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Premium Marimba, Xylophone & Vibes. Effortless idiomatic writing.

The Instruments

Scoring Mallets includes 3 instruments – Marimba, Xylophone, and Vibraphone.

Recorded in a beautiful large scoring room, its primary use is for scoring applications, however, due to its full-featured mixer and microphone balance options, it fits virtually every musical style!

Marimba

Custom Marimba made by ‘Marimba One’. 5 Octaves with Basso resonators to enhance the fundamental pitch.

Xylophone

This Xylophone from Malletech features a robust tone and strong attack. The mallets we used extend the rich sound and offer a nice balance between warmth and punch.

Vibraphone

This Yamaha Vibraphone is very special. It has a very direct sound with a lot of dynamics. There is some nonlinearity of harmonics throughout the tonal and dynamic ranges that makes it sound detailed and grainy, which works well within a modern orchestral context.

Features & tech

Scoring Mallets offers an abundance of features all targeting seamless Composition and idiomatic writing that compliments modern scoring. The robust 38,000+ sample count along with up to 5 microphone perspectives translate to ultra authentic playability, while powerful features such as the Acoustic Positioner™ and numerous intuitive playing techniques extend this library to boast unparalleled quality.

Premium instruments – Detailed Scoring Sound

Scoring Mallets features premium custom instruments from Marimba One, Malletech and Yamaha. We chose custom Mallets that combine medium soft outer material with a harder more articulate core to bring out both warmth and resonance from the instruments.

The recording process in the scoring room results in a lot of flexibility of tone. We captured the instruments from 5 Microphone perspectives: Tight, Loose, Stage, and Wides/Surround.

The microphone placement was prepared in such a way to give maximum flexibility from intimate and a more ‘pop’ sound to authentic Cinematic tone with a lot of body, air, and spatial focus. Unique microphone arrays and placement were used in order to make our stage positioning engine possible!

Ultra idiomatic playback – From single notes to Ripple Rolls

Scoring Mallets makes effective use of its massive sample pool for a lot more than plenty of velocity layers, round robins and release samples. We have designed custom scripts for authentic Trills, Rolls, and Glissandi with complete control over tempo and humanization. You can apply Crescendo, time shifting, and velocity drifts all in real time if you wish.

With the built-in Step Sequencer you can design polyrhythmic and polyphonic Ostinati and change tonal structures on the fly by playing chords. With added features for time drifts and custom velocity maps you can create evocative loopable Ostinati and intricate polyphonic lines on the spot.

And finally, Scoring Mallets includes special 4-mallet playing techniques which bring authentic multi-mallet playing styles to the virtual instrument world. Choose between various types – Basic, Independent, and Ripple rolls – each with special scripting to replicate proper timing and velocity relationships between inner and outer mallets.

Acoustic Positioner™ – Truthful positioning around the stage

We have developed a totally new concept with instrument positioning. Unlike panning, instrument positioning is a spatial effect which relies on the acoustic properties of the recording space. Scoring Mallets was recorded in a beautiful scoring room and with our Acoustic Positioner you are now able to move instruments around the stage to better fit your production, especially when doing scoring and using a variety of instruments from different libraries.

Acoustic Positioner offers true positioning capabilities without relying on convolution and panning mock-ups. The engine is based on specific microphone arrays and placement that allowed us to create a comprehensive time and phase matrix that is entirely sample-based. There are no gimmicks and no simulation. You are actually moving the instrument around the stage smoothly with virtually no extra CPU usage!

Playback control – Complete control over timing and performance

We enhanced the playability using a logarithmic velocity sensitivity control that allows you to fit the velocity curve to any playing style. There are key performance controls that include Crescendo/Diminuendo and auto detection of Rolls, Trills, and Glissando. Playback can be controlled further utilizing adjustable time and velocity drifts.

Every performance nuance is easily controlled. The custom playback scripts infuse performances with a ‘human’ feel through a variety of built-in humanization algorithms.

THE HIGHLIGHTS

Scoring Mallets features 3 instruments – Marimba, Xylophone, and Vibraphone. Recorded in a beautiful large scoring room, its primary use is for scoring applications, however, using its full-featured mixer and proper microphone balance it excels in virtually every musical style!

Scoring Mallets offers an abundance of features all targeting seamless Composition and idiomatic writing that compliments modern scoring. The robust 38,000+ samples along with up to 5 microphone perspectives translate to ultra authentic and playable instruments. Additional powerful features such as the Acoustic Positioner™ and numerous intuitive playing techniques extend this library to boast unparalleled quality.

