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The Unearthed Orchestra

A complete cinematic writing instrument for Kontakt Player.
Available at no cost.

Glade is a fully featured, professionally recorded instrument available free of charge to composers who want to start writing music today. It fuses world color with symphonic craft into a playable toolkit for expression.

Use macros to sculpt color and contour, then drop into the instrument patches when you need precise articulation. Layer strings, winds, voices, and organic percussion to discover new harmonies and timbres.

It is lightweight to load, mix ready out of the box, and works in the free Kontakt Player. Glade moves sketches to finished ideas in minutes and feels at home in film cues, trailers, games, pop toplines, and electronic soundscapes. 

Traditional when you need it, adventurous when you want it.

New Designer Interface
4 Layer Preset Workflow | Macro Control | Factory Presets

Meet the Designer interface, a fast way to build living texture.Stack up to four parts from strings, winds, voices, and percussive elements. Use the two macro controls to evolve a single static chord into an evolving motion, or map them to almost any parameter for one-handed control.

  • Layer contrasting sources, from orchestral longs and shorts to synth-leaning pads and organic percussion.
  • 80+ curated presets to get you writing immediately, plus create your own.
  • Per-layer shaping for EQ, filters, envelopes, and effects so a sketch can become a cue in minutes.

Full Set of Articulations
Multisample patches for a traditional workflow

Prefer a intricate, detailed approach? Use the separate instrument patches with clear articulations and keyswitches. They’re stable, light on CPU, and ready for clean stems and fast mixes.

  • Consistent dynamics and expression mapping.
  • Straightforward controls you can trust on deadlines.
  • Built on our proven Pyramid workflow but with a fresh, modern UI design.

19 Instruments, No Compromises

Glade gives you a tight, expressive palette without fillers.

Glade includes orchestral staples such as high and low strings and ensemble woodwinds, as well as the ability to create solo lines and unique textures with a collection of world instruments, such as duduk, fujara, pan pipes and ney.

Each instrument was captured in exquisite detail, and mixed to create an instantly useable out-of-the-box sound. Light on resources, big in the mix.

All content was meticulously recorded with our long-term partners at Budapest Scoring (Solo, Chorus, Poseidon, etc.) and Clockwork Sessions (Kithara).

1 Product, 2 Instruments

Glade is shipped in two versions, Glade and Glade Studio.

Glade is designed to be as portable as possible, meaning only our Classic and Modern mixes are included, to reduce the download size to just over 4GB.

For those won’t more control, we have created Glade Studio, complete with four different mic positions on top of these mixes.

Neither product is better than the other, and neither of them compromise on quality, features or content. The choice is simple yours – no strings attached.

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The Full Details: What’s Included

Articulations and Instruments

01 High Strings

  • Sustained
  • Sustained Sordino Tasto Blend
  • Sustained Tremolo Blend

02 Low Strings

  • Sustained
  • Sustained Sordino Tasto Blend
  • Sustained Tremolo Blend

03 Orchestral Woodwinds

  • Sustained
  • Staccato
  • Tenuto Note Stutters

04 Kalimba

  • Plucked

05 Atonal Percussion – Taiko

  • Stick Hit
  • Roll
  • Rim Hit
  • Rim Hit Roll

05 Atonal Percussion – Talking Drum

  • Lowest Hit
  • Low Hit
  • Medium HIt
  • High Hit
  • Riser
  • Downer

05 Atonal Percussion – Conga

  • Low Hit
  • Low Roll
  • High Hit
  • High Roll

05 Atonal Percussion – Tabla

  • Low Hit
  • Low Flam
  • Low Roll
  • High Hit
  • High Flam
  • High Roll

05 Atonal Percussion – Claves

  • Low Hit
  • High Hit

05 Atonal Percussion – Woodblock

  • Hit 1
  • Roll 1
  • Hit 2
  • Roll 2
  • Hit 3
  • Roll 3
  • Hit 4
  • Roll 4
  • Hit 5
  • Roll 5

