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19th July 2011
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| Gear Head Joined: Mar 2010 Location: Ireland
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Thread Starter | 80's style percussion Instrument recognition
Hi, Im trying to establish the percussive marimba/xylophone style instrument which comes in at 00:57 of this track. Its prominent in quite a few 80s and balearic tracks that I have but it doesn't quite sound like anything of a percussive nature in the Kontakt library for instance. I would also appreciate if someone could point me in the direction of good quality sample libraries for the instrument. thanks. ‪The Project Club - El Mar Y La Luna (Lovefingers Remix)‬‏ - YouTube |
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19th July 2011
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| Gear Guru  Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Oz
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Pretty much sounds like marimba to me. I guess it might be a more primitive African marimba type, but as it's likely to be a sample of some kind it's hard to say. Coming from 80's Spain it's likely to be an old Akai library. You could try these for Kontakt though: http://www.boldersounds.net/soprano-...42cfaudiskmoo7 This is FREE! http://www.boldersounds.net/toy-and-...mbas-p-90.html
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19th July 2011
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| Gear Head Joined: Mar 2010 Location: Ireland
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cheers mate. i'll have a search around for some sample libraries. haha, you beat me to the punch with the libraries! |
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19th July 2011
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| Gear Guru Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Oz
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On the Akai thing.... I used this a ton in the 90's: Spectrasonics Sample Libraries : Heart of Africa I'm not sure if that made it on to many balearic recordings however. I also used this quite a bit: Dave Samuels - Marimba & Vibes - The highest quality multi-samples of marimba and vibes ever recorded One of the most beautiful tuned percussion libraries. Not widely used though I think. |
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