Bentside Spinet is a Soundiron Kontakt instrument based on the spinet, a quilled keyboard. It features stereo recordings of each key, 20 ambience patches and 25 FX presets, and requires the full version of Kontakt 5.5 or later.
Bentside Spinet is built around a recorded spinet, a historical keyboard that preceded the pianoforte. Soundiron captured each key in stereo close and far microphone positions, with round-robin variations, note releases and key sound effects. The instrument is delivered as one master NKI bank in open Kontakt format, so you can browse and layer the sounds inside the Kontakt environment. Soundiron also added ambient soundscapes and custom FX presets built from the same source material.
The spinet is described as producing a rich, sustained timbre that is darker and less brilliant than the harpsichord. Bentside Spinet captures this tone with stereo close and far microphone positions for every key. The round-robin recordings add variation between repeated notes, and the release samples and key up and key down sound effects add mechanical detail to the attack and decay.
The instrument covers a five-octave range based on the original keyboard layout.
The multi-layer interface gives you LFO, filter, glide and arpeggiator controls, so the spinet can be shaped beyond its acoustic sound. A full FX rack includes convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments.
The library includes 20 ambience patches created from the source recordings and 25 custom sound-designed FX and ambient presets. These are useful as starting points for scoring, ambient textures and sound design.
Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.
| Developer | Soundiron |
|---|---|
| Type | Plugin |
| Category | Kontakt Instrument |
| Requires | Kontakt |
| Formats | Kontakt |
| Operating systems | Windows, macOS |
Bentside Spinet requires the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5 or above. It will not run in full in the free Kontakt Player and will only be available in demo mode there.
Bentside Spinet is listed for Windows 7 or higher and macOS 10.9 or higher. The developer recommends a dual-core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and an SATA or SSD drive for this library.
The library includes one master NKI instrument bank, 1,247 stereo WAV files, 20 ambience patches and 25 custom FX and ambient presets. The installed size is 4.6 GB.
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