Sonuscore Nordic Spheres

Fusing Musical Instruments and Sound Effects

From the frozen reaches of the North, icy spirits reach out across the eternal expanse to seize the listener in their song.

Nordic Spheres captures the frosty tone of the ancients, a transportive granular instrument that creates rough, pulsating atmospheres echoing through time and desolation.

• Nordic Spheres features an unpolished, ambient sound perfect for creating ambiences as palpable as a thick fog
• Nordic Spheres blends layers of musical spheres and sound effects together with easy but complex arpeggiators
• With Nordic Spheres, freeze-forlorn, mysterious scores in the tracks of modern cinematic music
• Nordic Spheres seizes the essence of the beautiful Icelandic nature: from the ice fields of Vatnajökull to the fiery horrors of Fagradalsfjall

Musical Soundscapes of Ice and Snow

Nordic Spheres is a Kontakt instrument that creates vast, frozen soundscapes and musical spheres using a combination of rich, sound effects content, granular synthesis, and percussive sounds.

We worked with Mats Lundgren and Amina Hocine from Sweden-based Pole Position to create a treasure trove of rich tonal and non-tonal audio from a wealth of creative sources.

Mats' recordings combined with our layering and arpeggiator possibilities have created a truly inspirational instrument.

The sonic sibling of Time Textures and Chroma, it is perfect for composers and producers who want to experiment with both sound design and music.

The Bliss of Numbness

Nordic Spheres was created from a variety of mangled atypical tonal and non-tonal sounds and effects, mixed together like crashing glaciers.

There are four layers from which to build an intricate texture, each with its own ADSR, arpeggiator, and FX options that include EQ, saturation, chorus, and tremolo.

Sliding with The Grain

Nordic Spheres was designed with great glacial movements in mind.

The Grain Engine was the natural choice to achieve this, so that, like snowflakes, no two sounds are ever the same.

The two upper layers feature the Grain Engines, the real icing on the instrument.

Adjust the density for thickness, the starting position for something harder to grasp, and change the timing to smear or shatter the sound like falling icicles.

Meanwhile, our advanced arpeggiator engine allows for complex weaves to float through the sonic spectrum, while the modulation knob controls any number of motion FX.

Layers of the Spheres

Nordic Spheres is like the tundra, with layers of frost and ice.

Unlike the permafrost, however, it's easy to build upon them.

For the two Grain Engines, choose from Tonal, Tonal Effects, Non-Tonal Effects, and Looping sounds and from the two traditional sample engines: Hits, Particles, and Sustains. Each layer has access to an arpeggiator and FX.

The main page allows you access to the 4 layers of the instrument and the main controls to delve deeper into the cold.

The bottom two layers focus on hits, particles, and sustains, while the top two are the Grain Engines, loaded with tonal, non-tonal, and looping sounds.

Arpeggiator

Just as in our other instruments, you can always expect powerful arpeggiators backing the sound of Sonuscore products.

Each layer has access to its own arpeggiator or LFO, allowing you to create intricate patterns that freeze the senses and immediately inspire new musical ideas.

Ever Evolving

The natural motions of each layer can be easily tied to the mod wheel with a single option.

Tie the Grain Engines to the mod wheel to seep the cold into mysterious textures, and build up the shifting particles and hits to add kinetic energy.

Preset Browser

Choose from over 200 different chilling and creeping presets.

Use them as they were designed or tap into your inner dvergar, tinkering with them to create your own.

Echoes of An Eternal Expanse

The secret behind the crystalline and haunting tones of Nordic Spheres lies in the expressive capabilities of the four layers and how the effects are tied to the mod wheel.

From Icy Tones to Volcanic Rage

With our Motion options in each FX grid, tie the FX to the mod wheel, allowing you to drastically change the timbre, from icy detachment to burning rage.

Use the presets to discover the kinds of changes that you can scrape out, and guide your sounds to whole new spectrums by the interplay of grain, particle, and pad.