Crotales are rare orchestral percussion instruments not often used in classical music, the instrument sampled for this library ranging from C5 – C7 (C3 – C5 in classical terms). Tuned chromatically its distinct and very bright bell-like sound cuts through even at low velocities. For this soundset the instrument was multi-sampled with 2 articulations, bowed (violin bow) and beaten (special mallets with a metallic tip). There are also tempo-synced loops, improvised textures and tremolos, these samples were then used as a starting point for producing tonal soundscapes, musical beds and more experimental sound textures, often involving Falcon’s multi-granular oscillator and combining it with FM, pluck, wave-table and analog synth oscillators.
Up to 20+ Macros and switches are installed in each patch, some patches also use aftertouch, providing detailed and creative control over volume envelopes, filtering, amplitude- and pitch modulations, dynamics, stereo animation, layer leveling and more. All patches use some sort of background image in the UI, split patches have colored key-zones in the Falcon keyboard for easier navigation.
The included samples were mostly borrowed from my sound libraries Aureus Ventus for HALion and Colliding Worlds[/url] for Groove Agent (distributed exclusively by Steinberg), users holding a license to Aureus Ventus can purchase Falcon Singles – Crotales at a 40% discount.
You can view/download the PDF for this library with more details, the licence agreement, and the patchlist including descriptions and playing tips here.
Specs:
- * 23 patches (including 1 variation).
*9936.2 MB of samples (stereo/48 Khz/24 Bit), 3 wavetables, and 2 background images for the interface. Library size in total: 943.3 MB unzipped.
*Library size in total: 943.3 MB unzipped.
* Delivery: Download (zip 791.1 MB).
* The content is not encrypted, so you can use the samples and wavetables in other samplers and synths or directly in your DAW.
* Requires the full version of Falcon 2.5.3 or higher, does not work with the UVI player.
*Price: € 22 EUR (40% discount for license holders of Aureus Ventus = € 13.20)
The demos below were produced using only patches from Singing Bowls & Friends, no post-processing was applied apart from a limiter on the master output.
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