PHARLIGHT Walkthrough | Native Instruments

Take a closer look at how PHARLIGHT works to create granular textures, leads, pads, and atmospheres with a human vocal timbre. Explore the instrument's extensive sound palette, and get an idea of how different aspects of its unique character can be used across a huge range of genres and styles.
PHARLIGHT is a voice-based granular instrument for creating unique, melodic timbres, textures, leads, and pads - for artists, sound designers, composers, and musicians. Its sample library is the result of extensive research into human vocal sounds that produce idiosyncratic timbres when paired with its powerful granular engine.
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[@NativeInstruments]

For a more in-depth guide to the granular engine, check out the STRAYLIGHT walkthrough: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmPTdaaLe5pgmtk

[@EyJoBeats]

Hey if a video game cost millions to develop like 10 - 50- up to in the 100 of millions some take up to 5 years in development hundreds of employees and it comes at 150$ tax included for full edition why does this cost 199.99?? the time and cost to develop is 2 times more then a video game?

[@ReubenCornell]

@@EyJoBeats Because video games are a mass-market product so sell millions of copies and sample libraries are more niche.

[@EyJoBeats]

@@ReubenCornell nope there is music on every video you watch made by someone there's is as much producers on KZbin then are people who makes videos on gaming , they don't sale as much not because of niche market lol its because they are to expensive if they had reasonable and logical prices people would buy.

[@ReubenCornell]

@@EyJoBeats The number of people who MAKE music are far outweighed by the number of people who CONSUME music. It's the same with games, far more people PLAY games than MAKE them. The market for tools to make product is much smaller than the market for the product itself.

[@EyJoBeats]

​@@ReubenCornell i have seen so much people not buying there keyboards because they have to install native access and complain to me about how much libraries are expensive they can't afford and i could show you numbers that also say otherwise but i guess i will do like everyone else and not try to change anything and shut my mouth niche market lol... nah just overpricing bs that's why its a niche market...

[@ShelLuser]

I'm a bit mixed... it sounds awesome, no questions there, but at the same time it's basically the same instrument as Straylight but with different samples and presets. And if you look at it from that perspective it becomes a more difficult decision.

[@striverfor7628]

0:36 0:58 1:28 The X-Y pad 2:01 Vocal based atmosphere, fragile choral textures, touching suspenseful soundscapes 2:28 260 grain sources 3:07 The Grain page 3:57 Sample module. Sound examples 5:02 Browser. Preset searching 5:26 Outro

[@KrisSsmusiCc]

Amazing, endless posibilities

[@redlizard541]

I love vocal sounds. I have EXHALE but I'm looking into getting this one too. I already have some ideas to lay down. Native Instruments always coming through!

[@CrownedBlessed1]

can I ask why you're deciding to also get this when you already have exhale? Im deciding between the two and would like your opinion on it.

[@addison46004]

@@CrownedBlessed1 Exhale can be used for more lead/main sounds IMO. This one has more of a score feel to it.

[@viscid09]

This one is going to send my Mid2010 iMac's i5 CPU strait ahead to Valhalla! RIP CPU!

[@victorwilson3814]

it's definitely a cpu hog.. even my I7 can barely handle it

[@frederickitt7165]

😂

[@PaulMcCranie]

You’re making me broke, Native Instruments.

[@jesseurena5153]

literally

[@galaxonmusic5630]

Sounds so good cant wait to get this

[@AdarshPVOfficial]

Wow... Amazing 🔥

[@alexzehnmusik]

Wow i love it

[@123musictouredm]

Awesome

[@kibagoodboy8828]

Sounds great!!! This, ezbass and Saturn 2. Expensive but enjoyable week.

[@kngbeofficial]

reminds me of exhale definitely a unique piece here? that intro was interesting!

[@HousePlant_Ambient]

I honestly bought this by accident. Lol greatest thing that happened

[@WinterVibrations]

How did you accidentally buy it? Haha

[@bhaveshtochabbra6853]

@@WinterVibrations that's what enormous rich people do in their free time.

