Publisher: Soundiron
Website: soundiron
Format: KONTAKT 6.1.1+
Quality: 24 bit 48 kHz stereo
Description: Rumba Boxes are a creative assortment of large wooden bass kalimbs created by master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin. This library features 2 unique handcrafted instruments with memorable shapes and mechanics. They have a rich acoustic essence that resonates brightly in every note. We’ve included a wide variety of playable articulations, sound design textures, pads, drones, and multiple microphone options to give you new musical inspiration.
Rumba Box is the name used in the English speaking Caribbean for bass kalimba. Usually, the player sits on the box, extending his hand between his legs to pluck the teeth. Most are chromatic, with spring steel bar teeth. Some of the prongs have been reshaped to adjust the setting of the most prominent overtone in relation to the fundamental, making the sound more coherent. Some have cracked teeth. Wheezing reveals a reconfigured overtone and imparts a distinctive tint to the tone. The Rumba Box includes tweaks, picks and percussion.
Arby McCone is an agglomeration of rumba, cajon and percussion devices. Originally it was just a rumba box, but it also worked great as a cajon – a wooden box that sounded good with a variety of hand strokes. Arbi is helped by sympathetic resonance in the prongs, which greatly enriches some types of percussion hits. Then Bart Hopkin added a few more percussion sounds, including spring metal and clave sounds, shekere beads, shakers, ratchets and a couple of bells. This thing is really fun to play. Arby McCone includes plucking, hammering, banging, slapping and lots of extra percussion.
We’ve faithfully selected every interesting sound we could get from these instruments with two stereo microphone positions. Also included are a wide selection of custom FX presets and a host of our signature soundscapes created from raw acoustic sources to give you total creative freedom.
The Kontakt interface includes a set of automation-ready sound shaping controls for complete creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse and fine), articulation switching, crossfading and layering, and more. We’ve also included 20 unique sound effect presets to give you tons of creative options.
This library comes with an adaptable LFO system with selectable LFO shape, modulation target, rate, intensity, tempo sync and decay time. You can also apply your choice of 12 low-pass, high-pass and FX filters with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, mod wheel, expression, post-tap, key position, and step sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and arpeggio duration. We have included a key and scale lock system to limit your notes to common scales and keys for easier melodic composition and live performance.
The interface is complemented by our modular FX rack panel with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign to any of the 10 available slots in any order. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cabinet simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator, and more. The Reverb Effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus 40 more customizable FX impulses to radically transform sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibilities. We’ve added a great bank of factory presets for the FX chain to get you started!
Specifications :
4 Master presets and 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
2 Unique Hand-crafted Rumba Boxes each with 2 mic positions
Plucks, picks, hand percussion, aux percussion
24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
13,719 Stereo Samples
7.13 GB Installed
Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
