Plucks & Mallets

Sampled organic instruments

Concert Pedal Harp, Glockenspiel, Chimes, Acoustic Harmonics, Steel Tongue Drum, Cello, Electric Guitar, keys and more. Plucks and Mallets was crafted carefully from 11 instruments so it feels authentic, bold, and daring, with all the sonic quality of real instruments in real spaces, and all the functionality of a synthesizer with full effects.

Tech Specs

• 11 Sampled Organic Instruments (at 3-5 unique velocities)

• 1,218 samples – disk space required about 500MB

• Onboard Mixing faders for all Instruments

Nightfox decided to make an instrument that combines some of the best plucky sounds with some of their favorite instruments you hit with a mallet.

Nightfox brought in an 8 foot concert pedal harp and they paired it with a steel tongue drum and an electric piano, guitar, cello, and others so you can make tones that nobody has ever heard before.

Use each of these 11 as solo instruments or blend them in infinite configurations to create hybrid tones. A fully customizable arpeggiator gives these real tones the functionality of a synthesizer with all the character and and organic quality of the original sampled instruments. Shape the tone with AHDSR and a filter of your choice before it hits 3 custom shaped LFO’s: Gain, Pitch, and Filter. Finish crafting your sound with 5 onboard effects.

Additional Tech Specs

• 5 Per-Instrument Effects: (Pan, Width, Input Delay, EQ, Compression)

• Global Pitch and Pan

• Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain, Release controls and visualizer

• Customizable Filter (10 filter types) with Resonance and visualizer

• Fully customizable Arpeggiator with Hold, Latch, and Midi Thru modes

• Adjustable parameters include: Step Number, Rate, Number of octaves, Swing amount, Step Size, Keyboard split range Hi / Lo, 6 Arp patterns (up, down, up-down, down-up, random, chord), Velocity map, Note Length map, Pitch offset map

• 5 Additional Onboard Effects: (Drive (with 8 types), Phaser, Chorus, Delay, Reverb)

• 3 LFO’s (Gain LFO, Pitch LFO, and Filter LFO) with 6 shape options

• 5 Portamento controls

• All important parameters are fully automation-capable in major DAW’s

• All important parameters are fully CC mappable

• Over 70 presets included (user presets can be created, saved, and favorited)