Glass Orchestra
Description
14 instruments to explore
- Uncover an extraordinary collection of 14 glass instruments
- Expand your palette with unique sonic characters
- Explore hundreds of custom presets, and create your own
The instruments of Glass Orchestra are as deep and varied as they are distinct, each expertly and extensively sampled, exploring numerous playing styles from traditional to experimental. Discover an incredible range of new sounds, from delicate to thunderous, angelic to atonal – Glass Orchestra is pure sonic adventure, rich with inspiration for musicians, producers, and sound designers of any background.
IN-DEPTH
UVI approached Glass Orchestra with the utmost care. Each instrument was studied individually to find the most sonically interesting mic configurations and playing methods. The result is a singular collection, offering highly-detailed and effortlessly playable instruments each with 3 mixable mics, allowing precise sculpting of tone and presence, and the powerful expressive capabilities of native MPE support.
The instruments in Glass Orchestra may seem familiar at first glance, but on inspection their sounds are anything but typical. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes haunting, and sometimes deeply unnerving, Glass Orchestra offers an impressive range of both traditional and creative sounds, suitable for a wide range of uses.
The rich and detailed recordings of Glass Orchestra are presented within a powerful sound design environment. From familiar synth-style amplitude and filter controls with optional True Release, to deep internal modulation, powerful macro and bus effects, and a featured arpeggiator/phraser, the sounds of Glass Orchestra can easily be enhanced or radically altered to suit manifold creative visions.
Glass Orchestra features a large selection of factory presets, hand-crafted by the sound design team at UVI. From the pure sounds of the natural acoustic instruments, to more exotic and experimental interpretations, there are dozens of configurations available for exploration, ready to use in your productions, or as starting points for your own sound design.
Instruments:
Gamelan
Available in both bowed and percussive flavors, using numerous mallets and sticks including cotton, liege, rubber, soft, soft muted, and hand. Wonderful percussion possibilities and creative slide FX.
Glass Bells
An extensive set of bells with incredible stereo response (each recorded in mono as well). Percussion-focused, utilizing mallets and sticks including cotton, hard, liege, rubber, soft, and soft muted.
Seraphin
Beautifully crafted playing glasses with sustained sounds from rubbing with fingers. Includes classic sustain and staccato modes, along with unconventional modes like “Truncated”, and a percussive mode played with a liege.
Crystal Baschet
Huge sustained sounds available in a number of additional modes including crescendo, staccato, releases, truncated, low sustain, and percussive modes made striking both the glass and metal rods. Extensive effect possibilities.
Marimba
Available in both bowed and percussive flavors, using numerous mallets and sticks including cotton, liege, rubber, soft, soft muted, and hand. Highly-crystalline sound. Includes reverse bowed samples.
Harp
Offers an extensive set of percussive options, including a number of bowed modes. Recorded individually with mono, contact, and a particularly lovely mid/side mic configuration.
Glas Armonica
Exceptionally rare Bohemian glass Armonica. Sustained, almost meditative sounds created by rubbing with fingers. Includes a number of percussive modes made with and without the rotor active, along with slide FX.
Cymbal Bells
Similar to Glass Bells with a more filtered and resonant sound. Percussion-focused instrument, utilizing mallets and sticks including cotton, hard, liege, rubber, soft, and soft muted.
Verrophone
Similar in style to Seraphin but richer and dirtier – utilizing large, tuned glass cylinders. Beautiful sustained sounds, with an exceptionally charactered staccato mode.
Chimes
Two unique sets of chimes, one more tonal, and one more oriented towards noise/shaker-like sounds. Percussive modes including liege, metal, wood, muted, and classic glissandos with hands and sticks.
Tympanon
Large yet intricate, featuring high-pitched and crystalline sounds with incredible sustain. Played with sticks, including hard, soft, muted, and slide FX modes.
Balafon
Large yet intricate, featuring high-pitched and crystalline sounds with incredible sustain. Played with sticks, including hard, soft, muted, and slide FX modes.
Carillon
Experimental instrument exploring the natural qualities of glass, played with a wide range of mallets on the tops, bottoms, and muted. Includes a special ‘One Sample’ mode.
Triangle
Glass triangle played with liege, rubber, and finger. Available in still and rotating movements, with creative miking techniques resulting in a large stereo rotary sound.
Specs
Size: | 20.4 GB (FLAC lossless encoding, was 70.84 GB in WAV) |
Content: | 78,147 Samples and 408 Presets |
Sample Resolution: | 44.1 kHz. Recording at 88.2 kHz |
License: | 3 activations per license on any combination of machines or iLok dongles |
- Runs in UVI Workstation version 3.1.11+, and Falcon version 3.0.0+
- iLok account (free, dongle not required)
- Internet connection for the license activation
- Supported Operating Systems:
– MacOS 10.14 Mojave to macOS 14 Sonoma
– Windows 10 to Windows 11 (64-bit) - 21 GB of disk space
- Hard Drive: 7,200 rpm recommended or Solid State Drive (SSD)
- 4GB RAM (8 GB+ highly recommended for large UVI Soundbanks)
Supported Formats: | Audio Unit, AAX, VST, VST3, Standalone |
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