Hopkin Instrumentarium: Aquaalt – Water Lute Kontakt Library

Aquaalt samples the water lute as plucks, long and short bowed notes, a sul ponticello bowed articulation, and glissandos up and down. Each articulation is available in both microphone positions, so you can choose a closer, more direct tone or the direct line in signal and mix them.

Soundiron describes the instrument as having a rich acoustic character with bright note definition. The library includes up to 8 round robin samples and 6 velocity layers per note, which helps the repeated notes avoid sounding identical.

The instrument is also packed with 20 ambient pads and evolving drones made from the same source recordings. These suit atmospheric beds and textural layers that sit alongside more conventional parts.

The library includes 21 Kontakt .nki instrument presets, giving you ready-made starting points before you build your own patches. Modulation is handled by an adaptable LFO with selectable shape, target, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time.

You can apply 12 lowpass, highpass and FX filters with assignable modulation sources such as velocity, mod wheel, expression, aftertouch, key position and step-sequencer control. An arpeggiator with velocity table, direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration controls, along with a key and scale lock, helps with melodic writing.

An 8-slot modular FX rack offers 27 DSP effect modules that can be ordered in any sequence. The reverb section includes 99 convolution impulse responses for rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.