[@Brohnzi]

you accidentally bought a $250 Kontakt library? lol

[@chris5375]

Must have, I’ve got exhale, and this is the right combination

[@CrownedBlessed1]

you dont feel as though having both is redundant? Im looking into buying one of the two but Im curious how having both wouldnt be overkill

[@chalakayasasperera5456]

Love it

[@rukamaskedlatino8087]

VERY GOOD

[@Ghost-ou5yg]

pharlight amazing

[@6shotshooter]

My favorite of 13

[@AizenIPlannedIt]

trapsoul beat makers going crazy right now

[@djmag4u]

Mama Mia.. that intro :)

[@quatermass8]

It would be good to be able to automate the XY pad in these instruments. In the "AUTO" menu within the instrument, pretty much everything is listed for automation, but the XY pad. Though in this video they have done it. So the XY automation controls must be named something else in the "AUTO" list. I really wish stuff like this was in the manual.

[@AlvaroALorite]

So vapor wave: the vst

[@paulbrocklehurst7253]

Very 'Zoolooky'. Jean Michelle Jarre should get this.

[@spicetbedhead]

Well I am a fan of Straylight so this just might be good

[@dezinerAhmad]

WOW...

[@joelaplaca1546]

I'm having terrible CPU clipping problems with Pharlight particularly when playing chords. I'm working on a mac 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9 with 32 G Ram. It seems Pharlight does not multi-thread and takes all its processing power from one thread that peaks and makes a nasty clipping sound after play a few keys. This of course is not acceptable! I've reinstalled three times now but to no avail. Please let me know if there's a solution. Thanks!

[@danielbowyer5007]

Very intrested in a response. I would buy this instrument if I knew how to solve the problem.

[@joelaplaca1546]

I work at a very low latency level (my partner is a classical pianist) with a buffer at 64 in Logic which was the problem. Once I changed that to 512....the spiking was no more. I do get keyboard latency but use the low latency mode when recording so all good. Pharlight is an amazing instrument which I would highly recommend though I have to say NI support is almost non-existent. They've not responded to any of my emails. That's very disappointing.

[@frankelting]

Sorry to hear that. Kontakt is optimised for latencies of 256 samples and higher. Multiprocessor distribution works with Pharlight, but you have to set a higher latency to get a decent performance out of Kontakt.

[@joelaplaca1546]

@@frankelting Thanks for responding Frank. Yes, I've increased the buffer from 64 to 512 and it seems to be working better. I had the buffer so low because my partner is a concert pianist who can detect the slightest bit of latency. We've resolved that by using low latency mode when recording (disables plug ins) and it works great. I work in Logic so if there any other settings that would help optimise performance in Kontakt (which I use extensively) I'd greatly appreciate your suggestions.

[@frankelting]

@@joelaplaca1546 Thanks for keeping me updated. I'm glad it Pharlight works for you now. Give the newly released Kontakt 6.3 a try. It greatly reduces the CPU for drawing the interface of Straylight and Pharlight.

[@LeAnhDungOfficial]

🥰🥰🥰

[@user-mg9bv3xd1f]

👍👍

[@ThisIsMattyTrying]

This is one of your best things yet, I am in LOVE WITH IT BUT It has straight up murdered my CPU. That shit is running hot as fuck with just two instances of Pharlight. Guess I'll be having to commit to tracks and printing them midway through production. Not a bad thing.

[@delsydsoftware]

Yeah, this plugin is the reason I upgraded from a laptop to a fully built out audio workstation. It would eat 75% of my CPU time on the laptop if I used it in a song. Great plugin, though.

[@burtcocain1986]

Didn't have to look far for this comment. I was so excited when I got K13U because I just wanted to play with Pharlight. I've never been able to use it on my i5 PC with 16gb of RAM. New PC coming in a couple of days!

[@claired.1286]

Except for the different sound-/sample libraries; what is the difference between Straylight and Pharlight?

[@frankelting]

The Pharlight engine is an advancement of the Straylight version and has additional features for vocal content such as formant shifting for the grain layer. There are also more high quality effect and many other improvements.

[@gypsyfolklore]

can you import your own samples?

