Hopkin Instrumentarium: Tines & Echoes – Kontakt Tuned Percussion Instrument

Each tine produces a sharp, crisp water-drop note. The sympathetic strings pick up that attack and carry it across the body of the instrument, which gives the sound its reverberant, celestial quality. Soundiron describes the resonance as similar to the open top octave of an undamped piano.

The two microphone positions give you a choice of tonal perspective on the same plucks. The library also includes percussive knock effects for rhythmic textures alongside the melodic notes.

Because the source is a real acoustic instrument, the material suits both melodic writing and atmospheric sound design.

The Kontakt interface offers automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading, and layering. The LFO system includes selectable shapes, targets, speed, intensity, tempo sync, and fade-in time.

You can apply 12 lowpass, highpass, and FX filters, with modulation assignable 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. A key and scale lock keeps notes within chosen scales.

An FX rack with 18 DSP modules across 10 slots can be ordered as you like. Reverb uses 99 convolution impulse responses of rooms, halls, chambers, and outdoor spaces, plus 40 custom FX impulses.