73% off “Tuned Percussion Bundle” by Soundiron

20GB+ Of Beautiful Playable Tuned Percussion Libraries For Kontakt!

“Tuned Percussion Bundle” is a mighty toolbox of melodic percussion sounds over 9 libraries covering a wide range of musical uses and includes:

• Alto Glockenspiel – $29
• Circle Bells – $49
• Cylindrum – $49
• Imbibaphones – $29
• Kalimba – $19
• The Musique Box – $39
• Noah Bells – $39
• Water Harp – $59
• Whale Drum – $39
  

These products would cost €295 if bought individually, but are available for €79 for a limited time.

Circle Bells

The Circle Bells library was recorded with a rare and unique instrument called “Blossom Bells”, created by local SF Bay Area metal working artisan Pete Engelhart. This hand-welded tuned percussion instrument features six steel conical bells tuned to different keys and spread out in a fan arrangement.

Each bell has a deeply rich, warm and sonorous tone with a long sustain and crystalline clarity. Soundiron recorded them with soft mallets, hard picks and viola bow with both single-strikes/staccatos and rolls/sustains for each articulation.

Its distinctive sound evokes the feel of a steel Marimba-phone or Celeste when played with mallets and a glass harmonica when bowed, yet its character and undulating resonance defies any direct comparison to any other instrument.

The bells range in size from 2″ to 3 1/2″ in diameter and each about 10″ long. Each note can sustain for up to 10 seconds or more and carries a deep blend of beautiful overtones. Soundiron recorded each one up close in wide stereo.

It’s divided into three articulation sections: bows, mallets and picks. Soundiron used a viola bow to produce sustains and staccatos, a soft cloth mallet to play single notes and sustaining rolls and a hard pick to play single taps, scrapes and sustaining effects. All articulations feature extensive round robin variation and deep dynamic velocity layering.

Contents

Each articulation is available in a standalone preset or as part of a powerful dual-layer instrument which allows users to shape and blend any two articulations each with completely independent controls.

Every preset offers a full DSP effects rack, layer blending, tuning and envelope shaping controls. Soundiron’s advanced ARP system gives you instant adaptive arpeggiation, step-sequencing, scale/chord constraint and auto-roll functionality, with custom preset saving and loading.

You’ll also find a great selection of ambient and atmospheric FX presets, created by the Soundiron team and veteran sound designer and instrumentalist Steven Tavaglione.

• Cloth mallet strikes: an average of 12 velocity layers with our standard 10 round-robins
• Cloth mallet rolls: modwheel controlled loops with 3+ velocity layers and 2+ round robins with release triggers
• Twin metal guitar pick strikes: an average of 12 velocity layers and 10x round-robin
• Twin metal guitar pick scratch effects: 8 layers and 8 round robins per layer
• Twin metal guitar pick scratch “rolls”: modwheel controlled loops with 3+ velocity layers and 2+ round robins with release triggers
• Bowing sustains on all bells (fundamental notes and harmonics): 2+ velocity layers and 2+ round robin with release triggers
• Bowing staccatos on all bells (fundamental notes and harmonics): 2+ velocity layers and 2+ round robin
• Custom sculptable ambient drones, created using only the circle bells as source material

Product Specs

• 5.56 GB installed
• 2,893 Samples
• 22 .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization

Click here for PDF user manual

Note: Requires the FULL Retail version of Kontakt 5.1 or later (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

Imbibaphones

The Imbibaphones library is a unique spin on the classic musical wine glass. The contents typically contained in wine glasses have provided inspiration for musicians since the first time the two were formally introduced.

The wine glass became popular as a musical instrument in the 18th century. Soundiron decided to interpret this concept in their own particular way. Instead of just using a set of wine goblets, they also sampled tuned percussion and resonant sustains with a martini glass, champagne flute, and after one happy accident, a broken glass.

They captured natural sustaining finger rubbed notes and soft mallet strikes for each type of glass. They then applied a variety of effects to create atmospheres, pads and effects.

Imbibaphones comes complete with a variety of GUI features to allow deep real-time performance shaping. Imbibaphones captures the complex resonances that occur during the sustaining notes of each glass as well as the full bell-like sounds of each glass being hit with a mallet.

Most sustaining notes were recorded at three different speeds which can be faded between using the modwheel. For version 2.0, they’ve fixed a variety of tuning issues and added a collection of expertly sound designed content created from the source material, featuring both short and looping articulations.

Contents

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. Soundiron have also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control.

Soundiron’s customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. They have included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

The interface is rounded-out by Soundiron’s modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more.

The Reverb effect includes Soundiron’s favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. Soundiron have added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

• Martini Glass w/ Rubber Mallet – 10 round robin/6 velocity layers
• Red Wine Glass w/ Rubber Mallet – 10 round robin/6 velocity layers
• White Wine Glass w/ Rubber Mallet – 10 round robin/6 velocity layers
• Champagne Flute Mallet – 10 round robin/6 velocity layers
• Harmonic multi-glass strike combos – 10 round robin/4 velocity layers
• Red Wine Glass rim sustains – recorded chromatically over an octave w/ 3 modwheel fading intensity layers and release samples
• White Wine Glass rim sustains – recorded chromatically over an octave w/ 3 modwheel fading intensity layers and release samples
• Broken Wine Glass w/ Mallet – 10 round robin/4 velocity layers
• Broken Wine Glass Stirring Shard loops w/ modwheel layer blending
• Bonus custom sound-designed ambiences, “synths”, drones, and pads hand created and sculpted from the original raw source material.
• Standard non-compressed full-resolution PCM wav samples, conveniently organized and clearly-named following a standard and easily-understood file naming convention, so they’re easy to use in software or hardware platform you wish.

Product Specs

• 1 master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 1.58 GB Installed
• 823 Samples
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav audio
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator.
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments.

