Alto Xylophone: Orff Tuned Percussion Library for Kontakt

The alto xylophone is sampled with felt mallets, and the recordings include glisses and percussive knocks alongside the notes. Its tone is described as warm and plunky with a fast decay. The two soprano instruments differ in voicing: one has 13 notes from C5 to A6 with a rounded tone, and the other has 12 notes from C5 to G6 with a crisper, more biting sound, played with mallets and wooden cube hammers.

All three instruments were recorded in a dry studio from two microphone positions, with 10 round robins and up to 14 velocity layers per note. Samples are stored as 24-bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM WAV files, 14,129 stereo files in total, taking up 3.1 GB installed.

The interface offers an LFO with selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. Twelve low-pass, high-pass and FX filters are available, and modulation can be assigned to velocity, mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and a step-sequencer table. The arpeggiator provides a velocity table and control over direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration, and a key and scale lock limits notes to chosen scales.

The modular FX rack has 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, which can be ordered freely. Modules include phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors and EQ. The convolution reverb contains 99 room, hall, chamber and outdoor impulse responses, plus 40 custom FX impulses, and 20 FX rack chain presets are included.