Kontakt Gongland

Kontakt 4 Library Gongland:

• Kontakt 4 (and higher - 590 MB unzipped - 48kHz/24-bit/stereo - 13 nkis/Instruments.
• 358 Samples compressed using Kontakt 4's ncw format (1 GB uncompressed).
• 4 Impulse Responses (wav).
• Price: 22 €.

This library contains 358 Tamtam and gong samples from the patchpool libraries Alchemistry Metallurgy, Scattered Entity Vol. 1 for MachFive plus 3 new samples.

A Wuhan Tamtam (45 cm in diametre) and two different sized Thaigongs were multisampled in 48 kHz/24-bit using 3 Neumann Microphones (L- C-R), a U87 for the centre and a stereo set of KM-184 for the sides. The Instruments were beaten with various mallets, scraped with various tools and rubbed with Rubberballs. Up tp 6 velocity layers and 10x round robin variations were sampled. There is also an instrument with multisampled waterphone gongs, beating the bottom of the instrument with soft gong beaters.

Audio demos.