Opacity is a cinematic guitar library by Audiomodern, featuring 14 scoring kits with mix-and-match chords, phrases, sequences, and textures for film, TV, and game composers.
Purpose
Opacity is a premium guitar library designed for cinematic scoring and sound design. It offers a curated suite of six-string performances and textures crafted by Justin Hodges and Terre Grande, a boutique sound design house known for cinematic guitar artistry. The library aims to provide composers with a versatile palette for building lush soundscapes, intimate underscores, or rhythm-driven sequences.
The content is organized into 14 complete scoring kits, each containing four categories: Chords, Phrases, Sequences, and Textures. Each category includes 12 distinct performances, all key-labeled and tempo-synced to your DAW or host project. This structure allows for extensive mix-and-match flexibility, ensuring fresh and musically cohesive variations every time.
Key Capabilities
The library’s core strength is its modular design. Each scoring kit provides four distinct performance types, giving you immediate access to harmonic foundations, melodic phrases, rhythmic patterns, and evolving sound textures. All performances are key-labeled and tempo-synced, ensuring they fit seamlessly into your project’s musical and rhythmic framework.
This Soundbox edition brings new depth, flexibility, and ease of use to the original Kontakt release. The combination between categories and performances is designed to be limitless, allowing you to blend different elements to create unique variations. Whether you need a simple chord bed or a complex texture, Opacity delivers a wide range of guitar-based material.
Workflow
In a typical workflow, you would load Opacity in your host and select a scoring kit that fits the mood of your scene. You can then mix and match between the four categories—chords, phrases, sequences, and textures—to build a custom guitar arrangement. The key-labeling and tempo-sync features ensure that all performances align with your project’s key and tempo.
This makes Opacity suitable for rapid sketching and experimentation. Composers can quickly layer different performances to create evolving textures or rhythmic patterns, then refine the combination to suit the emotional tone of their score. The library is designed to inspire creativity while maintaining technical accuracy, making it a practical tool for both writing and sound design.
Applications
Opacity is intended for modern composers and sound designers working in film, television, sound design, documentaries, game scores, trailers, commercials, and contemporary ambient or cinematic music. Its versatile content supports a range of uses, from ambient pads to rhythmic, tension-building sequences. The guitar textures can add warmth, edge, or melancholy to a score.
The library is especially effective for genres that require atmospheric and emotive guitar work, such as cinematic ambient, indie drama, or psychological thrillers. Because the content is tempo-synced, it also suits trailer music and game scoring where precise timing is essential. Opacity serves as a performance instrument, mood setter, and toolkit for storytelling through guitar.
Key features
- 14 complete scoring kits
- Four categories per kit: Chords, Phrases, Sequences, Textures
- 12 distinct performances in each category
- Key-labeled and tempo-synced performances
- Crafted by Justin Hodges and Terre Grande
- New Soundbox edition for enhanced ease of use
Best for
Best for film, TV, and game composers needing quick, flexible cinematic guitar textures. Ideal for building ambient soundscapes or rhythmic sequences with mix-and-match performances that stay in key and sync to project tempo.