SOUNDIRON Steel Tones

SOUNDIRON Steel Tones | Ethereal Steel Tongue Drum Hapi Drum Virtual Instrument

Deeply Sampled Metallic Percussion Instrument Capturing the Soul of the Hapi Drum

SOUNDIRON Steel Tones is a multi-sampled metallic percussion instrument designed for Kontakt, capturing the essence of the Hapi Drum with deep sampling technology. This instrument library includes 1,161 individual samples, recorded in 24-bit/48kHz high-resolution audio, offering both dry and wet microphone positions, allowing users to precisely control the spatial feel and detail of the sound. Whether for creating film scores, meditation music, or adding unique textures to game audio, Steel Tones delivers highly expressive sounds. This steel tongue drum Kontakt library not only contains the original instrument sounds but also provides an additional 50 professionally designed Ambiences, expanding the possibilities for sound design, making it a comprehensive percussion instrument library.

Compared to traditional hardware steel tongue drums, SOUNDIRON Steel Tones achieves sound versatility unattainable by a single instrument through its dual microphone positions (close-mic Neumann stereo pair and a concert hall stereo pair 15 feet away). Its advantage over similar sampled instruments lies in integrating rich sound design elements, transforming the original Hapi Drum sound source material into unique synthesizer pads and textures, offering a seamless creative workflow from pure acoustic to complex soundscapes.

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SOUNDIRON Steel Tones Core Technology & Features

• Deeply Sampled Hapi Drum: Fully sampled an 8-tongue Hapi Drum in D Major Pentatonic, capturing its strong fundamental tones, complex overtone details, and long, gentle sustain characteristics.
• Dual Microphone Positions: Offers two stereo microphone configurations. One set is close-mic Neumann microphones, capturing dry, direct, and intimate sounds; the other is far-mic microphones 15 feet away in a concert hall, providing an open, spacious timbre. Both can be independently controlled and mixed.
• Multiple Articulations & Mallets: Includes performance samples using Soft Rubber Mallets and Hard Metal Mallets, offering tonal variations from warm and gentle to bright and crisp.
• Rich Sound Design Content: Built-in 50 professionally sound-designed Ambiences, Pads, Atmospheres, and Synth Tones, all meticulously crafted from the original Hapi Drum recordings, usable as background textures or lead sounds for scores.
• Flexible Sound Control Interface: Users can independently control the volume, Attack, Release, Sample Start Offset, and Swell for each sound layer, and can perform semitone transposition and set MIDI key range.
• Built-in Arpeggiator & Effects: Equipped with a powerful multi-mode Arpeggiator and Step-Sequencer for quickly creating complex dynamic phrases. Also features a complete built-in DSP effects rack, including EQ, Filters, Delay, Distortion, and Convolution Reverb.
• High-Quality Convolution Reverb: The built-in Convolution Reverb offers 70 unique spatial Impulse Responses, covering cathedrals, churches, concert halls, rooms, tunnels, and various special effect spaces, adding infinite possibilities to the sound.

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