Big Fish Audio Zodiac Experimental Sound Design [KONTAKT]

 
Zodiac is a unique-sounding Virtual Instrument designed to provide composers and producers with a collection of original sounds and instruments suitable for film or TV scores, video games, and all types of ambient and experimental music.
Zodiac是一种独特的声音虚拟乐器，旨在为作曲家和制作人提供适合电影或电视配乐、视频游戏和所有类型的环境和实验音乐的原始声音和乐器集合。

No synthesizers were used to create the instruments in Zodiac.
十二宫里的乐器没有使用合成器。

Instead, all instruments were created from organic sources such as found sounds, sonic manipulations inspired by classic Musique Concrete, Experimental and Avant Garde Music compositions, prepared or heavily processed musical instruments, and audio recordings subjected to extreme sound design techniques.
相反，所有的乐器都是由有机来源创造的，如发现的声音，受古典音乐混凝土启发的声音操作，实验和前卫音乐作品，准备或重度加工的乐器，以及极端的声音设计技术的录音。

Zodiac features over 200 patches and Multis (over 8GB of uncompressed wav data), divided into six categories:
Zodiac功能超过200个补丁和多重(超过8GB的未压缩wav数据)，分为六个类别:

Pads & Atmospheres
垫和大气

Melodic Instruments
旋律乐器

Bass Instruments
低音乐器

Percussive Instruments
敲击乐器

Experimental Instruments
实验仪器

Zodiac Kits
星座包

Zodiac’s instruments range from beautiful and ethereal soundscapes to wildly inventive percussion and mysterious, haunting, atonal and experimental sounds that defy easy categorization.
十二宫的乐器从美丽和空灵的声音景观到疯狂创新的打击乐器和神秘的，萦绕，无调性和实验性的声音，难以归类。

Search through Zodiac’s patch folders, and you won’t find anything like a regular bass, guitar, keyboard, or drum set.
搜索Zodiac的补丁文件夹，你找不到任何普通的贝斯、吉他、键盘或架子鼓。

Instead, you’ll find a collection of sounds that are quite unlike those made by any standard instrument.
相反，你会发现一组声音完全不同于任何标准乐器发出的声音。

Not only does Zodiac feature a constellation of ready-to-use instrument patches, it’s also a powerful sound-design VI. Use Zodiac’s simple but versatile controls to dramatically alter, sculpt, or tweak and customize sounds to fit your individual style.
生肖不仅有一个星座的准备使用的仪器补丁，它也是一个强大的声音设计VI。使用生肖的简单但通用的控制，戏剧性地改变，雕刻，或调整和定制的声音，以适应您的个人风格。

However, you don’t even need to touch a single control to get a variety of sounds from Zodiac’s preset patches.
然而，你甚至不需要触摸一个单一的控制，以获得各种声音从生肖的预设补丁。

Zodiac is made for experimentation: hold down a key on many instrument patches and a sound loops and morphs, revealing surprising musical timbres and harmonic strata.
《十二宫》是为实验而生:按住许多乐器补丁上的一个键和一个声音循环和变化，揭示令人惊讶的音乐音色和和声层次。

Play an instrument one way and it has a percussive quality;
用一种方式演奏乐器，它就具有打击乐器的性质;

play it another, and the notes expand into a pad or atmosphere.
再弹一次，音符就会扩展成一个拍子或氛围。

Play a patch in one octave and it sounds dreamy and surreal;
在一个八度播放一个补丁，它听起来梦幻和超现实;

play it in another octave and it behaves and sounds quite differently.
用另一个八度演奏它，它的表现和声音就完全不同了。

No matter what soft synths, sound modules, or VIs you already own, Zodiac will expand the palette of sounds in your sonic tool box and add a unique character to your music.
无论什么软合成器，声音模块，或VIs你已经拥有，生肖将扩大声音的调色板在你的声音工具箱，并添加一个独特的字符到你的音乐。

Despite its somewhat enigmatic appearance, Zodiac’s Graphic User Interface (GUI) is quite simple to use.
尽管外观有点神秘，Zodiac的图形用户界面(GUI)使用起来相当简单。

Here’s the key:
这里的关键是:

The Control Banks
控制银行

ON either side of the Zodiac logo is a control bank consisting of SIX levers.
生肖标志的两侧是由六个杠杆组成的控制银行。

Under each lever is a single letter, which stand for the following:
每根杠杆下都有一个字母，代表以下内容:

(Lefthand Bank)
(口)

AMP ENV – Amp Envelope controls:
AMP ENV – AMP信封控制:

A – Attack
——攻击

D – Decay
D -衰变

S – Sustain
S -维持

R – Release
R -释放

T – Tuning (Pitch)
T -调音(音高)

R – Reverb amount
R -混响量

Righthand Bank)
右手的银行)

DELAY – the Delay controls:
延迟-延迟控制:

T – Delay Time
T -延迟时间

D – Delay Damping
D -延迟阻尼

P – Dealy Panning
P -迪利潘宁

F – Delay Feedback
F—延迟反馈

B – Bass
B -巴斯

T – Treble
T -三

The Levers
杠杆

Note that the four white-tipped levers on either side represent a grouping of related controls, and have a range of 0 to 10.
注意，两边的四个白色顶端的杠杆代表一组相关的控件，范围为0到10。

Note also that the red-tipped levers represent controls not related to the white groups, and that three of these have a range from -10 to +10.
还需要注意的是，红色顶端的杠杆代表与白色组无关的控制组，其中三个控制组的范围从-10到+10。

Use command-click (MAC) or control-click (PC) to return any of the levers to the default setting of zero.
使用command-click (MAC)或control-click (PC)来返回任何杠杆的默认设置为零。

The Reverb Window
混响窗口

The window below the Zodiac logo contains a drop-down menu, with a list of fifteen very different-sounding Convolution Reverb IRs.
生肖标志下面的窗口包含一个下拉菜单，有15个听起来非常不同的Convolution Reverb IRs的列表。

Click on this window if you’d like to change the type of reverb on the instrument being played.
点击这个窗口，如果你想改变正在演奏的乐器上的混响类型。

Note that the R(everb) lever to the left of the window controls the amount of reverb.
注意，窗口左侧的R(动词)杠杆控制混响的数量。

Zodiac is powered by the industry-leading Kontakt engine.
Zodiac由业界领先的Kontakt引擎提供动力。

It is compatible with VST, AudioUnit, AAX (Pro Tools 10) and RTAS (Pro Tools 9 & 10) plug-in formats allowing it to work seamlessly within any major sequencer, in addition to standalone use.
它兼容VST, AudioUnit, AAX (Pro Tools 10)和RTAS (Pro Tools 9和10)插件格式，允许它在任何主要音序无缝工作，除了独立使用。

Summary
总结

Over 150 different instrument patches and 50 Multis
超过150个不同的仪器补丁和50个倍数

Six Categories: Pads & Atmospheres, Melodic Instruments, Bass Instruments, Experimental Instruments and Zodiac Kits
六类:垫子和气氛，旋律乐器，低音乐器，实验乐器和生肖套件

Kontakt 5 Player included
包括Kontakt 5玩家