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AVA Music Group Release Unity: Modern Trailer Synth

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AVA Music Group release Unity: Modern Trailer Synth for Kontakt Player

AVA Music Group introduces Unity: Modern Trailer Synth (€89) for Kontakt Player. Read more about this exciting virtual instrument below and enter our giveaway to win one of the three available licenses.

AVA Music Group is the name behind virtual instruments like Eminence and Instinct (Trailer Sound Effects).

Unity: Modern Trailer Synth is the developer’s latest release and looks set to be a compact cinematic powerhouse.

An epic trailer needs epic sound, whether all-action, understated emotion, or eerie minimalism. Unity delivers its epic sound via its three-sampler-based engine, running in the free Kontakt Player (7 or higher).

The sampler engine has three clearly defined parts represented by color-coded ADSR shapes on the interface’s main page.

  • Synths: red
  • Textures: purple
  • Wavetables (Sine, Saw, Sub Sine, Triangle, Square): blue

The Synths sound source defines the core character of your tone, while the other two sources enhance it in different ways.

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AVA Music Group designed the interface with efficiency in mind, and you can find all primary functions on the main page. An example of that efficiency is the sliders on each ADSR shape that allow you to adjust your envelope settings directly from the image.

Each sound source has individual volume sliders, sample selection, and an FX chain. The built-in effects include distortion, reverb, delay, movement, and filter. There’s also a master FX page that you can access via the Attitude icon offering tube-style compression and harmonics.

The main page also features an assignable Modwheel and a little Identity pad that lets you set the perfect blend of the three sound sources.

I like the interface, everything is within easy reach, and if you want a clearer overview of everything going on with each sound source, you can open the Shapes page. The Shapes page details your effects, filter, and source settings for each shape.

Unity features 350 unique sounds and 300 factory presets across the following categories: Lead, Bass, Braam, Downer, Riser, Brass, Pluck, and Pulse.

I love instruments that are easy to use without being too limited, and that’s not always the easiest combination to find. But Unity certainly isn’t difficult to navigate, and it seems like it offers more than enough ways to create something that sounds unique.

It also seems like an instrument that could do most of the heavy lifting if you have any cinematic projects on the go, especially action-packed scenes.

I’m keen to try it out; Unity does sound pretty epic, but if you want something free, check out AVA’s Free Sounds page.

You can also try the free version of Inferno SFX, a freebie sound pack for media composers (50 free sounds).

Buy: Unity: Modern Trailer Synth (€89)

The Giveaway

AVA Music Group kindly provided three FREE copies of Unity: Modern Trailer Synth for three lucky BPB readers.

To enter the giveaway, please answer the following question in the comments section: What was the best movie trailer you ever watched?

We will randomly pick three comments and announce the lucky winners on this page on July 24th, 2023.

Good luck, everyone, and a big THANK YOU to AVA Music Group for sponsoring the giveaway!

The winners are:

1) triley37

2) Gabriel Ram

3) Kieran

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James is a musician and writer from Scotland. An avid synth fan, sound designer, and coffee drinker. Sometimes found wandering around Europe with an MPC in hand.

237 Comments

  5. Stanislau Babrou

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    I haven’t seen a better one yet. I hope after I get this synth, the world will see a better trailer

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  20. Wesley

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    evil dead, but there was another one that I don’t remember like dawn of the dead, but it wasn’t exactly that one, it was 20 years ago…

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  28. Ephraim

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    The best trailer hands down was

    The last trailer for the 1st Transformers movie.

    The special effecets reveal realy hit hard back then (and stil does)!

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  46. NP

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    May not count (as it was a video game) but any time “best trailer” comes up, I think of how much the Battlefield 3 Caspian Border trailer hooked me.
    The franchise had wound down the scale in prior years, and gone a bit weird. Something similar to the original stuffy brass theme starts up, but played on low and gritty synthesizers. As more is revealed, it looks gorgeous, the scale is back, planes are back, and near the end the music cuts out for a comedic moment as a tiny bomb disposal robot trundles into a wall. Finally the original theme blasts out on the most distorted and in-your-face synth imagineable. Hype.

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  47. PHOO3Y

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    The best movie trailer I ever watched was Avatar. The visual effects were ground breaking at the time and with the cinematic soundtrack, it was mind blowing. Amazing giveaway, sounds Epic!