Click here for PDF user manual

Note: Requires the FULL Retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

The Musique Box

The Musique Box is a complete collection of deeply sampled antique music boxes. Soundiron recorded 11 music boxes in different environments and configurations, from dry studio to lush concert hall, and even submerged underwater.

They then manipulated the sound to create a wide range of additional atmospheric sustains, pads and magical instruments, plus an array of tuned ambient pads, evolving atmospheres and unique dynamic FX to open up a wealth of creative possibilities right out of the box.

They’ve extended the note range to span the full scale, exposing powerfully rich bass tones and tight, percussive high notes well outside the limits of an ordinary music box. Their goal wasn’t to simply deliver the most comprehensive music box library possible, but to provide a valuable creative resource that turns these humble music boxes into heavy duty compositional power tools. Next to The Musique Box, the rest are just toys.

All of the music boxes can be easily loaded and shaped within the master preset. You can create and blend new instruments instantly in real-time, with full control over every aspect of each sound layer directly on the front panel.

This library is versatile – It can be used for a simple music box melody, or an eerie sound designed multi-layered pad. For Musique Box 2.0, Soundiron remastered the samples, added usability features with their modular template, and created 20 new custom FX presets to give you instant inspiration for your next film/video game score, soundtrack or music composition.

Contents

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. They’ve also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control.

Soundiron’s customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. Soundiron have included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

The interface is rounded-out by their modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more.

The Reverb effect includes Soundiron’s favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. Soundiron have added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Product Specs

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• 11 Music Boxes in different environments, Winding SFX
• 32 Ambience patches created from the source content
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
• 1,689 Stereo WAV files
• 2.24 GB installed
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

Click here for PDF user manual

Note: Requires the FULL Retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

Water Harp

The Soundiron Waterharp is a deeply multi-sampled percussion and effects instrument library that captures the heart and soul of the waterphone. This unique instrument concept was originally developed by Richard Waters in the late 1960s.

Waterphones — also commonly known as Water Harps — are found in all shapes and sizes, but they generally follow the same basic design: a brass vessel with a hollow brass water chamber and a long neck. The top side of the chamber is adorned with vertical brass tines or bars. It is played by strumming, striking and bowing these tines, which resonate together creating darkly harmonic or dissonant tones and textures.

The tines are cut to specific lengths and arranged to create scales as they wind around the body of the waterphone. Adding water to the chamber and changing the position of the waterphone drastically changes the pitch and harmonics that are produced when the instrument is played. The water chamber itself can also be played as a percussion instrument. Overall, the waterphone can be considered as both a tuned and un-tuned percussion instrument, but is most often used in suspense and horror soundtracks and sound design as a dramatic sound effect tool.

Soundiron played it with lots of different mallets, sticks, metal rods, fingers and palms, bows and even voices to explore every nuance and hidden musical potential of this instrument. We recorded it both empty and full of water.

They even recorded it from the inside out using hydrophones (underwater microphones), while being cooked over open flame and while filled with machine screws. And finally, they created a wide selection of ambient soundscapes, pads, drones, ambiences and atmospheres using the recordings and all manner of creative sound design techniques to take this library to the next level.

Contents

Waterharp 2.0 includes automatable Attack, Release, Edge, Filter, Vibrato and Convolution reverb with 30+ custom halls, rooms and special FX impulses. They’ve optimized presets to put each category right at your fingertips, with easy articulation menu loading.

They’ve also rolled their Arpeggiator system into every tuned and strike percussion preset, with plenty of mode, sequencing and time signature options. The effects presets now feature dynamic waveform display, with real-time playback and offset cursor.

They’ve also added a new range of deep ambiences, synths and sound-designed atmospheres, all hand-crafted from the original instrument source.

• Bowing (no water) Slow, Medium, Fast FX
• Bowing sweep (water) Slow, Medium, Fast FX
• Bowing 2-note legato
• Bowing Sustain (with and without water)
• Bowing Staccato
• Bowing FX grinding w/ tine buzz (with and without water)
• Bowing FX w/ magnets
• Bowing FX w/ hydrophone (underwater mic)
• Bowing FX w/vocals
• Bowing FX boiling at four different temperature levels
• Mallet Rubber (6-7 velocity layers – 6 round robin) at +16 tines
• Mallet Metal (6-7 velocity layers – 6 round robin) at +8 tines
• Hand Played “Metal Tabla” (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin) bottom and top
• Wooden Mallet (6-7 velocity layers – 6 round robin) at +20 tines
• Hydro Mallets (6 round robin) at +20 tines
• Rubber, Metal and Wooden Mallet Sweeps (Slow, Medium, Fast)
• Hydro-Vocal drones, phrases and more…
• Custom ambiences, including patches by Steven Tavaglione (Ambient music on Wall-E, American Beauty and more)

Product Specs

• 7.86 GB installed
• 2,927 Samples
• 18 Kontakt 5.1 .nki instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48kHz uncompressed PCM wav audio
• Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization
• Bonus Pads, Soundscapes and Atmospheres
• Convolution reverb with a variety of different room, hall and special effect acoustic environments.

Click here for PDF user manual

Note: Requires the FULL Retail version of Kontakt 5.1 or later (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

So What Exactly Can I Do With “Tuned Percussion Bundle”?

In “Tuned Percussion Bundle” you’ll find hundreds of intuitively playable, customizable Kontakt instrument presets and brilliant sound quality in 9 very unique libraries. These will provide endless hours of inspiration for your next music project and are perfect for, but not limited to:

• Cinematic Underscore
• TV Music
  
• Video Games

Note: Requires the FULL Retail version of Kontakt 5.5.2 or later (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)

Note: Downloads will be provided by Soundiron, we do not host the library downloads at VSTBuzz.