AudioP2P | 01-09-2010 | 1.0GB

This collection explores the smaller side of hand-held reed-based instruments. It includes fine quality hand-crafted traditional Indian Shruti Boxes, a mini accordion and something we like to refer to as The Plastisax. We even found a 2-note paper and cardboard concertina.

As always, we've sampled each instrument lovingly and thoroughly. We took them much farther than they were ever designed to go and found sounds surprisingly rich, full and playable. In the end, we just decided it was high time somebody give these little misfit toys the respect and attention to detail that they truly deserve.

Tonehammer Little Pump Reed specs:

* Core instruments/articulations

o Shruti Box 1 (soft attack/release)

o Shruti Box 1 (hard attack/release)

o Shruti Box 1 (modwheel tone/expression control)

o Shruti Box 2 (soft attack/release)

o Shruti Box 2 (hard attack/release)

o Shruti Box 2 (modwheel tone/expression control)

o Baby Accordion (natural / tight)

o Baby Accordion (auto-pump / natural / tight)

o Baby Accordion (modwheel tone/expression control)

o Plastisax (clean / tight / natural)

o Plastisax (dirty with natural key finger-click sounds / tight / loosely played)

o Plastisax (modwheel tone/expression control)

o Paper Squeeze Box (single note / auto-pump / hand slap percussion)

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