Pastoral Tones is a sample-based instrument inspired by the sound aesthetic of Boards Of Canada. The plugin includes 61 preset sounds to choose from including analog synthesizers, flutes, vintage brasses, strings, electric pianos, sound FXs, basses, and atmospheres.
The acoustic sounds have been sampled from public domain films produced between the 1950s and the 1970s. To thicken the sound, various sound modules have been added, including a sub-oscillator, vinyl, and film grain noise layers as well as field recordings sampled from public domain old films. Each preset sound is one sample stretched over 5 octaves.
Multi-samples have been avoided to increase loading speed, keep the plugin light on RAM, and obtain that old sampler vibe. As a result, Pastoral Tones runs well on older computers. Also, recordings of public domain films were preferred in order to get the most authentic retro sound possible, the kind of sounds you would hear on a Boards Of Canada album.
Features:
61 original sounds
Vinyl, film grain and field recordings sound layers with ASR, gain, and pan controls
Sub oscillator with ADSR, gain, and pan controls
Reverb/LFO
Royalty-free sound design
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS 10.12 and up
573 MB of HD space
Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VST/VST3/AU Host
Pine Forest Drums is a percussion and sound fx sound module inspired by the sonic universe of Boards of Canada. From vintage drum kits to found sounds, tabla to voice cuts, the variety of sounds found in Pine Forest Drums is big compared to the usual drum module.
Available as a VST plugin instrument for Windows and VST/AU plugin instrument for macOS, Pine Forest Drums contains 38 "drum kits". Each kit has been tailored with 70s education documentaries, the esoteric culture of the 60s, and the National Film Board of Canada in mind.
Features:
38 percussion kits each containing 10 sounds
380 original samples
Vinyl crackles/Film/Tape sound generators
Sub generator
Detuner with depth and rate controls
10 drum pads for finger drumming
Level, pan, attack, outputs, and decay controls for each sound
Amp range controls
30 MIDI drum loops
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS 10.12 and up
452 MB of HD space
Quad-core CPU or better with 8 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VST/VST3/AU Host
In this bundle, you get 5 virtual instruments inspired by Boards of Canada with a 30% discount:
In a small shack deep in the Boreal forest, a strange electronic instrument was found. Made of wood, its inside is pure analog circuitry even though the sound that comes out of it is acoustic. If the Mellotron had a yet-to-be-discovered piano sound, it would have the tone of this instrument.
Think the sound of a 1950s acoustic piano played on a vintage tape reel and you've got Pastoral Piano. Perfect for lo-fi hip-hop, vaporwave, and Boards of Canada-influenced music compositions.
User interface:
Audio demo:
The audio features the sound of Pine Forest Drums for the drums. Note that only the piano sounds come from Pastoral Piano.
Features:
Acoustic piano recorded on tape
Distortion, Delay, Chorus, Reverb
Saw/Sine layers
Multi-LFO
Lowpass/highpass filter
Low-CPU usage
Amplitude range controls
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
112 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3 or AUi Host
1970s Summer Camp is a virtual instrument inspired by the sound of 1970s documentaries and movies. Each sound has been modeled based on what is heard in cult films of this magical epoch. It's a mix of pastoral sounds typically found in educational movies of the time and esoteric films of the same era.
Features:
34 lo-fi sounds
Multi-LFO
Room reverb
Lowpass/highpass filter
Low-CPU usage
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Compatible with all OS via Decent Sampler!*
Compatible with all major DAWs!
Requirements for the plugin version:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS 10.14 and above
810 MB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
Dandelion is a lofi sound module for retro-inspired music. The 40 multi-sampled sounds included are reminiscent of the music of Boards of Canada, Lone, Lorn, Milieu, and Tycho. It can be used in music genres that require lofi dusty sounds like lofi hip hop, vaporwave, ambient, downtempo, and dungeon synth.
Features of the plugin version:
40 multi-sampled lo-fi instruments
4 LoFi sound layers: Tape Hiss, 35 mm, Vinyl, and VHS!
Multi-LFO
Room reverb
Lowpass/highpass filter
Low-CPU usage
Amplitude range controls
3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
Decent Sampler version:
The Decent Sampler version features the same sounds as the plugin version, but with different effects and sound-shaping capabilities. Decent Sampler is a free sampler VST/VST3/AAX/AU/AUv3 and is compatible with Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS. There's also a standalone version.
Kontakt 5/6 version:
The Kontakt version contains 40 instruments (nki) and has an amplitude and filter ADSRs as well as reverb. The Kontakt 5/6 version requires the full version of Kontakt 5/6. It must be the latest updated version.
Audio demo:
The audio showcases most of the sounds. Drum loops were been added to show the sounds in context. They are not included with the plugin and Kontakt/Decent Sampler libraries.
Compatible with all OS via Decent Sampler!*
Compatible with all major DAWs!
Requirements for the plugin version:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
1.57 GB of HD space
2GHz Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
The latest version of Kontakt 5 or Kontakt 6 and up
It must be the full version, it won't work in the free Kontakt Player
1.98 GB of HD space
*except Android
Northern Boarders is a plugin instrument featuring organic, electro-acoustic, and genuine analog synthesizer sounds. Each sound has been multi-sampled for maximum playability over a wide range of notes. Particular attention has been paid to higher-pitched sounds: glockenspiel alike tones, electric pianos, and analog synthesizer pads all have pleasing higher tones.
Many of the sounds are inspired by Boards of Canada. For instance, the Roygbiv bass sound has been programmed in different analog synthesizers and sampled.
Additional sound layers can be added to enhanced your main sound, most of them recorded from analog modular synthesizers, old radios, vintage tape decks, and obsolete video equipment.
Northern Boards is a vintage sound machine sure to please fans of early Warp releases, BOC and AFX.
Features:
39 multi-sampled sounds of analog synthesizers and electro-acoustic sounds
Multi-layers engines: field recordings, vintage media surface noises, analog synthesizers noise colors, and waveforms
Multi-LFO
Highpass/Lowpass filter
Reverb
Transients from vinyl and audio cassette
Artifacts from old media (vinyl and VHS)
Requirements:
Windows 8.1/10/11 or macOS El Capitan and up
2.12 GB of HD space
Quad-core CPU or better with 4 GB of RAM or more
64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host
Hexagon Sky is a sample-based plugin instrument inspired by the sound of Boards Of Canada, Com Truise, Lone, and Tycho. The instrument includes 109 preset sounds to choose from including genuine analog synthesizer tones, acoustic instruments sampled from public domain documentaries (for that grainy sounds) plus various pads, strings, and ethereal atmospheres. Also included are sampled guitar, bell, and electric piano sounds.
In order to get a more lo-fi sound, the plugin has a set of vinyl, cassette, VHS, and tape hum background noises that can be routed to its own individual output. Two field recording oscillators feature various sound atmospheres from kids in a schoolyard to wolves howling in the night. These field recordings sound layers can also be routed to their own individual output. Depending on which sound you choose, the field recordings will change between a set of 9 ambient sounds.
Features:
109 sounds inspired by Boards Of Canada, Tycho, Lone & Com Truise
In the BOC Bundle Three, you get 2 plugins inspired by Boards of Canada and save 30% Off the standard price (49$ instead of 70$). You also get the sample pack versions of both plugins completely free!
