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Dulcitone 1884 for Kontakt VST by Sound Dust

Dulcitone 1884²

£25

The worlds first multi-sampled rare and beautiful 150 (ish) year old DULCITONE, and one of the few ways you can hear what one actually sounds like.

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for FULL version of Kontakt 4 or above.

These rare beauties have become deeply fashionable, especially amongst “with it” film composers looking for something with a bit of character in a Tom Waits or Bjorky kinda way. Jon Brion uses dulcitone extensively on his soundtracks of Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind.

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Originally designed and manufactured in Scotland in the 1800's, and with allegedly only 2000 in existence the DULCITONE is a portable keyboard that was made for missionaries to hump around remote African village churches to help perk up hymn services. It has a very basic piano action with spring-loaded felt covered hammers striking small magnet shaped tuning forks. A bit like a Fender Rhodes electric piano without the electric bits, and has a very lovely woody, clonky glockenspiel/celesta kind of sound.

What's Inside ?

  • 24 dulcitone presets that take advantage of the 3 pages of scripting.

  • 4 octave architecture with control of volume, pan, adsr and delay per octave group.

  • Note on and note off "thump".

  • 69 specially made convolution reverb impulses from real spaces, expensive hardware, and some less obvious sources.

  • Round robin sample swapping for extra realism.

  • Midi timing jitter for even more realism.

  • Some lovely pictures of the instrument herself. 

  • Charming hand drawn instruction manual!

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FULL version of Kontakt 4 or above needed.

DULCITONE1884² will load into Player but time out after 10 minutes, so please don't buy this if you are using the free Kontakt Player.

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£25 (inc VAT) for DULCITONE1884² instant download

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