Hyperion Percussion: Marimba

Marimba is the first instrument in the Hyperion Percussion series. To achieve true concert playability, Soundiron captured every nuance of this exquisite full-scale Adams Alpha 5-octave rosewood marimba with Apex frame (C2 – C7). This virtual marimba library includes 4 mallet types, with 10 round-robin variations and 12 dynamic layers per note:

• Innovative Percussion Pedro Carneiro Series PC3 medium soft yarn marimba mallets, for a warm, heavy and yet softly-rounded character.
• Promark SPYR SM3 medium yarn marimba mallets, for a balanced and classic response with rich tonality.
• Vic Firth Anders Astrand Orange Series M293 hard yarn vibraphone mallets, for a crisp, sharp and precise attack.
• Extra-large 1.6" soft rubber mallets, for a springy bounce, smooth attack and a strongly pronounced, blooming sustain.

This solo edition of the Hyperion Marimba provides an extremely close, wide stereo position. Soundiron center on each bar individually to provide unprecedented detail, clarity and robust presence. This allows you a fully-customizable stereo field over the key-range, and you can freely position the instrument on the soundstage to select the perfect room, hall, algorithmic reverb or environmental impulse with the signature Space tab.

What's Inside?

The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more.

This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. The customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. Also included is a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.

The interface is rounded-out by a modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 8 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes their favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. Soundiron have also added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!

Features

• Deeply sampled Marimba with Rubber, Pro Mark Yarn, PC3 Medium Soft, and M293 Hard Mallets
• Full Range 61 notes with 12 round robins and up to 13 velocity layers per note
• 1 Master and 4 Individual Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets and 20 Custom FX nki presets
• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
• 31,536 stereo samples
• 16.5 GB Installed
• 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

System Requirements

• The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 6.2.2+ is required to use the .nki instrument presets and .nkm multi-instrument banks included in this library. The free Kontakt "Player" and "Add Library" import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library. 
• Windows 7 or higher is required for PC. OSX 10.12 or higher required for Mac users. Quad Core CPU, 8+ GB System Ram and SATA or SSD hard drive are the minimum required for this library.