Team DYNAMiCS | Dec 2009 | 1.16GB

We decided to sample this instrument deeper and more creatively then ever before in the history of samples. The best current water phone libraries contains approx. 180-200 samples, which is less then 1/15 of the Tonehammer Waterphone, which contains a mighty 2,903 samples recorded with a variety of bows, a huge set of mallets, metal devices, hands and other contraptions.

The library also contains a variety of more experimental patches, including boiled water at four different temperature levels, hydrophone recordings (underwater microphones in the waterphone), magnets on waterphone tines and filling waterphone with metal nails and other goodies. The sample library simply covers all thinkable and unthinkable type of articulations and we can proudly state we sampled the living soul out of the waterphone. All playable mallet programs contains our standard 10 velocity layer - 10 round robin for maximum playability. In addition Waterphone contains a bonus set of waterphone ambiences (note: Kontakt 3 only) made by Steven Tavaglione (Instrumentalist and Sound Designer; Wall-E, American Beauty, CSI, Supernatural and 100s other movies/shows/games).

# Bowing (no water) Slow, Medium, Fast FX

# Bowing sweep (water) Slow, Medium, Fast FX

# Bowing 2-note legato

# Bowing Sustain (with and without water)

# Bowing Staccato

# Bowing FX grinding w/ tine buzz (with and without water)

# Bowing FX w/ magnets

# Bowing FX w/ hydrophone (underwater mic)

# Bowing FX w/vocals

# Bowing FX boiling at four different temperature levels

# Mallet Rubber (6-7 velocity layers – 6 round robin) at +16 tines

# Mallet Metal (6-7 velocity layers – 6 round robin) at +8 tines

# Hand Played "Metal Tabla" (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin) bottom and top

# Wooden Mallet (6-7 velocity layers – 6 round robin) at +20 tines

# Hydro Mallets (6 round robin) at +20 tines

# Rubber, Metal and Wooden Mallet Sweeps (Slow, Medium, Fast)

# Waterharp Ambiences (Kontakt 3 only) by Steven Tavaglione

# Hydro-Vocal drones, phrases and more…

# Recorded with custom Neumann in studio (excluding wild FX)

# Extensive read me install, patch and hint documentation (.pdf) (download here)

# 57 instrument patches, 2.903 samples, 4.3 GB installed, 1.25 GB .rar download

# 22 Ambient Patches by Steven Tavaglione (Ambient music on Wall-E, American Beauty etc)

# Sample resolution: 44.1Khz/16Bit .wav format

# Format(s): Kontakt and .wav (note: Kontakt 2 not supported for bonus content)

# Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 2 / 3 / 4 full retail versions required.

# Note: Free Kontakt Player will only work for 30 minutes with this product. Full version required to remove this restriction.