Waverunner Audio 推出的 Alium 是一款极具探索精神的 KONTAKT 虚拟乐器库，旨在将意外与实验转化为可演奏的音乐素材。它的核心是一组源自诺丁汉 Albert Hall 录音现场的 Steinway 大钢琴采样，但与传统钢琴音色库不同，Alium 关注的是那些「不完美」却充满个性的声音 —— 包括拨弦、敲打和击弦等非传统演奏技法。
在此基础上，这些录音经过模拟设备处理，被重新塑形为有机、粗糙但极具表现力的音色纹理。除此之外，音源还收录了稀有的 Dulcitone（音叉琴），其机械声响与年代感保留完整，进一步强化了 Alium 的「有瑕疵但真实」的声音美学。这是一款适合声音设计师、配乐人以及注重声音质感与实验性的创作者使用的独特乐器库。
Alium 并非追求「完美音色」的工具，而是一份邀请 —— 让你透过不完美发现音乐的新维度。
Waverunner Audio Alium KONTAKT
KONTAKT – 7,93 GB
Can experiments become instruments?
Alium began with a search for the perfect grand piano to sample. After a session at Nottingham’s Albert Hall, I captured test recordings of the Steinway – plucking, pen-tapping, and striking strings. While not suited for a full-scale sampling project, these samples were too unique to gather digital dust.
So began a journey of discovery. The test recordings were reshaped and reimagined through analogue effects, taking the familiar into new sonic territories and celebrating the sounds of the unpolished and the unplanned. Alongside the Steinway samples, Alium now includes the rare, resonant tones of the Dulcitone, with plans to continue adding organic, expressive keyboard instruments.
Alium invites you to create music from the curious and the imperfect. Raw, organic, and full of character. Alium is for the explorers.
Steinway Grand Piano
A distilled flavour of the Hamburg Steinway C captured at Nottingham Albert Hall.
Sampled 3 ways: normalé – plucked – struck.
Dulcitone
Recorded in remarkable detail with legendary microphones through world-class analogue desks and hardware.
Retains the subtle clunks and mechanical quirks of the aged action. Perfectly imperfect and unapologetically unpolished to capture its beautiful character.
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