In the real world, most of these instruments have maybe only a fewplayable notes or at best a limited range!
Rattly And Raw have greatly expanded the playability and range of theseoriginal instruments by using state of the art time stretching softwareand meticulously hand tuning each mechanism.
The emphasis here is on imperfection and character. These instruments are not posh, and not slick, but they might inspire new directions oraugment what you already have in surprising ways. The unique sound ofthese samples comes from the instruments themselves, not fromadditional processing! That being said... on most instruments we'veincluded a LoFi button and a processing knob or two that will let you dirt 'em up a little more...
We're starting with four products:
The First Incarnation, Cold War Listening Station,The Marxophone and Student Vibraphone
THERE IS ALSO A FREE INSTRUMENT FOR DOWNLOAD IN THESTORE!
The First Incarnation is a collection of sixteen rattly, scratchy, dirty,plucked, scraped, pressed and smacked, unusual Rattly and Rawinstruments!
The instruments have all come from quirky shops and chance meetings and have been used on many sessions by the Rattly and Raw team. *This pack contains unusual and rare instruments like the Rheem Key Bass,Taishokoto, Appalachian Dulcimer, Pitched Cowbells, Plucked Piano and Zither strings and MUCH MUCH MORE!
As a further introductory offer The First Incarnation also comes with ourRattly and Raw percussion instrument (88 keys of percussion and drumhits with velocity management and LoFi processing) FOR FREE!
Cold War Listening Station contains massive percussion hits,calamitous found material impacts and bizarre instruments, all soaked in the huge paranoid reverberations from this monstrous facility. We took insound making devices and used what was there as well, the results aredefinitely unusual!
These were all recorded on location at an abandoned listening stationhidden in central europe. Our intrepid sampling team overcame wild dogs, lurking strangers, rats, guards and creeping terror to bring youthese unique sounds! It was a massive challenge to get clean enoughdecay tails on these huge and spooky sounds as this abandoned stationwas open in parts to the elements (which brought its own challenges)and also every tiny noise was amplified massively by the architecture!!As a result, this uniquely disjarring and sonically intriguing pack is theresult of luck, stealth and opportunism and signal to noise management!
The Marxophone contains one lovingly sampled original marxophone with multiple layers and velocity sensitive trill action (as well as multipleinstruments with different performance options!) It's a very distinctivesound and one you'll probably recognise!
This also has a custom velocity management script to really aid playability and control of the trill function and a LoFi script with drivecontrol to take this unique instrument to some new places! We've alsoincluded ELEVEN variations on the standard Marxophone instrument.
Student Vibraphone This short-scale student vibraphone has a uniqueattacky, clanky goodness that we had to share! Great for getting that vibes sound across with no trace of 'posh' or 'refined' at all! There are afew instrument options here so you can get a good range of sounds fromthis limited, but very usable instrument!"
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