BEHIND THE SCORE OF WEAPONS —THE HOLLADAY BROTHERS SLATE + ASH 2025-08-27 | Co-composers Ryan and Hays Holladay deconstruct their scoring philosophy for Zach Creggler's acclaimed thriller Weapons, revealing how a process rooted in instinct and textural exploration was realised through instruments such as SPECTRES and LANDFORMS.Read our full interview with The Hollday Brothers:→ slateandash.com/blogs/editorial/the-holladay-brothers-behind-the-score-of-weaponsLearn more about SLATE + ASH Instruments:→ slateandash.com#weapons2025
STEPHEN OMALLEY — FEEDBACK ARTICULATED SLATE + ASH 2025-08-19 | Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O))) and Khanate reflects on a career that evolved from early influences in thrash metal and Scottish Highland bagpipes into a philosophical exploration of elemental forces, detailing a decades-long work with feedback, saturation, and temporality. He discusses how physical memory inhabits his process, and how the space between notes—sculpted into dangerous and suspenseful shapes using feedback and tube amplification—became the foundation of his contribution to the RUINS library.Listen to our full interview with Stephen O'Malley, as part of THE RUINS PODCAST:→ slateandash.com/blogs/editorial/the-ruins-podcastOur new guitar instrument RUINS is available now at 30% off for a limited time:→ slateandash.com/products/ruins
PLAYING PRESETS WITH RUINS | SLATE + ASH #sounddesign #electronicmusic #guitar #musicproduction SLATE + ASH 2025-08-11 | slateandash.com
EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR TEXTURES IN RUINS | SLATE + ASH #sounddesign #electronicmusic #guitar SLATE + ASH 2025-08-11 | slateandash.com
COMPOSING WITH RUINS | SLATE + ASH #sounddesign #electronicmusic #guitar SLATE + ASH 2025-08-11 | slateandash.com
RUINS — WALKTHROUGH SLATE + ASH 2025-08-05 | RUINS — AVAILABLE NOW ON INTRO SALE:slateandash.com/products/ruinsSLATE + ASH presents RUINS, a new experimental guitar instrument shaped by sonic excavation. Featuring exclusive material from Stephen O’Malley, David Torn, Oren Ambarchi, Bill Horist, Ben Greenberg, and Arjan Miranda – RUINS deconstructs guitar textures into raw matter.RUINS — PRESET PLAYTHROUGH:youtube.com/watch?v=5ahHESud3w8COLLAGE ENGINE — FULL BREAKDOWN:youtu.be/GxUiqjFO32Islateandash.com/products/ruins
RUINS – PLAYTHROUGH SLATE + ASH 2025-08-05 | RUINS — AVAILABLE NOW ON INTRO SALE:slateandash.com/products/ruinsSLATE + ASH presents RUINS, a new experimental guitar instrument shaped by sonic excavation. Featuring exclusive material from Stephen O’Malley, David Torn, Oren Ambarchi, Bill Horist, Ben Greenberg, and Arjan Miranda – RUINS deconstructs guitar textures into raw matter.RUINS — WALKTHROUGH:youtube.com/watch?v=Bqb0C7ScfpYslateandash.com/products/ruins
RUINS – GUITAR MONOLITHS SLATE + ASH 2025-08-05 | RUINS is a sonic excavation—a collaboration instrument between six experimental guitarists and SLATE + ASH that transforms the electric guitar into a study of collapse, texture, and spatial memory. Captured at Circular Ruin Studios in New York under the ear of producer Randall Dunn, the project explores how sound can degrade with purpose, and how decay itself can be compositional.RUINS — WALKTHROUGH:youtube.com/watch?v=Bqb0C7ScfpYRUINS — PLAYTHROUGH:youtube.com/watch?v=5ahHESud3w8Video by Stephen McLaughlinslateandash.com
HUGH BRUNT – ORCHESTRATING DUALITY SLATE + ASH 2025-06-19 | MIRRORS / 30% OFF ENDS JUNE 24: slateandash.com/products/mirrorsWe spoke to Hugh Brunt about conducting the orchestral side of MIRRORS. As co-founder of the London Contemporary Orchestra, Brunt brings a unique sensitivity to bridging the digital and the acoustic. In this conversation, he shares how raw modular textures became fully orchestrated compositions—and how collaboration shaped the instrument’s dual identity.Interview:slateandash.com/blogs/editorial/hugh-brunt-orchestrating-dualitySLATE + ASH ® 2025
PLAYING MIRRORS PRESETS | SLATE + ASH #sounddesign #musicproducer #musicproduction #kontakt SLATE + ASH 2025-05-19 | slateandash.com | orchestraltools.com
COMPOSING WITH MIRRORS | SLATE + ASH #sounddesign #musicproducer #vst #musicproduction SLATE + ASH 2025-05-19 | slateandash.com / orchestraltools.com
MIRRORS OUT NOW | SLATE + ASH #sounddesign #musicproducer #vst SLATE + ASH 2025-05-19 | slateandash.com / orchestraltools.com
MIRRORS – WALKTHROUGH SLATE + ASH 2025-05-14 | Developed in collaboration with Orchestral Tools, MIRRORS is an instrument that blurs the boundaries between experimental synthesis and expansive orchestration. It takes synthesised source material and reflects it through the prism of orchestral performance, unearthing the symmetries of electroacoustic expression.slateandash.com/products/mirrors