Premium Marimba, Xylophone, and Vibraphone

Recorded in a beautiful Scoring room and includes multi velocities, extreme dynamic range, round robin and release samples for ultra realistic playback.

Extremely Sampled

Features over 38,000 samples and up to 5 microphone perspectives – Tight, Center, Loose, Stage, and Wides/Surround. Custom scripts were designed to enhance each instrument with versatile articulations and enhanced playability. (14GB uncompressed).

Effortless idiomatic writing

With Scoring Mallets you can elegantly play single notes, Trills, Rolls, Glissandi, and for the first time, have dedicated access to 4-Mallet playing techniques. These options allow complete freedom of idiomatic writing without the use of pre-recorded loops.

Polyphonic Step Sequencer for Ostinati generation.

Design sequenced patterns and trigger them in realtime. Create up to 4-note polyphonic and polyrhythmic Ostinati with complete control over timing, tempo, and dynamics.

Acoustic Positioner ™

Place the instrument anywhere on the stage with HandHeldSound’s innovative Acoustic Positioner™. Unlike other positioners that rely on convolution or panning mockups, our positioner uses no artificial processing. It uses dynamic phase / time relationships, calibrated to replicate an authentic and smooth spatial positioning with minimal CPU usage!

Playability enhancements

Scoring Mallets includes a customized Logarithmic velocity control and extensive realtime performance, timing, and humanization options that ensure ultra realistic playback.

Voices Of Rapture is our premier operatic solo vocal collection for Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX), featuring 4 outstanding singers covering the classical soprano, alto, tenor and bass ranges.

This complete solution includes fundamental chromatic articulations like true legato vowel sustains, single and multi-syllable staccatos and Latin chanting sustains, with individual solo and combined ensemble quartet presets.

It also comes packed with thousands of beautifully dynamic live performance phrases in various keys and tempos, with your choice of Pure Vowel, French, Latin and even Humming and Whistling categories. The Phrase presets are equipped with real-time step-sequencing, tempo control, phrase editing and other control features for maximum flexibility and intuitive playability.

You’ll also find dozens of uniquely creative sound-designed atmospheric synths, drones and soundscapes that we’ve re-synthesized from these voices. They’re perfect for underscoring, reinforcement and ambient arrangements. Along with our full FX rack panel, they offer you nearly endless creative possibilities.

Product Specifications

• Product Version 1.0
• 17,310 Samples
• 13 GB installed (17 GB wav source)
• 61 nki Kontakt instrument presets
• 24 bit / 48kHz losslessly compressed NCW samples
• Works with the free Kontakt Player (version 5.5.2+)

Together with Nichole Dechaine (Soprano), Kindra Scharich (Alto), Brian Thorsett (Tenor) and Joseph Trumbo (Bass), we captured a grand total of nearly 50 hours in our studio and carefully distilled it into this extraordinarily playable virtual instrument library for the Kontakt Player and Komplete Kontrol platforms. With a clean and simple interface, pristine fidelity and excellent vocal performances, Voices Of Rapture is your new go-to for classical and cinematic lead vocal arrangements.

Chromatic Elements

• True Legato Vowels: Ah and Oo core vowels for the ensemble, with additional options for some individual voices.
• Vowel Sustains: Classic pure vowel sustains, covering Ah, Eh, Ee, Mm, Oh and Oo sounds in softer piano and stronger forte dynamics.
• Latin “Poly-Sustains”: 12 Poly-syllabic sustaining liturgical Latin words and short chants with speed control and simulated legato.
• Vowel Staccatos: Classic pure short notes for Ah, Eh, Ee, Mm, Oh and Oo vowels in softer piano and stronger forte dynamics.
• Latin “Poly-Staccatos”: 23 Poly-syllabic short notes with round-robin, covering a wide variety of liturgical Latin words.
• Whispers, Breaths and other vocal sound effects for added realism and expanded sound design possibilities.
• 425 Atmospheric pads, ambiences, drones, sonic textures and evolving soundscapes hand-crafted from the raw vocal source. From smooth and celestial to brutally gritty and sinister, you have a huge range of choices that are perfect for layering, underscoring, sound design and electronic and hybrid music production.

