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maiki · Post by **maiki** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:31 pm

Could someone recommend a vibraphone sound without vibrato, or one that is possible to configure without vibrato? (It could also be considered a metallophone sound. Not an ethnic one though, as in a Javanese gamelan, but playing the tempered chromatic scale.)

A marimba or xylophone sound would not be appropriate for what I am looking for here, as I want the metal sound, not wood, with the longer sustain, mellow attacks, but without the vibrato present in many vibraphone samples.

SWTrex · Post by **SWTrex** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:21 am

Check out the "Viby" samples (and sfz mapping) in this thread:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3343071

VibraphoneTS (also referenced in that thread) is also good, but has a little bit of vibrato even with the setting at minimum (although it sounds more like a tremolo to me).

SWTrex

dysfunctionz · Post by **dysfunctionz** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:57 am

You might check out Vibsym from Acousticsamples- detailed, multisampled vibraphone for Kontakt and EXS24, SFZ is supposedly coming soon. €34 (about $50US). Definitely no vibrato. I don't know if you're looking for a super realistic vibraphone sound, but if you are this is it.

http://www.acousticsamples.net/home.html

hao nao · Post by **hao nao** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:26 am

Image-Line Ogun specializes in metallic timbres such as bells and gongs -- maybe you could tweak up something with that?

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:34 am

Try glockenspiel or celeste. They might be close but won't have exactly the sound of the vibraphone's aluminum bars.

IIRC the vibrato on a vibraphone is a motorized effect that can be switched off, so maybe there are switched-off vibe samples around.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:44 am

Would a vibraphone without vibrato just be a phone?

SWTrex · Post by **SWTrex** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:30 pm

foosnark wrote:Would a vibraphone without vibrato just be a phone?

... or when my cell is on vibrate, is it a vibraphone?

jobromedia · Post by **jobromedia** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:13 pm

Jokes aside the vibraphone in Miroslav Philharmonic CE has no vibrato at all.

maiki · Post by **maiki** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:55 pm

SWTrex wrote: (although it sounds more like a tremolo to me).

SWTrex

You are correct. The vibraphone does not actually have vibrato (despite the name), but tremelo.

I guess due to the name vibraphone the word vibrato came to me first, but technically it isn't really vibrato, it is tremelo.

Thank you to all for your suggestions, I will check them out.

maiki · Post by **maiki** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:33 pm

dysfunctionz wrote:You might check out Vibsym from Acousticsamples- detailed, multisampled vibraphone for Kontakt and EXS24, SFZ is supposedly coming soon. €34 (about $50US). Definitely no vibrato. I don't know if you're looking for a super realistic vibraphone sound, but if you are this is it.

http://www.acousticsamples.net/home.html

They have two vibe samples there, the one called Viby is free, and the one called Vibysym (something like that), costs that 34 euros. Is the pay one much better than the free one? Does the free one also have no built-in tremelo?

I'm downloading the free one right now. (In case the designer of their web site is reading, I should mention, that I was unable to initiate the download of the free viby in Firefox. Clicking the download arrow did nothing. (Could have something to do with their popup blocker, or Adblock extension.)I had to switch to IE, to be able to download it. (It opens a tab to Megaupload, that has the file.

(Well, actually, now IE crashed, in trying to download Viby from Megaupload. I'll have to try again. I'd suggest a different, simpler way to set up your files for downloading.)

BFunKu · Post by **BFunKu** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:40 pm

You could try the free sample based VibraphoneTS VSTi it has a vibrato control so you could just turn it off. Plus it sounds damn good. Probably better than most Vibraphone sf2s.

thysm00 · Post by **thysm00** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:35 pm

The sfz version of the vibysm is out!

VibysM

Kevin Raftery · Post by **Kevin Raftery** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:51 pm

dysfunctionz wrote:You might check out Vibsym from Acousticsamples... Definitely no vibrato...

I've just looked at their site, which is advertising VibsyM V2. There are three demos on the page. The vibe sound in the "Classical" demo sounds like there is, indeed, no tremolo -- ie. motor off. You can hear this at the end of the demo. But their "Vibsym2" demo clearly has the motor on; you can hear this in the long chords about 80% of the way through.

So one could get the idea that it's controllable. But if you go to the "Screenshots" and choose "Interface", you see a Kontakt instrument whose only controls are Tune, pedalnoise, and release.

Anyone know how these two different effects were produced from one instrument?

If the basic instrument has motor off, and the wah-wah effect was achieved by some real-time modulation, then I'm happy.

Thanks.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:27 pm

here to mention my own vst

phybes demo has a couple of voices of poly, sound engine is a banded waveguide.

ZombyWoof · Post by **ZombyWoof** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:57 pm

xoxos wrote:here to mention my own vst

phybes demo has a couple of voices of poly, sound engine is a banded waveguide.

xoxos beat me to it. +1 for phybes!

Vibraphone without Vibrato?