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支持系统：Windows.MAC

音源厂商：https://www.spitfireaudio.com/

使用采样器：Kontakt 7. Kontakt 8加载

文件大小：2.5GB

Spitfire Audio 大钦巴隆琴
从技术上讲，钦巴隆琴属于齐特琴家族，是一种大型的击弦扬琴，遍布中东欧，从瑞士到匈牙利。再往东，你会发现它在伊朗和伊拉克，在那里被称为"桑图尔琴"（santur）。这种乐器的金属琴弦绷在梯形音板上，每个音符有三到四根琴弦，用敲击器敲击，发出美妙的共鸣、深沉的延音，并带有略带合唱效果的弦乐，让人联想到12弦的电吉他。你可能在约翰·巴里60年代的电视和电影主题曲中听到过它，它令人回味的音色吸引了伊戈尔·斯特拉文斯基、贝拉·巴托克、拉洛·希弗林、哈里森·伯特维斯尔、约翰·亚当斯和埃尔维斯·科斯特洛等众多作曲家。

这本藏品库中的音乐会钦巴隆琴由作曲家兼打击乐手格雷格·诺尔斯演奏。与同类小型民谣乐器不同，它配备了制音踏板，让演奏者能够在干音、打击乐制音（非常适合快速节奏）和长延音之间切换。Spitfire 采样了两种踏板位置，并进行了四次循环采样，同时还添加了一组颤音，这是一种极具特色且魅力十足的演奏风格。虽然可以使用延音踏板在长音和短音之间切换，但踏板无法完全控制音符的衰减。我敢说那些精通 Kontakt 编程的人会找到解决这个问题的方法，但就目前情况而言，这只是一个小小的限制。

Grand Cimbalom 的独特之处在于它是在伦敦 Air Studios 的录音室录制的，使用了 Spitfire 经典的近音、Decca Tree、氛围和悬臂麦克风位置。音乐厅的音响效果为这把琴哀婉的弦音增添了巨大的气势和共鸣，使它从一把不起眼的民谣齐特琴摇身一变，成为足以为任何电影音景增色的雄伟音响。虽然它异域风情的音色暗示着特定的地域背景，但它的用途绝不限于东欧冷战间谍惊悚片。我最近用它录制了一首感性的流行民谣，它也能演绎出一把庄严、混响浓郁、带有60年代弦音的电吉他，无论何时你需要一种独特而独特的主音。无论如何，它都是一件价格实惠、音质出色、蕴含无限创意潜力的珍品乐器。

Spitfire Audio Grand Cimbalom
Technically part of the zither family, the cimbalom is a large hammered dulcimer found throughout Central-Eastern Europe from Switzerland to Hungary — go further east, and you'll find it in Iran and Iraq, where it's called the santur. The instrument's metal strings, stretched over a trapezoidal sound board with three or four strings per note, are struck with beaters to produce a beautifully resonant, deep sustaining twang with a slightly chorused effect reminiscent of an electric 12-string. You may have heard it in John Barry's '60s TV and movie themes, and its evocative sound has attracted composers as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Lalo Schifrin, Harrison Birtwistle, John Adams and Elvis Costello.

The concert cimbalom in this library was performed by composer/percussionist Greg Knowles. Unlike smaller folk-style instruments of the same ilk, it has a damper pedal, enabling players to switch between dry and percussive damped notes (ideal for fast rhythm patterns) and long sustains. Spitfire sampled both pedal positions at two dynamics with four round robins, along with a set of tremolandos, a characteristic and highly charismatic performance style. Though you can use sustain pedal to switch between long and short notes, there's no option to use the pedal to fully control note die-away. I daresay those with Kontakt programming chops will find a way around it, but as things stand it's a small limitation.

Grand Cimbalom's USP is that it was recorded in the hall at Air Studios, London from Spitfire's classic close, Decca Tree, ambient and outrigger mic positions. The concert-hall acoustic adds huge size and resonance to the instrument's mournful twang, transforming it from a humble folk zither to a majestic sonority which would grace any cinematic soundscape. While its exotic timbre suggests a particular geography, its use is by no means limited to Eastern European cold war spy thrillers. I recently recorded it on a sensitive pop ballad, and it can also take on the role of a magisterial, reverb-drenched, '60s-flavoured twangy electric guitar whenever you need an unusual and distinctive lead sound. Either way, it's an affordable, great-sounding gem of an instrument with oodles of creative potential.