失落之爱的声音 Sam Thomas Music The Sound of Love Lost [KONTAKT]

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The Sound of Love Lost适用于Kontakt和免费的Kontakt PLayer（v6.8.0或更高版本），价格为37英镑。

《失落之爱的声音》是一种独一无二的音色。这是一种兼具合成器与吉他特质的高声调音色，演奏方式类似管风琴：通过数字与模拟处理，打造出浑然天成、极具张力且和声饱满的声场。

该音色出现在伊萨玛雅・弗伦奇（Isamaya Ffrench）与山姆・托马斯（Sam Thomas）的歌曲《Love Lost》（失落之爱）高潮部分，也贯穿于他们的专辑《Mantle》（外衣）以及山姆・托马斯的其他作品中。它最初只是一个粗糙的贝斯音色，后来逐渐向指板高把位延伸发展。近二十年来，山姆不断对其调整优化，如今已完成精细采样（每个音符采样 13 次，覆盖全部 88 个琴键 / 7 个八度），充分释放由力度感应（或固定）的内置哇音效果所产生的丰富和声。每个音符都拥有 20 秒的自然延音，仅依靠音色本身的共鸣、电子弓（EBow）或延音踏板实现：最终实现无论力度如何，都能毫无妥协地呈现饱满的音乐延音与自然的尾音。录制每个音符时均选用音色特性最大化的吉他，并根据音符音高匹配对应的吉他 / 拾音器组合。信号经过山姆专属的踏板配置后，会送入精选的吉他与贝斯音箱组合进行处理，随后再通过手工挑选的硬件均衡器、饱和 / 磁带效果器进一步丰富和声；最后由山姆与母带工程师 / 音频大师安妮・阿比盖尔（Anni Abigail）对全频谱进行均衡调整、立体声拓宽及优化定型。

它既能呈现沉稳的低保真管风琴质感（对应 “Love”），也能化作炸裂听觉、极致唯美的音墙（对应 “Lost”），既完美适配宏大的氛围持续音，又具备极强的多用性。需要时它可以充满力量感，也能通过聚焦低力度 / 高音区、或调节内置空间滑块，变得更为柔美空灵。

《失落之爱的声音》V1 版本保持简洁纯净，以凸显音色本身的纯粹性；不过开发者计划推出 V2 版本，新增独立的音序器页面 —— 该功能可通过节奏化改变同一音符多次触发的力度（进而改变槽位哇音参数），构建动态的节奏音序。在此之前，将其连接到鼓垫也能实现类似效果。此外，若不需要力度感应哇音的表现力，也可将其固定在偏好的槽位参数值（13 为全开状态）。

歌曲《Love Lost》的一个独特之处在于：它以标准 A440 调律开始，结尾则融合 A440 与 A432 调律，营造出 “沉沦感” 的宽相位效果。乐器中已内置这一 “即开即用” 的功能：A432 滑块复刻 A440 的操作逻辑，同时降低调律并反转立体声场 —— 通过自动化控制该参数，可为音墙赋予埃舍尔式的奇幻听觉张力。

运行要求：Native Instruments Kontakt Player 或 Kontakt 完整版 v6.7.0 及以上版本！

The Sound of Love Lost is a sound like no other. A pitched, synth/guitar hybrid that plays like an organ: utilising digital and analogue processing to create an effortlessly huge and harmonically encompassing field of force.

It features in the climax of the song ‘Love Lost’ by Isamaya Ffrench and Sam Thomas, as well as across their album ‘Mantle’ and Sam Thomas’ other work. It started life as the dirtiest bass sound that kept creeping further and further up the fretboard. It’s been tweaked and refined by Sam over nearly two decades and has now been meticulously sampled (13 times per note and across a full 88 keys/7 octaves) to take full advantage of all the harmonics that can be generated by the velocity-sensitive (or fixed), integrated wah effect. Each note has 20 seconds of natural sustain, achieved with just the force of the sound itself or by utilising an EBow or sustain pedal: the result being a no-compromise, musical hold and natural tail at every velocity. Each note was recorded on a max-character guitar, with guitar/pickup decision appropriate to pitch of note. After leaving Sam’s distinct pedal configuration it would pass through a blend of choice guitar and bass amps before undergoing yet more harmonic enrichment: through hand-picked outboard EQ’s and saturation/tape effects. As a final stage the full spectrum was EQ’d, widened and optimised/blessed by Sam and mastering engineer/audio priestess, Anni Abigail.

It stretches from a grounded lo-fi organ-ish sound (Love) to a face-melting, unrelentingly beautiful wall of sound (Lost), perfect for huge ambient drones but versatile too. It is HEAVY when needed, but can also be made sweeter and more ethereal: focusing on the lower velocities/upper registers and/or making use of the onboard space sliders.

V1 of TSOLL has been kept clean and simple so as not to detract from the purity of the sound itself, however there are plans for a V2 update with a separate sequencer page. This would rhythmically vary the velocity (and therefore the notch-wah value) of multiple instances of the same note, forming dynamic rhythmic sequences. In the meantime, hooking it up to a drum pad can also achieve a similar effect. Alternatively for other uses, if the expression of the velocity-sensitive wah isn’t wanted it can be fixed at a preferred notch value (13 being all balls to the wall).

An unusual feature of Love Lost (the song) is that it begins in standard A440 tuning and ends with a blend of A440 and A432 to achieve a ‘sinking feeling’ wide phase effect. This effect is included ‘on tap’ in the instrument: an A432 slider mirrors the A440 option with the lower tuning plus inverted stereo field: automate it in to give the wall some Escher-like energy.

Requires Native Instruments Kontakt Player or Kontakt FULL v6.7.0 and higher!