Mini Saron is a deeply multi-sampled tuned percussion library that captures the heart and soul of a tiny toy saron. The saron is a musical instrument of Indonesia, which is used in the gamelan. We played 8 of its metal bars with mallets and hammers to explore every nuance of its sound. This instrument was recorded with two microphone positions, with 10 round robins and up to 10 velocity layers per note. Finally, we created a wide selection of ambient soundscapes and all manner of creative sound design techniques to take this library to the next level.
Key Features:
- Multiple Microphone Positions: Recorded with two microphone positions for optimal sound capture.
- Extensive Sampling: 10 round robins and up to 10 velocity layers per note.
- Custom FX Presets: 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets.
- Flexible Controls: Includes automation-ready sound-shaping controls such as swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading, and layering.
- Adaptable LFO System: Selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing, and fade-in time.
- Arpeggiator: Customizable arpeggiator with velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization, and duration.
- Modular FX Rack: 18 different DSP effect modules including phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator, and more.
- Convolution Reverb: 99 different rooms, halls, chambers, and outdoor environments, plus 40 custom FX impulses.
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. We’ve also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.
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. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included 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 our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 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 our 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. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!
This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or later. Kontakt is an industry-standard advanced virtual instrument software platform. This is a standard Kontakt open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player does not fully support it and can only run it in a limited “demo mode”. However, the sample directories are unlocked so you can use them in other wav-compatible software, sampler and synth formats. The special Libraries tab doesn’t support this open-format Kontakt library, but you can use the standard File browser tab and import this library into the Kontakt Quickload window for easy loading and navigation.
System Requirements
The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.5 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library.
Operating System:
- Windows: Windows 7 or higher
- Mac: Mac OSX 10.9 or higher
Hardware:
- CPU: Dual Core CPU
- Memory: 2 GB System RAM
- Storage: SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library
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