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Line art illustration of two mallet instruments, a tubular bells (chimes) on the left and a vibraphone or marimba on the right, against a dark textured background.

Dry Recording

Studio Mallets

Overview
Articulations
Data Size

List

€ 85

List

€ 85

Pitched

Studio Mallets includes the instruments celesta, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, crotales, temple blocks, lithophone, and stir xylophones. The instruments are also part of our Studio Percussion Collection.

Studio Mallets

10 Tracks

The Enchanted Toybox - Mallets

Guy Bacos

Imagination - Mallets

Overview

Recorded in the relatively dry and controlled environment of the Silent Stage
Mixer Presets for authentic placement at Vienna Synchron Stage
Switch off internal reverb for placement in any virtual acoustic environment

The vibraphone is the most mechanically complex and sophisticated of all mallet instruments. It was played with soft, medium and hard mallets, and with a string bow. The modern orchestra xylophone has resonator tubes for each bar, at a range of four octaves. It was recorded with six different types of mallets, including cluster mallets. The marimba is larger and has a warm and pleasing sound. This instrument was played not only with various mallets but also with handles, fingers, fingernails, a superball, and a string bow.

Articulations

Single notes, regular and soft attack
Staccato
Glissandos, diatonic and pentatonic, slow and fast, up and down
Loco and transposed mappings

A screenshot of the Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Player software interface, displaying various settings for a virtual instrument. The main window shows controls for Transposition, Beater (including metal, plastic, wood, and big metal options), Articulation (single strokes, rolls, crescendo rolls, glissandos), and Type (regular, vibrato). A list of Glockenspiel presets is visible on the right, with 03 Glockenspiel A Distant highlighted. The bottom section of the interface features a virtual keyboard, mixer, and performance controls for EQ, delay, reverb, pan, and volume. The software version is Synchron Player 1.3.526.

User interface of Synchron Player 1.3.526 showing settings and options for a vibraphone instrument, including beater type, articulation, duration, crescendo/diminuendo, performance controls, and mix parameters.

Data Size

Sample Amount

16,710

Download File Size

3.0 GB

Installed File Size

14.3 GB

System requirements

Minimum:

Windows 10 (latest update, 64-bit), Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon 64 X2
macOS 10.14 Mojave (latest update), Intel Core i3
7200 rpm hard drive (HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
8 GB RAM
iLok Account and iLok License Manager for license activation on a physical iLok 2/iLok 3 key or in an iLok Cloud Session (the iLok Cloud requires a constant internet connection!)
Free storage space: 14.3 GB