05 Atonal Percussion – Shekere

  • Hit
  • Shake
  • Long Shake

06 Celesta, Crotales and Marimba

  • Sustained
  • Tenuto Note Stutters

07 Duduk

  • Sustained Emotive
  • Sustained Poco Vib
  • Sustained Trill Up
  • Sustained Trill Down
  • Sustained Bend Down
  • Effects

08 Fujara

  • Sustained
  • Staccato
  • Sustained Overblown
  • Sustained Flutter
  • Sustained Trill Up
  • Sustained Bend Down
  • Harmonic Repetitions

09 Shakuhachi

  • Sustained Vibrato
  • Sustained Senza Vib
  • Staccato
  • Sustained Flutter Start
  • Sustained Flutter
  • Sustained Trill Up
  • Sustained Bend Down

10 2 Harps

  • Plucked
  • Bisbigliando
  • Tenuto Retriggers

11 Ney

  • Sustained
  • Staccato

12 Pan Pipes

  • Sustained
  • Staccato
  • Sustained Flutter Start
  • Sustained Overblown
  • Sustained Flutter
  • Sustained Trill Up
  • Sustained Trill Down
  • Sustained Bend Up
  • Sustained Bend Down
  • Tenuto Long
  • Tenuto Short

13 Forest Percussion – Tree Logs

  • Hit

13 Forest Percussion – Tree Trunk

  • Hit

13 Forest Percussion – Branches

  • Low Hit
  • High Hit

13 Forest Percussion – Leafy Branch

  • Low Hit
  • High Hit
  • Shake

13 Forest Percussion – Pine Cone Shaker

  • Roll
  • Shake

14 Boy Soloist – Peter

  • Legato Aah
  • Legato Ooh
  • Sustained Aah
  • Sustained Ooh

15 Boy Soloist – Benedict

  • Legato Aah
  • Legato Ooh
  • Sustained Aah
  • Sustained Ooh
Mics, Mixes and Specs

In Glade:

Mic techniques

  • Spot
  • Decca
  • Outrigger
  • Far

Mic Mixes

  • Classic Mix
  • Modern Mix

Download Size

  • 4.41 GB

Instrument and Snapshots

  • 16 Instruments
  • 84 Designer Presets saved as Snapshots

In Glade Studio:

Mic techniques

  • Spot
  • Decca
  • Outrigger
  • Far

Mic Mixes

  • Classic Mix
  • Modern Mix

Download Size

  • 12.51 GB

Instrument and Snapshots

  • 16 Instruments
  • 84 Designer Presets saved as Snapshots
Credits
  • Concept: Jonathan Daglish, Jan Hoeglund
  • Producer: Jan Hoeglund
  • Product Design: Jonathan Daglish, Charles Quinn, Jan Hoeglund
  • Kontakt Development: Derik Thomas, Jonathan Daglish
  • User Interface Design: Charles Quinn, Jonathan Daglish
  • Artwork: Efflam Le Bivic
  • Product Management: Jonathan Daglish
  • Studio Producers (Glasgow): Kobus Frick, Adam Robinson
  • Studio Producers (Budapest): Bálint Sapszon
  • Recording Engineer (Glasgow): David Donaldson
  • Recording Engineer (Budapest): Viktor Szabó
  • Studio (Glasgow): Clockwork Sessions
  • Studio (Budapest): Rottenbiller Hall, Budapest Scoring
  • Sample Post Production: Oliver Trigg, Jonathan Daglish
  • Sound Design: Tom Hawk, Adam Harvey, Stephen Tallamy, Oliver Trigg, Derik Thomas, Jonathan Daglish, Saro Sahihi, Simon Haglund
  • QA & Finalization: Oliver Trigg, Jonathan Daglish, Derik Thomas
  • Documentation: Oliver Trigg
  • Marketing: Oliver Trigg, Adam Harvey, Tom Hawk, Freddy Parkington