MIRRORS – PLAYTHROUGH SLATE + ASH 2025-05-14 | 00:00 ARTICULATIONS05:00 SOUND DESIGNDeveloped in collaboration with Orchestral Tools, MIRRORS is an instrument that blurs the boundaries between experimental synthesis and expansive orchestration. It takes synthesised source material and reflects it through the prism of orchestral performance, unearthing the symmetries of electroacoustic expression.slateandash.com/products/mirrors
MIRRORS – ELECTROACOUSTIC REFLECTIONS SLATE + ASH 2025-05-14 | Developed in collaboration with Orchestral Tools, MIRRORS is an instrument that blurs the boundaries between experimental synthesis and expansive orchestration. It takes synthesised source material and reflects it through the prism of orchestral performance, unearthing the symmetries of electroacoustic expression.slateandash.com/products/mirrorsVisuals by Matthew Biederman mbiederman.com
SYNTHETIC SOUND DESIGN IN LANDFORMS | SLATE + ASH #sounddesign #musicproducer #composer SLATE + ASH 2025-03-27 | slateandash.com
EVOLVING ARRANGEMENTS WITH PRIMARIES / STRINGS | SLATE + ASH #sounddesign #musicproducer #composer SLATE + ASH 2025-03-24 | EVOLVING ARRANGEMENTS WITH PRIMARIES / STRINGS | SLATE + ASH - slateandash.com
HAUNTING AMBIENCES IN SPECTRES MULTISAMPLE | SLATE + ASH SLATE + ASH 2025-03-24 | HAUNTING AMBIENCES IN SPECTRES MULTISAMPLE | SLATE + ASHslateandash.com #sounddesign #musicproducer #composer #kontakt
SPECTRES – FREE MULTISAMPLE UPDATE SLATE + ASH 2025-02-10 | In a new free update, SPECTRES expands its depth and versatility with 89 new multisample patches and 100 extra sound design presets.slateandash.com/products/spectres
SPECTRES – MULTISAMPLE PRESET PLAYTHROUGH SLATE + ASH 2025-02-10 | In a new free update, SPECTRES expands its depth and versatility with 89 new multisample patches and 100 extra sound design presets.slateandash.com/products/spectres
PRIMARIES / STRINGS – NEW ORCHESTRAL COLOUR SLATE + ASH 2025-01-14 | PRIMARIES / STRINGS explores solo strings as a fundamental colour in the orchestral spectrum. Notes behave like vibrant rays of light, merging together into abstract expressions of colour and texture.40% off intro offer ends midnight 21/1.slateandash.com/products/primaries-strings
PRIMARIES / STRINGS – PRESET SELECTION SLATE + ASH 2024-11-18 | Through a multitude of processing options, PRIMARIES / STRINGS opens up avenues of possibilities that blur the line between acoustic and electronic, organic and synthetic.In over 150 sound-designed presets, the raw string sounds are transformed into a wide palette of reinterpreted textures, drones, statements, and synthetic pulses, each fully malleable ready to be explored.slateandash.com/products/primaries-strings
PRIMARIES / STRINGS – ARTICULATION SELECTION SLATE + ASH 2024-11-18 | PRIMARIES / STRINGS is a full-spectrum collection of uniquely expressive string articulations.Spanning over 100 multisampled articulations and immersed in a variety of distinct spatial environments, each member of the string family — bass, cello, viola, and violin — provides a range of unique tones and experimental performance approaches, capturing an expansive gradient of emotive colour.slateandash.com/products/primaries-strings
PRIMARIES / STRINGS – WALKTHROUGH SLATE + ASH 2024-11-12 | PRIMARIES / STRINGS explores solo strings as a fundamental colour in the orchestral spectrum. Notes behave like vibrant rays of light, merging together into abstract expressions of colour and texture.Spanning over 100 multisampled articulations and immersed in a variety of distinct spatial environments, each member of the string family — bass, cello, viola, and violin — provides a range of unique tones and experimental performance approaches, capturing an expansive gradient of emotive colour.slateandash.com/products/primaries-strings
SURGEONS GIRL – MOVEMENTS SLATE + ASH 2024-10-09 | Available now at slateandash.com/collections/packs/products/surgeons-girl-movementsIn MOVEMENTS, Surgeons Girl blends the primal energy of techno with moments of freeze-framed stillness. Each loop, shaped through spontaneous manipulation and hands-on sound design, emerges as a living thing, combining industrial drum programming with angular synthesised melodies in a delicate balancing act of motion and stasis. This pack offers a versatile range of distorted sounds and rhythmic patterns, inviting unique interpretations for use in anything from fast-paced techno to more experimental, ambient compositions.Included are 75 loops, available in a variety of formats to suit any DAW or device, plus 3 loop instruments and 50 sound designed-presets for CYCLES users.
