The Celtic Nylon Harp is a small-sized harp with a height of nearly 39 inch (98 cm) and is usually designed for traditional music. The wooden instrument ranges in three octaves between C2 and C5 and has got 22 strings which are made of nylon and are plucked with the fingers. The harp has a lever close to the top of each string; when it is engaged, it shortens the string so its pitch is raised a semitone (sharped note if the string was a natural). The warm sound of the nylon strings is inspiring and adorable.

Every second note of the 22 strings of the Celtic Nylon Harp was recorded in several velocity layers and 4 Round Robin variations. We recorded the harp in two different mic positions (firstly very close and secondly at the sound hole at the rear of the harp), giving us different sound variations. We expanded the range from C1-G5 by tuning the strings beyond the intended key. With the ModWheel you can control the length and decay of the strings giving you feeling of damping. Beyond that you have got the possiblity of using the harp in a glissando or an arpeggiator mode.

Celtic Nylon Harp Close MW damped (sustained notes in several velocity layers and 4 Round Robin variations recorded in a close mic position. MW controls amount of damping, Glissando Script)

Celtic Nylon Harp Close Arp (see above, arpeggiator script with 10 presets)
Celtic Nylon Harp Far MW muted (sustained notes in several velocity layers and 4 Round Robin variations recorded at sound hole in rear position. MW mutes the note, Glissando Script)
Celtic Nylon Harp Deluxe MW Vib (both far and close notes panned in one patch. MW controls amount of vibrato, Glissando Script)

17 EUR (excl. VAT)

Celtic Nylon Harp-Demo “2 Fish”

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Additional Instruments: Autoharp, Downbeat Box, Glockenspiel**, Kantele, Percussion Multi Set

Demo by Eric van Gent

Celtic Nylon Harp-Demo “Change Location”

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Additional Instruments: Downbeat Box

Demo by Eric van Gent

Celtic Nylon Harp-Demo “Geisha”

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Additional Instruments: Downbeat Box

Demo by Eric van Gent

Celtic Nylon Harp-Demo “Travel”

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Additional Instruments: Autoharp, Zeitter & Winkelmann (additional strings coming from external libraries)

Demo by Eric van Gent

The Bowed Psaltery is a stringed musical instrument of the zither family. It´s wooden soundbox has unstopped strings over it, which are playing with a bow. The Bowed Psaltery is triangular in shape, with each string extending a little farther than the one before, so that each can be individually bowed – allowing one note to sound at a time*.

We recorded every second string of the Bowed Psaltery using several different playing techniques: sustained notes as separate up and down bow strokes, short (approx. 3 sec.) as well as staccato bowed notes with 4 Round Robin variations, and tremolo notes. Beyond that, we recorded “slow – tremolo” loops, noises, and scratching effects produced with the bow. All these loops are tempo-synced. You might like to use these loops as ostinato backgrounds for your music. Several of the instrument patches are programmed to provide access to multiple articulations or dynamic layers using the modwheel, and other settings using the Kontakt interface.

Bowed Psaltery MW (Looping sustained notes as separate up and down bow strokes, with additional release samples. Modwheel controls dynamics)
Bowed Psaltery Shrt (Short notes with 4 Round Robin variations)
Bowed Psaltery Stacc MW (Staccato notes with 4 Round Robin variations, Modwheel affects the dynamic, from gentle to hard staccato)
Bowed Psaltery Stacc MW Arp (see above, arpeggiator script with 12 presets)
Bowed Psaltery Tremolo (Tremolo notes, looped, with additional release notes, Modwheel controls dynamic, further controling amount of reverb)
Bowed Psaltery FX (processed long notes, pad-like)
Bowed Psaltery KEY (Keyswitch patch containing sustained, short, and staccato notes)
Bowed Psaltery Loops (“slow – tremolo” (ostinato) loops, noises and scratches made with the bow, tempo-synced, controlling)

19 EUR (excl. VAT)

Bowed Psaltery-Demo “Room 378″

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Additional Instruments: Downbeat Box

Demo by Eric van Gent

Bowed Psaltery-Demo “Bugstep”

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Additional Instruments: Zeitter & Winkelmann

Demo by Eric van Gent

Bowed Psaltery-Demo “Leaving”

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Demo by Eric van Gent

The AUTOHARP is a stringed instrument having a series of chord bars, when depressed, mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp – It´s a chorded zither. It´s a perfect instrument to give your music a subtile highlighted shape*.

Every single one of the 36 strings of the autoharp was recorded in two different sessions (with different mic-settings), giving us two different sample sets. We also recorded all chords (major, 7th and minor) in legato mode, each in in 2 velocity layers and 5(!) times Round Robin as separate up and downstrokes variations. With the ModWheel you can control the amount of the chord glissando to get an authentic and vivid strumming feeling. We also added a script to control the amount of reverb.
As a bonus we’re also giving another draft chord patch, which contains suspended chords variatons (without the third) which are in gated mode – giving an effect similar to slicing – in 5 times Round Robin. There are also suspended chords as single glissando variations and some „scary“ random picking textures.

Autoharp Single Deluxe (Single notes, both sample sets 1+2 (true doubling), controlling reverb)
Autoharp Single Soft (Single notes, warm sound, sample set 1)
Autoharp Single Metall (Single notes, thin and metallic sound)
Autoharp Single Tremolo (Single notes, autoharp meets guitar amp)
Autoharp Single Percussion (Single notes, autoharp played with timpani mallets, processed)
Autoharp Chords LEG KEY (All different chord types, Key switch, ModWheel controls chord-glissando amount)
Bonus: Autoharp Chords (different sus-chord types, scary textures)

25 EUR (excl. VAT)

Autoharp-Demo 1

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Demo by Markus Reyhani

Autoharp-Demo ”Glass Pattern”

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Additional Instruments: Downbeat Box, Glass, Guiro, Kantele, Metallic Objects, Zeitter & Winkelmann – (additional Gong of an external Library)

Demo by Christoph Hart

Autoharp-Demo ”Wine Glass”

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Additional Instruments: Beach Towel Drums(*), Downbeat Box, Chimes, Glass, Metallic Objects, Percussion Set 1, Rhodes Mark I, Spring Drum

Demo by Eric van Gent

Just the Autoharp:

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Autoharp-Demo ”Waiting for the Boat”

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Additional Instruments: Kantele, Warm Butter**

Demo by Eric van Gent

Autoharp-Demo ”Anybody There?”

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Additional Instruments: Downbeat Box, Magnus Harmonica Organ, Metallic Objects,  Percussion Set 1, Spring Drum, Zeitter & Winkelmann –  (additional Strings coming from external libraries)

Demo by Eric van Gent