The word “monochord” means literally “one string”. It was originally constructed by Pythagoras for basic harmonical experiments of tones 2500 years ago. In those days it was a simple wooden plate with only one string. Today the Monochord is an instrument with many strings of the same length stretched over a wooden soundbox, all tuned to the same tone. If you slowly pass your hands alternately over the strings without a break, you get a long-lasting sound that is rich in overtones.
Our German Monochord has 21 strings, one string tuned one octave lower. All strings are tuned to B.
Firstly we recorded separately each of the 21 strings of the Monochord plucked both with hands and plec in 2 or 3 dynamic variations. All the the strings were mapped in a range from C2 to C5 that you can pass your hands alternately over the keys related to the strings of the Monochord. Using this playing technique you get the typical long-lasting sound of the Monochord which you can transpose by using the key switch. Beyond that we recorded single strings in several Round Robin variations and dynamic layers that you can play the Monochord chromatically. Finally we created some intersting FX patches assembled from weird and experimental noises made with Monochord. We also added some scriptings to provide more opportunities.
Monochord KEY Plec (all 21 strings plucked with fingers, key-switch transposes notes, additional script) Monochord Hit (big hit, all strings at once) Monochord Texture 1 (experimental textures, modwheel morphs sound)
Monochord Texture2 (see above)
Monochord Texture3 (see above)
Monochord FX (11 different “one shot” fx-samples)
22 EUR (excl. VAT)
German Monochord – Demo “Crossroad”
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Additional Instruments: Downbeat Box
Demo by Eric van Gent
German Monochord – Demo “Refrigerator”
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Additional Instruments: Magnus Harmonica Organ
Demo by Eric van Gent
German Monochord – Demo “Open land”
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Additional Instruments: Downbeat Box and additional strings (coming from external libraries)
Demo by Eric van Gent
German Monochord – Demo “Inter Mono”
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Additional Instruments: Autoharp, Downbeat Box
Demo by Eric van Gent
For the German Monochord Native Instruments Kontakt 3 or higher full version is required.
Downbeat encompasses a wide variety of music-styles. But it´s much wider than those terms of “laid-back electronic music” alone would indicate. DOWNBEAT BOX is a fresh and exciting exploration into this world – highly playable, this essential selection will be a wonderful resource for use in a broad range of music styles such as electronic, pop and score music productions*.
Downbeat Box is fed from many organic as well as synthetic sources. Beautifully sampled from such diverse sources as voices, whistling noises, feedbacks, guitars and sounds and slices of the subtractive synthesized legendary KORG MS20, the package contains a mishmash of pads & textures, beats, rhythms, percussions, add-ons and solo-sounds. Check out all the opportunities the instruments provide by using the modwheel or the programmed surface of Kontakt.
Ambient A(Sampled guitars transformed to a calm ambient pad, modwheel controls sound) Ambient T (Deep evolving texture) Gentle (Sinus sounds formed to a chary and careful background) Insidious (Rude and nasty sound, controlling delay amount and feedback) Maryn (Simple and effective short sound) Maryn Arp-MW(”Maryn” with arppegiator, 12 available presets controlled by modwheel) Meseno 1(Short ambient sound, generated by the KORG MS20) MS20 Rhythm Bank (39 looped beats created with sounds of the “MS20 Rhythm BSH”-instrument, 1- or 2-bars, tempo-synced, controlling LP/HP-Filter, Delay and Reverb, each with free-assignable controller) MS20 Rhythm BSH (Bass-Drums, Snares and HiHat, exclusively generated with the legendary MS20 – like the old drum machines worked, seperate volume controller for BD, SN + HH and amount of distortion) MS20 Perc Bank (43 looped percussive and tonal beats of the “MS20 Rhythm Perc”-instrument, 1- or 2-bars, tempo-synced, controlling LP/HP-Filter, Delay and Reverb, each with free-assignable controller) MS20 Rhythm Perc (A bunch of noises, blups, slices and percussion sounds, exclusively generated with the legendary MS20) MS20 Sin Bass (A classical pure sinus bass, very low) Outta Space (Reminds of a thermin, moving the modwheel adds a real tape-echo-machine atmosphere to it) Tranquilizer(Beautiful mystic pad, made out of several feedbacks, whistling sounds and some human tones, modwheel controls sound)
19 EUR(excl. VAT)
Downbeat Box-Demo “Transition”
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Demo by Eric van Gent
Downbeat Box-Demo ”Beaum”
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Downbeat Box-Demo ”Motion”
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Demo by Eric van Gent
Downbeat Box-Demo ”Just MS 20″
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The instruments marked with ** aren´t available yet. These are some of the next items going to be released.
For the Downbeat Box Native Instruments Kontakt 4 or higher full version is required
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