In Session Audio – Fluid Strike: Tuned Percussion (KONTAKT)

By | October 28, 2023

 

Publisher: In Session Audio
Website: In Session Audio
Format: KONTAKT 5.6.8+
Quality: 24 bit 44.1 kHz


Description: Fluid Strike is an instrument designed to create multi-layered melodic percussion patterns with ease.
Wood, steel, stone, bamboo, glass and gourd combine to create the original sound. A sound that can be perceived both in the past and in the future.
Fluid Strike allows you to customize your sounds in a completely unique way with a variety of effects and tools for sound shaping and auto-playing rhythmic and melodic functions.
We didn’t stop at sampling each instrument just once. Where possible, each instrument was recorded using a variety of sticks, mallets, fingers, hands and bows. For example, the vibraphone is played with soft hammers, open and muted, rubber mallets, open and muted, and bows! Choose what you need. Among the 30 instruments recorded for Fluid Strike, there are 63 different sample sets!

TRIPLE PLAY ENGINE: Select three sound sources to layer them together. Arpeggiate these sources with independent patterns, tempos, and playback modes. Shape and apply effects to up to three audio sources, independently of each other. Select any effect directly from the interface (and swap on the fly).

Peculiarities :
30 tuned percussive instruments
120 custom made synth sets
Where possible, each instrument has been recorded using a variety of sticks, mallets, fingers, brushes and bows, bringing the tuned percussion sample set count to 63.
Most instruments feature many velocity layers and triple round robin cycling for natural variation.
To improve playability all instruments have been stretched across the entire keyboard range.

200 patches split into seven categories:
– Triple Play Arps – Natural (36)
– Triple Play Arps – Hybrid (36)
– Rhythmic Pulses w Mod Wheel (24)
– Solo (24)
– Pads (24)
– Ambient (32)
– Sequences (24)

71 custom reverb impulse responses
12 custom amp cabinet impulse responses
64 custom fx unit presets
Triple Play rhythm grids can modify up to 15 parameters simultaneously (arp, pitch, filter cutoff, volume and pan x 3)
The Triple Play engine supports up to 22 user-selected Kontakt effects at once, plus an additional three filters, three send delays and three send reverbs, for a total of 31 (!) simultaneous effects.

Instruments :
Balafon – Rubber Mallets
Balafon – Soft Mallets
Balafon – Hard Mallets
Bell Tree
Bonang – Soft Mallets
Bonang – Rubber Mallets
French Celeste
German Celeste
Large Windchimes – Soft Mallets
Large Windchimes – Soft Mallets Muted
Small Windchimes – Rubber Mallets
Small Windchimes – Rubber Mallets Muted
Small Windchimes – Stick
Turkish Crotales
Swiss Crotales
Crystal Glasses – Soft Mallets
Crystal Glasses – Rubber Mallets
Crystal Glasses – Fingers
Desk Bells
Glockenspiel – Hard Mallet
Glockenspiel – Rubber Mallet
Glockenspiel – Rubber Mallet Muted
Glockenspiel – Bowed
Catania Kalimba
Gourd Kalimba
Meinl Kalimba
Mozambian Mbira
Mozambian Mbira -w Buzzers
Zimbabwean Mbira
Small Music Box
Large Music Box
Rindik – Single
Rindik – Dual
American Steel Tongue Drum – Fingers
American Steel Tongue Drum – Soft Mallets
Brazilian Steel Tongue Drum – Fingers
Brazilian Steel Tongue Drum – Rubber Mallets
Granite Stone – Rubber Mallets
Granite Stone – Soft Mallets
Granite Stone – Hard Mallets
Large Tingklik – Rubber Mallets
Large Tingklik – Brushes
Small Tingklik – Rubber Mallets
Small Tingklik – Sticks
Modern Tongue Drum – Fingers
Modern Tongue Drum – Rubber Mallets
Modern Tongue Drum – Soft Mallets
Modern Tongue Drum – Brushes
Osi Tongue Drum – Fingers
Osi Tongue Drum – Rubber Mallets
Osi Tongue Drum – Soft Mallets
Vintage Tongue Drum – Fingers
Vintage Tongue Drum – Rubber Mallets
Vintage Tongue Drum – Soft Mallets
Vintage Tongue Drum – Sticks
Vibraphone – Soft Mallets
Vibraphone – Soft Mallets Muted
Vibraphone – Rubber Mallets
Vibraphone – Rubber Mallets Muted
Vibraphone – Bowed
Xylophone – Rubber Mallets
Xylophone – Soft Mallets
Xylophone – Bowed

Disclosure: The mbiras, tingkliks and the Brazilian tongue drum were previously featured in products by Nine Volt Audio. However, they have been re-mastered and re-mapped for Fluid Strike.


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