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Tines & Echoes is a unique hand-crafted tuned percussion instrument created by instrument designer and sound sculptor Bart Hopkin. It’s a pentagonal sound box with 25 chromatically-tuned metal tines that each have a pair of sympathetic strings spanning the instrument’s sound board. Rather than tuning the sympathetic strings to their primary tines, they are tuned randomly, so that vibrations resonate different string combinations bound to other tines. When the tines are plucked, they produce a sharp, crisp water-drop note that reverberates through the sympathetic strings and across the instrument in a soft ghostly ring, reminiscent of the celestial wash you hear when playing the undamped top octave of a piano.
We’ve faithfully sampled tine plucks and percussive hand slaps on the instrument body, with two stereo mic positions. We also include a wide selection custom FX presets and lots of our signature sound designed ambient and cinematic content, created from the raw acoustic source to give you complete creative freedom.
Bart Hopkin has been active in many facets of music-making, including instrument building, performing and recording, composition, arrangement, education, and ethnomusicological research. Bart is also an established author, with ten books published on the subjects of instrument design and optimization.
Since 1974, Bart has been designing and constructing all the far-flung musical instruments he could dream up, with an emphasis on unusual and inventive acoustic art. The Hopkin Instrumentarium now has over 110 original creations and continues to grow every year. Soundiron is proud to bring you this inspiring and distinctive series of bespoke instruments not found anywhere else on earth.
The Kontakt interface includes a suite of automation-ready sound-shaping controls to give you total creative flexibility. You have control over swell, attack, release, offset, vibrato, filter, pitch (coarse & fine), articulation switching, cross-fading and layering, and so much more. We’ve also included 20 unique sound-designed custom FX presets to give you lots of creative options.
This library comes with an adaptable LFO system, with selectable LFO shape, modulation target parameter, speed, intensity, tempo-syncing and fade-in time. You can also apply your choice of 12 lowpass, high-pass and FX filters, with assignable modulation targets such as velocity, modwheel, expression, after-touch, key position and step-sequencer table control. Our customizable arpeggiator offers a velocity table and control over arp direction, timing, swing, randomization and duration. We’ve included a key and scale lock system to constrain your notes to common scales and keys for easy melodic composition and live performance.
The interface is rounded-out by our modular FX rack panel, with 18 different DSP effect modules that you can assign in any of 10 available slots, in any order that you wish. You’ll find classic phaser, flanger, delay, distortion, amp and cab simulators, compressors, EQ, rotator and so much more. The Reverb effect includes our favorite convolution reverb impulse responses, including 99 different rooms, halls, chambers and outdoor environments, plus another 40 custom FX impulses to radically transform the sound and open up whole new worlds of musical possibility. We’ve added a great bank of FX rack chain factory presets to get you started!
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System Requirements
This Powered-By-Kontakt Player Edition is supported by version 6 or later of the free Kontakt Player (VST, AU, AAX) and the special “Libraries” rack. Windows 7 or higher required for PC. OSX 10.12 or higher required for Mac. Dual Core CPU, 3+ GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library. This software is delivered as a digital download, so a broadband connection is required. All sales are final. Please see our Help Page for download and installation instructions, tutorials and the End User Licensing Agreement before ordering.
Hopkin Instrumentarium – Tines & Echoes by Soundiron Walkthrough
Soundiron Podcast | Interview with Bart Hopkin
Tines & Echoes | Da Fingaz – So Special
Tines & Echoes | David Shaw – Reflections of Earth
Soundiron Podcast EP 18 | Bart Hopkin – Welcome To The Instrumentarium
Composing With Tines & Echoes
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Hazel Collins –
Absolutely in love with the unique tones and textures this instrument provides – truly a game-changer for my music productions.
Elena Bryant –
I absolutely love the unique sound of this instrument! It adds a whole new level of depth to my music production. Would highly recommend.
Joseph Carter –
Loving the unique sound and versatility of this instrument – definitely adds a fresh element to my music production toolkit!
Xavier Blake –
The unique sounds and effects in this instrument collection exceeded my expectations and added a whole new dimension to my music production. Would definitely recommend it to other musicians!
Steven Harper –
I am absolutely blown away by the unique sounds and textures this instrument offers, it’s like nothing I’ve ever heard before! Would highly recommend to any musician looking to add some creativity to their compositions.
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I am blown away by the beautiful tones and versatility of this instrument collection. The sounds are unique and inspiring – definitely a must-have for any music producer.
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The unique sounds in this collection are truly captivating and have added a new dimension to my music production. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to add a fresh, experimental twist to their compositions.