The Cosmic Music Box

The Cosmic Music Box

Kontakt Music Box Mechanics.

Product Overview

The project started off by acoustically recording 21 tine actuations from a disassembled music box mechanism placed on a wooden sounding board using both conventional condenser and contact microphones.

The sound of the clockwork motor and air brake mechanisms was also captured. A synthesized halo effect was created to blend with the tines by capturing several beating sine waves from a 1960's tube based dual tone generator which were fed through the filter stages of a Minimoog with the filter in near resonance.

Download Contents:

• 51 Samples.
• Cosmic Music Box GUI.
• 5 Example Instrument Patches.
• User Manual.

Credits:

Dan Wilson Sound, Patch Design & Demo.

Stephen Howell GUI Design & Graphics.

Mario Krušelj GUI Script.

EFFECTS PAGE

A second page was developed to permit the user to dial in various effects such as chorus, phaser, delay and reverb...

A user interface was devised to implement a randomised delay feature between two groups of acoustic tine instruments to create a plink effect and to blend the halo and motor effects together to form The Cosmic Music Box...

{See video at top of page}