Hopkin Instrumentarium: Woodentines – Wooden Lamellophone Kontakt Instrument by Soundiron

Bamboo Idiomount is a round, mbira-like bowl instrument with a hollow resonator and two opposing rows of bamboo tines. Its tone is crisp, rich and raspy, and it is sampled with three stereo mic positions: internal, close and room. Big Wooden Kalimba, also called the Wooden Idiomount, is a chromatic scale of large wooden tongues over a trapezoidal chamber, with a lush, dreamy tone and deep bass. Woodkal, or Small Wood K, is a three-octave scale of thin, flat tongues with a tight, raspy pluck. Piezo Tongues is an electric instrument of wooden blocks clamping piezoelectric strips, producing a dry, brisk pop in a distinct pitch.

Each acoustic instrument includes plucked notes and percussive taps or slaps, with close and room microphone options.

The Kontakt interface offers automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching, cross-fading and layering. An LFO section provides selectable shapes, targets, speed, intensity, tempo sync and fade-in time. Twelve low-pass, high-pass and FX filters can be assigned to modulation sources such as velocity, mod wheel, expression, aftertouch and key position.

The arpeggiator includes a velocity table and controls for direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration, and a key and scale lock helps constrain notes to common scales. A modular FX rack holds 18 DSP modules across 10 slots, including phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors and EQ. The reverb uses convolution impulse responses for rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments.