The Bass Hammer plugin, modeled on the Aguilar Tone Hammer*, is engineered for advanced bass tone shaping, featuring Adaptive Gain Sculpting, comprehensive EQ adjustments, and versatile cabinet simulations.
Leverages several DSP upgrades that make it sonically superior to the original plugin, and which give it a ‘tone’ that is, in a word, special. The original Hammer’s top end sheen and tube-thickened low end earned it a permanent place on mix busses around the world. Hammer mk2 preserves the original design while doubling the number of available frequencies per band, including several powerful shelves. The upgraded plugin elevates the sonics further with a dead-on model of the hardware’s “default” sonic signature. A suite of beautiful gain staging and metering tools round out this compelling upgrade from Kush.
The Bass Hammer plugin, modeled on the Aguilar Tone Hammer*, is engineered for advanced bass tone shaping, featuring Adaptive Gain Sculpting, comprehensive EQ adjustments, and versatile cabinet simulations.
Yes again, another piano library. And this one is not clean and perfect… This is why you’ll like it! From the simplest upright piano, to a more intimate one and with experimental and lush sounds, Hammer & Felt will help you getting ideas as fast as never before. With a simple yet effective interface, tweak the sounds to suit your composition or bring them to new sound design worlds. Including room noises, subtle breaths, key noises, tape hiss and much more, this library is full of fragility and personality.
The Dulciano is a grand piano performed with dulcimer hammers. This unique hybrid instrument produces a similar timbre to a dulcimer or cimbalom, but the longer strings and large soundboard of the piano gives the instrument a richer tone and longer sustain. The instrument also has a much wider playable range than a standard dulcimer or cimbalom (A0 to E6). As with all our libraries, the goal of this instrument was to make it as easy to play as possible. We captured multiple dynamics, controlled by velocity. The highest velocities trigger short one-shot rolls – an articulation commonly used in dulcimer music. Continuous, sustained rolls are triggered by bringing up the mod wheel, or by using your keyboard’s aftertouch (channel pressure). The Dulciano was recorded in a modern concert hall environment (the same hall as many of our other libraries), and includes three configurable microphone positions, providing a great level of flexibility for placing the instrument in your mix. The close mics are almost fully dry, offering an intimate ‘studio’ sound when soloed. The far mics have just the right amount of ambience for a distant, spacious sound, without being drenched in reverb. The ‘perspective’ slider below the mixer allows you to easily move between a close and distant mix. We have also included a built-in convolution reverb, offering even more control over the amount of space in the mix.
The fact that the Hammer EQ is now plugin. The Hammer’s mythical top end sheen and tube-thickened low end quickly earned it a permanent place on mix busses around the world. Me, I’ve always been partial to its smooth, bite-free midrange—something that’s difficult to find in any EQ, let alone in a plugin. Try a little bump at 50Hz, 800Hz, and 10k, and your mix will noticeably pop out of the speakers. That one’s called ‘Subtle Vintage Points”, one of over 60 custom UBK presets that are destined to bring a lot of magic to a lot of tracks in the near future.
The Hammer-On technique is usually utilized to bridge notes together… or for killer solos. For this library it is the sole articulation used and played on a stratocaster which has been cleanly recorded and multisampled. There are no loops here (save for one temposynced patch), each patch contains multisamples. As this sort of play style is normally not showcased, this instrument has a very unique sound and timbre not found anywhere else. Consisting of 13 patches, Hammer-On can sound soft and sweet, creepy, or up tension in an action scene. If you play in the higher ranges it can even sound ethnic, similar to a dulcimer. The GUI (or “unearthed verbamp 80”) has controls for EQ (bass, mid, hi), reverb (a huge hall convolution reverb), and attack. The attack and EQ knobs can drastically alter the sound and vibe of each patch. Hammer-On is NOT your average guitar library. Yes, it does contain multisampled electric guitar patches, but it is aimed more squarely at cinematic and video game scores than producing authentic rock ballads. Soft, sweet, deadly… those are the words that come to mind here.