DIALECT / STRATA – UNCUT INTERVIEW SLATE + ASH 2024-03-05 | The full uncut interview with Andrew PM Hunt / Dialect giving his insight into his process as an artist and his production for STRATA.STRATA is the very first release in our brand new series PACKS. Included are 75 loops, available in a variety of formats to suit any DAW or device, plus 3 loop instruments and 50 sound designed-presets for CYCLES users.slateandash.com/products/dialect-strata
DIALECT / STRATA – A SOUND THATS LIVED A LIFE SLATE + ASH 2024-03-05 | STRATA is the very first release in our brand new series PACKS. Included are 75 loops, available in a variety of formats to suit any DAW or device, plus 3 loop instruments and 50 sound designed-presets for CYCLES users.Fusing elements of sound collage and electro-acoustic composition, RVNG Intl. artist Dialect brings his conceptual exploration of heavily textured and distressed sound to this pack.slateandash.com/products/dialect-strata
DIALECT – AN EDGE A FOLD SLATE + ASH 2024-02-19 | Created using STRATA with live piano and saxophone over sounds and textures from the pack to create a surreal and highly tactile environment.STRATA is the very first release in our brand new series PACKS. Included are 75 loops, available in a variety of formats to suit any DAW or device, plus 3 loop instruments and 50 sound designed-presets for CYCLES users.Fusing elements of sound collage and electro-acoustic composition, RVNG Intl. artist Dialect brings his conceptual exploration of heavily textured and distressed sound to this pack.slateandash.com/products/dialect-strata
SPECTRES – SOUND DESIGN SLATE + ASH 2023-12-06 | A playthrough of some of the sound design presets included with SPECTRESslateandash.com/products/spectres
SPECTRES – ARTICULATIONS SLATE + ASH 2023-12-05 | A playthrough of some of the core articulation samples in our SPECTRES sample instrument. slateandash.com/products/spectres
SPECTRES – COLLAGE ENGINE SLATE + ASH 2023-12-05 | Explore the main features of our new COLLAGE engine used for the SPECTRES sample instrument.slateandash.com/products/spectres
LEA BERTUCCI – THE SPACES IN BETWEEN SLATE + ASH 2023-11-28 | Introducing the experimental composer and performer, Lea Bertucci, who discusses curating our new sample instrument, SPECTRES.slateandash.com/products/spectres
LAB SESSIONS VOL I – CHURCH ANDREWS + MATT DAVIES SLATE + ASH 2023-07-27 | Church Andrews and drummer Matt Davies bring their stripped-back drum and digital synthesis experiments to the S+A HQ for the first in our series of live sessions.00:01 Roadtrip03:57 Elixir07:19 Carbon10:02 Gallop16:20 Flutters19:38 Romanesque22:51 Ghost29:18 Trace32:28 Needles34:32 Propeller37:58 Pinecone44:10 Untitledbandcamp.com/tag/church-andrews
CHOREOGRAPHS – ENGINE OVERVIEW SLATE + ASH 2022-11-28 | Explore the main features of our new sample based synthesiser CHOREOGRAPHS.00:00 INTRO 00:38 INTERFACE OVERVIEW01:46 VOICES04:22 FILTERS + ENVELOPES06:08 SPATIAL07:22 TRIGGER09:24 HARMONY10:13 EFFECTS12:37 MODULATION16:04 RANDOM16:35 EUCLIDEAN19:22 STATES20:13 MICROTUNING21:01 DRAG + DROP21:38 GRANULAR
CHOREOGRAPHS – HARMONY IN MOTION SLATE + ASH 2022-11-28 | A malleable, open system of interconnecting signals, pulses, and patterns, CHOREOGRAPHS explores the principle of designing sound through sequences of movement.www.slateandash.com/choreographs
LANDFORMS – ENGINE IMPROVISATION SLATE + ASH 2021-07-09 | Real time exploration creating a new patch in our new orchestral instrument LANDFORMS. Note: All the chords/harmonies are generated randomly from one C3 key presshttp://www.slateandash.com/landforms
