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.
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.
Single notes, regular and soft attack
Staccato
Glissandos, diatonic and pentatonic, slow and fast, up and down
Loco and transposed mappings
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: 15 GB
Windows 11 (latest update), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon
macOS 13 Ventura (or higher), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon/M1/M2
16 GB RAM
SSD (M2, SATA 6 or USB3/3.1, UASP Support - HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
AU/VST/VST3/AAX Native compatible host
88 key master keyboard