Kalimba

Ferpect obtained a great sounding set of Kalimbas (Mbiras or Thumbpianos) so they could not resist making a carefully sampled Kontakt instrument from that collection.

Ferpect recorded the samples with different microphones and preamps and also in different locations to get some interesting resonances. They then processed the recordings with different hardware saturation devices and also with some state of the art software tools to make them sound warm, lovely and sweet....The sound is natural, phat and clean.

From there they built a custom GUI for you to manipulate the original sounds until you get just the right Kalimba sound you are looking for.

You got 50 variations to start with. Each instrument has up to 73 notes. All were build from 4 different Kalimbas, Mbiras, Thumbpianos.

The instruments are carefully tuned and velocity is also set to a very musical level for authenthic playing. You got some presets which sound more like the real instruments and some which sound like a piano or e-piano, some more like soft pads or steeldrums.