LANDFORMS – ARTICULATION PLAYTHROUGH SLATE + ASH 2021-07-08 | A playthrough of the majority of the core articulations in our LANDFORMS orchestral instrument. http://www.slateandash.com/landforms00:00 VIOLIN11:11 CELLO21:52 BASS26:43 BRASS34:11 WOODS42:15 SOLO VIOLIN51:36 SOLO FLUTE58:54 PROCESSED1:27:08 LOOPED1:33:17 BONUS
LANDFORMS – ENGINE OVERVIEW SLATE + ASH 2021-07-05 | An overview of the multi-dimensional sound design engine that drives our new orchestral sample instrument LANDFORMS. www.slateandash.com/landforms
CYCLES – PAPER DRAGON (VISUALS BY RUFFMERCY) SLATE + ASH 2020-06-19 | 'Paper Dragon'Made with CYCLES. Visuals by Ruff Mercy (Thom Yorke, Run The Jewels, Danny Brown)www.slateandash.comwww.ruffmercy.com
CYCLES – V1.2 UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS SLATE + ASH 2020-06-08 | Instructions on how to update v1.2 of CYCLESv1.2 includes- 2 new loop banks - 37 new presets- Updated drag + drop interface- Unsync time machine option (for more classic sample tape stretching techniques and helps reduce CPU load on presets using the Loops engine.
CYCLES + UNA CORDA SLATE + ASH 2020-03-05 | Creating a textural minimalist repeater piano patch using NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Una Corda piano, Unfiltered Audio Sandman Pro and and Logic X arpeggiator, and sampling into CYCLES for tape loop and granular processing.
CYCLES – XY PAD ASSIGN SLATE + ASH 2020-02-20 | How to assign an XY controller to the pads in CYCLES.
SAMPLING AURAS INTO CYCLES SLATE + ASH 2020-02-20 | A short demonstration of recording a progression from AURAS and importing it into CYCLES to experiment with. www.slateandash.com/products/cycles
CYCLES – GESTURAL GRAIN CONTROL SLATE + ASH 2020-02-14 | In the second video of our Cycles studies series we explore using the modwheel to take control of abstract forms and sound shaping gestures within the grains engine. Be warned, it gets pretty gnarly!
CYCLES – GRANULAR RECONSTRUCTION SLATE + ASH 2020-02-06 | 'Granular Loop Reconstruction' is the first in a series of videos exploring different approaches to using Cycles to create and shape sounds.www.slateandash.com/products/cycles
PROCESS - Cycles metallophones SLATE + ASH 2020-02-04 | To record the metallophones for Cycles we hooked up a bunch of mechanical beaters to a computer using dadamachines automat kit. Using combinations of midi fx such as arpeggiators, chord triggers and note repeats we created a large array of rhythmic melodies and cascading patterns.
SIMON ASHDOWN – HUNTER SLATE + ASH 2020-01-30 | A track made entirely with S+A's AURAS virtual instrument.
YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN – AFFIRMARE SLATE + ASH 2020-01-30 | The video for Yair Elazar Glotman's 'Affirmare' from the AURAS EP.
CYCLES – DRAG + DROP SLATE + ASH 2020-01-30 | By simply dragging and dropping a sample anywhere onto the CYCLES interface, it will be loaded into the LOOPS and GRAINS engines. Up to 25 loops or samples can be loaded simultaneously into a single instrument, making mixing and matching loops easy. The engines can then be used to manipulate and reinvent the sounds, or can be switched into any of the 100 preset states, transforming user samples instantly into a huge variety of sound designed textures and rhythms. Any user patches can then be saved within the CYCLES file structure and will be accessible within the library tab.
