{"id":2278,"date":"2021-09-09T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardveenstra.net\/web\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2278"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:18:59","slug":"native-instruments-ashlight","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/richardveenstra.net\/web\/portfolio\/native-instruments-ashlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Instruments Ashlight"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row thb_full_width=&#8221;true&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; thb_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; el_class=&#8221;header-row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1531473610896{background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;128px&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<h1>Native Instruments Ashlight<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]\t<div id=\"thb-image-69f0b9a8a2118\" class=\"caption-style1  alignleft   thb_image_link wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"thb-image-inner size_100\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Together with Frank Elting and sound design agency <strong>The Solos<\/strong> I created <strong>Ashlight<\/strong>, a granular synthesizer for\u00a0<strong>Native Instruments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For this instrument we recorded hundreds of acoustic instruments, foley sound sources, synthesizers and atmospheric sounds and mangled them with the Ashlight granular engine. Besides delivering sound sources, I created a lot of presets and a demo song for this revolutionary synthesizer.[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Read more about Ashlight&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fas fa-angle-right&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.native-instruments.com%2Fen%2Fproducts%2Fkomplete%2Fcinematic%2Fashlight%2F|title:Read%20more%20about%20Ahslight|target:_blank&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Ashlight<\/strong> concludes the granular trilogy with monochrome soundscapes, pulsing textures, intricate leads, and cold atmospheres. It combines a specially-recorded sample library with grain and sample playback modules in a powerful engine with intuitive modulation controls for scoring shifting intensities, from edge-of-your-seat sweeps, to introspective keys, and world-shaking walls of sound.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Y8HXdxeXDE&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space]\t<div id=\"thb-image-69f0b9a8a242b\" class=\"caption-style1  alignleft   thb_image_link wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"thb-image-inner size_100\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t[vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Ashlight<\/strong> is the third release in a trilogy of granular instruments from Frank Elting. Following on from the bright, sci-fi-eque <strong>Straylight<\/strong> and vocal-based <strong>Pharlight<\/strong>, it sees Elting work with Amsterdam sound designers <strong>The Solos<\/strong> towards darker and colder textures through bowing and rubbing everything from carbon to cardboard in search for submersive textures and moodier timbres. 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