Swords to Ploughshares for Kontakt by Histibe

WHAT'S INSIDE?

With a thoughtful concept, Swords to Ploughshares includes a wide range of categories of sounds, such as: Alarms, Sirens, Blasts, Boomers, Falls, Hits, Risers, Stingers, Impact FX, Animal FX, Nature FX, Tool FX, Transport FX, Ambient Tones, Grooves & Textures, Radio Tones, Voices & Textures, City & Mountains Environments, Klaxons, Sub-Synth Sustains & Staccatos. At the same time, they are transformed into notes to create modern melodies by playing on a MIDI keyboard.

This is not a Hollywood-style war SFX collection, or a traditional instrument or sound library. These sounds were recorded in uncontrolled real-world city and forest environments, by an ordinary person, under less-than-ideal conditions, using basic hand-held recording equipment, under war time conditions.

Needless to say, some of the edges remain naturally rough. The field-recorded sound effects and live environmental soundscapes captured in this library allow a glimpse into our observer’s unique frame of reference at a specific place and time in the world. The sound-designed content follows the artist’s mental journey from that subjective experience as they mentally process and re-articulate it from raw kinetic energy into more musically constructive forms.

Using this tool, you can mix different layers of original field recordings to create complex melodies, textures, solo instruments, and synthesizers. It also allows you to craft unique percussion and cinematic drum sounds. This version of virtual instrument comprises 45 original .NKI presets by Histibe.

This library offers the artist’s unique vantage point during a transformative place and time in their life and the world around them. His goal is to transmute an act of oppression into a tool for expression.

It is not meant to be a definitive, unbiased, unvarnished or complete representation of the artist’s entire experience or those around him. It is intended as a work of constructive and reusable sonic art.

It is a dim and hazy window into another human’s personal experience, crafted with the simple hope that it serves and inspires your own creative process.

ABOUT THE CREATOR

Histibe is a Ukrainian composer, producer, video director and sound designer. He has been creating original content since 2005, experimenting with electronic music and visuals in the name of art during the age of digital evolution.

From his Kyiv-based studio, he delivers video production, music scoring, foley and sound design services for a great number of local and international clients. Histibe has worked with artists such as Joe Perez, Balkansky, Jared Nickerson, Subsets, Mervin Mathew, and others.

He loves to experiment with sound design and combine it with modern electronic music, vocals, synthesizers, and various field recordings. His sounds and music have been used in commercial videos, films, animations, broadcast networks, fashion shows, mobile applications and other art projects.

Being an independent artist, he released three music albums, over twenty sample packs, and ten official music videos. You can see and hear his work for companies such as Soundiron, Image-Line FL Studio, M-Audio, Loopmasters, Arturia, Output, CAD Audio, Panasonic, GoPro, and more.

His audiovisual works have been featured on Billboard, AskAudio, Future Music Magazine, Complex Magazine, Producer Hive, and UKF.