Gongs For Kontakt

FIVE of FIVE Stars in SOS review - May 2022:

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/wrong-tools-torus

Gorgeous gongs with a constantly evolving tone, clean note, a tonal richness and full broad-spectrum ring. Recorded in 3 different scenarious.

TORUS is really 3 different Gong libraries in one.

1 - Hall session 2 - Dry room session 3 - Cinematic gongs.

1 - Hall session

Different articulations recorded in a small hall. A good addendum to orchestral recordings and filmusic scenarious.

2 - Dry room session.

DEMO DRY ROOM :

https://soundcloud.com/wrongtools/gong-percussion-samples

A vibrant cymbal library, great blend with drumkits and other rhythm sections. These are like giant cymbals.

We recorded and mapped 7 beaters and 400 hits, with three stereo mic pairs, placed at different positions. Pairs of Sennheiser mkh800twins, Neumann km184 and Coles 4038. All hits recorded with full sustain.

3 - Cinematic-sound-designed gongs

We've experimented with different materials, superballs, bows, rubbing, scrubbing and hard objects on a large variety of gongs. We also mounted a bass speaker directly on a large gong, triggering different sorts of vibrations from there. Contact microphones was also placed directly on the metal, which were transmitted through hardware effects.

The result is a cinematic library of gong textures that you won't find anywhere else.

For Hall and dryroom session we used Feng Gongs. Feng gongs are a thinner kind of gong. They can be strucked, bowed, scraped and violated in the same manner as any other metal object. And hands to dampen and control the vibration. Percussionists and drummers can use them as an alternative to cymbals. These are giant cymbals with a fat sound. It is lightweight and gives a rich variable long-sustaining tone.

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Wind gong, also called feng gong, is like a large 100cm in diameter cymbal with a constantly evolving tone, tonal richness and color. When it's played with thin sticks, you'll hear the wonderful arrays of upper harmonics and brightness, its clean note and a deep lurking deep inner tone. Sounds that are very different than when you hit them with a gong mallet.

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The Kontakt instrument
The instrument UI is intuitive and easy to play with. On the left side you'll see the usual suspects, like level, attack and release, reverb, delay, LFO, pitch vibrato and lowpass filter. Mixer tracks on the right side, with purge buttons and routing opportunities. The FX button on the bottom row, opens a scripted effect bonanza that will give you countless ways of morphing your sounds and combining various sometimes randomised parameters.

XY tweakability
Combined with the FX Sculpt section, you'll have – more or less – endless sound sculpturing variations on each patch. The FX Sculpt menu opens a menu with different pre-tweaked XY settings. Choose from a variety of flexible modulation options such as multiple granular, sadistic filter, complex randomised serial connected evolving textures and sound design elements.

_REQUIREMENTS
FULL version of Kontakt, by Native-Instruments.

1287 ncw samples
2.39 GB compressed
37 instrument patches.

_Instruments
Minimal CPU and Disk load
A large collection of in-built IRs
A sound sculpting section.