Sonokinetic – Sleighbells II

An Overview

There’s no instrument that evokes the magic of the holiday season like sleigh bells. Ever since Santa kitted out Rudolph and his reindeer chums with these tinkling tiny chimes, the season has never been the same.

This instrument brings us right back to our childhood, waiting patiently in bed to hear the sounds of sleigh bells overhead – or maybe that’s just our imagination? We’ve sampled sleigh bells once before, but this new collection is hugely expanded, updated and completely re-recorded with new groupings of bells in all sorts of different sizes.

You can play everything from 6 bells, up to 100 on a single bell tree, which is a giant sound. Within the instrument there are multiple options for playing long and short shakes, clusters and even sequencing sleigh bell patterns.

AMS

We recorded this collection with our new Aligned Microphone Setup, a bespoke and standardised microphone array we shorten to “AMS”.

The specially designed recording space is unique to Sonokinetic libraries. It has very low wall, ground and ceiling reflections and we’ve taken advantage of that by constructing a new design of microphone rig and setting up an array of 10 mics to capture instruments in precise detail.

These include cardioid, condenser and ribbon microphones. There’s also a binaural head in the centre of the array, which is perfect for those mixing surround and simulated 3D sound scores or producing audio for immersive video games.

The AMS Microphones

Small Diaphragm Condenser

High End open cardioid microphones with selected, matched capsules

Large Diaphragm Condenser

FET preamp with two large diaphragm cardioid matched condenser capsules

Ribbon Stereo

bi-directional ribbon microphone, with a symmetric figure-8 pickup pattern.

Dynamic Stereo

versatile, robust legendary cardioid open sounding microphones

Large Diaphragm Cardioid

Highly sensitive Premium Studio Condenser

Binaural Head

Stereophonic / Binaural microphone Omni directional matched pair

Large Diaphragm Omni

High sensitivity and extremely low self noise omnidirectional

Sleigh Bells II Features

NKS Compatible

Mic Control

MIC Positions IR

Articulation Control

Performance Control

Standardized Grouping

Tail Length Control

KK & KP

Samples

2050+

Format

Komplete Kontrol

Patches

All-In-One

Audio Format

NCW 44.1KHz 24Bit

Instruments

Full Size Sleighbells II

Microphones

7 Configurations