SOUNDIRON Hopkin Instrumentarium: Metaltines

SOUNDIRON Metaltines is a unique Kontakt library, featuring Bart Hopkin's handmade metal reed instruments, offering unique organic sounds.

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SOUNDIRON Hopkin Instrumentarium: Metaltines - Kontakt Player｜Unique Metal Tine Sound Library from a Master Instrument Inventor

A Kontakt virtual instrument featuring four handcrafted metal tine instruments, unleashing unique sonic textures.

SOUNDIRON Hopkin Instrumentarium: Metaltines is a Kontakt virtual instrument library developed by Soundiron in collaboration with instrument inventor Bart Hopkin, featuring 4 unique handcrafted metal tine instruments, including 11,442 stereo samples. This library is designed for film, game scoring, and sound design, offering detailed and expressive exotic metal sounds, from crisp strikes to deep resonances, all deeply sampled from real instruments and supporting the free Kontakt Player.

Compared to traditional Kalimba or steel tongue drum libraries, Metaltines offers a more exotic and overtone-rich, clangy texture by featuring Bart Hopkin's unique inventions. Its sounds come from non-standardized instrument designs, bringing irreplaceable organic sounds to music creation. It is an indispensable tool for producers and score library collectors seeking unique metal percussion sounds, and a fully functional sound library.

Quick Facts

Brand: SOUNDIRON
Model: Hopkin Instrumentarium: Metaltines
Format: Kontakt Player (NKS)
Number of Samples: 11,442
Audio Quality: 24-bit / 48 kHz (NCW Lossless Compression)
Installation Size: 7.05 GB
Applications: Film Scoring, Game Music Production, Ambient Music, Experimental Electronic Music, World Music Arrangement

Who is Metaltines for?

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✅ 適合誰購買

Composers or producers looking for non-traditional, unique metal percussion sounds to make their work stand out.
Sound designers who need to add mysterious, fantastical, or exotic atmospheres to games or visual projects.
Creators who appreciate Bart Hopkin's experimental instrument style and want to use it in their digital audio workstations.

⚠️ 誰不適合購買

Musicians who only need traditional sounds like piano, orchestral instruments for mainstream pop music arrangements.
Users with less than 10 GB of free hard drive space, unable to install large sound libraries.
Producers whose workflow does not involve the Native Instruments platform and cannot load Kontakt format sound sources.

Hopkin Instrumentarium: Metaltines Core Technologies and Features

Four Unique Handcrafted Instruments: Features Mallet K1 & K2, Sit or Play, T-Rod-on-Tine, personally designed and built by instrument inventor Bart Hopkin, offering unique sounds found nowhere else on Earth.
Multiple Articulations and Microphone Positions: Includes a rich variety of articulations such as various mallet strikes (hard, soft, metal), finger plucks, and palm slaps. It also offers at least two stereo microphone positions, with some instruments including DI signals for increased tonal flexibility.
Rich Sound Design Content: In addition to acoustic samples, it includes 20 meticulously crafted Custom FX Presets derived from the original audio, featuring Ambiences, Pads, and Drone sounds, making it a powerful sound design tool.
Full Kontakt Engine Features: Built-in LFO, filters, customizable Arpeggiator, and scale lock function, allowing for delicate sound shaping via parameters like Swell, Attack, Release, Vibrato.
Powerful Modular FX Rack: Offers 18 DSP effect modules, freely arrangeable in 10 slots. The built-in convolution reverb includes 99 real-world Impulse Responses and 40 special effect IRs, creating infinite sonic possibilities.

Included Instrument I: Mallet K1 & K2

Type: Mallet Kalimba, featuring wide metal tines.
Sonic Characteristics: Playing with mallets emphasizes overtones rather than fundamentals, producing bright, clangy sounds with a metallic impact.
Version Differences: K1 produces more mixed overtones; K2 has a lower pitch and powerful mallet strikes, making it ideal for unique bass sounds.
Microphone Setup: Both K1 and K2 offer two microphone positions, with K2 additionally providing a Direct-In (DI) signal from a pickup.

