Sawmill

WAVEFORMS

Sawmill is not your standard sample library. It is an advanced and powerful synthesizer with sampled oscillators. There are 32 waveforms, generated mostly with a modular analog system and vintage analog synthesizers.

The samples are fairly long to capture bits of analog drift and tiny electronic imperfections which makes it sound more alive. Each sample has been looped by hand without any additional processing, to preserve as much of the original flavor as reasonably possible.

The waveform selection is focused mainly on different variations of saw, but it also includes other basic shapes, as well as some fancy waveforms you can generate in a modular by mangling the oscillator with rectifiers, ring modulators, inverters and the like, all in analog domain.

Sawmill includes nearly complete palette of what Kontakt has to offer in signal processing: full range of filter types, classic effects, different types of envelopes, LFOs with various shapes and frequency modulation.

SEQUENCED MODULATOR

Additionally there are several innovative functions.

There is a sequenced modulator, which is a crossover between a step sequencer and an LFO - you can program a value pattern and shape it to the LFO waveform.

There are six patterns which can be combined and/or patched to different parameters, like pitch or filter cutoff. In fact, any parameter can be automated using MIDI CC.

There is pitch glide function with adjustable acceleration curve.

And then there is the advanced multi-arpeggiator, which is like having a stack of eight arpeggiators, which you can sequence or combine in different ways to create complex note patterns out of a simple chord.

DETAILS

• 7 oscillator stack with all parameters editable individually for each oscillator
• 32 sampled oscillator types, analog and vintage digital
• 2574 hand looped samples (2.75 GB unpacked - open wav)
• 107 presets in snapshot format
• Multi-arpeggiator with 8 arp patterns to combine
• Step sequencer and LFO crossover modulator with 6 editable waveforms
• Comprehensive set of 32 scales to choose from so the arp can be locked to precise musical notes
• 35 filter types
• 105 Snapshots
• 49 Page User Guide
• Kontakt 5.8.1 or newer (full version) - Not Kontakt Player

The instrument is equipped with 4 LFOs, 5 envelopes, a standard set of Kontakt’s effects (chorus, flanger, phaser, delay) and a full palette of Kontakt’s filters and different distortion types, all of which should by multiplied by 7, as each oscillator has a separate set.

There’s also an advanced multi-arpeggiator, which can run several patterns simultaneously and a rather unique step-sequenced modulator (a step sequencer, where you can define sweep curves between steps). In the end it can go well beyond the standard supersaw sound.