[@frederickitt7165]

I purchased this yesterday and can't load the sounds/plugins. I can sample the sounds in the maschine application and in the komplete kontrol application but can't load them to play or record any either of them. All other plugins and sounds/libraries work fine. Currently running max OS Catalina. I've completely deleted and reinstalled it twice now with the same result. Anyone else had such an issue? 😓 Also using full version of Kontakt 5. Does this only work with Kontakt 6 maybe?

[@frankelting]

Hey Frederick, you need Kontakt 6 to run Pharlight. The free Kontakt 6 Player is available here: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-6-player/free-download/

[@frederickitt7165]

Frank Elting Thanks. I just wasn’t ready to upgrade to the full Kontakt 6 until I get ready to upgrade my komplete in the near future (save money). But whenever I download Kontakt player 6 it overrides full version of 5 and I lose some of my sounds due to it going into “demo mode.” But I realized it’s because I have “always use newest version of plugin” checked. Gonna try without that later and I believe I should be good to go.

[@PlaylistunesCommunity]

Damn, Output seems to make solid money with Exhale, how about we copy it and change the interface?

[@amayjahmusic7494]

It's different.

[@PlaylistunesCommunity]

@@amayjahmusic7494 Sure is, this one is orange! :D

[@CaleAnderson]

@@PlaylistunesCommunity Hahaahaha

[@jonanders76]

@@PlaylistunesCommunity This is so much better than the chipmunk squeaking, African Bambarta sounding boreaphon Exhale

[@amayjahmusic7494]

@@PlaylistunesCommunity See, Told ya!

[@WinterVibrations]

Where can I find the song in this video?

[@Ghost-ou5yg]

I have to choice in pharlight and mysteria but I don't know the better

[@Jason75913]

Now that I try this out for myself, this is a little better than I expected, but damn is it a CPU hog for me. I'm going to need a better computer.

[@XX-pv1cy]

Is it better than exhale?

[@sancho316]

I wonder why this isn't just an expansion for straylight ?

[@WinterVibrations]

It’s too different and is too large to just be an expansion pack probably

[@Surrealeast]

Oh i found Kasst's fav plugin

[@parrat8589]

Will this stuff come with komplete eventually? Nobody ever wants to answer that

[@drewsneed17]

They've put out some other big instruments like this, likely they'll lump em all together for Komplete 13 this year. Speculation!

[@st0rmchild]

Almost everything that gets released after the last version of Komplete is included in the next version.

[@Voyagermusix]

love how the plugin is already massively lagging in the demo video

[@clydehawkins123]

it's not lagging, that's just how the playheads move around when you're playing it lol you can see some of the presets the playheads move along smoothly, and other ones sputter around, that's just how the instrument works, same thing with straylight

[@clydehawkins123]

this does use a massive amount of CPU though, but my i7 8700 k runs it just fine

[@mockcroc]

Would be a game changer if you could load your own vocal samples...

[@frankelting]

@Mock Croc you can load own samples. just drop them onto the waveform areas.

[@mockcroc]

@@frankelting thanks Frank that's good to know...

[@ReubenCornell]

You can. Drag and drop.

[@romenpheonixx7005]

My pharlight, straylight stuck in demo mode. It say the base product is not installed. I have Komplete 13.

[@NativeInstruments]

Hey, sorry to hear you're having troubles with this. Our support can help you out on this: bit.ly/3tT5VKW 👈

[@ruffey9854]

Was the demo in the beginning (besides drums) entirely made with Pharlight?

[@frankelting]

yes, all sounds in the background music except the drums come from Pharlight.

[@ruffey9854]

@@frankelting beautiful! Good work. Convinced me right away 😄

[@niklaneev]

Remind me Jarre's Zoolook

Just bought it! Those "stabs", is that a preset?

[@frankelting]

yes, almost all of the examples are included in the release. You can see the name of the used presets in the top left corner of the interface.

@@frankelting Great! Thanks a lot! Gooood with cool stuff just out of the box ;-)

[@WinterVibrations]

Is the percussion included?

[@frankelting]

Hi Evan, the Drum sounds in the demo song are taken from the NI Maschine Library (Diamonds Kit). Every other sound comes from Pharlight.

