The Handcrafted Mallets is so much more than a mallet library: With two instruments sampled in numerous articulations, different mallet materials and at an incredible depth, as well as a synth featuring 600+ presets, it forms a full toolkit with an extremely broad palette of sounds.
The instruments offer hyper-realistic and multi-dimensional control over the sound that cannot be found anywhere else: The timbre slider lets you fluidly move between nearly infinite grades of mallet hardness, going from soft to hard.
Similarly, the spatial slider positions the instrument inside the room with extreme precision, offering all colours imaginable, ranging from dry and intimate solo performances, to lush orchestral settings, up to nearly surreal far-away positions.
Unlike many other sample libraries, the vibraphone features an elaborate sustain pedal system, as well as a tremolo motor, meticulously designed based on the original instrument, modulating the volume, pitch, spatial position and spectral properties.
The synth, created entirely from the original mallet recordings, can produce nearly any sound one could possibly think of, beautifully complementing the acoustic patches.
With immense flexibility and a multitude of different sounds, The Handcrafted Mallets can be used throughout all genres and shines both as modern tool for electronic music and modern film scoring, as well as a more traditional definitive selection of mallet instruments.
Because the synth is entirely made out of real recordings, its sounds are far more lively and vivid than a purely digital synth could ever produce. The physical, almost haptic quality is reminiscent of analogue synthesisers, where every note carries so much character.
The synth comes with 200+ sound sources and 500+ meticulously curated presets, including pads, leads, plucks, basses and even sound design and percussion. This expands the Handcrafted Mallets into a complete compositional toolkit, making it a must-have tool for any producer or composer.
Listen to a selection of our favourite presets, just as they sound out of the instrument.