Marimba

5 Octaves Of Silky Wood

The Marimba has a range of 5 octaves. It has been recorded with close-up condenser microphones to achieve a rich and defined stereo sound with no room, so you can add one afterwards. Cinematique Instruments have recorded 4 round-robin groups with up to 4 velocity layers. Finally, the marimba has a lot of interesting and inspiring features giving you a wide range of tools to vary and change the sound to your own requirement such as an arpeggiator, octaver and a tremolo function etc.

Three Articulations

• Hard articulation. Made by hitting with a hard plastic mallet which achieves a dry and thin sound with lots of percussive attack.
• Typical felt mallet giving you a sound that balances the percussive attack and a warm richness.
• Giant soft mallet resulting in a warm and indirect sound.

Articulation Mixer

In order to still give the medium and soft variation a notable attack has been added as an option to mix the hard articulation to it. This feature will offer some interesting combinations

Arpeggio

It is an 8 step sequencer with a voicing divider. You can select per each step which notes you like to play additional FX there are tools available that gives you interesting variation such as octaver and drive, reverb and delay

Tremolo Engine

Easy-to-use tremolo. Releasing the key triggers a note that lets you easily play tremolos.

Six Reverb Types

Besides several different sizes, you get a special reverb type 'infinite' which immerses the instrument in a whole 

A marimba is a percussion instrument that consists of a set of wooden bars with resonators. The arrangement of the bars corresponds to those of a piano with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural bars. The bars are struck with mallets to produce its tone. This marimba has a range of 5 octaves from C2 to C7.

During their stay in Australia, Cinematique Instruments recorded this Marimba in cooperation with Michael Askilll, one of Australia's finest percussionists, using his playing technique. The Marimba has a range of 5 octaves. It has been recorded with close-up condenser microphones such as the Schoeps MK4 to achieve a rich and defined stereo sound with no room, so you can add one afterwards.

The hard articulation was made by hitting with a hard plastic mallet which achieves a dry and thin sound with lots of percussive attack. The second articulation features a typical felt mallet giving you a sound that balances the percussive attack and a warm richness. The final variation was achieved by playing the Marimba with a giant soft mallet resulting in a warm and indirect sound. In order to still give the medium and soft variation a notable attack they have added an option to mix the hard articulation to it. This feature will offer some interesting combinations

Features

• One complex Marimba instrument
• Versatile Warm Wooden Sound
• 300 MB of compressed data

System Requirements

• The FULL Version of Kontakt 5.6.8 or higher is required.

Important Notes:

• The FULL Version of Kontakt 5.6.8+ is required in order to use this instrument.
• You will be stuck in DEMO MODE if trying to use this instrument in the FREE Kontakt Player.