Tonehammer Circle Bells KONTAKT DVDR

We spend a great deal of our time finding and/or creating new instruments that are not commonly known and our next release is no exception. Essentially we managed to get our hands on a unique tuned percussion instrument, which is made by an artisan in the San Francisco Bay Area and can only be found in a handful of local music shops. The maker makes one at the time, so there are very few of them in the world. The instrument is known as a "Circle Bell" and sounds somewhere between a Gamelan, Glass Waterbowl, Prayer Bowl and something extraterrestrial. The instrument is made of an array of 6 steel bells, ranging from 2" to 3 1/2" in diameter and about 10" long.

* Articulation list:
o Cloth mallet strikes: an average of 12 velocity layers with our standard 10 round-robins
o Cloth mallet rolls: modwheel controlled loops with 3+ velocity layers and 2+ round robins with release triggers
o Twin metal guitar pick strikes: an average of 12 velocity layers and 10x round-robin
o Twin metal guitar pick scratch effects: 8 layers and 8 round robins per layer
o Twin metal guitar pick scratch "rolls": modwheel controlled loops with 3+ velocity layers and 2+ round robins with release triggers
o Bowing sustains on all bells (fundamental notes and harmonics): 2+ velocity layers and 2+ round robin with release triggers
o Bowing staccatos on all bells (fundamental notes and harmonics): 2+ velocity layers and 2+ round robin
o Custom sculptable ambient drones, created using only the circle bells as source material

* Extensive read me install, patch and hint documentation (.pdf)
* Interview w/Mike Peaslee / Troels Folmann on Circle Bells (mp3 interview)
* 35 instrument patches, 1.994 samples, 3.6 GB installed, 2 GB .rar 2-part download (after downloading, both parts automatically join when part 1 is extracted)
* Sample resolution: 44.1Khz /24 bit and stereo .wav format
* Format(s): .nki and .wav