The Chordophones is library of plucked and hammered strings. It focuses on capturing the atmosphere and sustain of steel strings when resonated. This library features 6 layers of sound and is capable of producing anything from dulcimer to lyre-like tones. The plucky sound is also excellent at making hybrid-organic rhythms and arpeggiations.



The Chordophones is built using the combined sounds of the retired FrozenPlain products "Ancient Chordophone" and "Hammered Chordophone". The new and vastly more powerful engine breathes new life into the samples. If you already own one of the old products, you should have received an email, feel free to contact me if not.

Overall, the Chordophones has an emotive, old sound to it. Sometimes even sounding quite "medieval". Using the powerful interface you can adapt the sound to fit your needs. For example, you can use the Strum effect to turn chords into strums. Or the Atomise and Scatter effects to granulate the sound and create string sounding textures and pads.



The second page of The Chordophones is the FrozenPlain Effects Engine v2.0, this is features 13 effects such as: reverb, delay, arpeggiator, sequencer, chorus, filters and more.

Key Features:

• 9 nki presets
• 3 or 4 round robin on up to 2 velocity layers
  
• 28 Custom IRs
• Features the FrozenPlain Effects Engine v2.0: arpeggiator, reverb, atomise, echo & more
• 6 layers of sound to mix in and for unique sound design
• Built in arpeggiator
• Great sound design tool (pads/ ambiances)

Technical Details:

• This library requires the full version of Kontakt 5.1+ to work. It will only work in demo mode if you have the free Kontakt Player.
• Because this product is not for Kontakt Player, it cannot be added with the ‘add library’ function, you must instead load the .nki files through the file browser, or by dragging and dropping.
• 104 samples (lossless ncw format)
• 282 MB extracted
• 24bit / 44.1khz stereo
• 256 MB zip file download

The Chordophones is available for $35

More INFO: FrozenPlain | The Chordophones

 

Last edited: Oct 25, 2015

Yeah lovely. Who's bringing this one then?