Team DECiBEL | 03 Aug 2021 | 5.06GB
U 是由乐器大师巴特霍普金 (Bart Hopkin) 创造的光滑钢质板状琴。每个音符没有一个音叉，而是每个音符有 14 个紧密排列的音叉。每组音叉在三个或四个八度的范围内以八度和五度进行调谐。声音是通过使用细棒状拨片在所选音符的齿阵列上轻敲而产生的。有十二个这样的组形成一个半音阶。由于每组跨越多个八度，因此可以通过重音特定音调来创造性地演奏旋律。
尖齿由窄的不锈钢机械螺钉制成，通过使用底部的六角螺母调整长度来调整。此外，大多数螺钉都通过额外的六角螺母进行泛音调整，用作沿长度的可调节重量。最终的结果是令人着迷的液体和金属音色，非常适合您的下一个需要真正独特音调的作品。
首先，我们以宽立体声近距离录制了 The U。对于我们的第二个麦克风位置，我们使用了四面体双耳麦克风，为您提供演奏乐器的第一人称体验，具有亲密和环绕的声音。我们已经包含了一系列可玩的已调音和未调音的发音，为您提供完全的自由。在经典的 Soundiron 传统中，我们还加入了声音设计的纹理、垫子和音调，使概念超越了其材料来源，进入了纯粹的想象领域。它们可以与自然的声学发音一起演奏、分层、调制和混合，以实现无穷无尽的新声音组合。 U 为您提供了广泛、灵活的音乐色彩调色板，并配备了易于使用的图层混合、表演工具和特殊效果，以激发您的创造力。
内容
Kontakt 界面包括一套自动化就绪的声音整形控件，为您提供全面的创作灵活性。您可以控制膨胀、起音、释放、偏移、颤音、过滤器、音高（粗和细）、清晰度切换、交叉淡入淡出和分层等等。我们还包括 20 个独特的声音设计自定义 FX 预设，为您提供许多创意选项。
该库带有自适应 LFO 系统，具有可选择的 LFO 形状、调制目标参数、速度、强度、速度同步和淡入时间。您还可以应用您选择的 12 个低通、高通和 FX 滤波器，以及可分配的调制目标，例如力度、调制轮、表情、触后、键位置和步进音序器表控制。我们可定制的琶音器提供速度表和对 arp 方向、时间、摆动、随机化和持续时间的控制。我们包含了一个键和音阶锁定系统，可将您的音符限制在常见的音阶和键上，以便轻松进行旋律创作和现场表演。
该接口由我们的模块化 FX 机架面板完善，具有 18 个不同的 DSP 效果模块，您可以按照您希望的任何顺序分配到 10 个可用插槽中的任何一个。您会发现经典的移相器、镶边、延迟、失真、放大器和驾驶室模拟器、压缩器、均衡器、旋转器等等。混响效果包括我们最喜欢的卷积混响脉冲响应，包括 99 个不同的房间、大厅、房间和室外环境，以及另外 40 个自定义 FX 脉冲，以从根本上改变声音并打开全新的音乐世界。我们添加了大量 FX 机架链工厂预设来帮助您入门！
产品规格
– 2 个主预设和 20 个自定义声音设计的 FX 和环境预设
– 1 个独特的手工制作的钢质板簧
– 弹拨、弓形短裤、弓形延音、Glisses、打击乐器、FX
– 24 位、48 kHz 立体声无损 NCW 格式。
– 7,694 个立体声采样
– 已安装 5.04 GB（未压缩 8.89 GB）
– 由 Native Instruments 为免费的 Kontakt Player（版本 6.1+）、Komplete Kontrol、所有 S 系列键盘和 NKS 软件和硬件制作
– 与 Kontakt “Libraries”浏览器和 Native Access 配合使用。
The U is a glissy steel lamellophone created by master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin. Rather than having one tine per note, this creation has 14 closely spaced tines per note. Each group of tines is tuned in octaves and fifths across a range of three or four octaves. The sound is produced by stroking with a glissing action across the array of tines for the chosen note, using a thin stick-like plectrum. There are twelve such groups forming a chromatic scale. Since each group spans several octaves, melodies can be played creatively by accenting specific tines.
The tines are made of narrow stainless steel machine screws, tuned by adjusting the length using the hex nuts at the base. In addition, most of the screws are overtone-tuned by means of additional hex nuts serving as adjustable weights along the length. The final result is a fascinatingly liquid and metallic timbre, ideal for your next composition that requires a truly unique tone.
To start, we recorded The U up close in wide stereo. For our second mic position, we used a tetrahedral binaural microphone to give you a first-person experience of playing the instrument, with an intimate and enveloping sound. We’ve included a range of playable tuned and untuned articulations to give you complete freedom. And in classic Soundiron tradition, we’ve also included sound-designed textures, pads and tones that take the concept beyond its material source and into the realm of pure imagination. They can be played, layered, modulated and blended along with the natural acoustic articulations to achieve and endless array of new sonic combinations. The U offers you a broad, flexible palette of musical colors and comes equipped with easy-to-use layer mixing, performance tools and special effects to spark your creativity.
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The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. We’ve also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.
This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.
The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!
Product Specs
– 2 Master presets and 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
– 1 Unique Hand-crafted steel lamellophone
– Plucks, Bowed Shorts, Bowed Sustains, Glisses, Percussion, FX
– 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
– 7,694 Stereo Samples
– 5.04 GB Installed (8.89 GB Uncompressed)
– Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6.1+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
– Works with the Kontakt “Libraries” browser and Native Access.
