Zithergeist KONTAKT

Team DECiBEL | 17 Sep 2020 | 3.90 GB

HYBRID ZITHER INSTRUMENT

Zithergeist is a Kontakt library based on unconventional stringed instruments recorded in unconventional ways. We have meticulously sampled note by note a number of atypical instruments like miniharps, mandolin of unknown origins and even an Apulian zither, known as ‘pasta-cutting guitar’, a guitar-resembling tool from magesy download the Southern province of Apulia (Italy), traditionally used to extrude pasta filaments from magesy download raw dough. The recorded instruments feature multiple articulations, from magesy download finger plucks to hammered and muted effects, obtained experimenting with a variety of metallic objects applied to the strings. Moreover, each individual note can be mixed with 4 different layers of cinematic sound effects, derived from magesy download the same instrument and ‘tuned’ to the corresponding note. The result is an highly detailed, versatile instrument (up to 13 velocity levels per note/articulation and 4 round robins); you can play it as a realistic emulation of acoustic instruments and use it at the same time as a powerful, variegated tool to design your own sound effects.