Misty Valley is an unstable synthesizer inspired by Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Rival Consoles, and similar artists. Pitch modulation, layered noise, and a few other sound design techniques are employed to generate sounds that can be described as being more organic and “human” than what you’d typically expect to hear from a synthesizer.

Presets

Misty Valley, includes 75 presets that are split into 4 sound banks:

• Blurred noises: an overload of noisy sounds

• Unstable textures: dreamy / soaring sounds with a touch of noise

• Almost clean: classical analog sounds with some noise

• Noise beds: atmospheric noise pads

Misty Valley takes inspiration from the analogue synths from the late 70s/80s and uses subtractive synthesizer with just two oscillators. Other functions within modules are then added to emphasize this blurring effect. These include: the Drifter, which replicated the pitch instability of tape machines; and the Tape Sampler to add tape noise in the signal chain to reinforce the LoFi/Organic feel. (62 MB download size, ZIP archive, requires the full version of Native Instruments Reaktor)

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