Marcos Ciscar – Terra Incognita (KONTAKT)

Terra Incognita is by far the most ambitious sample library from Marcos Ciscar, with over 75 instruments and sound sources and years of painstaking work.

Here you will be immersed in a unique world where rare and traditional instruments meet a pre-Hispanic flavor, inspired by ancient civilizations and tropical forests.

Native American flutes, ethnic instruments, stones, drums, human voices, atmospheric synthesizers and ethereal sounds are complemented by natural sounds from French Guiana, Costa Rica and Europe.

Many of the instruments presented are rare, handcrafted and have hardly been sampled before.
Terra Incognita mainly contains exclusive samples, but to complete the picture, some sounds from other, including discontinued Marcos Ciscar products, were added. These can be either entire instruments or individual samples that served as the basis for completely new sounds. Here they are presented in a form adapted to the aesthetics of Terra Incognita.

Terra Incognita is, first of all, a sound world that I created.
Initially, the process was unconscious – I collected and sampled sounds that I liked. Then this grew into working on the album and developing a sample library – a collection of sounds that I plan to expand and develop in the future.

Both projects complement each other: some sounds were recorded with both directions in mind, others were taken from the album and reworked into samples. And some were originally created as samples and then used in the album.

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Instruments and Presets

Analog/Digital Synthesizers | Church Organ | Frame Drum | Angklung | Clarinet | Frogs | Bass Recorder | Claves | Grand Piano | Birds | Congas | Guiro Woodblocks | Bodhran | Crickets | Howler Monkeys | Bongos | Cymbals | Indonesian Native Flute | Bottles | Deconstructed Grand Piano | Jaw Harp | Bowed Cymbals | Didgeridoo | Jungle Rattles | Bowed Guitar | Djembe | Kalimba | Bull Roarer | Double Flute | Kick Drum | Cajon | Electric Organ | Low Whistle | Chekere | Female Voice | Male Voice | Choir | Fire | Maracas | Chromatic Pan Flute | Forest Pigeon | Mark Tree | Melodic Pan Flute | Small Hand Drum | Tropical Birds | Metal Stones | Small Pan Flute | Udu Drum | Nose Flute | Songbird Water Whistle | Vulture | Ocarina | Sopranino Recorder | War Horn | Offerdalspipa | Soprano Recorder | Water | Overtone Flutes | South American Native Flutes | Wind |Party Horn Blower | Stones | Wood Chimes | Rain | Streams | Woodpecker | Rainsticks | Thunder | Xaphoon | Raw Drum | Tingsha Cymbal Bells | Referee Whistle | Tom Toms | Shaman Drum | Transverse Flute | Shanti Chimes | Transylvanian Flute | Singing Bowls | Triangle

Instruments are grouped into the following categories:

BLW – Wind Instruments (air)

BOW – Bowed Instruments

DRM – Various Drums and Percussion Instruments

FLT – Flutes (both rare and common, but all with a special sound character)

MET – Metal Instruments

ORG – Organ (in this case, church)

PLK – Plucked String Instruments

SFX – Sound Effects (sounds of nature and other sources)

SYN – Synthesized Sounds (mostly pads)

VOX – Human voices (singing, whispering, sound effects, made-up language exclamations, ritual sounds, etc.)

WND – Woodwind instruments

Some presets contain the following abbreviations in their names:

MW – Use the modulation wheel to access additional aspects of the sound

C6 – Use the C6 note to trigger an additional sound. Pressing it again stops the sound. This function is often combined with MW, which means controlling the volume of the additional sound via the modulation wheel

Features

133 presets in an inspiring graphical interface

Microphones: Neumann, Shure, Rode, ADK, Violet Designs, Line Audio, Zoom, Sony

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