The Marimba has a range of 5 octaves. It has been recorded with close-up condenser microphones to achieve a rich and defined stereo sound with no room,
so you can add one afterwards. We have mostly recorded 4 round robin groups with up to 4 velocity layers. Finally the marimba has a lot of interesting
and inspiring features giving you a wide range of tools to vary and change the sound at your own requirement such as an arpeggiator, octaver and a tremolo function etc.
Three articualtions
- hard articulation. it was made by hitting with a hard plastic mallet which achieves a dry and thin sound with lots of percussive attack.
- typical felt mallet giving you a sound which balances the percussice attack and a warm richness.
- giant soft mallet resulting in a warm and indirect sound.
Articualtion Mixer In order to still give the medium and soft variation a notable attack we have added an option to mix the hard articulation to it.
This feature will offer some interesting combinations
Arpeggio Actually it is an 8 step sequencer with voicing divider. You can select per each step whoch note you like to play
Additional FX There are tools available which gives you intersting variation such as octaver and drive, reverb and delay
Tremolo Engine Our easy-to-use tremolo. Releasing the key triggers a note which lets you easily play tremolos.
six reverb typles beside several different sizes you get our special reverb type 'infinite' which immerses the instrument in a whole world
Listen to some audio demos
Mar Nuer
Michael Askill
Elmon Gaush
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42th Street Gaga
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Star
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Sound Sample
Checking Articulations
The Marimba
A marimba is a percussion instrument which consists of a set of wooden bars with resonators. The arrangement of the bars corresponds to those of a piano with the accidentals raised vertically
and overlapping the natural bars. The bars are struck with mallets to produce its tone. Our marimba has a range of 5 octaves from C2 to C7.
During our stay in Australia, we recorded this Marimba in cooperation with Michael Askilll, one of Australia's finest percussionists, using his playing technique. The Marimba has a range of 5 octaves. It has been recorded with close-up condenser microphones such as the Schoeps MK4 to achieve a rich and defined stereo sound with no room, so you can add one afterwards. We have mostly recorded 4 round robin groups with up to 4 velocity layers. Finally we have added a lot of interesting and inspiring features giving you a wide range of tools to vary and change the sound at
your own requirement such as an arpeggiator, octaver and a tremolo function etc.
Articulations:
There are three basic articulations to the Marimba: hard, medium and soft created by corresponding mallet types.
The hard articulation was made by hitting with a hard plastic mallet which achieves a dry and thin sound with lots of percussive attack. The second articulation features a typical felt mallet
giving you a sound which balances the percussice attack and a warm richness. The final variation was achieved by playing the Marimba with a giant soft mallet resulting in a warm and indirect sound.
In order to still give the medium and soft variation a notable attack we have added an option to mix the hard articulation to it. This feature will offer some interesting combinations
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