[@DjOsmanPC]

Hola amigos de Native Instruments me parece que ya es hora de que salga el Traktor Kontrol D3 del mismo tamaño que el D2 pero esta ves con Platos , con ajuste de movimiento del plato ; que no sean giratorios ; pero que tengan un LED que indique el movimiento de la canción ya sea hacia atrás o adelante , entradas USB y pantallas con ajuste de inclinación de 0° a 85° , si hacen eso harán un boom en la industria Dj , porque la mayoría de Djs preferirán comprar un módulo con platos que no sea tan caro como los módulos de Denon o Pioneer ; sería un nuevo avance en los Decks de Traktor

[@Breakbeat90s]

Pharlight CMI

[@palakchaudhary562]

Basically it's a Native Instruments Exhale

[@yungccsonar]

This looks amazing! can't wait to "buy" it

[@fridayishighday8016]

Hahahhahahaha oh man

[@javiervillanueva9029]

Jean michel jarre VST

[@Voidermusic]

This video's audio is way overcompressed, it feels like the speaker is trying to talk against the loud sound from the back, not pleasant to listen to.

[@gwendalmg4503]

Wooww 🤭

[@TheVisionField]

Not trying to be sarcastic but what can this do that Stutter Edit 2 can't or other programs? This video is really not going into detail at all of what the technical aspects are as fAR as Pharlight . Has anyone being using this? Just curious what the unique special features are?

[@frankelting]

Stutter Edit 2 is an audio effect which processes the audio stream you sent into it. Pharlight is an instrument, which you can play on your piano keyboard and create chords and melodies etc. You don't need to record vocal etc. The recordings are included with the instrument and all sounds in the walkthrough video are from Pharlight except the drums.

[@Breakbeat90s]

XXYYXX sample library 😂

[@EricRabb]

Note that this demo doesn't use the stock Native Instruments sequencer. Come on guys !!!!!!

[@beastfremont]

What sequencer should they be using? Maschine?

[@owenaitken4754]

Straylight + Pharlight = 2049 soundtrack???

[@danpoolemusic]

Why does this guy always sound like he's constantly disappointed at the end of every sentence?

[@ReubenCornell]

Really? I was pretty excited by this. Maybe just because of the British accent?

[@2112jonr]

@@ReubenCornell Nah, I agree with Dan, it's not his accent, most Brits don't sound constantly disappointed (apart from Mancunians). It's the narrator.

[@ReubenCornell]

@@2112jonr Jeez... looks like I'd better start saving for that therapy then.

[@storiesreadaloud5635]

True but I do prefer this matter-of-fact delivery to fake hype and enthusiasm *cough* spitfire

[@dairebarefoot6763]

He reminds me of an English football post game commentator.

[@popwa6977]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3upZ5SwfKxkq68 PHARLIGHT

[@paulgrooveside2803]

Fairlight spelt wrong?? Actually, it does sound good!

[@AceMuziq]

I really didn’t want to have to spend on this... this video is not helping me lol

[@sasyberger7220]

you don't need this stuff to compose a hit! You need ideas!

[@NativeInstruments]

Having great instruments definitely helps 😉

[@user-db8np1er4s]

Hey. CPU is just killed by this library. Useless on most computers. BTW New bunch of sounds will not make you better producer. You'd better concentrate on production and mixing skills.

[@Manuel-cz7mz]

but they can boost your creative workflow. nobody’s talking about getting a better producer with this, for creating master pieces you obviously need to have production and mixing skills.

[@dehazesings]

Damn if your so negative about it why even bother watching this video?

[@ived_]

Hey anyone got load issues with Straylight ?

[@dehazesings]

@Allen Marlin pff wasnt talking to you was I? why so mad lmao

[@patrickblot3224]

@@ived_ Hello, no prob at all, and relatively cpu friendly: with my i7-9750H (2.6 GHz) the max i've had is 40% on two presets, but a little more than with Straylight.

[@2112jonr]

Great sounding product, let down by a frankly awful, far too complex interface and installation :( Didn't buy it for that usability reason alone, shame.