The music-meets-sound-design phenomenon has been getting into the heads of film, TV, and game composers for some time, as conventional instrumentation cannot completely cover or evoke every mood and scene in their projects. Unusual timbres that still sound organic are difficult to come by or create. Native Instruments Evolve Mutations covers that music-meets-sound-design need to expand every composer's arsenal of sounds.

Evolve Mutations is a Kontakt-based instrument that has four key components or sound categories: Tonality & FX, Stings & Transitions, Percussive Kits, and Rhythmic Suites. Taking a page from 20th-century sound exploration,

Tonality & FX embraces unconventional modernist sounds ranging from effected pianos and guitars to altered synths and pads.

Stings & Transitions brings in those sweeps, swells, rips, feedback, and odd textures to deliver its namesake effect and requirement.

Percussive Kits bring that eclectic mix of cinematic percussion sounds to enable you to build beats from the ground up.

Rhythmic Suites complement Percussive Kits with its tempo-synced percussive and tonal loops that have been intuitively key-mapped, spanning a wide range of genres from electronic and industrial to rock and cinematic.

Native Instruments Evolve Mutations is a 2.16-GB (Mac) or 1.89-GB (PC) package that total 275 instruments with 1,100 individual sounds and requires either the free Kontakt Player or Kontakt 3.5. A copy of Evolve Mutations costs 119.00 USD.