Live Performance Phrase Elements

• A huge variety of over 3,200 natural melodic and dynamic passages in a variety of categories, tempos and root keys.
• Pure Vowel Phrases for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass
• French Phrases for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass
• Latin Phrases for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass
• Whistled Phrases for Soprano, Alto & Bass
• Hummed Phrases for Tenor & Bass

User Interface

• Powerful Custom User Interface with CC and host automation support for all major DAWs and Komplete Kontrol hardware and software.
• Main performance parameters include features like Swell, Attack, Offset, Release, Legato, Vibrato, Auto-Panning, Phrase Cross-fading, Pitch Shifting, Tempo-Sync/Time-Stretch, Unused sample purging, Articulation Key-Switching and Pitch Shift key-switching.
• Ensemble presets include a mixer panel with separate solo/mute, volume, pan and key range controls for each vocalist.
• Our FX Rack comes equipped with 18 powerful effect modules, each with configurable controls and customizable routing and chain saving/loading.
• 119 integrated custom convolution IR samples in 10 distinct categories (Cathedral, Chamber, Large Room, Small Room, Hallways, Underground, Outdoors, Long FX and Short FX)

The Voices

Nichole Dechaine received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Redlands and her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in vocal performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has performed a variety of leading roles in opera and musical theater productions, and regularly appears as soloist with numerous choirs, orchestras, and ensembles in the US and abroad. She enjoys working with many composers performing their works and recording for film. In addition to performing Dr. Dechaine teaches private voice and music courses at Westmont College and Santa Barbara City College and maintains an active private voice studio.

Kindra Scharich studied voice and piano at Eastman School of Music and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance at the University of Michigan. She also completed her post-graduate education at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Kindra has pre-sented recitals for the American Composer’s Forum in Los Angeles, Lieder Alive, the Wagner Society Northern California Chapter, and the Yehudi Menuhin Seminar in San Francisco. In the world of opera, Ms. Scharich has sung over 25 roles in the lyric mezzo repertoire, most recently and to much acclaim as Minerva in West Edge Opera’s production of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria.

Brian Thorsett has been seen and heard in over 90 diverse operatic roles. His 2012-3 highlights include the title character in Rameau’s Pygmalion, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore and Jupiter in Semele. As a concert singer, Brian retains a stylistically diversified repertoire of over 200 works, which has taken him to concert halls across the US and Europe. He is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Glimmerglass Opera’s Young American Artist program, American Bach Soloists Academy, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme at Aldeburgh, England and Music Academy of the West. When not singing, Brian is on faculty at Virginia Tech.

Joseph Trumbo is a young, upcoming operatic bass singer studying at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. Joseph was a featured soloist in our Mars Symphonic Men’s Choir, as part of the Soundiron Olympus Symphonic Choral Collection. He has also performed with the SF Choral Society, Volti, Quire Cleveland, and numerous other ensembles and choral groups.

Kontakt Player

This library has been licensed for use in the free Kontakt Player virtual instrument engine. It can be used in Kontakt Player or the full retail version of Kontakt (version 5.5.2 or later) and can be loaded as a VST, AU or AAX instrument plugin. You can add this product to the Kontakt “Libraries” browser. It requires online serial number registration through the Native Instruments Service Center app. This library is also fully compatible with the Komplete Kontrol software interface and all S-Series Keyboard Controllers by Native Instruments. Purchasing this library qualifies you for a great cross-grade discount toward the full unlocked version of Kontakt through Native Instruments!

A Four Layered Synthesis Engine & Sound-Design library built for Kontakt

Aevium is a powerfully unique collection of fierce lead synths and atmospheric pads, developed in partnership with the premier sound effects and Foley production house BOOM Library, sound designed by our team using only source sounds from their Birds Of Prey avian sound effect library as our point of origin. We love to challenge ourselves as sound designers here at Soundiron, seeking ever more exotic acoustic sources to explore and shape into musically compelling and intuitively playable virtual instruments.

Birds Of Prey is a comprehensive post-production sound effects library capturing the essence of owls, eagles, crows, hawks, falcons, vultures and other raptors, corvids and large birds of prey.

Perfect for creating natural wildlife soundscapes and character/creature sounds, it’s an essential tool for sound design and post-production for video games, film, television, video, advertising and more. Visit BOOM Library for more info about Birds Of Prey.

To build Aevium, we selected a wide variety of raw source sounds from Birds Of Prey and worked for months to warp, stretch, modulate, glitch, overdrive, and generally tear into to bits and bytes and re-synthesize them into a stunning sample-based virtual instrument library. We’ve hand-crafted 11GB of sound-designed content, with over 1800 samples. The preset browser tree makes it easy to explore and create! Everything is conveniently organized into a variety of helpful and efficiently searchable musical, textural and aesthetic categories.

The user interface is built on our popular Ouroboros ambient synthesis engine (Ambius Prime, Quadral), so the creative possibilities are truly limitless.

