ThePhonoLoop – Cassette Vibraphone v1.01 (KONTAKT)

Cassette Vibraphone is the first instrument in a series of cassettes recorded with real round-robin samples – each note in each dynamic layer was recorded 4 times, in addition, in the Kontakt version it is possible to turn on round-robin simulation.

The cassette vibraphone was recorded in full range (3 octaves) with 4 dynamic layers using 4 different cassette decks. There are 2372 samples in total – 592 samples per deck, plus 4 noise samples from each deck (6.76 GB of uncompressed 24-bit WAV files).

Each note has been carefully denoised with a high quality algorithm to avoid noise aliasing when more than one note is played (there is still some noise left in the samples to avoid denoising artifacts).

Noise can still be added using the noise control – this is much more flexible and allows you to independently adjust the volume of the noise, as well as apply options such as filtering. It also creates a more realistic sound, so when a five-voice chord is played, only one noise sample will be heard instead of five stacked on top of each other.