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Cinematique Instruments has released Spieluhr + Glockenspiel (Small Metal Set Vol1), a new sample library for Kontakt 3.

The Spieluhr (aka musicbox) is a small instrument which produces sounds by the use of a set of pins plucking the tuned teeth of a steel comb. The Glockenspiel is a percussion instrument, composed of a set of tuned metal bars. Thanks to their high pitch, both instruments produce a very assertive and bright sound.

Spieluhr + Glockenspiel features

• Spieluhr Looped Processed (processed + looped notes, modwheel contols vibrato and damping, additional sustain, delay and reverb knobs, range between F1 and G5)
• Spieluhr Resonating Guitar KEY (played & recorded on a guitars body as well as on a ukuleles body – key switched)
• Spieluhr Hard (different spieluhr model, percussive and rough)
• Spieluhr (known-thin sound, additional arp)
• Glockenspiel Room (recorded with a distance of 5m)
• Glockenspiel Rotate (3x RR, processed rotating sound, modwheel contols vibrato and damping, additional sustain, delay and reverb knobs range between C1 and C6)
• Glockenspiel (3x RR, known sound, modwheel contols damping, additional delay and reverb knobs range between C3 and C6)

Spieluhr + Glockenspiel for Kontakt is available to purchase for 16 EUR excl. VAT.

More information: Cinematique Instruments / Spieluhr + Glockenspiel

Acousticsamples has announced the release of The Dulcet, a sample library featuring the sounds of a Glockenspiel.

It’s a great christmas Glockenspiel (originally an English scholar one). It’s not a regular glockenspiel as it as some extended capabilties.

The Dulcet features

• English scholar Glockenspiel recorded at 24bits 44.1khz in stereo.
• 310Mo sample bank, no loops.
• 1 + 3/4 octave (4 + 3/4 with duplication)
• Duplicated mapping for a big metallophone or bell effect (listen to the chords in the demos).
• Up to 9 velocity layers.
• Both Original (out of tune) and corrected tunings.
• Optional full resonant or faded sustains.
• Build in vibraphone type Motor emulation (in the 3d demo).
• Sensivity control.
• KONTAKT 2 and 3 format. Easy to use KONTAKT interface.

The Dulcet is available to purchase for 14 EUR.

More information: Acousticsamples / The Dulcet

Prokits has announced a new collection of unique and individual sampled instruments.

Prokits is a portal for buying and selling professional sampler specific sounds, libraries, multi-samples and instruments online. We have a dedicated team of highly individual sound engineers from around the world providing regular content for the site.

New Prokits instruments

• Tibetan Singing Bowls by Michael Dunn – 250MB of long hits and loops.
• Bulbul Tarang Indian Banjo Instrument by Michael Bietenholz – Scripted Kontakt sampled instrument, tuning modes, natural decay.
• Kantele by Eric Van Gent – Traditional Finnish 5 string Kantele (plucked string instrument).
• Feedback Response by Eric Van Gent – Textured Layered and Toned Soundscape.
• Darbuka by Michael Bietenholz – Aluminium Goblet Hand-drum with round robin variants.
• Toy Glockenspiel – Extensively sampled, massively playable metal plate glockenspiel.
• Violimba by Pingu – Unique authentic sampled instrument producing deep metallic groans.
• Waterphone by Pingu – 28 rod Waterphone played with beaters.
• Amiga Kit by Koney – 6 drumkits and 10 synths from original Amiga Demoscene days.

Prokits instruments for Kontakt are available for purchase with prices starting at £1.50 GBP.

More information: Prokits

Precisionsound has released Tibetan Bowl and Marching Glockenspiel, two new sample libaries.

Ethno Percussion Collection Volume 2 – Tibetan Bowl contains multi velocity Bowl hits, loops, swirls and effects, as well as some treated bowl pads. This library is great for ambient music and film scoring purposes.

