GLASS MARIMBA PRODUCED BY TROELS FOLMANN

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1 GLASS MARIMBA PRODUCED BY TROELS FOLMANN

2 INTRODUCTION Glass Marimba is a custom 8DIO instrument - and a modification of the classic marimba. The main difference is that classic the wooden bars have been replaced with glass bars. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. ally. This instrument is a type of xylophone, but with broader/warmer and lower tonal range. The origin of the marimba goes back Guatamala and Mayan culture. We deep sampled this gorgeous deep-sampled instrument, which contains samples. All core articulations were deep-sampled separately and consists of soft mallet, hard mallet, muted and finger samples. In addition we created a variety of FX and ambient patches - all made with the Glass Marimba. We hope you will enjoy this creation. Troels Folmann

3 INSTALLATION This library is designed for the full retail version of Kontakt and later ONLY. It cannot be used in the free Kontakt Player. Please read the instrument specifications and software requirements before purchasing this or any other 8DIO products to see the full list of software requirements, features and format compatibility for each library. If you have any problems with the 8DInstaller download manager, follow the manual download instructions that came in your purchasing . After downloading, use Winrar, UnrarX, Unrar or other.rar-compatible program to uncompress the download files. Click Here to download Winrar for PC. Click Here to download UnRarX for OSX. Then, extract the Part 1 of the included rar file set. The other parts will automatically self-extract and install during the process. Next, follow the UI installation process on the page below. Once installation is complete, you can browse and load the included.nki presets using the Files or Database tabs in the Kontakt Browser view on the left side of Kontakt, or with the main File load/save menu. You can t use the Libraries view to load standard open-format Kontakt Instruments like this library. Only locked Powered-By-Kontakt Libraries are supported by that view. Note: The Add-Library function in Kontakt does not support this product.

4 CORE ARTICULATIONS The Glass Marimba contains five core articulation types, which were made by playing the instrument with hard mallet, soft mallet, muted notes, finger nails and a section of different FX based ambiences. The hard mallet, muted and finger nails have the most pronounced attack - where the soft mallet has a more smooth, warmer and relaxed tone. The muted articulation is a non-sustained sample of the Glass Marimba. PATCHES & FX The Glass Marimba contains 17 of additional patches, which are partially modified versions of the core patches with filter control, delay, reverb, convolutions and so forth. The patches range from more abstract and floating types of ambiences to tonemodified marimbas that sounds more or less like a Japanese Koto. All the FX and ambiences were 100% created from Glass Marimba source material, so they connect close with the core articulations in the library.

5 SCORING TIPS The Glass Marimba is gorgeous and eclectic instrument. It also happens to be custom, so you won t find anything like this in the music stores. One of the beauty s of the Glass Marimba is its warm, yet clear sound. It also sustains a little more then regular Marimbas, which can give a little hint of Vibraphone. The Glass Marimba articulations tend to work well when played in consistent rhythmic patterns, but are also effective for augmentation. Try throwing some Glass Marimba behind our 1928 Scoring Piano and see what happens. The library is also ultra prone to big verbs, so don t be afraid to go crazy on the included convolution reverbs. The ambiences are a substantial addition to the library. We use a variety of techniques to create the ambiences and ensure they are purely made from source material from the instrument. The Glass Marimba ambiences all have emotional qualities, but you can also find an ultra phat bass sound in there. Try creating a rhythmic pattern with the Glass Soft Mallet 2 Marimba - throw a couple of Glass Marimba ambiences and mix them together. The Glass Marimba also likes to be mixed with other instruments, so try to load up another tuned patch and then throw some Glass Marimba Soft Mallets on top to give it that more warm, curved accent. There is no right way of using the library - only matters what is right to you T

6 8DIO GENERAL LICENSING AGREEMENT LICENSE AGREEMENT By installing 8DIO Glass Marimba you accept the following product license agreement: LICENSE GRANT The license for this product is granted only to a single user. All sounds and samples in this product are licensed, but not sold, to you by 8DIO, Inc. for commercial and non-commercial use in music, sound-effect, audio/video post-production, performance, broadcast or similar finished contentcreation and production use. 8DIO allows you to use any of the sounds and samples in the library(s) you've purchased for commercial recordings without paying any additional license fees or providing source attribution to 8DIO, Inc. This license expressly forbids any unauthorized inclusion of content contained within this library, or any any 8DIO library, into any other sample instrument or library of any kind, without our express written consent. This license also forbids any re-distribution method of this product, or its sounds, through any means, including but not limited to, re-selling, trading, sharing, re-sampling, mixing, processing, isolating, or embedding into software or hardware of any kind, for the purpose of re-recording or reproduction as part of any free or commercial library of musical and/or sound effect samples and/or articulations, or any form of musical sample or sound effect sample playback system or device. Licenses cannot be transferred to another entity, without written consent of 8DIO, Inc. RIGHTS 8DIO retains full copyright privileges and complete ownership of all recorded sounds, instrument programming, documentation and musical performances included in this product. REFUNDS Downloaded libraries can't be returned, so we can't provide refunds. We may choose do so at our own discretion,but please be aware that as soon as you've downloaded it, you can't return it. RESPONSIBILITY Using this product and any supplied software is at the licensee s own risk. 8DIO holds no responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from any form of use of this product. TERMS This license agreement is effective from the moment the product is installed by any means. The license will remain in full effect until termination. The license is terminated if you break any of the terms or conditions of this agreement, or request a refund for any reason. Upon termination you agree to destroy all copies and contents of the product at your own expense. VIOLATION This product uses a form of copy protection, userspecific watermarking. Users who attempt to circumvent this copy-protection systems or otherwise violate the terms of this licensing agreement are subject to criminal and civil penalties and liable for monetary damages. If you've done any deep sampling and the laborintensive programming that comes with it, you know that it is very hard work. Remember, the more you support us, the more awesome libraries we can afford to make for you.

7 Thank you so much for purchasing the 8DIO Glass Marimba The production of Glass Marimba is not only a product of my own vision, but also a product of patience from friends and family - and a product of countless discussions with a variety of great composers, producers and so forth. Special thanks to Jason - without your help - this wouldn t have happened. If you have any questions, concerns, love-letters or hate mail feel free to send it to: support@8dio.com Troels Folmann All programming, samples, images and text 8DIO All Rights Reserved. 8DIO is a registered trademark of 8DIO, LLC.