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acg2010 ·
Back in 2007, EVP was working on a rompler/thumb piano project:
Kalimba/Thumb Piano ROMpler
Since my wife had the actual instrument, I thought I would create a vst version. I recorded the actual notes played with the real instrument (hence the poor quality-has back ground noise, hope to get a better mic someday), then edited them in Audacity. I used the older wave player module and midi setup with configureable midi mapping. I plan on recording some better notes and trying to animate the metal tangs of the thumb piano when the note is played. For the image, my daughter photographed it with a high quality camera and I edited the image in Paint.Net. Still has some glare at the top of the image, I may redo it later.
Here is the results so far, the osm is rather large since it uses sampled sounds so it is available at box.net:
http://www.box.com/s/42mdchtk73loap0z5gct
Neptune ·
🙂 Just back in the hotel in Johannesburg. Some Street Musicians have been entertaining us during dinner playing their Mbira.
acg2010 ·
How cool Neptune! Personally, I love various forms of ethic music mixed with contemporary styles such as the "Tribal Mozart" album. Thats why I wanted to try and create this thumb piano vst and hope to use it in some of my music tracks. I have wanted to do a few middle eastern music tracks myself also, but I am not that good. And I have used several african originating beats and sounds in my music tracks.
-acg2010
acg2010 ·
I completely revised the Thumb Piano vst. I re-edited the actual note wave files in Audacity and using EQ, removed the hiss that resulted from the original poor quality recording of the actual thumb piano notes. One of the notes still sounds somewhat flat. I then replaced the wave player with the multiplayer from the WiKi, added a LED and selector to allow the user to add their own wave files. I then added sambeam's pitchshifter and chorus modules as well as an ADSR to allow shaping of the sounds. Still it is a simple vst.
You can download the osm here: http://www.box.com/s/onoyxe4x2yetb1gev07n
I have added an example mp3 created by using this Thumb Piano vsti in Sony Music Studio 7, programming midi and rendering it out as an mp3. Sorry, I am not a very good musician, but you get the idea.
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