Ferpect Instruments

Ferpect obtained a great sounding set of Kalimbas (Mbiras or Thumbpianos) so they could not resist making a carefully sampled Kontakt instrument from that collection.

Ferpect recorded the samples with different microphones and preamps and also in different locations to get some interesting resonances. They then processed the recordings with different hardware saturation devices and also with some state of the art software tools to make them sound warm, lovely and sweet….The sound is natural, phat and clean.

From there they built a custom GUI for you to manipulate the original sounds until you get just the right Kalimba sound you are looking for.

You got 50 variations to start with. Each instrument has up to 73 notes. All were build from 4 different Kalimbas, Mbiras, Thumbpianos.

The instruments are carefully tuned and velocity is also set to a very musical level for authenthic playing. You got some presets which sound more like the real instruments and some which sound like a piano or e-piano, some more like soft pads or steeldrums.

Features:

• 50 Kontakt Instruments
• 2442 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
• 4 different Kalimbas recorded
• 873 MB Filesize
• Formats: Kontakt and WAV

The Melodica Piano 32 is a nice looking easy to use and super warm sounding reed instrument made by the German company Hohner*.

The sound is generated by blowing air thru a mouthpiece into fine brass reeds like those used in Harmonicas. This one sounds really beautiful, smooth and rich.

This underrated instruments were used by musicians like UB40, Depeche Mode, The Gorillas, The Hooters, Supertramp and… you too name a few!

We are very happy to get our hands on one of these rare instruments in a very good condition. The Piano 32 Melodicas are little bigger than the other ones.

Overview

We have recorded this big black beauty with four different types of microphones thru well selected preamps after some time consuming experiments:

• Piezo Mic (attached to the chassis)
• Condenser Mic (placed 30 cm in front of the instrument)
• Dynamic Mic (placed 30 cm in front of the instrument)
• Stereo Mic (placed overhead)

Each microphone can turned in separately in the master area at the head of the instrument. So you can take advantage of the different characters of the four microphone types and mix your own original black bro sound until it fits your taste perfectly.

The noise from blowing air into the Melodica was separated from the musical material and made usable thru an extra mixing knob. The same processing we did with the clicks which were produced by pressing the keys on the Melodica. So you can now add/reduce the noise from blowing by turning the noise knob and add/reduce the clicks from the keys by turning the click knob.