Conrad Mollenhauer – Flute Key Staccato
Staccato sounds of the keys being pressed on a Conrad Mollenhauer flute
ByAshley Bates
The story
This is my Conrad Mollenhauer flute played without blowing, just finger staccato key presses.
A similar page ( to the Mickleburgh piano ) of impulse responses has been included, with a fresh set of splish – splash – splosh added.
Kontakt 5 only this time. Crack on!
Reviews
The art of noise, maybe?
This is interesting, and really unexpected. At first I thought I would listen to an actual flute playing short notes, but it's definitely not the case. It's really the noises that a flute can make while playing staccato, and that sounds more like a very dry mallet, or rather a plastic pipe hit with something. I doubt that's the way of playing it though, because you will see that there are 5 impulse responses for you to mess around and they can make things veeery ambient. Weirdly enough, the on-off switch is upside down... Whyyy???...
Anyway, if you don't want too much ambience, you can try the included arpeggiator, which, unlike every other arpeggiator/sequencer I've seen on all Pianobook, this one works like a charm! Kudos to the creator for the unique idea and for the proper execution.
The Magic Flute...
The instrument by itself would have been plenty for a PB instrument. But the inclusion of the brilliant arpeggiator and also the IR's make this a really well rounded library. The sound as you can imagine is pretty quirky especially in the top end. But don't be fooled, after playing around with this thing for a while, you'll begin to realise there's some quite mature sounds to be made, from the low range in particular. The IR's can crank the signal a little too hot, but give it some patience and you'll dial in some nice tones. The arpeggiator makes it especially usable for a lot of modern scoring. When ostinatos are everywhere, this can add a really unique tonal percussive layer to a track. Bravo Ashley!
Unique patch - staccato flute!
Again it is very interesting instrument! A staccato flute. Very unique sound patch. It has a key noise knob, and when it is turned down, the volume also goes down so it is maybe nice to separate the noise and the sound of flute?