OVERVIEW
AUDIO IMPERIA
EPIC SOUNDS FOR EPIC COMPOSERS
AUDIO IMPERIA is a joint venture of producers &
composers with years of experience in the trailer music
industry. We focus on creating boutique sound design
instruments.
AUDIO IMPERIA's “Artifact - Fractal Edition“ is the first
instrument in our new “Artifact” signature series.
All of the products in the series are produced by
composer Valentin Boomes, who is renowned for his
industrial, gritty and instantly recognizable style.
Valentin Boomes
Valentin Boomes, born in 1984 in Germany, is a BMI
composer and producer.
Valentin is an accomplished trailer music composer and
has, among others, worked for Hollywood's legendary
trailer power house “Immediate Music” as well as music
production company “ReallySlowMotion”.
Since the late 90s, Valentin has produced music for
numerous international Films, Trailers and Documentaries
and his music has been used in ad campaigns for major
companies such as “Bosch”, “Carl Zeiss”, “Mercedes”,
and many others.


I N S TA L L A T I O N & R E Q U I R E M E N T S

INSTALLATION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The “Artifact” instruments use the Continuata Connect IMPORTANT NOTE:

download system that offers a fast and reliable product
delivery.
Please download the latest version for your operating
system before downloading the instrument. Once the
installation is complete, simply enter the download code
that you received via email into the Connect download
tool, choose the location for the library, and begin the
download.
Artifact Fractal requires the full retail version of Kontakt
5.5.2.880 or higher. It will not work past the “demo” period in
the free Kontakt Player.
For both PC & MAC systems, we highly recommend at least
4GB of RAM and a quad-core CPU for optimal playback of the
samples.
Disk Requirements:
Artifact Fractal: approx. 4.2 GB Installed

NOTE: While Continuata Connect allows you to “Pause”

an installation and then continue the download at a later
time, please do not close the application before pressing
the “Pause” button first.
Concept

Artifact Fractal was designed specifically for trailer music and music for
media campaigns.

The initial idea was to create a set of gritty and industrial sound
“artifacts”, that are so commonly used in modern trailer music.

The idea took its own and kept growing and growing and over the
course of eight months resulted in one of the most comprehensive
industrial and gritty trailer percussion libraries.

Aside from recording drums, we also did extensive recording sessions

on scrapyards and construction sites to really give Fractal a real industrial
feel. This allowed us to provide drums and hits that have multiple
velocity layers and round robin.

 Content

Artifact - Fractal comes with 29 Kontakt patches in the

categories of:

Construction Kits
Signature Drums
Drum Kits
Elements

All patches can be further tweaked by using the powerful

custom-made Kontakt engine that includes multiple
independent step modulators, global and independent
controls, and much more.

We spent months on developing this engine, to provide the

user with something truly unique and new. All with sound
design and trailer music in mind, the engine allows you to
tweak the sounds in realtime with a dual FX page layout (Big
Knob + Insert FX) and the incredible step modulators.
Patches

Constructions Kits
- Construction Kits

Signature Drums
- Giant Percussion
- Secret Artifact Ensemble
- Tiny Percussion

Drum Kits Elements

- Artifact Kit - Cloud Snares
- Bit Kit - Crispy Fragments
- Broken Kit - Gritty Shutters
- Dark Reso Kit - Reversed Fragments
- Distort Kit - Riser Designer
- Glitch Kit - Risers
- Gritty Kit - Signature Snares
- Lo-Fi Kit - Sub Kicks
- Scream Kit - Tiny Metals
- Shadow Kit - Trailer Distort Hits
- Signal Kit - Trailer Hits
- Trailer Punches
- Trailer Whoosh Hits
- Whooshes
 M a i n P a g e C o n t ro l s

Global (available with the Construction Kits, some of the Drum Kits and some of the
Elements patches): When the “Global” button is active, volume/pitch/attack/release
will have the same effect on all loops and stems. Deactivating it, allows you to apply
individual settings for each loop and stem. This feature gives you more control on an
individual level.

Volume: Controls Sample Volume

Pitch: Controls Sample Pitch
Attack: Controls Sample Attack Time
Release: Controls Sample Release Time

Pan: Controls Sample Panning

Wave: Switch to Wave View

EQ: Switch to EQ View

LP: (De)Activates/Controls the Low Pass Filter (Cutoff, Resonance)

EQ: (De)Activates/Controls the EQ Settings (Frequency, Bandwidth, Gain)
HP: (De)Activates/Controls the High Pass Filter (Cutoff, Resonance)

Main: Main Page View

FX: FX Page View
 F X P a g e C o n t ro l s

The controls on the FX page follow the way the signal path is set up in the engine:

1. Artifact - Fractal comes with a very unique step modulator script, which allows you to
draw complex curves for controlling up to 10 independent modifiers: 4 Volume
modifiers, 4 Pan modifiers, 1 Low Pass Filter modifier and 1 High Pass Filter modifier.
Volume and Pan are designed in a way, so that you can activate more than one step
modulator at a time without any conflicting. In addition, you can control the number of
steps, the frequency and the intensity.

The step modulator is controlled using keyswitches (from C6 to A6) and the color of
the tab corresponds to the keyswitch that controls it.

Save: Saves the selected step modulator values to an .nka file.

Open: Loads step modulator values from an .nka file to the selected step modulator
Reset: Clears the selected step modulator.

2. Artifact - Fractal offers a new script concept called Big Knob, which was inspired by Important Notes: Both Insert and Send FX can be
our Klavier libraries (See next page). controlled in the GUI as a standard FX page. They
can also be controlled by keyswitches (A#6 to
3. The Insert FX section allows you to add selected Insert FX (Compressor, Distortion, F#7).
Lo-Fi, Rotator, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser) and control the individual FX parameters.
Every tempo-lockable parameter has a (T)
4. The Send FX section allows you to add selected Send FX (Delay and Reverb) and icon to the left.
control the individual FX parameters.


B i g K n o b C o n t ro l l e r

Big Knob

In a nutshell, the Big Knob serves as an additional Insert FX page, to give you
the power to make even more complex effects.

But the real power of Big Knob is that you can control any parameter of a total
of 7 (combinable) effects: Compressor, Distortion, Lo-Fi, Rotator, Chorus,
Flanger, Phaser.

Effect selection dropdown menu: Allows you to select an effect.

Effect On/Off: Clicking on the effect in the dropdown menu, allows you to
activate/bypass the selected effect.

Assign Panel

The Assign Panel allows to dive into the individual parameters for every effect
that you want the Big Knob to control.

Assign selection: Select a parameter to be controlled with the Big Knob. The
selection changes according to the selected effect.
Assign On/Off: Clicking on the parameter in the dropdown menu, assigns the
selected parameter to the Big Knob.
From: Determines the controller start point percentage.
To: Determines the controller end point percentage.
 

THANKS
A huge
1965 r o u n d o f t h a n k s g oERAT
es to:

Va l e n t i n B o o m e s , t h e s o u n d w i z a r d a n d s o n i c v i s i o n a r y.
To m á s L o b o s K u n s t m a n n , t h e g e n i u s b e h i n d t h e K o n t a k t s c r i p t .

Darin Leach, for his wonderful cover art.

Ryo Ishido, for his amazing GUI design.
Saro Sahihi from SoundBits, for his incredible sound sourcing and recording talents.

The beta team: Vivien Chebbah, Fran Soto, Dylan Jones, Danny Cocke, Kyle Booth, Cody Still, Joshua Crispin aka
G e n e r d y n , C h r i s H a i g h , M i k e H a s t i n g s , Tr o y To y, a n d J o s h Ly n c h o f B r a n d X , .
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