Tonehammer has announced the release of a new Kontakt based instrument: Propanium.

Propanium (aka MILLTONE) is a highly emotive, metal based, tongue drum. The drum has certain similarities to the Hang Drum, but is more clean, less "steel-drummy", has more harmonics and overtones. Tonehammer recorded Propanium in a variety of ways including finger, brushes, mallet articulations and tons of effects. The drum follows Tonehammer's "deep-sampling" methodology and the larger patches generally have approx. 10 velocity layers and 6-8 round robin (repetition) per layer, however certain patches (e.g. overtone patches) have over 35 velocity layers for maximum playability.

Details:

• Brush (Nylon) on all 8 notes: 10 velocity layers, 6x round-robin.
• Brush FX: Variation of short and longer brush swells.
• Finger on all 8 notes: 10 velocity layers, 8x round-robin.
• Finger percussion: 18 velocity layers, 4x round-robin.
• Mallet: 9 velocity layers, 8x round-robin.
• Ambiences MW: 6×6 velocity layers.
• Overtones: 8×35 velocity layers.
• Overtone flowers: 4×40 velocity layers.
• Finger arpeggiator: A variety of dual-tongues arpeggiated.
• Random Arp: A variety of dual-tongues arpeggiated & randomized.
• Random MW Tuning: A variety of dual-tongues tuned on MW.
• Extensive read me install, patch and hint documentation (.pdf) (download here).
• 11 instrument patches, 2224 samples, 1.67 GB installed, 368 MB .rar download.
• Sample resolution: 44.1Khz/16Bit stereo .wav format.
• Format(s): Kontakt 2 and .wav.
• Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 2.2.4 / 3 full retail versions required.

Pricing & Availability

Kalimba has an MSRP of $49. Native Instruments Kontakt 2.2.4+ required.