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  51. Chelo

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    Hay muchos, por ejemplo: Lucy, Soul, Las vidas posibles de Mr. Nobody, GUASON (Joker) protagonista Joaquin Phoenix, etc…
    pero el que mas me gusta es el tráiler de la película El Origen(Inception).

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  56. Antoine B

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    Hard to remember trailers!
    But I liked the recent new Pixar movie trailer Elemental, looks fun !
    That Unity plugin looks tasty !

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  57. Adrian Goodswen

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    Without question, the epic, 5-minutes+ super-trailer for ‘Cloud Atlas’ (2012) – brilliantly edited and beautifully scored, it always moves me to tears… or at the very least a lump in the throat. Every. Single. Time. M83’s ‘Outro’ has a lot to answer for.

    In a very close second place is Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Comedian’ (2002), with one with THE movie trailer voiceover guy:
    “In a world, where laughter was king…” :-)

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    • Kieran

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      Thanks BPB and AVA for the giveaway! I received a license key from clem today.

      Excited to start playing around with it later and work it into my productions. Only briefly checked it out after installing so I can’t say much, but the UI is awesome, very clean to navigate through and work with. Haven’t had time to let it sing to me yet, but I’m sure it will glue my headphones to my ears later.

      Thanks again!

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  72. Andrew Coleman

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    A Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – but mostly because I really like DEVO and Mark Mothersbaugh and it concludes with David Bowie.

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  108. Freddy

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    The best trailer I’ve seen was for The Dark Knight.
    To be honest, in my opinion the movie wasn’t that great. Maybe the trailer made my expectations too high?

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  110. Gordon Frew

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    Can i be a little different here, Domynyo which is a game trailer. the game trailer is by itself very disappointing with the character just walking in different scenes. but the orchestral score had me gripped somehow, the music blew my mind!

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  130. JP

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    I loved the 90’s Roland Emmerich trailers for its creativity, because they didn’t show a lot from the actual movie and just hyped you for whats coming.
    So Godzilla or Independence Day it’ll be for me.
    For the sake of naming one it’ll be Godzilla for the pun towards Jurassic Park.

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  164. ollo

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    Cloverfield, the hype was amazing and everyone searched the whole internet for news and homepages made for the film. I downloaded the trailer and watched the it frame for frame to find some of the hidden messages.

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  166. Miles

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    I replayed the trailer to The Batman (2022) constantly until release, it stands on its own as a piece of art so that even if the film went in an odd direction (no complaints here although the ending was somewhat anticlimactic) I knew the trailer was perfect – especially the music. Although you asked about the best movie trailer, the best game trailer remains for me Skyrim’s – which I revisit periodically. The combination of the narration and the music is phenomenal and never fails to give me goosebumps. The writing lays out this terrible prophecy which is inevitable, then there is a pause and the ‘but…’ there’s one hope and then the reveal of the main character – sublime apotheosis!

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  173. Marcus Manderson

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    As a movie trailer composer, I definitely need to add this to my arsenal!

    The best movie trailer I’ve watched, and I watch at least once a week, is the Aquaman trailer, mailny for the “Sidewinder” track by Phil Lober.

    That track is basically a masterclass in trailer music.

    Thanks for the opportunity!

    Let’s go!

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  174. Brian Kooshian

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    My favorite trailer was Transformers: The Last Knight (trailer 1 – narrated by Anthony Hopkins).

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  177. Derrick

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    Transformers el Despertar de las Bestias 😀, y cuando la vi me pareció una gran película no hubo publicidad engañosa como otras películas que si fueron malas o regulares.

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  191. Scott

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    The Phantom Menace trailer was much better than the actual movie! Also, The Lord Of The Ring: The Fellowship Of The Ring.

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  204. Joseph Wilk

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    The ADSR overlay is a clever idea, and I’m surprised that it’s not more widely adopted. I’m not sure about the best, but The Dark Knight (2008) is probably the only trailer that I even remember to mention.

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  215. Steven King

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    The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King……After the first two amazing films, this was the most excited I’ve ever been watching a trailer….lEpic was an understatement.

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  217. Steve Brown

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    Best movie trailer I ever watched was The Fellowship of the Ring – brought back the thrill of reading the books that I’d had as a kid.

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