{"id":2285,"date":"2021-09-09T14:52:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardveenstra.net\/web\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2285"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:21:07","slug":"steinberg-dark-mass","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/richardveenstra.net\/web\/portfolio\/steinberg-dark-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Steinberg Dark Mass"},"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>Steinberg Dark Mass for Retrologue<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]\t<div id=\"thb-image-69e053183dd3a\" class=\"caption-style1  alignleft full  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_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1SWoY1X-Lpc&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Allert Aalders and I created Dark Mass, a cinematic expansion pack for virtual analog synthesizer Retrologue by <strong>Steinberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong>Retrologue<\/strong> expansion is filled with dark, ominous sounds for your film, trailer and electronic scores. <strong>Dark Mass<\/strong> contains deep subs, decomposed basses, soaring leads, effects and momentous, spacious rhythmic soundscapes. It is stacked with sounds which can be found in many of the movie trailers scored by award-winning Dutch trailer music agency The Solos (e.g. Captain Marvel, BlackPanther, 1917 and more).<\/p>\n<p>Besides designing over 75 presets, I also composed a track called &#8220;A Dark Day for Humanity&#8221;, listen to the track on Steinberg&#8217;s website for Dark Mass.[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Read more about Dark Mass&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fas fa-book-open&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.steinberg.net%2Fvst-instruments%2Fretrologue%2Fexpansions%2Fdark-mass%2F|title:Read%20more%20about%20Dark%20Mass|target:_blank&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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] Steinberg Dark Mass for Retrologue [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1SWoY1X-Lpc&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Allert Aalders and I created Dark Mass, a cinematic expansion pack for virtual analog synthesizer Retrologue by Steinberg. 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