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The Core Essentials

Getting started with orchestral music has never been easier!

Nucleus Lite Edition is a powerful, orchestral, virtual instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt Player – with full NKS integration. Both Nucleus Lite Edition, and the full version of Nucleus, share the same rich cinematic sound and easy-to-use interface, providing you with different options depending on your feature and your budget requirements. Nucleus Lite Edition provides you with all the tools you need to get started, without breaking the bank. When you are ready for it, we also offer an easy upgrade path to the full version of Nucleus. If you are looking to dip your toes into the vast world of orchestral sample libraries, you’ve come to the right place.
Nucleus Lite Edition boils the cinematic orchestra formula down to the essentials needed for realistic cinematic orchestral scoring. Nucleus Lite Edition’s intuitive interface design provides a number of innovative solutions – a perfect mix of functionality, usability, and aesthetics. All the flexibility and customization you’d expect is there, but the advanced controls stay out of your way when you don’t need them.

The Perfect Sample Library for Beginning Composers

Strings, Woodwinds and Brass

Percussion

Choir

Everything you need to start writing orchestral music or add orchestra elements to your existing projects.

A full range of both tonal and atonal percussion instruments that can be found in the orchestra but also including instruments that go beyond the orchestra including Gran Cassas and ‘epic percussion’.

Taking things even further, Nucleus Lite Edition also includes core Choir elements that can add so much to a composition.

What do the reviews say?

“Nucleus Lite is the perfect sample library for beginning composers looking to buy their first orchestral sample library”

“It speaks for itself really. This is OUTSTANDING value – these are really quality samples for very very very little”

“This really gives you just what you need to get started”

The Full Details

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    Nucleus Lite Edition boils the cinematic orchestra formula down to the essentials needed for realistic cinematic orchestral scoring.

    Nucleus Lite Edition’s intuitive interface design provides a number of innovative solutions – a perfect mix of functionality, usability, and aesthetics. All the flexibility and customization you’d expect is there, but the advanced controls stay out of your way when you don’t need them.

  • Writing an orchestral track can be an overwhelming task if you are just starting out — and who wants to spend all day balancing a mix?

    Nucleus LE is an incredible starter library for beginners and a well worthy addition for the more experienced user with our included ‘Modern’ and ‘Classic’ mixes that give you an out of the box ‘cinematic sound’, bringing the production level of your compositions to new heights.

  • As an owner of Nucleus Lite Edition or Nucleus you are eligible for $100 off The Modern Composer Blueprint, the first course from Maestro by Audio Imperia. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to compose for the silver screen, The Modern Composer Blueprint is the course for you!
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Purchasing Nucleus Lite Edition qualifies you for a credit toward the Full version of Nucleus.

When you decide to upgrade your product, your purchase price of Nucleus Lite Edition will be automatically added as a discount to the full version of Nucleus. As long as you are logged in, you will see your unique price within our store on future visits.

This discount will be available throughout the year, on top of any seasonal sale events, or product discounts there may be.

Find out more about the differences between Nucleus and Nucleus Lite Edition:

Please note, this crossgrade discount is only available if both the full product and crossgrade product are purchased through our web store

Nucleus Lite Edition

The Orchestral Foundations

$99
  • Full Ensembles for Strings, Woodwind, Brass & Choir
  • No Individual Instruments, Soloists and Sections
  • Performance Patches
  • Selected Articulations and Sound Design
  • Classic & Modern Mix
  • No Legato Articulations
  • Selected Instruments
  • Approximately 5 GB installed (NCW format).

Nucleus

Full Creativity, Full Control

$449
  • Full Ensembles for Strings, Woodwind, Brass & Choir
  • Individual Instruments, Soloists and Sections
  • Performance Patches
  • Comprehensive Articulations and Sound Design
  • Classic & Modern Mix
  • Legato Articulations
  • Exclusive Instruments & Articulations
  • Approximately 29.6 GB installed (NCW format)

KEY FEATURES

AT A GLANCE

  • Made for the free Kontakt Player, Version 6.4 or higher.
  • Requires Native Access 2 to install. See system requirements.
  • NKS ready.
  • Carefully selected essentials from Nucleus Full Edition.
  • Crisp & smooth cinematic orchestral sound.
  • Two highly versatile microphone mixes: Classic & Modern.
  • Full Ensembles for Strings, Woodwinds, Brass and Choir.
  • Essential Tonal & Atonal Percussion.
  • Essential Sound Design.
  • Multi and Single Articulation Patches.
  • Performance Patches, for instant playability.
  • Very small footprint and low resource consumption.

The Full Details: What’s Included

Strings – Full Ensemble

  • Sustained (NV + V)
  • Spiccato

Performance Patch

Woodwinds – Full Ensemble

  • Sustained (NV + V)
  • Staccatissimo

Performance Patch

Brass – Full Ensemble

  • Sustained (NV + V)
  • Staccatissimo

Performance Patch

Percussion (Tonal)

  • Timpani
    • Hits
  • Glockenspiel
    • Hits

Percussion (Atonal)

  • 2 Gran Cassas
    • Hits
  • 4 Snares (Low + High)
    • Hits
  • Piatti
    • Hits
  • Tam Tam
    • Hits

Choir – Full Ensemble

  • Sustained Aah
  • Staccatissimo (Phrases)

Mic Techniques

  • No Individual Microphones

Mic Mixes

  • Classic Mix
  • Modern Mix

Dynamic Layers

  • Up to 3 in Long Articulation
  • Up to 3 in Short Articulations

Round Robins

  • 1 in Long Articulation
  • Up to 5 in Short Articulations