Vibraphone Effects: Kontakt Vibraphone Instrument by Soundiron

The bowed set covers feathered and flautando, spiccato, staccato, marcato, long notes and sustaining tones. Finger articulations include taps, mutes, scrapes and flicks, with up to six dynamic layers and up to eight round-robins per key. The rubber mallet group offers small hard and jumbo soft mallets, plus fast and slow superball ricochet bounces.

Soundiron describes its microphone placement as very close to the instrument, aiming to capture detailed resonance. The ricochet articulations include an extra ribbon microphone option for a smoother tone.

The instrument is built around four independent layers. Each layer has its own articulation selection, arpeggiator, filter, LFO, shaping controls and a variable motor speed that moves from steady to full vibrato. This makes it possible to combine articulations and sound-designed textures into custom instruments.

The Kontakt interface exposes automation-ready controls for swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, coarse and fine pitch, articulation switching and cross-fading. The FX rack holds eight slots for 27 DSP modules, and the convolution reverb includes 99 room, hall, chamber and outdoor impulse responses plus 40 custom FX impulses.