Soniccouture has released Tingklik, a sampled bamboo percussion instrument.
A Tingklik is a bamboo percussion instrument from Bali. It’s often used for “Rindik” music, so is sometimes referred to as a Rindik itself. Rindik music usually involves two Tingklik players and a single Suling (bamboo flute).
Rindik music is usually played at public gatherings or just for entertainment. It’s not associated with any of the religious or cultural festivals where we usually hear the gamelan. The pieces are secular, and usually named after animals, such as “Chasing a female pig”, or “Frog climbing a leaf”.
A Tingklik typically has 11 bamboo tubes, although the instrument we sampled has 12. The longest bamboo is about a metre long for the lowest pitch. With five notes per octave, the range is just over 2 octaves. The tubes are suspended using string over a brightly coloured wooden frame. The player sits on the ground and strikes the bamboo tubes with rubber-tipped mallets.
Tingklik features
- 24bit 44.1khz Stereo Sampling.
- 14 Velocity Layers.
- 6 Round Robin Layers.
- KSP Jammer module.
- 470 MB Sample library.
- Available for Kontakt, EXS24, and Ableton Live.
Soniccouture Tingklik is available to purchase for 29 EUR.
More information: Soniccouture / Tingklik