Included Instrument II: Sit or Play

Type: A composite instrument featuring round Steel Tongue Drums embedded in three specially designed benches.
Resonance Design: The bench tops act as large soundboards, combined with the semi-enclosed air beneath the seats, greatly enhancing the steel tongue drum's tone and sustain.
Articulations: Includes samples of various articulations such as hard mallets, soft mallets, metal mallets, fingers, and palm slaps, offering rich tonal variations.
Microphone Setup: Offers two independent stereo microphone positions.

Included Instrument III: T-Rod-On-Tine

Type: A special device with hardened steel threaded rods fixed at right angles to the ends of springsteel tines.
Sound Production Principle: Different striking methods excite various complex vibration modes, producing multiple frequencies and timbres.
Articulations: Includes up to eight striking methods: rubber, metal, hard mallet, ping-pong ball, rubber band, pick, finger, and mallet butt, creating an extremely wide sonic palette.
Tonal Description: The tonal range covers complex sounds with swirling overtones to deep low-frequency resonances.

Kontakt Engine and Effects

Comprehensive Sound Shaping Control: Provides full synthesizer parameters such as Swell, Attack, Release, Offset, Vibrato, Filter, Pitch.
Adaptive LFO System: Allows selection of LFO waveforms, assignment of modulation targets, adjustment of speed and intensity, and tempo-sync with the host.
Versatile Filters and Arpeggiator: Built-in 12 filter types, controllable by MIDI CCs like velocity and expression pedal. The customizable arpeggiator offers velocity table, direction, swing, and randomization controls.
Modular FX Rack: Includes 18 effects such as phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, cabinet simulation, compression, EQ, etc., with freely assignable order.
High-Quality Convolution Reverb: Built-in 99 real-world IRs (rooms, halls, churches) and 40 creative FX IRs designed for sound design.

Technical Specifications (Tech Specs)

Format	Kontakt Player, NKS
Compatible Software	Free Kontakt Player 6+ or Kontakt 6+ (VST, AU, AAX)
Audio Quality	24-bit / 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format
Total Samples	11,442 stereo samples
Installed Size	7.05 GB
Included Instruments	Mallet K1, Mallet K2, Sit or Play, T-Rod-On-Tine
Number of Presets	6 main instrument presets, 20 custom sound design FX and ambient presets
Licensing	Online serial number registration and activation via Native Instruments Native Access
Mac System Requirements	macOS 10.12 or newer
PC System Requirements	Windows 7 or newer

SOUNDIRON Metaltines Pros & Cons Analysis

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Pros

Highly original sounds, derived from real handcrafted experimental instruments, difficult to replace with other sound sources.
Includes multiple articulations and microphone positions, offering rich sound shaping flexibility and realism.
Built-in extensive ambient soundscapes and pads, making it not just a percussion instrument but also a powerful sound design tool.
Fully compatible with the free Kontakt Player, no need to purchase the full version of Kontakt software.

Notes to Know

Specialized sound style, less suitable for mainstream commercial music genres requiring traditional instruments.
Requires 7.05 GB of available hard drive space for installation.
Product activation requires an internet connection and online registration via Native Access.

SOUNDIRON Hopkin Instrumentarium FAQ

Q：Does SOUNDIRON Hopkin Instrumentarium: Metaltines require the paid version of Kontakt to use?

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A：No. This sound library is a Kontakt Player version and can be loaded and played using the free Native Instruments Kontakt Player 6 or newer, and can be added to the Libraries browser.

Q：Are all the sounds in Metaltines recorded from real instruments?

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A：Yes. All core sounds are derived from deep sampling of four handcrafted metal instruments by Bart Hopkin. The FX presets are sound designs based on these real sound sources.

Q：Is this sound source suitable for beginners?

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A：Yes, it is. Metaltines has an intuitive interface and is compatible with NKS hardware, making it ready to use immediately after installation. Its unique sounds can also inspire beginners' creativity without complex setup.

Q：How does Metaltines differ from other metal percussion sound libraries?

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A：The main difference lies in the uniqueness of the sound sources. It does not sample common instruments but rather comes from unique inventions, with sounds full of experimental and organic textures that cannot be replicated by other sound sources.

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Warranty: License and download rights are maintained according to the manufacturer’s policy; software updates, upgrades, and version changes are subject to the manufacturer’s announcements.
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