Rhythmic Robot Commodore 64 Synthesizer Sessions DELUXE KONTAKT FREE

KONTAKT | 132 MB
The Commodore 64! Another beast of a mid-80s computer that punched above its weight in the audio stakes, thanks to the inbuilt SID chip. The SID has rightly gained a real cult following and reputation for pushing the boundaries of what was possible for a home computer of the time. While the Atari ST's built-in MIDI cornered the market in pro-audio, the C64 faced off against the likes of the BBC B and the Spectrum in the consumer and education fields, and – musically speaking – trounced them. The SID chip gave it far more complex and versatile synthesis capabilities than its contemporaries, and keeps it near the top of any chipmusic aficionado's hit list of all-time greats to this day.

The Commodore 64 Synthesizer Sessions Deluxe are a unique collaboration between Rhythmic Robot and those nice people at Bedroom Producers' Blog. Tomislav, the guy behind BPB, is an avid SID chip enthusiast, and spurred on by the annual KVR freeware competition he's pulled out all the stops to sample a treasure trove of crunchy Commodore patches. There are 30 patches in the library, sampled from three different iterations of the Commodore 64 home computer. Mongo rolled up his coding sleeves and put a Kontakt UI on the front, and the result is a neat little library of old-school lo-fi grit, with enough flexibility to let you roll your own SID sounds into the bargain.

This library is different from our usual products in two main ways: firstly, it's a collaboration. (All our other instruments are sampled right here in the lab, by us; but we made an exception in this case because it's fun to join forces in a freeware competition!) Secondly, it's FREE. Yep, totally free. Because we like you. And because that's what "freeware" means.

All you have to do to get your paws on a copy of Commodore 64 Synthesizer Sessions Deluxe is hop over to KVR and download the pack from this link:

Then you can evaluate it and choose whether to vote for it in their competition. (Go on, vote for it. You know it's the right thing to do.) The pack's available in SFZ and Zampler formats as well, so tell your non-Kontakt-using mates and spread the word!

Kontakt .nki sampler instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt
Sampled at full 24-bit
Requires NI Kontakt version 4.2.3 or later (including Kontakt 5 and above)
Not compatible with Kontakt Player