Whether you’re looking for classic punchy lead patches, warm fuzzy pads, dark drones, bubbling atmospherics, otherworldly textures or just pure flights of imagination, Aevium is your wing man!

The main user interface is built around four separate quadrants, an assignable XY Pad, quick modulator + filter routing menus, and arpeggiator system to expand your creative potential. Each layer has fully independent sound-shaping options including Attack, Release, Offset, Pitch and Pan. Every quadrant has its own individual filter with 39 built-in filter types, as well as modulators using a variety of sources: LFO, ADSR and Velocity with 5 selectable targets: Volume, Pitch, Pan, Filter Frequency, Filter Resonance.

The central XY Pad can be used in a variety of ways but defaults as volume control between the 4 layers.

Each axis can be customized to affect a different parameter and can be used to control filters or a select amount of FX options. Rhythmic motion can also be added to the XY Pad, automatically adjusting each axis in a tempo-syncable way. You can also limit the X and Y range to create new patterns and fluctuations in tone.

Specifications:

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format
• Over 20 categories of sample based synth sustains, staccatos, basses, leads, and FX
• Over 400 factory presets: inspirational rocket fuel
• 4-Layer Morphing Engine with XY Pad Mixer and Randomize capabilities
• 1,810 stereo 24-bit 48kHz PCM Wav samples
• 11.2 GB Installed
• Custom Preset Import and Export, with intelligent random preset generator
• 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

NORDISK KONTRABASS is a unique upright bass instrument designed for film composers and music producers looking for fresh and original sounds.

PLEASE NOTE: REQUIRES FULL VERSION OF KONTAKT

Superbly performed by a top creative player, Nordisk Kontrabass is great both as a fat, real-sounding upright bass and as a stand-alone compositional tool, capable of delivering beautiful and engaging string harmonies and textures, powerful rhythms and emotive melodies that will make your music stand out. 

It is influenced by the styles of composers and musicians who redefined film-scoring and contemporary music. References were Jóhann Jóhannson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, Arvo Pärt, most minimalistic music and contemporary European ECM-like improvised music.

The library features 100% playable, full range legato and pizzicato, lots of techniques and textures never sampled before and gives you tons of colour variations and articulations to set cinematic vibes in seconds. You can model new and surprising grooves by using the built-in arpeggiator or manipulate all the phrases and textures recorded for you to personalize them, changing the tempo, performing ritardando and accelerando in real-time, reversing, adding top-class effects and enter a new sound design realm by engaging the ICE knob.

Perfect for epic cues as well as intimate and fragile soundscapes to bring some of the most inspiring Scandinavian and European atmospheres into your compositions.

Features

• 14000+ samples

Mic Options:

• Stereo MIC
• DI

Built-in Effects and Controllers:

• Arpeggiator
• Selection of 9 top-class reverbs
• Ice effect
• Delay
• Reverse
• Warp (real-time controllable time-stretch)
• Legato speed

Articulation and Preset List:

Melodic

• Full range Whales Legato and Phrases 
• Glissando Whales 
• Harmony of Whales 
• Harmony of Whales 2 
• Full range Pizzicato with 5 articulations/key switches (normal pizzicato, slides, harmonics, fret FX, Street Slap) 
• Double stops pizzicato 
• Thumb choked pizzicato 
• Weird pizzicato 
• Harmonics 
• Natural harmonics 
• Anjor 
• Dirty tremolo 

Textural

• Twisted pizzicato textures 
• Wood body percussions 
• Bow textures 
• Low Engines 
• Unusual Textures 
• Rises 
• Falls 
• Pizzicato drone 1 
• Pizzicato drone 2 
• Pizzicato drone 3 

Soundtracks, Cinematic and Trailer music

Attractor is a comprehensive Kontakt library for the composers and producers of soundtracks, cinematic and trailer music. It is a wonderful inspiration and production tool. This sound pack includes all-new sound effects in multiple categories, such as hits, whooshes, drops, bends, alarms, tonal elements, pulses and much more.

Attractor library contains not only Kontakt instruments, but also uncompressed WAV samples to provide the best usability, whether you prefer to drag-and-drop sounds to your DAW or use Kontakt.

Features

On the keyboard in Attractor every blue key has a different sample on it. The last played key is colored in red. The green range marks the keys for pitching samples, and the default pitch key is C0, colored in violet.

At the top of the interface there is an internal mini-browser. To select a sound bank click on the button with its title. To see more banks included in the patch use the buttons with left and right arrows.

The middle section contains the main controllers and functions of sound adjustment. Attack and Release knobs manage the respective parameters of amplitude envelope. Velocity influence on volume is controlled with Velocity knob. Gate and Rate knobs adjust the settings of rhythmic sound interruption.

