玻璃琴，又称玻璃口琴、碗式风琴、水晶琴，或简称为琴Soniccouture – Glassworks v2.5 Kontakt

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Glass Works 是一套 Kontakt 乐器，它汇集了三种利用玻璃发声的珍稀乐器：Le Cristal Baschet、The Glass Armonica 和一套 Cloud Chamber Bowls。Soniccouture 前往巴黎，与精通珍稀乐器的演奏家 Thomas Bloch 合作录制了 Glass Works，最终呈现出电影般的质感、诡异而又酷炫的风格。

乐器：玻璃琴

玻璃琴，又称玻璃口琴、碗式风琴、水晶琴，或简称为琴（源自希腊语“harmonia”，意为和谐），是一种使用一系列大小递增的玻璃碗或高脚杯，通过摩擦产生音调的乐器——用湿手指沿着玻璃边缘摩擦，就像用酒杯摩擦一样。

水晶篮

巴歇水晶（Cristal Baschet，或称“Le Cristal”）由伯纳德·巴歇和弗朗索瓦·巴歇于1952年设计。它由大约四个八度的半音阶玻璃棒组成，演奏者用湿手指摩擦玻璃棒。玻璃棒的振动传递到一个重金属块上，该金属块本身也经过调谐，并最终决定了音高。整个装置通过一块被称为“火焰”的大型钢板进行放大。此外，还有三个小型玻璃纤维锥体用于放大高频声音。

云室碗（弓形）

云室碗是Soniccoutures公司复刻美国特立独行的作曲家哈里·帕奇（Harry Partch）于20世纪50年代制作的一种乐器。它由悬挂的“碗”组成，这些“碗”实际上是12加仑玻璃瓶的一部分。玻璃瓶的顶部和底部都可利用。帕奇最初将14个（后来减少到13个）这样的“碗”悬挂在一个他称之为“托里”（tori）的大型木架上。之所以称之为“云室碗”，是因为帕奇于1950年在加州大学伯克利分校的辐射实验室发现了这些玻璃瓶的原始顶部和底部。这些“碗”最初用于云室，云室是用来追踪亚原子粒子运动轨迹的。直接下载

特征

• Soniccouture 玻璃琴乐器具有 3 个交替循环音轨，并带有富有表现力的离键采样。您可以使用调制轮或力度控制来为声音添加自然的按压感。
• Soniccouture Cristal乐器使用了2.5GB的立体声采样，覆盖4个八度音阶。6种不同的演奏技巧（每种技巧有3个交替层）赋予乐器丰富的表现力：延音（柔和与强劲）、重音、打击乐（硬槌与软槌）、音效。“火焰”（用于放大声音的钢片）采用卷积技术建模，因此您可以根据需要调整效果的强弱。
• Cloud Chamber Bowls Kontakt乐器包含1.38 GB的立体声采样。10 x 3个力度层确保了流畅的动态响应。您可以切换硬槌和软槌来获得不同的音色，也可以使用弓弦演奏来获得持续的类似合成器音垫的声音。CCB的音准可以从最初的随机音准切换到更实用的半音阶（C1-C5）范围。

系统要求

• Kontakt 完整版 v6.7.1

RARE INSTRUMENT COLLECTION

Glass Works is a set of Kontakt instruments which collects together 3 rare musical instruments which use glass to generate sound: Le Cristal Baschet, The Glass Armonica, and a set of Cloud Chamber Bowls. Soniccouture travelled to Paris to record with Thomas Bloch, a virtuoso musician who specialises in rare instruments, and Glass Works is the result.. cinematic, creepy and cool.

THE INSTRUMENTS GLASS ARMONICA

The glass armonica, also known as the glass harmonica, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica (derived from “harmonia”, the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction – rubbing a wet finger along the edge of the glass, as one might with a wine glass.

CRISTAL BASCHET

The Cristal Baschet or ‘Le Cristal’ was designed in 1952 by Bernard and François Baschet. It consists of about 4 octaves of chromatically tuned glass rods, which are rubbed with wet fingers. The vibration of the glass is passed to a heavy block of metal, which itself is tuned and in fact determines the final pitch. The entire mechanism is amplified by a large steel plate called the “flame”. There are also three small fiberglass cones that amplify the higher frequencies.

CLOUD CHAMBER BOWLS (BOWED)

The Cloud Chamber Bowls are Soniccoutures recreation of an instrument built in the 1950s by maverick American composer Harry Partch. It consists of hanging “bowls” which are sections of 12-gallon glass carboys. Both tops and bottoms of the carboys are used. Partch had 14 (later 13) bowls hanging from a large wooden frame he called a “tori”. The name “Cloud Chamber Bowls” arose from the fact that Partch found the original tops and bottoms at a Radiation Laboratory at UC Berkeley in 1950. The bowls were originally used for cloud chambers used in tracing paths of subatomic particles.Direct Download

Features

• The Soniccouture Glass Armonica instrument features 3 alternate round-robin layers with expressive key-off samples. Use either the mod-wheel or velocity to add the sound of natural pressure to the sound.
• The Soniccouture Cristal instrument uses 2.5GB of stereo samples spread over 4 octaves. 6 different articulations (with 3 alternate layers each) make the instrument burst with expression: sustain: soft & hard, Accent, percussion: hard & soft mallet, SFX. The ‘Flame’ – the steel sheet that amplifies the sound – is modelled using convolution technology, so you can add as much or little of the effect as required.
• The Cloud Chamber Bowls kontakt instrument contains 1.38 GB of stereo samples. 10 x 3 velocity layers ensure a seamless dynamic response. Switch between hard and soft mallets for a different timbre, and Bowed for a sustained pad-like sound. The tuning of the CCB can be switched from the original random tuning to a more usable chromatic (C1-C5) range.

System requirements

• Kontakt FULL v6.7.1