by Soundiron
Jewel Empire II captures the versatility and character of the Italian 1980s GEM Imperial II electronic organ.
It features a large selection of sustains and staccatos, in wide stereo or direct line, making it a good addition to any composer’s sonic palette.
Please note: FULL retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later is required. NOT for Kontakt Player.
$ 29.00
Soundiron’s Jewel Empire II captures the versatility and specific character of the GEM Imperial II electronic organ.
The GEM series of instruments were manufactured by GeneralMusic in Italy sometime during the late 80s and early 90s.
The GEM Imperial II is a large electronic organ with two keybeds and a large variety of voice tabs, a dedicated Bass voice section, and drawbars to control a lot of voice functions.
Our Jewel Empire II features a large selection of sustains and staccatos – both normal and bass – to capture the varied character of this Italian instrument.
We recorded the instrument articulations in wide stereo and direct line in.
After that, we crafted twenty evolving atmospheric pads from the source content to enhance the versatility.
The Jewel Empire II has versatility and character that makes it a good addition to any composer’s sonic palette.
We’ve packed the GUI with lots of great sound-shaping controls that give you the flexibility to warp the sound in many ways.
You have control over Volume, Attack, Release, Transient Offset, Vibrato and Octave layering.
The “Glide” control slider allows you to play legato and portamento leads.
You’ll also find an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time.
You can also apply your choice of 13 lowpass, high-pass and FX filter, with assignable modulation control options, including velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control.
You can also use our customizable arpeggiator, with a built-in velocity sequencer table and control over arp direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration.
Jewel Empire II was recorded in a dry studio using a pair of Neumann TLM 103 large diaphragm microphones and direct line in.
We recorded its stock presets with sustains and staccato samples, as well as its bass presets.
The included octave, vibrato and FX rack give you an easy-to-use interface to completely customize and shape its fat analog sound to fit a variety of creative styles.
The library comes equipped with flexible control features, like Swell, pitch Glide, Attack, Release, Vibrato, and Octave.
There’s also a complete DSP effects rack, including convolution reverb with dozens of unique spaces, such as cathedrals, churches, halls, bunkers, garages, tunnels, chambers, rooms and plenty of otherworldly FX impulses to fully explore and endless variety of strange and unexpected sonic manipulations.
This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later.
Kontakt is an industry-standard advanced virtual instrument software platform.
Check out screenshots of our custom graphical user interface for Kontakt in the image gallery above.
They provide a wide range of sound shaping parameter controls, each one totally automation-ready in your host environment or Kontakt’s stand-alone mode.
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This is a standard Kontakt open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player does not fully support it and can only run it in a limited “demo mode”.
However, the sample directories are unlocked so you can use them in other wav-compatible software, sampler and synth formats.
The special Libraries tab doesn’t support this open-format Kontakt library, but you can use the standard File browser tab, or import this library into the Kontakt database and Quickload tools for easy navigation, loading and organization.
