Winterbells

Winterbells is a deeply sampled festive collection of concert sleighbells, jingle bells, bell hoops, horse reins, logging wagon bells, bell strips and ropes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, from tiny to huge and everywhere in between. The logging bells are cast bronze bells in various pitches that were mounted to a steel rail on logging wagons and trucks in the late 1800s. Their brash tone served to warn travelers of the approaching wagons on the winding mountain roads in the days before electric horns. The softball sized giant rope bells are clustered on joined rope braids so they strike against each other when shaken, and have a low, dark, dull percussive tone. The Bell strip has a distinct horse bridle bell sound which works great for tuned percussion. The bell hoop has a tamborine-like quality, while the star bells have a crisp, thin, high pitched washy tone.

We captured multiple dynamic layers and round robins of all the instruments in a dry studio environment, then performed loops to bring tempo-synced realism to your holiday season. After that, we expanded these natural metallic shimmering timbres with 20 ambient organic soundscapes and 20 custom FX presets to kickstart your snowy sleighride.

For this Sleighbells 3.0 upgrade, we remastered the old samples and inserted them into our efficient four-layer modular template, then recorded thousands of fresh hits, spins, shakes, slaps, sustains, and FX using new instruments and techniques. Winterbells delivers the gift of over 5 GB of inspired bell samples, and it's ready to bring authentic jingle to your next composition.

Listen to demos of Winterbells on Soundcloud

Product Specs:

• One master NKI instrument bank in open Kontakt format.
• Bell hits, shakes, spins, slaps, springs, sustains, loops & FX in two mic positions.
• 20 Ambience patches created from the source content.
• 24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV samples.
• 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets.
• 6,951 Stereo WAV files.
• 5.15 GB installed.
• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator.
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments.

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