Rattletines is a set of unique hand-crafted tuned percussion instruments created by instrument designer and sound sculptor Bart Hopkin. These one-of-a-kind instruments each produce their own special flavor of rattle or buzz, with every note having its own warmly resonant flavor. Rattletine includes two rows of tines. The upper tines hammer against “anvils” as they vibrate. The lower row is clean, for a clearer tone quality. Mahogany and Hacksaw Blades both feature tongues with holes and small pieces of metal wrapped through. When plucked, the metal wrappings rattle as the tongue vibrates, producing a unique buzzing sound. Aptly named, Hacksaw Blades uses actual hacksaw blades for the tongues. We've faithfully sampled tine plucks and percussive hand slaps on the instrument bodies, with two stereo mic positions. Also included is a wide selection of custom FX presets and plenty of our signature sound designed ambient content, crafted from the raw acoustic source to give you complete creative freedom.
CREATIVE CONTROL FEATURES
As always, we’ve packed our custom user interface with lots of great sound-shaping controls that give you the flexibility to warp the shape in many ways. You have control over Volume Swell, Attack, Release, Transient Offset, Vibrato, Filters, Tuning, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. You’ll also find an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 13 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, mod-wheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control.
You can also use our customizable arpeggiator, with a built-in velocity sequencer table and control over arp direction, note timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve also included a key and scale lock system that allows you to constrain your notes to a wide variety of common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance. The user interface controls are rounded-out by our modular FX rack window, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phase, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more.
The Reverb effect includes 99 of our own convolution reverb impulse response presets. Each one was captured live in a real-world location. We captured a huge variety of different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, along with an additional 40 unique, strange and creative special effect impulses to completely transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We hope you enjoy!
BART HOPKIN
has been active in many facets of music- making, including instrument building, performing and recording, composition, arrangement, education, and ethno- musicological research. He is also an established author, with ten books published on the subjects of instrument design and optimization.
In the latter 1970s and early ’80s Bart worked as a high school music teacher in public and private schools, doing both
choral and instrumental music. Several of those years were at a public secondary school and the national music school in Kingston, Jamaica. There, in addition to teaching, he researched and
wrote on Jamaican revival church music and (in some of the most enjoyable field work you could imagine) Jamaican children’s songs.
From 1985 to 1999, Bart edited the quarterly journal Experimental Musical Instruments. The journal served as an essential resource and clearing house in an otherwise scattered but lively and growing field. After the final issue, Experimental Musical Instruments continued as an organization serving people interested in inventive instrument design, producing and selling informational resources as well as hardware for instrument makers.
Since 1974, Bart has been designing and constructing all the far-flung musical instruments he could dream up, with an emphasis on unusual and inventive acoustic art. Now with over 110 original creations, the Hopkin Instrumentarium continues to grow every year. Soundiron is proud to bring you this inspiring and distinctive series of bespoke instruments not found anywhere else on earth.
Features
- 5 Master presets and 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
- 3 Unique Hand-crafted lamellophones each with 2 mic positions
- Percussive knock effects, glisses and 8 bonus ambient effects, pads and drones
- 7,952 Stereo Samples
- 3.23 GB Installed
- 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format for Kontakt presets
- Flexible, intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator.
- Modular Rack Multi-FX, including convolution reverb with dozens of Room, Hall and Special
- Effect Acoustic Environments.
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