Whether you’re a producer on the go or in your bedroom, your setup is always evolving. But in every setup, one thing stays constant: your laptop keyboard. What if, your laptop keyboard could transform into a powerful rhythm machine? Well, no more tedious sequencing—perform striking rhythms by switching between patterns, on the fly using just your laptop keyboard.
The Music Box is a sample library for Kontakt and EXS24. Also included in the library are wind up/wind down/crank/scrape sounds. The library has at least 6 velocity layers on each instrument (some with over 40!) with over 750 samples. The Music Box is an intuitive instrument that is sure to stimulate creative ideas. It is capable of childlike nursery rhymes, eerie melodies, enchanting passages and much more. The Kontakt version of The Music Box not only contains the basic instrument patch but also 10 highly useful factory patches derived from our samples. These patches range from pads and electric piano-like sounds to extra terrestrial sound fx Recently updated to V2 with Random Round Robin Scripting.
The Music Box is a 19th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pluck the tuned teeth of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and called carillons à musique. Some of the more complex boxes also have a tiny drum and small bells, in addition to the metal comb. Note that the tone of a musical box is unlike that of any musical instrument (although it is best described as somewhere between the timbres of an mbira).
A small hand-crank music box, with each pitch sampled and spread across the full keyboard for maximum playability. The music box was recorded sitting on an open snare drum, giving more body through the resonance of the drum.
The Patch: Full range -The music box is spread across multiple octaves, giving extreme bass and high key options. Low/High Balance – The original 96k samples were pitched down to create a lower octave set of tones for a clear low end option. You can control the balance between low and high tones with the user interface. Mod Wheel for octave blend – Use the mod wheel to select the high, low, or both octaves. Allows for quick changes of timbre. The balance knobs further shape the sound when using both octaves. Pure/Rough Balance – an included convolution impulse response (preloaded in the patch) gives an option for a sharper edge to the tone. Great for darker uses or tension, and easily adjustable from the user interface. For a pure sound, just keep Pure at 100%
The OwnHammer Rock-Box cabinets are proprietary enclosures, designed and built in-house singularly for impulse response capture and towards multiple sound design goals: to maximize fidelity and musicality for use in a broad range of styles and applications, to provide a tone that is both something familiar and something new, and to exude a neutrality that allows the individuality of different speakers, guitars, pickups, amps, and playing nuances to shine through unencumbered. Various unique construction choices were implemented to accomplish this complex requirement set to outstanding result, providing a tone with clean low end, magical midrange, smooth high end, and incredible note clarity across the entire spectrum.
Whether you’re a producer on the go or in your bedroom, your setup is always evolving. But in every setup, one thing stays constant: your laptop keyboard. What if, your laptop keyboard could transform into a powerful rhythm machine? Well, no more tedious sequencing—perform striking rhythms by switching between patterns, on the fly using just your laptop keyboard.
The Rock-Box cabinets are proprietary enclosures, designed and built in-house singularly for impulse response capture and towards multiple sound design goals: to maximize fidelity and musicality for use in a broad range of styles and applications, to provide a tone that is both something familiar and something new, and to exude a neutrality that allows the individuality of different speakers, guitars, pickups, amps, and playing nuances to shine through unencumbered. Various unique construction choices were implemented to accomplish this complex requirement set to outstanding result, providing a tone with clean low end, magical midrange, smooth high end, and incredible note clarity across the entire spectrum.
