Cassette Mallets.02 for Logic: Lo-Fi Mallet Sample Instrument by THEPHONOLOOP

The three instruments take different approaches to mallet sounds. Sound 01 mixes old glockenspiel plates recorded on a thin steel plate. Sound 02 is a two-octave xylophone combined with corrugated sheet resonances. Sound 03 uses the same xylophone, recorded with three mallets attached to an old bed mattress spring and a copper wire to produce a random, granular pattern.

All three sounds are enhanced with additional synthesis techniques, which add body and extend their range across the keyboard. Sound 01 and Sound 02 each have five dynamic layers, while Sound 03 has four.

Every note has been denoised with a high-quality algorithm to prevent noise from stacking when several notes play together. Some residual noise remains to avoid denoising artefacts. A separate noise knob lets you add cassette noise back in, and it can be adjusted independently and filtered. Because the noise is applied once rather than per voice, a five-voice chord gets a single noise layer instead of five stacked ones.

The library includes 45 basic presets: a normal setting and reverse settings at 100%, 75%, 50% and 25% for each deck.