HAUNTED SPACES 2

FIELD RECORDING + SOUND DESIGN

178 Chris Watson Recordings
550 Presets
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"events haunt spaces"

Field recordist Chris Watson has spent years collecting audio recordings from what he describes as 'Haunted Spaces'. A personal obsession, he believes that past events add a charge to the atmosphere of places, and can be felt and detected in their sonic ambience.

Cold War Bases, Abandoned Silver Mines. Ancient Temples, Ice Lagoons. Places rich with human drama & significance. These recordings are evocative, spacious, and resonant.

Haunted Spaces is the ultimate tool for ambient sound design.

"an easy and effective way to create unnerving and spooky sound design."

THE HAUNTED SPACES LIBRARY

Haunted Spaces 2 features a huge library of over 550 presets, created by a team of top sound designers.

The core sample library now contains 178 original Chris Watson field recordings, combined with hundreds of custom synth, acoustic and percussion waveforms to blend with the ambiences. Notable sample sets in V2 include special versions of Soniccouture's Threnody Strings, Deep Felt, Nyckelharpas, Glassworks and many more.

All Haunted Spaces Videos

THE INSTRUMENT

MAIN PANEL

XY CONTROL CUBE
4 WAVEFORM ELEMENTS
DRAG + DROP USER SAMPLES
PITCH, ENVELOPE, FILTER, LFO CONTROLS

The heart of Haunted Spaces 2 is the Cube control - a 4-point vector controller that allows you to create complex movements between 4 different waveforms of your choosing, or add your own samples. The cube can be fully animated and the movements tempo-synced to your DAW. Each of the 4 waveforms can have independent filter, envelope, pitch and LFO settings.

WAVE BROWSER

AT A GLANCE WAVE CATEGORY BROWSING
LIVE AUDITION

Essential for navigating the huge range of samples in Haunted Spaces. View only Chris Watson recordings, or filter by synth waves, percussion, choirs etc. Clicking on a wave instantly auditions the sound in your patch.

THE JAMMER

GENERATIVE ARPEGGIATOR
SCALE FILTER

The latest evolution of our generative arpeggiator - Hold a chord, and let it evolve - or loop a section and jam between 12 sequences. Record your patterns with the MIDI recorder, and drag and drop into your DAW.. This can be assigned to indvidudual corners of the Haunted Spaces Control Cube.

THE EFFECTS PANEL

MODULAR INSERT FX CHAIN
16 EFFECT TYPES
CONVOLUTION REVERB PROCESSOR

Choose from 16 different effects in 6 insert slots - in any order you like. The Space processor offers everything from rooms and halls to vintage studio FX and custom ambient convolution effects.

THE OPTIONS PANEL

CONFIGURE MIDI XY PAD

Here you can define pitch bend behaviour, and set up your own MIDI controllers to operate the XY pad.

CHRIS WATSON

Chris Watson is the world's leading recordist of wildlife and natural phenomena.

Born in 1953, in Sheffield, Watson was a founding member of the influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire. His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television. Since then he has developed a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with sound design in post production.

His television work includes many programmes in the David Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012).