Soundiron has returned with the latest installment in the Hopkin Instrumentarium series of Kontakt instrument libraries in collaboration with Bart Hopkin.
Squiggly-Amejewar features the sounds of a custom wooden instrument with 4 strings and a buzzing bridge. The buzz effect works best with very long strings, and the strings on Squiggly are about 7 feet long. They’re played with a flat-sided slide, making for a complex, varied and evolving sound.
The Indian sitar, tamboura, and the Kenyan obokano are three famous examples of the intentionally buzzing bridge. The Indian designs are subtle and refined in their effect, while obokano brings out a more, exciting, edgy, rhythmic sound. Squiggly-Amejewar owes a debt to all of these, but with its own distinct flavor. It can tend toward the raunchy, but with a sustained and interestingly variegated and multifaceted tone.
In this collection, the tones of the scale were recorded in two ways: straight – that is, with no vibrato or other added color, just the fascinatingly evolving spectrum of buzzing overtones, and modulated, with the additional colorizing effects created through subtle manipulation of the slide as the note sustains. If you’re looking for a truly new and unique timbre, take a listen to Squiggly!
Hopkin Instrumentarium: Squiggly-Amejewar features
- Zither pluck, gliss, FX articulations in three mic positions: Close, Pickups, Contact.
- 20 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content.
- 21 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets.
- 5,532 stereo samples in unlocked .WAV format.
- 11.1 GB Installed.
- Made for the full retail version of Kontakt (version 6.5+).
The instrument library is available to purchase for the introduction price of $29 USD until August 14th, 2024 (regular $39 USD).
More information: Soundiron
