Marxophone
The Instrument
The Marxophone is a fretless zither that has four sets of chord strings to be strummed with the left hand and two octaves of double melody strings, which are struck by metal hammers activated by the right hand.
The hammers are mounted on spring steel and produce a mandolin-like sound from repeated bouncing on the strings, hence the name mandolin-guitar-zither sometimes applied to the Marxophone. The sound of the Marxophone is also reminiscent of the various types of hammered dulcimer in music traditions world-wide.
With our Marxophone we sampled all major and minor chords and all chromatic notes, so you are not tied to play in “C”, you can play on each tonality.
Played by the built-in metal hammers, pick and fingers, selectable by keyswitches on C1, D1 and E1. Sampled with 4 velocity layers and 4 round robin, included the release noises. Recorded in mono and stereo, controllable directly from the GUI with our custom script.
See the marxophone we’ve sampled in this Facebook album.
For Kontakt 3.5 or superior. Full version required.
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Tech Info
- Played with spring steels, pick and fingers.
- All major and minor chords sampled.
- 4 velocity layers.
- 4 round robin (repetitions).
- Release noise also with multivelocities and 4 round robin.
- Mono and Stereo WAV files 44.1 kHz 24 bits.
- Full natural decay.
- Custom Script.
- Control volume of all mics and articulations.
- Hi quality mics, preamps and converters.
- Kontakt 3.5 and superior.
- Full version required. Kontakt Player will run in demo mode.
- More than 4 Gb installed, 2Gb downloaded.
- Only €14.95!
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Beautiful!
very nice!
Very good sound,and very cheap for things you get.Thou,to make it even better it would be good(not just for this but for every sample library here)to try to make advanced scripting GUI,and also higher freq.96/192khz quality…
Very nice. I just pooped in my diaper.
This thing is terrific. In general, I love the company philosophy and the products that result: Small packages, excellent craftsmanship, low price tags. A lot of the time, I take a while to figure out what to do with a sample-based instrument, and ultimately find that it has a lot of features I don’t want, and even sometimes junk thrown in. I got the Marxophone a couple of days ago, and, immediately found that it’s just the thing for what I’m working on. It’s pretty, it’s creepy if you want it to be, and the samples are clear and full. The release sounds are a great touch.
The greatest sample-set I’ve come across in a long time!