Soundiron releases Hopkin Instrumentarium Chordophones for Kontakt Player

Soundiron has announced the release of Hopkin Instrumentarium Chordophones, a collection of experimental stringed instruments built for the Kontakt 8 Player: Chordophones is a fascinating collection of 10 experimental stringed instruments from the mind of master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin. We've included all of our unique Hopkin strings released so far, plus a brand new instrument exclusive to this product: The Stroked Zither. Made of wood and steel, bass strings, styrofoam, water, and rubber, each custom creation has its own organic tonal flavor, multiple microphone positions, and hundreds of ambient soundscapes created from the source content. Alt Alt, Aquaalt, Handsome Dan, Icicles & Pop Ice, Squiggly-Amejewar, Stroked Zither, Weighted Strings, and 2+2+1 each have custom sonic character, perfect for blending together or doubling a melody. Chordophones includes everything you need to compose your best work ever, with an efficient modular 4-layer GUI and over 150 custom FX presets for instant inspiration. 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. The customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. Soundiron 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 the modular FX rack panel, with 27 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of the 8 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 more. The Reverb effect includes Soundiron's 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. They've added a bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started. Specifications: 169 NKI instrument banks in Kontakt 8 Player format. Plucks, Staccatos, Bowed Sustains, Glisses, Percussion, FX from 10 stringed instruments. 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format. 44,365 Stereo Samples in locked.ncw format. 58.3 GB Installed. Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 8.1+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments. Works with the Kontakt 'Libraries' browser and Native Access. Pricing & Availability Hopkin Instrumentarium Chordophones is available for the introductory price of $149 until May 15th (Reg. $199). This Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by version 8.1 or later of the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special 'Libraries' rack. {PRODUCT-HEADER-31259-hopkininstrumentariumchordop}. YouTube.com/watch?v=2-CKUUhc-Zs Read More