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Get ready for a perfect storm of ethnic, world, and cinematic percussion. Featuring a massive collection of varied percussion samples, World Impact spans the globe featuring percussion instruments from large to small, west to east, north to south, and traditional to rare. Sampled in meticulous detail and programmed for maximum and instant musical usability, the collection includes hundreds of varied percussion instruments from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and more. A massive 4.2-gigabyte collection of Japanese Taiko drums recorded from multiple microphone positions forms a central part of the library. Each instrument has been recorded with numerous alternate takes and velocity layers, assuring realistic and dramatically expressive sonic results. World Impact is an essential tool in the toolbox of every film composer, movie trailer producer, and aficionado of world percussion instruments.
Beyond the instrument collection, World Impact is augmented by a powerful pattern engine, the same engine that lies beneath Vir2's Elite Orchestral Percussion, allowing instant access to varied articulations such as chokes, rolls, flams, and ruffs, as well as patterned loop programming for both traditional and synthetic creations.
World Impact is powered by the industry-leading Kontakt engine. It is compatible with VST, AudioUnit, and RTAS (Pro Tools 7 & 8) plug-in formats allowing it to work seamlessly within any major sequencer, in addition to standalone use.
World Impact boasts an impressive array of features built into its engine, designed to provide the best in realism, flexibility, and creative inspiration.
HUMANIZE
An integrated Humanize engine offers a breakthrough dimension in realism. The scripting engine underneath World Impact will intelligently vary the pitch, timing, and volume of each hit by minuscule amounts to increase the diversity of timbre produced. Each aspect of the Humanize engine, from extreme effects to complete bypassing, can be controlled by the user.
EZROOM
EZRoom is an integrated convolution reverb option, allowing the user to instantly place the percussion instruments in one of more than fifty different custom sonic spaces; everything from chapels and halls to caverns, small rooms, and unique esoteric spaces is included. When EZRoom is activated, new knobs for dry and wet levels appear, allowing full control over the level and balance of the convoluted sound.
ARTICULATIONS AND TRIGGERS
World Impact also features an extensive custom articulation and trigger engine. Built-in custom articulations include choke, flam, 3-stroke roll (16th notes), 3-stroke roll (32nd notes), 3-stroke roll (64th notes), roll (32nd notes), and roll (64th notes). Each of these are tempo-synced as appropriate, and can be customized in detail.
Furthermore, World Impact allows for the creation of rhythmic patterns which are triggered by the engine. Up to 25 user patterns can be programmed in each instrument, and some prebuilt patterns are included in each instrument by default. The pattern engine is capable of everything from traditional patterns to wild and unusual synthetic effects, all of which lock instantly and perfectly to host tempo.
The two videos on this page demonstrate some of the core functionality of the World Impact engine. The first movie shows the organization of the library and an overview of the main interface page, including articulation layout, EQ control, EZRoom, adjustable velocity curve, and humanize features:
This next video shows the innovative pattern generator and explains how it can be used to create both traditional and esoteric rhythmic patterns:
This is a full list of instruments that are included in World Impact.
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Click on the image below to play a video demonstration of World Impact, specifically demonstrating some central features of both scatFX and stepFX.
Almost every parameter in the World Impact interface can also be remotely controlled via MIDI CC, making World Impact a true reach-out-and-touch experience.
- More than 300 patches of world percussion instruments categorized by Geographical Region and instrument type.
- 13GB of 24-bit samples
- EZRoom control in all patches, allowing the ability to instantly place the percussion in any one of over 50 different sonic spaces
- Integrated Humanize engine, offering quick control over pitch, tuning, and volume randomizations
- Custom articulation and pattern engine built-in, allowing instant triggers of chokes, flams, 3-stroke rolls, full rolls, and rhythmic patterns, all of which are automatically synced to host tempo
- Onscreen EQ controls allowing independent control of three bands (frequency, gain, and bandwidth)
- Velocity curve settings that allow easy adjustment for normal, louder, and softer playing
- Multitimbral operation, supporting up to 64 simultaneous instruments loaded (subject to RAM availability), receiving up to 64 MIDI channels (16 in plug-in mode)
- Kontakt Player 3 engine, supporting standalone operation as well as plug-in operation in all major hosts that support AudioUnit, VST, RTAS (Pro Tools 7 & 8) plug-ins
- Special upgrade pricing to the full version of Kontakt 3, which allows for fuller editing of the instruments
World Impact is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms and includes the standalone Kontakt Player 3 application as well as AudioUnit, VST, and RTAS plug-ins. All of these versions ship in the same box.
The Macintosh version requires a G4 1.4gHz or faster, 2GB of RAM, a DVD drive, and OS 10.4.x or higher. It ships as a Universal Binary and is fully compatible with Intel Macs. For optimum performance, Vir2 Instruments recommends a G5 or Intel-powered Mac, and a minimum of 4GB of RAM. The library requires 13GB of free hard drive space.
The Windows version requires a processor speed of 1.4gHz or higher, 2GB of RAM, a DVD drive, and Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista 32-bit. For optimum performance, Vir2 Instruments recommends a minimum of 4GB of RAM. The library requires 13GB of free hard drive space.
World Impact will run in standalone mode and is also compatible with every major sequencing package in the world, including but not limited to: Apple Logic and GarageBand, MOTU Digital Performer, Digidesign Pro Tools 7 & 8 (TDM, LE, and M-Powered), Steinberg Cubase and Nuendo, Ableton Live, and more.
Updates for World Impact may be found in our Support forum. Please visit the World Impact Latest Versions page for details.
The full manual for World Impact may be downloaded by clicking here.
