Hephaestus Sounds Oboe, a free oboe library with various keyswitches for Kontakt!
October 2022 note: The distribution was temporarily closed, but now it is available again for free after the distributor's site was renewed.
It is a very light sound source, but not only is a certain sound quality recognized, it also has key switches for sustain, staccato, ornaments, and trills, and can be played with quite a lot of functions and rich expression. It is quite nice to have keyswitches in a free sound source. Key clicks and breath noise can also be turned on and off. Therefore, it is more expressive than expected. Because the gain of the key click and the breath cannot be adjusted, it lacks a little in flexibility such as being lifted up extra by Limiter when using it by the solo, and that point is a place to be concerned a little, but let's turn a blind eye because it is free.
Hephaestus Sounds has released many good free sound sources, but most of them are currently under development (this is important), so get them as soon as possible.
The following is from the official website.
Product Overview
- Free download for you to enjoy.
- Features:.
- 48KHz 24-bit Mono sample resolution
- 4 dynamic layers
- Very simple interface
- 4 sound modes (sustain, grace note, staccato, trills), also switchable via modulation controller
- Knobs for direct expression from Flute & Piccolo libraries
- Reverb knob
- Automatic key clicks (can be disabled)
- Automatic breath sounds (can be disabled)
- FX kit on the left side of the keyboard
- Perfect and long loops
- 60MB uncompressed file size
- Works with Kontakt 5.2 or later (Full: no limit, Free: 15 minute limit)
Requires Kontakt full version.
You can download it here.
