点评：从破裂声看唱歌碗和水杯
尽管我们的样本收藏往往充满了最新、最棒的管弦乐和其他核心声音，但市场上还有另一个经常被忽视的领域，可以成为珍宝的宝库。这是世界上小型精品样品开发商和仪器。其中一家公司Fracture Sounds创建了两个库，每个售价18美元，名副其实。这是唱歌碗，一个深入采样的Tibetan唱歌碗，和水杯，美妙采样的装满水的酒杯。
水杯和唱歌碗售价为14.99英镑，可以从Fracture Sounds购买。
思绪
首先，我会直接跳进水杯，一个深取样的装满水的酒杯。《破碎的声音》以两种方式对其进行了采样：敲击，以及用手指在边缘摩擦以产生持续的效果。打击乐短裤有两种：手指敲击和硬敲击。手指的敲击是美妙而精致的，创造出某种空灵的钟琴般的声音的错觉。由于图书馆拥有令人印象深刻的速度点击次数，高达42次，因此它们非常适合玩。这种发音在家里会很好，但会有脉冲延迟。
"重击"是一种更具攻击性的声音，由指甲后部敲击玻璃产生。用户可以在硬击和手指击之间进行按键切换，或者如果他们选择，可以通过激活"自动"功能来创建一个更动态的极端版本的乐器，当速度超过某个阈值时，该功能会使乐器自动从手指击切换到硬击。也许在未来的更新中，他们可以在界面上引入一个滑块，允许用户选择此转换的速度阈值。
除了这些短裤，我们还有持续的发音。当手指在玻璃边缘摩擦以产生类似玻璃的旋转支撑时，就会产生这种效果。任何在婚礼或晚宴上感到无聊的人都会熟悉这种声音。对于任何尝试采样以创建这种声音的小型Kontakt乐器的作曲家来说，这感觉有点像是一种成长仪式。现在能轻松获得这款乐器的精彩版本真是太棒了。在这台仪器中特别突出的是动态modwheel交叉渐变。用户会很快注意到并惊喜地发现，当他们移动modwheel时，交叉淡入淡出会玩一种挥之不去的游戏，以赶上你的modwheel位置。这确保了动态变化听起来总是非常自然和真实，就像一个人在真正的酒杯周围旋转手指时增加压力会导致声音的动态增加一样。
接下来是"歌唱碗"，我们有很多相同类型的内容。这一次，我们有了一个Tibetan唱歌碗，而不是来自酒杯的声音。该乐器包括一个短发音和一个支撑。该支架的工作方式与水玻璃非常相似，具有巧妙而自然的动态模式轮交叉渐变。声音是通过木槌绕碗边缘做圆周运动而产生的。短裤和水杯一样，提供了一些有趣的声音。这两个关节可以在界面上进行按键切换或鼠标点击切换。
在每个18美元的低价点上，购买这两种工具中的任何一种或两种都是显而易见的。它们都提供了可用、独特和有趣的声音，一定会增强任何作曲家的样本收藏。我认为我们都可以期待Fracture Sounds在未来提供更多精彩的内容。
事实
这些轻量级的库每个都不到40 MB，给人留下了深刻而令人惊讶的印象。歌唱碗有两个发音，一个短音和一个支撑音。水杯有短管和支撑管，还有第三个发音：较重的短管。这两款乐器都极具动感，在支架上采用了modwheel交叉渐变，在短裤上采用了一系列圆形知更鸟和速度层。该库确实需要完整版的Kontakt 5.1+，并且无法与免费的Kontatt Player一起使用。
Review: Singing Bowl and Water Glass By Fracture Sounds
Though our sample collections tend to be packed with the latest and greatest in orchestral and other core sounds, there is another, often overlooked, area of the market that can be a treasure trove of gems. This is the world of the small boutique sample developers and instruments. One of these companies, Fracture Sounds, has created two libraries selling at 18 dollars each, that are worthy of the term "gem". These are the Singing Bowl, a deeply sampled Tibetan Singing Bowl, and the Water Glass, wonderfully sampled water filled wine glasses.
Water Glass and Singing Bowl sell for £14.99 each and can be purchased from Fracture Sounds.
Thoughts
I'll begin by jumping right into the Water Glass, a deep sampled water filled wine glass. Fractured Sounds have sampled it being played in two ways: percussively, as well as rubbed around the rim with a finger to create a sustained effect. The percussive shorts come in two varieties: finger hits and hard hits. The finger hits are wonderful and delicate creating the illusion of some kind of ethereal glockenspiel like sound. They are remarkably playable due to the fact that the library boasts an outrageously impressive number of velocity hits, up to 42. This articulation would be well at home with a pulsing delay.
The Hard Hits are a more aggressive sound created by hitting the glass with the back of the fingernails. The user is able to keyswitch between the hard and finger hits, or if they choose, can create an even more dynamically extreme version of the instrument by activating the "auto" function which causes the instrument to automatically toggle from the finger hits to the hard hits when the velocity crosses a certain threshold. Perhaps in a future update, they could introduce a slider to the interface allowing the user to select the velocity threshold for this transition.
As well as these shorts, we have our sustained articulation. This is created when a finger is rubbed around the rim of the glass to create a swirling glass like sustain. Anyone who has ever been bored at a wedding or dinner party will be familiar with this sound. It feels like somewhat of a rite of passage for any composer experimenting with sampling to create a small Kontakt instrument of this sound. It's wonderful to now have easy access to a wonderful version of this instrument. What stands out as particularly well executed in this instrument are the dynamic modwheel cross-fade. Users will quickly notice and be pleasantly surprised that when they move the mod wheel, the cross-fade plays a sort of lingering game of catch up to your modwheel position. This ensures that the dynamic shifts always sound remarkably natural and true to the way a person increasing pressure as they rotate their finger around a real wine glass would cause a dynamic increase to sound.
Moving along to the Singing Bowl, we have a lot of the same kinds of content. This time instead of sounds sourced from a wine glass, we have a Tibetan singing bowl. The instrument includes a short articulation and a sustain. The sustain works in much the same way as the Water Glass with its clever and natural sounding dynamic modwheel cross fade. The sound is created by moving a wooden mallet in a circular motion around the rim of the bowl. The shorts, as with the Water Glass offer some interesting sounds. The two articulations can be key switched between or switched with a mouse click on the interface.
At the low price point of 18 dollars each, buying either or both of these instruments is a no-brainer. Both of them deliver usable, unique, and interesting sounds that would be sure to enhance the sample collection of any composer. I think we can all look forward to more great content from Fracture Sounds in the future.
Facts
Weighing in at under 40 MB each, these featherweight libraries pack an impressive and surprising punch. The Singing Bowl features two articulations, a short and a sustain. The Water Glass has both a short and a sustain as well as a third articulation: a heavier short. Both instruments are incredibly dynamic featuring modwheel cross-fading on the sustains and a large series of round robins and velocity layers for the shorts. The library does require the full version of Kontakt 5.1+ and will not work with the free Kontakt Player. |