In Buddhist practice, singing bowls are used as a support for meditation, trance induction and prayer. Today they are used worldwide both within and without these spiritual traditions, for meditation, relaxation, healthcare, personal well-being and religious practice. The best known types are from the Himalayan region and are often called “Tibetan singing bowls”.

Tibetan Bowl features

• 84 24bit stereo WAV files.
• 18 programs for HALion & NI Kontakt each.
• 15 programs for SoundFont in 16bit format.

Ethno Percussion Collection Volume 2 – Tibetan Bowl is available as a download for $19 USD (CD-Rom optional for additional $11 USD).

The Marching Glockenspiel sample library includes both damped and sustained versions of the sampled glockenspiel.

The JenCo bell lyra/glockenspiel is mainly used in marching band orchestras and has a sound similar to a xylophone or a Celeste without the body only the brightness.

Marching Glockenspiel features

• 138 24bit mono WAV files.
• 5 programs for HALion & NI Kontakt each.
• 2 programs for SoundFont in 16bit format.

The Marching Glockenspiel sample library is available for download for $15 USD (CD-Rom optional for additional $11 USD).

Visit Precisionsound for more information and some audio demos.

Some interesting things I found on May 16th, 2008:

# Speaker Synth – A five-speaker array with no external audio input, created by Lesley Flanigan. The only components in the system are the instrument's speakers, piezoelectric microphones, amplifying circuits, and the hands of the performer.

Lesley Flanigan with Speaker Synth in performance at Monkey Town, New York City, January 2008

From the project page:

Speaker Synth is played by positioning individual piezo microphones with their corresponding speakers and manipulating their associated on/off and volume controls to induce a variation of feedback effects. During the performance, samples from both Speaker Synth and a vocalist are captured and sequenced to build a dense sonic pallet of rhythms and melodies. The performance explores music making through structuring noise, highlighting relationships between analog and digital sound synthesis and between human voice and the voice of an instrument.

Check Lesley’s website for audio and video performances and more cool projects.

# Tonefloat – A bit of a mutant mobile milkbottle xylophone. Each bottle has a small electrical hammer behind it, which is 'played' by a midi keyboard or drum machine, and a few strings of wire 'n chips.

# Plague Bearer – designed to infect, corrupt and pervert a signal beyond recognition. It contains four Voltage-Controlled Resonant Bandpass filters that were designed with the goals of maximum signal alteration and maximum parameter controllability.

# Steppers – Steppers were designed to get kids up on their feet, moving, and playing with sound and music. An external sensor sandal is worn over a child’s shoes, noting each footstep, and, in real time, playing back sound effects/music to compliment their movement.

# MIDI Glockenspiel – Using an Arduino make a computer controller MIDI Glockenspiel.

# Mozart from Scrap-Made Mechanical Glockenspiel – A weight-driven automatic glockenspiel made from assorted recovered materials.

# Toriton plus prototype: first look – A more complex version of the Toriton musical instrument. It involves using five lasers instead of just the one.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on April 11th, 2008:

# Brockenspiel in action – Brock Craft's Brockenspiel reads the magnetic strip on credit cards and swipe access cards, zips them through an Arduino board and triggers solenoids which bash the chimes.

Left: working on the Arduino, right: the actual Brockenspiel

# pe lang + zimoun : untitled sound objects – The “Untitled Sound Objects” by Pe Lang and Zimoun creates acoustic architecture from organic objects and forms connected up to motors and gears. The duo began as laptop performers but were offput by the lack of physicality so they investigated how to create physical instruments that react to their immediate environment and each other.

# Black Flag Hair: A Timeline – Nice illustration of Black Flag's hairstyles from 1976 to 1986.

# little-scale: Arduino Beats – Sebastian Tomczak is working on a sample-based drum machine for the Arduino. At the moment, bars and patterns have to be programmed into the code manually, but he's looking to adding a small and simple physical interface for real-time pattern sequencing.

# Ten Thousand Cents – Behind the scenes of a mechanical turk project: 10,000 people drawing a small piece of a 100 dollar bill.