Glass-Works

Sounds of Beauty & Wonder

Glass / Works is a Kontakt player instrument which collects together 3 extremely unusual and rare musical instruments which use glass to generate sound : Le Cristal Baschet, The Glass Armonica, and a set of Cloud Chamber Bowls.

Just locating these instruments was a challenge in itself - the third in the collection, Cloud Chamber Bowls, proved so elusive that after a lot of research and enquiries, Soniccouture realised that if they wanted to sample some, they would have to build a set theirselves. The first two instruments - Le Cristal and the Glass Armonica, as strange and beautiful as each other - required them to make a trip to Paris, to the studio of Thomas Bloch.

Cloud Chamber Bowls

• 1.38 GB Library
• 24 bit 44.1khz Stereo sampling
• Hard and soft mallet articulations
• 10 Velocity Layers, 3 Alternate round robin layers
• Original & Chromatic pitch mapped instruments (chromatic mapping extends C1 to C5)
• KSP Jammer - generative arpeggiator tool

Bowed Chamber Bowls

• 300 MB Library
• 24 bit 44.1khz  sampling
• Harmonics samples with MIDI control by ModWheel
• 5 round robin layers
• KSP Jammer & Glissando modules

Le Cristal Baschet

• 2.5 GB sample library 
• 24 bit 44.1khz Stereo sampling
• 4 octaves of Cristal Baschet notes
• Convolution ‘Flame’ Processor : 4 IRs from the steel flame panel
• 6 different articulations : sustain: soft & hard, Accent, percussion: hard & soft mallet, SFX
• 3  round robin layers per articulation

Glass Armonica

• 800 MB library
• 24 bit 44.1khz Stereo Sampling
• 3 Alternate Round Robin layers
• Keyoff Samples with level control
• Hard & Soft articulation crossfade, switchable from velocity to Mod wheel

THOMAS BLOCH : MASTER OF GLASS

One man is ubiquitous when it comes to rare glass instruments ; Thomas Bloch. A classical musician specialising in rare instruments, Thomas is a virtuoso who has worked with many famous names - Radiohead, Gorrilaz, John Cage, Tom Waits, and Milos Foreman to name very few. He is best known for 3 instruments - Ondes Martenot, the Cristal Baschet and the Glass Armonica.

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