Saxophones + harmoniums = SAXOMAPHONIUM

Sound Dust Saxomaphonium is a hybrid Kontakt instrument hewn from layers of baritone and alto sax plus two ancient wind-powered reed organs. It takes un-cool elements, records them nicely and then re-imagines them into something entirely new.

With a deep but manageable Kontakt engine, the Saxomaphonium creates a new reed/metal/wood-based palette that can cover a surprisingly wide range of stunning possibilities.

The Components

Looped baritone and alto long notes

Tape treated, looped baritone and alto long notes

Honking goose sax staccato

BPM synced looping harmonium hand-pumped notes

Deep wheezy foot pumped room organ

What's Inside?

- Saxophone x 2 - 4 octaves of baritone and alto saxophone long looped notes - 6 velocity layers.

- Tape Saxophone - 4 octaves of baritone and alto saxophone long looped notes - brutalised through Roland Chorus Echo RE501 for lots of wow and flutter - 6 velocity layers.

- Honk - 4 octaves of baritone and alto saxophone staccato notes - 5 velocity layers.

- Harmonium - binaurally recorded portable harmonium with looped BPM synced bellows pumping.

- Pump Organ - binaurally recorded church style pump organ.

- 1140 24bit samples = 2.46GB with Native Instruments propriety compression

- Note Jitter - randomises note on/off timing, velocity values and tuning between articulations

- Chord and Key quantise - selectable to fix scale and chord type across all keys

- Sample start and loop length control per articulation

- All controls fully automatable

- BPM synced pan and volume modulation per articulation

- BPM synced vibrato and chorus per articulation

- 24 custom convolution reverbs per articulation

- 4 insert effects - dirt, eq, rotor, phaser and master algorithmic reverb

- 2 send effects - delay and algorithmic reverb

- Keyboard Velocity and Round Robin modelling page

- 55 instrument snapshots

- Handy build in instructions in RTFM page

FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above needed.

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