Some Rooms Are Instruments Too...
We’ve recorded in a lot of rooms. We’ve never heard anything quite like this one…
Nestled amid the Scottish countryside, in the small village of Whitekirk, stands the historic, yet humble, St Mary’s church. Nothing about the outside prepares you for what's inside…
Step into this (almost) 900-year-old building, and the striking curved wooden roof of the nave creates a room sound that is warm and tight. Continue down the middle into the oldest part of the church with its centuries-old stone walls and ceiling and the acoustics transform into something huge and completely organic.
Imagine being able to simulate the experience of walking through a room like this while you hear someone play…
Enter Panorama Whitekirk for Kontakt Player…
The Recordings
We recorded two guitars in the church: an electric and a semi-hollow, captured in a stereo setup through two guitar amps and a massive pedalboard loaded with effects.
Everything was covered – from pristine cleans that sound massive in the church, to washed-out fuzz tones, to granular textures soaked in reverb.
The result picks up where our bestseller, Panorama Guitars, left off: dreamy post-rock, shoegaze and cinematic guitar sounds, ready to use in your music.
The Mics
To capture the distinctive room sounds, we set up a series of microphones along the middle of the church and built two stereo mixes, which you can seamlessly crossfade between using your modwheel.
Walk & Play
Your listener position sits directly on a plan of the church in the GUI.
Drag it towards the nave beneath the wooden ceiling and hear the sound change in real time to a warm, tighter acoustic.
Move your position in the opposite direction and, as you approach the chancel in the older area of the church, you'll experience the bigger, more expansive reverb shaped by the historic stonework.
The sound you hear is just as if you're walking through the church while you play.
Add Effects
Panorama Whitekirk features a Plate reverb fine-tuned for this library, plus two different atmospheric effects:
Pink - a slowly modulated reverb with some granular-like processing.
Blue - a shimmery, richly diffused ambience with a huge tail.
And that massive pedalboard we set up on the recording day? It's in here too, captured as a series of effects combinations.
Panorama Guitars - Key Features
- Captured in a Scottish historic church with unique sound spaces.
- Electric and a semi-hollow guitar, recorded through two amps and a huge effects pedalboard.
- Pristine cleans to washed-out fuzz and granular, reverb-soaked textures.
- Perfect for dreamy, atmospheric guitar work in film, ambient and experimental productions.
- Two distinctive room sounds from warm and tight to huge and organic.
- Blend between the two room mixes in real time using your modwheel.
- Drag your listener position around a visual plan of the church to simulate walking through the space.
- Custom effects section with a fine-tuned Plate reverb plus two unique atmospheric effects.
- Ready to use pedalboard effects from the recording sessions.
- Includes 35 carefully curated presets.
- Full NKS Integration.
- Requires the free Kontakt Player v8.9.
Sonora Cinematic Panorama Whitekirk works with the free Kontakt Player 8.9+ (available for download here).