Developer Riot Audio has released Industry Lite, a free cinematic synth/sampler for Kontakt Player.
Industry Lite is the little brother of the premium Industry instrument (£119), and it runs in the free Kontakt Player v8.7 or higher.
Industry Lite is listed at £3 (a donation to help the developer with bandwidth costs), but you can claim the instrument for free using the code industry-free.
Industry Lite offers a three-layer sound design engine to create complex sounds and textures.
Each layer has independent modulation, movement, envelope, and filter controls.
Riot Audio describes Industry Lite in a couple of pretty accurate ways.
First, the developer refers to it as a “crossover instrument for dark, noise-inspired cinematic scoring.”
Riot Audio also calls it a “post-apocalyptic noise engine.”
When you think of the name, Industry, you already get the sense that it’s about gritty, industrial, mechanical textures, and media composers love that stuff for a variety of project types.
Industry Lite delivers those textures through a collection of granular, basic/complex synth sounds, mechanical loops, Engines, and noise.
The various sound sources offer everything from a simple soft saw to a vintage flute to a lawnmower.
What I like about Industry Lite is that it’s not all about the clunk, clank, and scraping sounds of metal machines; you can create very pretty and lush sounds.
But it’s lush with a difference. It’s lush pads or even string-like sounds that aren’t quite pristine, which gives them that apocalyptic character.
Once you start blending in some of the more grating sounds, you can get some intriguing textures.
In addition to blending layers to craft unique sounds, Industry Lite features fifteen factory presets.
You also have some master FX on the main page, including controls for Dynamics, Volume, Pan (per layer), and compression.
Industry Lite also features a dedicated FX page, including Saturation, HP/BP/LP Filters, EQ, Delay, and Reverb.
The download size for this collection is 1.71 GB.
It does a bit of everything; it can provide harmonic, melodic, and percussive content, or be entirely textural.
If you’re looking for something that provides tonal and nontonal sounds and lets you blend the two, Industry Lite is a nice freebie.
If you’re someone who works on game and video scoring projects, you’ll get a lot of mileage out of this one.
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Last Updated on January 20, 2026 by Tomislav Zlatic.
