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Quickly & Easily Create Novel Hybrid Sounds Or Faithful Recreations Of Classics

“Bionic Plucks & Mallets” is loaded with 80 sound sources (20 short, 40 medium length and 20 long) and 50 ready-made presets to get you inspired straight away!

Combine this with a unique new concept: BIONIC and you have a very versatile instrument. BIONIC is a “transient splicing engine”, i.e. it is designed to give detailed control over a range of parameters needed to mix and match a number of different initial transients to another set of tails/longer sounds.

Sound Applications

“Bionic Plucks & Mallets” is designed with a wide range of contemporary music production applications in mind, including electronica, hip hop and R&B, as well as cinematic styles.

The included presets cover smooth and dirty Basses, gritty, reimagined Electric and Rhodes Pianos, Celesta or Glockenspiel-like bells and analog-style Synth Plucks, as well as a number of experimental, customised sounds.

Sound Sources

The sounds for “Bionic Plucks & Mallets” come in three categories – short, medium and long. The short sounds (20) are non-tonal and cover transients only, including a range of wool, wooden, rubber and finger taps and knocks.

The medium sound sources (40) are tonal and are drawn from plucked, fingered and mallet-hit acoustic, electric and bass guitars, alto and soprano glockenspiel, some sampled original analog synth plucks and a variety of unusual percussive sounds including a Japanese wind chime, metal kalimba, dampened piano, pitchfork and wine glass.

The long sound sources (20) are long sustained pads that can be used to add sustain to match the shorter sources.

There is a selection of Ebow-ed strings (piano, guitars, violin), and several individually crafted classic synth-style sounds (bells, tines, organ, saw, sine, pulse).

Main Page

“Bionic Plucks & Mallets” is a detailed three-page instrument. There are four layers (A, B, C, D), accessible on the main page: two transient layers, and two tail layers. Levels can be adjusted as balance between each of the tail/transient layers respectively, and globally between transients and tails.

Each layer contains sample offset and tuning controls as well as a “humanize” function which introduces subtle to not-so-subtle random pitch variations (especially helpful for making non-tonal transients more realistic).

Setting Page

The settings page is where the details of the transient splicing engine are determined. A range of controls allow shaping of the crossfade curve, point of crossover and initial transient, as well as filters for both transients and tail, plus envelope shaping for the overall sound.

There’s also a sophisticated velocity mapping section which allows for realistic mapping of velocity to HP/LP filters and volume.

Effects Page

The effects page includes state of the art filters, EQ, saturation and delay + reverb controls using the latest Kontakt 6 effects, including Replika delay, Choral chorus, Flair flanger and Supercharger GT compressor.

Sound Sources