Garland Music Box Marimba
A tiny music box sampled and processed to sound like a marimba
ByJames Peacock
The story
I’ve been playing around with the idea of sampling some of the cheapest instruments I own, mainly childhood toys, to see if I can create something useable from them. This instrument was sampled from a tiny music box that plays ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’. I processed these very delicate recordings; removing a lot of the high frequencies, adding some reverb, delay, and a fair amount of tape compression. The result ended up sounding more like a marimba than a music box, so for the sake of honesty I’ve called it a ‘music box marimba’ (patent applied for).
Interface
Reviews
amazing!
This is a wonderful virtual instrument; the sound quality is virtually impeccable, and the instrument's sound itself is very pleasing and reflects the instrument's name well.
I love it!
I absolutely loved this sample pack. In fact I used it to compose a short soundtrack for a video game. I'm happy to see my tune is featured in this page. A Peaceful Moment :)
An awesome combo!
Is it a music box, is it a marimba? It is both, and it sounds awesome! It is a very mellow tone, that combines the wooden and warm tone of a marimba with the inner metallic resonance of a music box. It plays very nicely, and it's spread across the entire keyboard, with samples based on the note A on each octave, and with 3 dynamic layers on each.
Overall it is a wet sound by default, and if that's not enough, the GUI offers some extra reverb along with the other standard DecentSampler settings. It is just a very good combo-mallet that comes for free via DS, and in a very small size too.