Sample Logic Cinemorphx

$599

Sample Logic’s company tag-line is ‘Blurring the Line Between Music & Sound Design’. This is certainly an ethos harnessed in Cinemorphx, which in many ways is a reboot of some of their individual libraries. Where the older libraries, such as Synergy, embraced more multi-sampled instrument and loop sources in a relatively conventional setting, Cinemorphx makes use of Kontakt’s engine in a far more sophisticated way. The central sonic concept of Cinemorphx is the ‘Soundcore’, consisting of two, user-configurable, layered sound sources that can be morphed between in a variety of sophisticated ways. Four of these ‘Cores’ can then be combined into a massive Multi-core monster preset.

The sound library includes both single and multiple core patches across a variety of broad groupings, each with a smaller set of sub-categories. It is frustrating that, at this price and with so many quality sounds, there isn’t a more elaborate search or tagging scheme used – especially given its deadlinedependent film and media slant. This is where products like Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere come out top. There is a lot of editing potential here, particularly in relation to the plentiful effects options, but things do get fiddly at times. This is partly a limitation of Kontakt’s current window size constraints, but some aspects of Cinemorphx’s interface design don’t help either. Bruce Aisher