[Free!]Impact Soundworks' Orchestral Hit System: High Intensity Transients is a powerful orchestral sound effect liburary and now available for free.

Impact Soundworks' Orchestral Hit System: High Intensity Transients is a powerful orchestral sound effect source that allows you to freely blend strings, brass, woodwinds, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, synthesizers, and piano to create the ideal orchestral hit.

Explosive hits that make you want to scream "Oh, wow!"

Vivid and expressive

Instantly inspiring

Easy-to-use interface

World-class customer support

World-class support

Overview

An essential part of any composer's arsenal, the Orchestral Hit System: High Intensity Transients (OHS: HIT) will quickly become your go-to when you need something truly epic. With this powerful new tool, you have control over every element of your ideal orchestral hit, whether you're evoking the spirit of Stravinsky, writing hip-hop or techno, or adding extra punch to a score, a pop song, or your own greatest hit.

Compatible with the free Kontakt Player. Compatible with NKS.

Streamlined Articulation System

We've condensed the maximum impact of each section into one articulation (THE HIT). So you don't have to worry about switching between articulations. (Trust me, this impact sound works!)

8 Orchestral Sections

Includes strings, brass, woodwinds, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, synthesizers and piano, all lovingly and carefully orchestrated in multiple octaves (where possible).

2 Powerful Dynamics

Toggle between forte and fortissimo dynamics for each section with the click of a button. No other dynamics needed.

Detailed Sampling... or not

Play sampled multi-octave ranges across sections, or enable "Stretch Last Note" to play pitch-shifted combinations of the last played hits, turning OHS: HIT into the ultimate 90s orchestral hit ROM player.

A very special Impact Soundworks instrument

Released on April 1, 2025, it guarantees a truly unique sample library experience.

Features

Really usable

Explosively evocative UI

This orchestra is intense

All you need is the orchestral hits

Requirements

System requirements

100MB disk space

7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.

2GB RAM

The more memory you have, the more instruments you can load.

Compatible with Kontakt 7.8+ Player

This library is compatible with the free Kontakt Player.

Kontakt requirements - Mac OS

Intel Mac (i5 or higher): macOS 11, 12, or 13 (latest update)

Apple Silicon Mac (via Rosetta 2, standalone or ARM native on a host that supports it): macOS 11, 12, or 13 (latest update).

Kontakt requirements - Windows

Windows: Windows 10 or 11 (latest service pack), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 2 GB RAM. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher.

About the Library

Epic. Spectacular. Explosive. Intense. As April approaches, we asked ourselves what could be better than the 2024 shredder with its powerful voice and imposing presence. There was only one answer: the most intense sound in all of music...

Orchestral hit.

When Igor Stravinsky invented the orchestral hit in 1910, could he have imagined that this hit would span so many genres and transcend the orchestra?

For decades, composers and songwriters have been limited to the orchestral hit samples available on their synthesizers (which were ready-made and obviously not customizable). But at Impact Soundworks, that's simply not the way it works. We like to turn knobs and push buttons until we get a sound that's completely unique. So we decided to bring a unique level of customization and control to Orchestra Hit, making it not just Orchestra Hit, but a complete Orchestra Hit system.