Description

Soundiron’s Jazz Vibraphone gives you the most expressive and versatile virtual vibraphone library available, designed to capture the warmth, swing, and subtlety of a masterfully played instrument. We worked in close collaboration with Pearl USA, who provided hand-selected frames, custom bars and signature mallets. We recorded two different vibraphones in stunning detail: a 4-octave Adams Alpha with gold anodized bars, and a vintage Musser. This collection delivers the authentic sound and feel jazz vibraphonists demand – lush resonance, singing sustain, and the full range of tonal colors that make the vibes such a unique voice in jazz.

Whether you’re laying down a smoky ballad, comping behind a soloist, or driving a hard-swinging uptempo groove, this 53GB library provides the tools to shape your sound with complete flexibility. You’ll find a variety of mallet choices and microphone positions—hard and soft mallets, open and damped articulations, close and ribbon microphones, so you can dial in exactly the tone and movement your music calls for.

With up to 6 round robin and 9 velocity layers per note, we recorded each bar with precision. We placed our microphones close to the bars for maximum intimacy and presence, giving you the same clarity and nuance you’d hear standing right next to the instrument on stage. Intuitive controls for layering, shaping, and motor speed let you craft anything from a clean, straight-ahead jazz combo sound to lush modern textures that blur the line between tradition and innovation.

Product Specs

• Custom and Musser hard mallets and soft mallets with open and damped articulations
• Two microphone positions: Close and vintage ribbon
• 20 ambient pads and evolving drones created from the source content
• 24 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 16 Powerful Decent Sampler presets
• 38,540 stereo samples in unlocked .WAV format
• 52.9 GB Installed
• A flexible, intuitive user interface and mixer with pro features and deep customizability
• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

System Requirements

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 6.6 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support these standard open-format Kontakt libraries. The free Decent Sampler engine is required to use the .dspreset instrument presets included in this library. Windows 7 or higher. Mac OSX 10.12 or higher for Kontakt. Mac OSX 10.9 or higher for Decent Sampler. Linux x86 64bit supported for Decent Sampler. Multi-Core CPU, 3 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library.

Click Here to learn about the differences between the full unlocked version of Kontakt and limited Kontakt Player. This software is delivered as a digital download, so a broadband connection is required.