Spitfire Audio Darkstar - Haunted House

Spectral Synth Textures

Immerse yourself in the unique and inspiring sound world of electronic duo Darkstar - processed analogue synth textures and loops, rich sub-basses, pitched-down drums, and icy, warped vocals, each layered with subliminal spectral echoes of rave culture and industrial white noise - ghosts in the machine, bleeding in and fading out.

Haunted House expands on the sonic palette of Darkstar's 2020 album Civic Jams, out now on Warp Records - 'a photonegative of a dance record'.

From mournful and ominous, to warm, heartfelt nostalgia, each sound is full of character and emotion, designed to create tension, depth and atmosphere for any setting - from contemporary electronic music, to hybrid, modern film, TV & games composition.

Presented in Spitfire's award-winning, easy-to-use dedicated plug-in, this versatile tool offers a range of controls and effects, so you can immediately transform each preset to facilitate your own vision.

Features

• 44 presets
• SYNTHS: analog-sounding layered synth textures, from sub basses and gritty, unsettling pads through to beautiful organ-like analogue-sounding synths
• VO1CES: icy, processed vocal samples, performed by Aiden Whalley (Darkstar)
• FOUND SOUND: gnarly textural London sounds
• RVVM: deep, lo-fi drums and percussion loops
• W4PRD: otherworldly synth sounds, made by Spitfire developers from the source material
• Attack, Release, Reverb, Delay, Stretch & Flanger controls
• Stretch function controls the speed of the sample playback
• Dynamics slider taking you from a clean signal to a 100% processed, haunted signal, unique to each preset
• Nine custom-made reverbs
• Available in Spitfire Audio's award-winning, dedicated plug-in
• For composers: suited to film, TV & games scoring, for creating tension beds, atmosphere, warmth, texture, and ambience, or adding orchestral elements - particularly suited to sci-fi and thrillers
• For producers: suited to a wide range of genres, from house to ambient electronic music, grime, 2-step and beyond

Darkstar's journey into electronic music began with sequencers and extensive sampling - found sounds from the real world, films, TV shows, and samples of existing music.

Their unique approach to sonic experimentation is palpable in the colour and shade of this versatile collection, made from analog synths, organs sampled at Union Chapel, found sounds, vocals and drums, transformed via finely tuned processing techniques - from tape saturation to outboard re-amping, implementing warmth and texture in various ways.

A distillation of a sonic palette built up over the last few years, Haunted House swings from introspective to expansive, moody and industrial to nostalgic beauty, from the highs and lows of nocturnal inner-city life, to the dawn coming through.

Electronic beds of uneasy ambience are haunted by disquieting white noise, peripheral shimmers, taking influence from various dance music genres - from shoegaze to deep house to grime, and the euphoria of 90s rave abandon - echoes of millennial-era underground dance parties at clubs including The Void and Plastic People (with presets named in tribute to Darkstar's favorite club nights).

Patches

Synths

• Sublow LDN 1
• Sublow LDN 2
• Sublow LDN 3
• Sublow LDN 4
• Plastic RIP 1
• Plastic RIP 2
• White Widow 1
• White Widow 2
• White Widow 3
• White Widow 4
• Slimzos da 2nd
• Slimzos da 3rd
• Ghost in yer lappy
• Haunt 4 U
• Text Her
• Night Memory
• Ur Smoke
• R Smoke
• 4 The Grave

VO1CES

• Lost Dubs 1
• Lost Dubs 2
• XTC MANTRA
• SE Serenade 1
• SE Serenade 2
• Ghost Glue 1
• Ghost Glue 2
• Ghost Glue 3

Found Sound

• Solo N253 1
• Solo N253 2
• Solo N253 3
• Haze Boo

RVVM

• Devil Beats 1
• Devil Beats 2
• Devil Beats 3
• Devil Beats 4

W4RPD

• Mass Bass 1
• Mass Bass 2
• Acid Boo
• Slew Dem Bass
• Vauxhall Warp 1
• Vauxhall Warp 2
• Vauxhall Warp 3
• Esso AM 1
• Esso AM 2