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    NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Pharlight

    Aug 20, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS ADAM CRUTE

    Key features

    • Instrument for Kontakt and Kontakt Player

    • Built from prepared vocal recordings

    • Capable of wide-ranging sound types, from choral to synthetic

    • Combines a granular engine with a multi-sample engine

    • Sophisticated modulation generators

    • Responsive to performance expression

    Contact native-instruments.com

    It seems churlish to refer to Native Instruments’ Kontakt as merely a sampler. That’s a little like referring to a computer as an abacus. The astonishing range and depth of the program’s capabilities, not to mention the availability of the free Kontakt Player, has seen it become platform on which to develop sample-based instruments. Not only does Kontakt provide sound designers with advanced tools for crafting original sample libraries, it also provides the means to compile those libraries, along with custom user interfaces, into standalone instrument packages. As a

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