Cinematic woodwind engine
- A stunningly realistic scoring instrument offering full creative freedom
- Effortlessly craft dynamic woodwind sections with both high and low ensembles
- Tailor and blend over 1000 pre-built phrases to design your own custom themes
Ready for on-screen action
Action Woodwinds provides the lively sound of a full woodwind ensemble, coupled with unparalleled creative flexibility. Craft thrilling moments with an extensive collection of innovative orchestral phrases, each brimming with drama, tension, and impact. The intuitive engine streamlines your process, whether you’re building blockbuster cues, fantasy soundtracks, or action-packed trailers.
Capture the evocative sound of a 13-piece orchestral woodwind ensemble.
Seamlessly perform different phrases and articulations with both high and low ensembles.
Choose from over 160 themes spanning different moods, styles, and characteristics.
Select themes built from a bank of over 1000 swappable phrases.
Freely edit existing phrases and build your own from scratch.
Craft unique melodies and patterns by combining Live Modules and single articulations.
Export your performances as MIDI files to use with other instruments in your DAW.
Shape the sound of your arrangement with multiple mic positions and individual controls for both high and low ensembles.
Limitless combinations
Conduct two high-octane ensembles with Action Woodwinds, from the vibrant tones of clarinets, English horns, oboes, and flutes to the deep resonance of bassoons, contrabass clarinets, and beyond. Explore pre-built themes and phrases, edit them to your taste, or build your own from scratch using the flexible building blocks of Live Modules. Chop, duplicate, and refine modules to create trills, crescendos, falls, and runs that elevate your scores.
Customize your cues
Create custom phrases by adjusting note pitches with Melodic mode, or turn chords into captivating passages with Arpeggio mode. You can also play note sequences in real time using a range of articulations. Tailor your sound with multiple mic positions and controls for both high and low ensembles, then export your performance as a MIDI file to use with other instruments in your DAW, such as strings or synths, for impactful results.
Go deeper with new engine features
Explore the newest engine additions that help elevate your compositions even further.
Always stay in key
The new Scaler feature keeps your performances within a chosen key, no matter what notes you press. Just pick a key, select one of the 20 scale types, and only the notes highlighted will produce a sound.
Customize sequences
Custom mode allows you to meticulously design each step of your sequence, choosing which notes of the chord to play for unmatched precision and creative freedom.
Play an octave above
Activate the new 8va button to double your phrase and add an extra octave above that shines through your arrangement, ideal for thickening your sound or giving melodic runs a bold and thrilling edge.
Hear it in action
Get to know Action Woodwinds inside out with the experts behind the instrument, Sonuscore. From exploring the wide range of sounds to digging into the latest features, this is everything you need to know to start creating.
Play it with Kontrol keyboards
Action Woodwinds comes to life when integrated with Kontrol keyboards. Toggle effortlessly between phrases using the Light Guide or create melodies freely using single articulations. All EQ, reverb, and tempo parameters are automatically mapped to the controls to help your creativity flow.
Save with the Action Suite
Bundle Action Woodwinds with Action Strings 2 and Action Strikes for a hard-hitting scoring palette. Pick them up together and save on a complementary orchestral trio.
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About Sonuscore
Action Woodwinds was developed with the award-winning Sonuscore and is the fifth instrument from this successful collaboration, following Action Strings 2, Emotive Strings, Action Strikes, Symphony Series – Percussion, and Mallet Flux. Having worked on over 2,000 projects in the videogame, TV, and film industries, Sonuscore stands for high-quality, inspiring instruments with a twist, easy accessibility, and the most direct way from a creative idea to a musical composition.
At a glance
| Product type: | Komplete Instrument |
| Instrument type: | Sampled woodwind phrase player |
| For use with: | Free Kontakt Player (version 7.8.1 and higher) or Kontakt (version 7.8.1 and higher) |
| Number of instruments: | 1 |
| Sound category: | Cinematic woodwind |
| Download size: | 22.06 GB |
| System requirements: | Action Woodwinds needs a fast CPU to run and requires an Intel i7 processor or higher. Please also see the Kontakt Player system requirements and the Kontakt Player FAQ |
| User manual online: | Online manual |
| User manual: | Download manual |
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