Steinberg Alto Glockenspiel User Guide

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How to install?

In order to properly install your HALion library please follow the instructions given
on the Steinberg website or watch the „How to install“ HALion instruments video.

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instruments please contact Steinberg – in terms of the instrument please
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The instrument

The Glockenspiel is a percussion instrument, composed of a set of tuned
metal bars resting over a frame like a trough. The Alto Glockenspiel is a
variation of it with an one octave lower range, which sounds more soft
and mellow. The rcorded Alto Glockenspiel was the legendary red model
of Hohner™

What we did

The instrument was recorded by beating the metall bars of the
glockenspiel with thin sticks (hard articulation) as well as soft mallets
(gentle articulation) in 2 or 3 dynamic layers and three Round Robin
variations.

Finally a lot of interesting and inspiring features were added giving you a
wide range of tools to vary and change the sound at your own
requirement such as an cabinet simulation, a rotary simulation, a tone
control, a length control and reverb and delay amount. With these
possibilities it is very easy to transform the normal glockenspiel sound
into other worlds of sound.

In Detail

There are 2 articulations available: Gentle and Hard

Gentle The Glockenspiel was beaten with soft mallets

Hard The Glockenspiel was beaten with the „normal“ tiny

wooden mallets

Decay controls the overall decay/ release time (= Length)

Tone controls the general sound. Turning counter clockwise

you will feature the bass frequency and reduce the high
frequencies. Turning clockwise you will achieve the opposite.

Rotary enables a rotary cabinet simulation

Cabinet enables a cabinet simulation

Delay controls the amount of delay

Delay Time By clicking on the name you can select from three

different delay times: 4th, 8th and 16th

Reverb controls the amount of reverb

Reverb Type By clicking on the name you can select from four

different types of reverb: Room, Hall, Special and
Infinite

We wish you a great deal of fun and inspiration using our instruments.

Thanks to René, Jumpel, Christian and Niklas at Cinematique Instruments
and Florian, Matthias, Michael and Frank at Steinberg.

Copyright © January, 20152018 by Cinematique Instruments, Cologne,
Germany