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In this video, composer Shaun Chasin flips through some of his favorite presets, showing us what just a single instance of Elysium can do, representing a significant shift in what we can expect from synthesizers.
Listen how Elysium easily creates evolving, natural-sounding, musical sounds that are impossible to make on any other synth.
Everything you hear has no mixing or external effects, just the presets as-is. Elysium gives you everything you need to make a remarkable sound out-of-the-box.
See more at https://www.WideBlueSound.com.
WHAT DO THE CRITICS SAY?
Here are some direct quotes from magazines and press:
* Elysium was one of the biggest surprises of the year.
* Wide Blue Sound releases a significant groundbreaking, two-layer synth for Kontakt.
* Elysium is a monster of organic rhythmic inspiration.
* The presets in Elysium are simply mind-blowing and inspirational right out of the box.
* the sound of Elysium is flawless
* The layout of the interface is well designed and comprehensive.
* It’s an excellent tool for hybrid scoring, underscoring, EDM, ambient, and many other genres of electronic music.
* Elysium has endless possibilities and diving into it only reaps rewards. It was an inspiring voyage through an instrument of sheer creative power that ultimately exceeded all my expectations.
* Wide Blue Sound has fused tonal rhythms with beautiful sounds to give us a utopia of possibility in Elysium
* huge range of sample and synthesis based instruments.
* a never-ending supply of new and engaging sounds
* Very quickly you get the idea of how you can control the movement
* Elysium is all about the journey, discovering and morphing worlds together and it’s best to see it in those ethereal terms.
* a place of exploration and adventure
* The sounds coming out of Elysium are lush and lively. There’s a lot of big sounds and movement going on.
* the interface is easy, inviting and lets you play to find the sort of atmospheres you’re after
* …a never-ending supply of new and engaging sounds. It doesn’t want to be a preset synth, although there are plenty of presets, it wants to be a place of exploration and adventure.
* "Fantastic synth and really good value for the money"
* "The motion, the arpeggios, the way it can add movement is absolutely fantastic"
* "While it can don motions really well, you can change every instrument into a playable instrument"
* "While you have hundreds of presets, you can make thousands of different ones"
* "Out of the box the presets sound fantastic, but the instrument really encourages you to dive in and experiment."
* Wide Blue Sound specialize in making synths with great controllable movement and texture.
* [The sounds are] "Well tuned, rich, and a good variety of timbres."
* The true beauty of Elysium, as with Orbit and Eclipse, is the ergonomic, yet deeply malleable modulation system that creates a TON of movement within both the effects and the treatment of the sound engines. This, to me, is where Elysium shows its strength.
* it shows WBS have been thinking carefully about sound quality
* [Motion Sequencers] I loved putting them on the percussion engine, changing the length of the sample, the morph and bass controls, to create a lively, breathing, percussive movement.
* Extremely inspiring sounds!
* Focussing on giving the user tight control of the rhythmic motion and pulsing within Synth sounds, * Wide Blue Sound have found themselves a strong niche within the Kontakt world.
* it can create sounds that no rival can replicate
* a cornucopia
* one-of-a-kind hybrid instruments that have to be heard to be believed