In Attractor you can instantly adapt samples to your host tempo. Enable TMPro mode and use Speed knob to do it. Also Attractor interface allows you to get all samples reversed and map the last played sample across 5 octaves with Wide Range function.

The effects section in Attractor has 6 slots. All effects are interchangeable, so you can build your own effect chain. To see the parameters of effect, click its title. To change the effect in the current slot, click its title again.

The waveform display contains a visual offset controller. Drag it across the waveform picture to set the needed sample start point.

Specifications

• Requires Kontakt Version Full 5.8
• 5 nkis (Effects, Drums, Melodic Elements, Pulses [stretched], Pulses [sliced])
• 1928 Samples (WAV format)
• Advanced Engine

A hard-hitting drum sample library built for Kontakt

Knockout Drums is a hard-hitting drumkit sample library created in collaboration with metal drummer extraordinaire Navene Koperweis (Entheos, Animosity, Animals As Leaders) and seasoned mixing engineer/producer Zack Ohren (Machine Head, All Shall Perish, Aborted). Whether you’re looking for a gigantic live room feel or a super- focused and tight studio sound, this kit crushes it.

Navene obsessively sampled every nuance of his Starclassic Bubinga drumkit at Sharkbite Studios to bring you a massive collection of hand-picked drums including 7 snares, 3 kicks, and a variety of Meinl cymbals designed to strike hard and show no mercy. Each element can be dialed in to your personal taste with a wide selection of carefully selected microphone models recorded through a 1978 Trident TSM console.

We utilized a unique stereo pair for each drum using TLM 103’s, top and bottom mics for snare & toms, kick and sub, and a selection of room mic options that offer you complete sonic freedom to tackle everything from progressive & death metal to rock, pop, breakbeat and dance styles and everywhere in-between. This library has all the power tools and performance features you need to get a great-sounding drum mix right out-of-the-box, no matter what tonal style you’re after.

We’ve packed the user interface with powerful sound-shaping controls to give you complete flexibility. The Master Kit presets contain every sample in the library and a host of powerful performance features. Use the Remapper to create custom drum mappings or load any of our factory presets which include a number of common drum maps for easy use with existing MIDI drum loops and grooves. Our powerful mixer allows you to route each instrument track to any available output in Kontakt and includes individual control for Volume, Pan, FX Send, and Stereo width, from mono to full stereo spread, as well as an FX chain with compressor, limiter, 4-band parametric EQ and more! The Master section features Space and Delay FX sends with a wide variety of options for each.

In the advanced settings pull-down window, you’ll also find an adaptable per-layer LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 13 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, mod-wheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator features a built-in velocity sequencer table and control over arp direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration.

Important note: This product requires a FULL version of Native Instruments’ KONTAKT 6.5.2. The free Kontakt Player is not sufficient.

Due to the extremely positive response to Have Audio’s previous instrument Nordisk Kontrabass, they decided to create a whole series called Nørdic Series that will share a brand new engine with lots of enhanced and creative features.

The new engine comes with the well-known ICE blend FX, Time Warp to time-stretch phrases and textures in real-time, built-in arpeggiator, REVERSE FX, and top-class reverb and delay algorithms.

What’s New?

• Drag&Drop slot to import and manipulate your own samples, loops, and future expansion packs.
• ADSR
• Big collection of convolution reverbs including many creative Impulse Response effects
• 6 additional FX to choose between EQ / COMPRESSION / SATURATION/ CHORUS / PHASER / LESLIE
• 4 FX macros
• A new random mode in the arpeggiator for unpredictable and surprising results

NØRDIC CELLO

Deep-sampled and superbly delivered by Parisian cellist Jean-Philippe Feiss, Nørdic Cello is a new sample library that offers total playability, hyper-realism, and tons of creative applications that will make every musician, film composer, and music producer insanely happy!

Tons of articulations: From classic true legato, all kinds of pizzicatos and staccatos, tremolo up to unusual articulations, extended techniques, and cinematic textures.

A totally enhanced engine: including arpeggiator, top-class reverb, and delay algorithms, time warp, a new Drag&Drop feature to import and manipulate your own samples, loops, and future expansion packs inside the Nørdic Engine, ADSR Envelope controls, Reverse FX, 82 convolution reverbs, 6 additional FX to choose between EQ / COMPRESSION / SATURATION / CHORUS / PHASER / LESLIE, with 3 controls for each FX and 4 main FX Macros to assign whatever you want.

Go Nørdic!