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EastWest Sounds

The Dark Side

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THE DARK SIDE distorted & mangled instruments are designed to stand out in a mix & to disturb the senses. With today's brick-wall limiting, distorted instruments may be the only production trick left to highlight instruments, a successful technique used often by Radiohead, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, etc. THE DARK SIDE includes a vast, 40 Gigabyte collection, including dark & eerie instruments & highly processed drums & percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic, keyboard, strings, effected instruments, all organized into instrumental groups so you can create complete tracks. Features: Produced by multiple Award-Winning producer DOUG ROGERS & Grammy Award-Winning producer DAVID FRIDMANN (MGMT, Flaming Lips etc.) Many instruments have been purposely & skillfully mangled, distorted & effected out of all recognition (plus a selection of dark & eerie instruments). Easy to use browser displays all of your instruments. Interface automatically changes to display current instrument. Included are 40GBs of highly processed drums percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic, keyboard, strings, FX instruments & sounds, all organized into instrumental groups

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THE DARK SIDE distorted & mangled instruments are designed to stand out in a mix & to disturb the senses. With today's brick-wall limiting, distorted instruments may be the only production trick left to highlight instruments, a successful technique used often by Radiohead, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, etc.

THE DARK SIDE includes a vast, 40 Gigabyte collection, including dark & eerie instruments & highly processed drums & percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic, keyboard, strings, effected instruments, all organized into instrumental groups so you can create complete tracks.

Features: Produced by multiple Award-Winning producer DOUG ROGERS & Grammy Award-Winning producer DAVID FRIDMANN (MGMT, Flaming Lips etc.) Many instruments have been purposely & skillfully mangled, distorted & effected out of all recognition (plus a selection of dark & eerie instruments). Easy to use browser displays all of your instruments.

Interface automatically changes to display current instrument. Included are 40GBs of highly processed drums percussion, basses, guitars, ethnic, keyboard, strings, FX instruments & sounds, all organized into instrumental groups

Features

  • Produced by award-winner producer Doug Rogers and Grammy winner David Fridmann
  • 40 GB of distorted and eerie percussion, guitars, choirs and more
  • Pre-rendered sounds pushed through analog vintage & tube effect chains
  • Easy to drop into metal, industrial, or hybrid orchestral songs
  • Powerful tool for film, TV, and game music production
  • Winner of a MIPA Award
  • Now included in OPUS, along with individual downloads, custom keyswitches, and dozens of MIDI Tools and Mixer Effects
 

YOU HAVEN’T PUNISHED YOUR MUSIC ENOUGH

If you’re looking for an exercise in mangling, no library will take you farther than The Dark Side. With a vast collection of crushed, battle-scarred drums, guitars, keys and more, it was designed with a single purpose in mind: to push conventional instruments beyond the point of recognition and take a stand against bland, sterile recordings. It would be impossible to ask for more attitude and grunge than is available to you here.

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CONTENTS

DRUMS
These have been pushed so hard that you may wonder if your speakers are crumbling. The core tone of these kits is preserved, heavily compressed for punch and explosive releases, and overdriven through a series of unforgiving analog distortion modules.

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BASSES
A premier collection of industrial basses and synths that make for a hefty low-end foundation. They’ve been forced through a number of aggressive effects, turning them into a monstrous force when paired with heavy drums.

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GUITARS
The Dark Side’s premium example of grunge, these guitars will boldly cut through any mix with force. They shine when you’re ready to throw away melodic control for unconstrained power.

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KEYS AND STRINGS
These were designed to be as unsettling as humanly possible, whether through distortion or nails-on-a-chalkboard intervals baked into the library. A single note should be enough to set your listeners on edge.

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TRADITIONAL AND CHOIRS
Chopped, punished, and overdriven, this collection is ideal if you want to add a more organic touch but still need a heavy dose of edginess.

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INSTRUMENTS WFX
A combination of instruments pulled from other sections and run through significant variations in effects and other processing. Feel free to make changes of your own and save them as new .ewi files to recall later!

instruments

MISC AND PERC
Everything that was too weird or obtrusive to be included anywhere else in this library, from unusual percussion to complex, synthesized FX.

misc

Additional Information

Below are the minimum and recommended hardware and software specifications for using Opus on Windows and MacOS systems.

MINIMUM SYSTEM

CPU: Quad-core (four cores), running at 2.7 GHz (or above)
RAM: 16 GB
OS: macOS 10.13 (or later); Windows 10 with ASIO sound drivers
Drive: HDD (7200 rpm, non-energy saving)

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM

CPU: Octa-core (eight cores), running at 2.7 GHz (or above)
RAM: 32 GB or more
OS: macOS 10.13 (or later); Windows 10 with ASIO sound drivers
Drive: SSD (SATA or PCIe)

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