Crocus Soundware releases "Liminal: Handpan Explorations" for Kontakt

Crocus Soundware has released Liminal: Handpan Explorations for Kontakt, a sample library featuring a tonal drum instrument known as a handpan or hang. They say:

This library incorporates a polyrhythmic engine which allows the user to perform evolving, tempo-synced polyrhythmic phrases by layering notes on top of one another. The instrument was mic'd at arms length and in stereo in order to capture the inherent reverberance of the instrument, as well as the subtle characteristics of the performer impacting the instrument with their hand or mallet.

In addition to the phrase-like Polyrhythmic samples, the library includes velocity-layered strikes as well as samples of more aleatoric and textured performance. The latter are intended to be used as naturalistic pads, which are suited to add unpredictability to a composition.

Features:

• Made for the full version of Kontakt 6.8 or higher (Not intended for Kontakt Player).
• 3.8 GB of samples uncompressed, Stereo samples(1.7GB using lossless compression).
• 45 Polyrhythmic Articulations.
• 6 Basic Strikes with 42 Velocity layers.
• 7 Aleatoric sample banks.
• 5 Tempo-synced sample banks.
• 6 Pads derived from processing the aleatoric samples.

Intro Price: $42 until 15 January, 2025 (Reg. $70).