NoiseGuild has released 24ToneGongs 1: Mallets&Sticks for Kontakt.
Varying from 70 - 6 cm in diameter, this is a 4 octave spanning, tuned orchestral gong collection. It was meticulously sampled in an anechoic room with up to 10 x round robin and 8 velocity layers in lots of different articulations.
24ToneGongs 1: Mallets&Sticks is described as "mysterious and different, yet well tuned and chromatically playable".
Key features:
- 8 Deep sampled articulations using different mallets and strike positions.
- Real anechoic recordings translate in a very clean sound with no room reflections, because of this the gongs can be convincingly placed in various venues using your reverb of choice. No reverb on reverb sound.
- GongMachine: The GongMachine plays back organic sounding complex patterns using different articulations. See video below.
- Performance features: the pedal clamps and unclamps the gongs, using recorded multiple round robin real samples of those actions.
- 7800 Samples, 24 GB uncompressed, 5.4 GB compressed.
Price: €159,- (Increases to €200,- on October 8th). When purchased before October 8 you will also get a voucher which gives 20% discount on the 2nd and 3d 24ToneGongs releases. This is independent of, and adds up to, other intro- or other discounts.
Video: Quick patch and Pattern tour, shows some patches and GongMachine patterns to get an idea of how it sounds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VbaWVdrYcE
SoundCloud Demos: https://soundcloud.com/supersonisch-1/sets/24tonegongs-demos
Walkthrough videos
The Main page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5F9bRAz8wo
The Gong Machine Tab: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUoeEMwZJY
The Settings Tab: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppKUdxDNr1k
