The Halfling

Production Voices' The Halfling is a fantasy inspired virtual instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt 5.7 and higher (not for Kontakt Player) that combines both hifi and lofi samples to create otherworldly sounds suitable for game composers, film composers, sound designers, music producers, pianists and musicians.

The Halfling starts with a Hobbit-sized upright piano and extents into a soundscape instrument that includes the spellbound sounds of a Hobbit or Halfling. The 4 stereo microphone perspective upright piano alone is the centrepiece in this unearthly sample library, but the piano samples are just the beginning. Inspired by Production Voices own Death Piano, The Halfling is tortured, demented and beautifully flawed in a similar vein, but this time with a new sample set that includes throat singing samples, Wurlitzer 200A lid off, thumb piano, lo fi choir samples, wine glasses, bowls, pipe organ, toy piano, electric pianos and other oddities. All samples are new content recorded for this library. The samples are used as building blocks to create piano and soundscape oddities.

The library is 12 GB in size after lossless compression and comes with 300+ snapshots.

Features:

• Upright Piano with 4 Stereo Microphone Perspectives.
• Upright contains pedal up, pedal down, pedal noises, mechanical noises.
• Half-pedal control with catch.
• Sympathetic Resonance with on/off and volume controls.
• Sampled key up mechanical noises from the actual keyboard action.
• Round-robin pedal noise samples with normal and loud settings.
• 20 GB of sample content before lossless compression.
• Upright piano and choirs sampled at 24-bit 44.1k.
• All other samples are high resolution 24-bit 96k.
• Featured sample sets labeled as "Spells" include:
• Pipe Organ sample set: Full rank and Flute rank.
• Throat singing: Hmm, Ahh, Eee, Vowel morphs, Drones.
• Extensive "Enchantment" page to morph sounds.
• SSL emulated mixer with multi-output DAW capability.
• Tape Saturation.
• Custom IR reverbs.
• Reverse samples.

Audio Demos:

https://soundcloud.com/productionvoices/sets/the-halfling

Videos:

{See video at top of page}

Website:

https://www.productionvoices.com/product/the-halfling/

Download and instrument registration is handled by Pulse. Similar to Native Access, Pulse keeps Production Voices libraries in one place for easy launch, updates, etc.