Long time Chromaphone user Christian Laffitte sends us his first contribution to the Sound Bank Series with the high impact Cinematix. Whether it’s epic scenes or fast-paced pursuits, with its strong emphasis on monumental hits and percussions, Cinematix is sure to fuel your next score. Cinematix gathers 100 presets grouped into percussions, snares, toms, cymbals, chimes and bells, hits, strings and pads, effects, and arpeggiators.

Who’s Christian Laffitte?

Christian Laffitte is a French musician and sound designer based in south of France. He has been developing sounds for Dream, Arturia, Zoom, Applied Acoustics Systems, M-Audio, Avid to name a few. He also composed music for Sony video games trailers and music for french TV channels and radio stations. As a keyboard player with a great interest in synthesis and new technologies, Christian Laffitte has put all his passion of music and sounds in creating Wejaam: a free music sequencer for smartphones and tablets

THE 100 PRESETS OF CINEMATIX

Percussions

Wood Perc
Metal Perc 1
Metal Perc 2
Guiro Perc
Guiro Metal
Tabla World
Mini Tablas
Indian Tap
Wood Block
Shaker
Eggs Shaker
Washboard
Cowbell
Cowbell Middle
Triangle
Tambourine
Tambourine Filter
Tambourine Studio
Savana
Voodoo Beatz

Snares

Boom Snare
Timbre Snare
Royal Snare
Imperial Snare
Battle Snare
Napoleon Snare
Trailer Snare
Stick Rebellion
Brush Ensemble
Louis XVI

Toms

Tom Warrior
Tom Barik
Tom Train
Tom Box
Granular Tom
Jungle Tom
Tribute Tom
Park Tom
Tambour Tom
Secret Tom
Army Tom
Empik
Steel and Wood

Cymbals

Real Cymbal
Finest Cymbal
Factory Cymbal
Timer Cymbal
Low Cymbal
Alien Cymbal
Cymbal Hit
Star Cymbal
Studio Cymbal
Drum Crash
Train Crash
Ball Cymbal

Chimes and Bells

Newbox
Remember F
Ghost Carillon
Deep Water
Ice Bells
Asian Bells
Holy Bells
Tubular

Hits

Hammer
Big Boom
Metal Shape
Timpani Hell
Iron System
Clap Angels
Bronx Vibes

Strings and Pads

Mozart's Time
Medieval Harp
Textured
Warmer
Strings Mo
Red Alert
Conductor Star

Effects

Dialect SFX 
Metallic Paper
Metallic Cross
White Wind
Take Off
Weather Report
Tonka
Tibetan Spirit
Ancient Perc
Motorizer

Arpeggiators

Perc Chaser
Chromobass
Pulsar
Latinistic
Stereophone
Black Horse
Ghost Marimba
Alien Talk
Flanger Theme
Bass Attack
Hybrid Memory
Celestial Ride
Steel Drum

WORKS TWO WAYS

Cinematix was created with the Chromaphone 3 acoustic object synthesizer. You can obviously play and edit the sounds in Chromaphone 3, but you can also access and play them via the free AAS Player included with your Cinematix purchase.

AAS Player—included with purchase

Distraction-free playing experience
More than an hundred free extra presets via Swatches

Chromaphone 3—sold separately

Sound manipulation at the source core
Starting point for new sound design ideas

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WINDOWS · MACOS · 64-BIT
VST2 · VST3 · AU · AAX NATIVE · NKS · STANDALONE

Chromaphone 3 and AAS Player are compatible with nearly all DAWs.

Ableton

Live

Apple

GarageBand

Apple

Logic Pro

Apple

MainStage

Avid

Pro Tools

Bitwig

Bitwig Studio

BandLab

Cakewalk

Cockos

Reaper

Image-Line

FL Studio

MOTU

Digital Performer

Native Instruments

Komplete Kontrol

Native Instruments

Maschine

Presonus

Studio One

Reason Studios

Reason

Steinberg

Cubase

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Mac minimum system requirements*

macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or later
Intel Core i5 (circa 2015), Apple M1 processor or later
64-bit DAW

 

PC minimum system requirements*

Windows 10 64‑bit or later
Intel Core i5 (circa 2015) processor or later
64-bit DAW

 

*The minimum system requirements mentioned above are for standalone usage. For plug-in usage, please refer to your DAW software requirements (Cakewalk, Pro Tools, Cubase, Live, Digital Performer, Logic Pro, etc.).