AVA Music Group introduces Unity: Modern Trailer Synth (€89) for Kontakt Player. Read more about this exciting virtual instrument below and enter our giveaway to win one of the three available licenses.
AVA Music Group is the name behind virtual instruments like Eminence and Instinct (Trailer Sound Effects).
Unity: Modern Trailer Synth is the developer’s latest release and looks set to be a compact cinematic powerhouse.
An epic trailer needs epic sound, whether all-action, understated emotion, or eerie minimalism. Unity delivers its epic sound via its three-sampler-based engine, running in the free Kontakt Player (7 or higher).
The sampler engine has three clearly defined parts represented by color-coded ADSR shapes on the interface’s main page.
- Synths: red
- Textures: purple
- Wavetables (Sine, Saw, Sub Sine, Triangle, Square): blue
The Synths sound source defines the core character of your tone, while the other two sources enhance it in different ways.
AVA Music Group designed the interface with efficiency in mind, and you can find all primary functions on the main page. An example of that efficiency is the sliders on each ADSR shape that allow you to adjust your envelope settings directly from the image.
Each sound source has individual volume sliders, sample selection, and an FX chain. The built-in effects include distortion, reverb, delay, movement, and filter. There’s also a master FX page that you can access via the Attitude icon offering tube-style compression and harmonics.
The main page also features an assignable Modwheel and a little Identity pad that lets you set the perfect blend of the three sound sources.
I like the interface, everything is within easy reach, and if you want a clearer overview of everything going on with each sound source, you can open the Shapes page. The Shapes page details your effects, filter, and source settings for each shape.
Unity features 350 unique sounds and 300 factory presets across the following categories: Lead, Bass, Braam, Downer, Riser, Brass, Pluck, and Pulse.
I love instruments that are easy to use without being too limited, and that’s not always the easiest combination to find. But Unity certainly isn’t difficult to navigate, and it seems like it offers more than enough ways to create something that sounds unique.
It also seems like an instrument that could do most of the heavy lifting if you have any cinematic projects on the go, especially action-packed scenes.
I’m keen to try it out; Unity does sound pretty epic, but if you want something free, check out AVA’s Free Sounds page.
You can also try the free version of Inferno SFX, a freebie sound pack for media composers (50 free sounds).
Buy: Unity: Modern Trailer Synth (€89)
The Giveaway
AVA Music Group kindly provided three FREE copies of Unity: Modern Trailer Synth for three lucky BPB readers.
To enter the giveaway, please answer the following question in the comments section: What was the best movie trailer you ever watched?
We will randomly pick three comments and announce the lucky winners on this page on July 24th, 2023.
Good luck, everyone, and a big THANK YOU to AVA Music Group for sponsoring the giveaway!
The winners are:
1) triley37
2) Gabriel Ram
3) Kieran
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237 Comments
Odie
onMy best movie trailer is Blade Runner.
L
onThe Matrix
Tommi Henttinen
onLord of the Rings. The firs one.
Joseph Wilk
onThe ADSR overlay is a clever idea, and I’m surprised that it’s not more widely adopted. I’m not sure about the best, but The Dark Knight (2008) is probably the only trailer that I even remember to mention.
EP Smith
onThe best movie trailer i ever see was for The French Dispatch
Bernard
onBest movie trailer i watched is Inception.
Robert Ladwig
onBest movie trailer watched … Mad Max: Fury Road
Gyuri
onDistrict 9
Scott
onDune
Konstantin
onThis year Dune trailer is nice! So much better than actual movie :)
Maurus Fernandes
onInfinity war! Best trailer I’ve watched.
Rodger
onDefinitely The Matrix.
Jorge Sebastian Alvarez Herrera
onThe trailer of interstallar
JJ
on“The Muppets Take Manhattan”
Steven King
onThe Lord of the Rings: Return of the King……After the first two amazing films, this was the most excited I’ve ever been watching a trailer….lEpic was an understatement.
Sasha
onI’ll make the best one later. and yet I can’t remember.
Steve Brown
onBest movie trailer I ever watched was The Fellowship of the Ring – brought back the thrill of reading the books that I’d had as a kid.
LessLax
onBlade Runner 2049 is one of them
Łukasz
onToxic Avenger
TDOL
onTommy Boy
Otávio Júnior
onMatrix
Fabio
onAvatar
Josh
onTron Legacy trailer was pretty lit. Looked and sounded highly professional.
Richard
onBlue Sunshine had the best trailer