Percisionsound Moldova Concert Cimbalom MULTiFORMAT SCD DVDR (Repost)

This concert Cimbalom was made in Republic of Moldova in 1990. The range of the instrument is: B1 - F#6 - American designation but has been mapped as B0 – F#5 to smoother support 5 octave keyboards mostly used by DAW based musicians.

There was three pair of mallets used at the recording

• Soft mallets - made in Hungary.
• Middle/Medium mallets – made in Moldova.
• Hard mallets – made in Romania.



The recording was made in the "Usachevsky" studio at the University of Utah, and the instrument was played by Igor Iachimciuc, who is known as one of the best Cimbalom players/composers in Moldova.

All notes in the instruments whole range have been recorded in 3 velocity layers for all the 3 mallet types in both sustained and damped versions. Above that we also recorded Harmonics (sustained) and the Moldova Cimbalom played with nails (Pizzicato), both sustained and damped and to round it of; a huge selection of clusters and effects has been recorded.

Two microphones for stereo realization have been utilized (AKG 414) and the recording was made on a Pro Tools system. All samples were recorded at 24 bits, and 44.1 Sample Rate. The SampleSet contains 1 208 24bit stereo WAV samples mapped in 21 programs for HALion 1.11 -] & Kontakt 1.2 -] each.



Program list with descriptions

• MC FX Effects program with percussive hits clusters etc.
• MC Hard Full Opt Long and damped notes played with hard mallets. You switch between the long notes and damped notes via sustain pedal CC 64. Optimized with aprox. 50% of the samples reduced in 3 velocity layers.
• MC Hard Full Long and damped notes played with hard mallets. You switch between the long notes and damped notes via sustain pedal CC 64. All notes in 3 velocity layers.
• MC Hard Lng Opt Long notes played with hard mallets. Optimized with aprox. 50% of the samples reduced in 3 velocity layers.
• MC Hard Lng Long notes played with hard mallets. All notes in 3 velocity layers.
• MC Hard Sht Opt Damped notes played with hard mallets. Optimized with aprox. 50% of the samples reduced in 3 velocity layers.
• MC Hard Sht Damped notes played with hard mallets. All notes in 3 velocity layers.