separate sequencer page. This would rhythmically vary the velocity (and therefore the notch-wah value) of multiple instances of the same note, forming dynamic rhythmic sequences. In the meantime, hooking it up to a drum pad can also achieve a similar effect. Alternatively for other uses, if the expression of the velocity-sensitive wah isn’t wanted it can be fixed at a preferred notch value (13 being all balls to the wall).
An unusual feature of Love Lost (the song) is that it begins in standard A440 tuning and ends with a blend of A440 and A432 to achieve a ‘sinking feeling’ wide phase effect. This effect is included ‘on tap’ in the instrument: an A432 slider mirrors the A440 option with the lower tuning plus inverted stereo field: automate it in to give the wall some Escher-like energy.
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