Toontrack EZkeys Hybrid Harp Virtual Instrument

Product Description

Toontrack EZkeys Hybrid Harp Virtual Instrument presents five individual instruments, all layered, textured and saturated in various capacities to form unique and never-before-heard hybrids of sounds. The undisputed star of the group is an iconic Style 23 harp. In addition to this, a traditional Swedish nyckelharpa (or “keyed fiddle”), two harmoniums, a bowed glockenspiel and a set of ocarinas were sampled. Combined, this seemingly odd group of instruments – that in logical terms have no earthly business sharing the same sonic space – culminate in what must be described as a vastly puzzling audio universe of plucking, percussive, soaring, airy, beautiful and ever-so-slightly dissonant sounds.

Even though the laws of thermodynamics long ago ruled out the possibility of a perpetual motion machine, EZkeys Hybrid Harp comes very close. The laws of physics may still apply, but fact remains that this peculiar ‘machine’ has an inherent mojo that seems to make sure you’re never short of ideas. It literally runs and feeds off of you and your own imagination.

Welcome to one of the most multifaceted EZkeys titles yet – one that will trigger parts of your creative mind you didn’t know existed. These are sounds ideal for anything you can imagine. Literally.

THE COMPONENTS

Although the overall idea and inherent strength of the Hybrid Harp lies in how the different audio components are layered in the presets, you can call up unprocessed versions of the instruments by selecting one of the ‘Raw Tweaks’ presets.

THE PRESETS

To make it easy for you to navigate your way to the type of sound you’re looking for, the presets are organized in five different folders: ‘Atmospheric,’ ‘Distorted,’ ‘Organic,’ ‘Percussive’ and ‘Raw Tweaks.’

FEATURES:

• Five types of individually captured instrument types: a harp, a nyckelharpa, two harmoniums, ocarinas and a bowed glockenspiel
• Each instrument can be called up individually using the ‘Raw Tweaks’ presets
• In excess of 40 mix-ready presets, offering creative instrument blends of never-before-heard hybrids of sounds
• For any type of music or production – ideally ambient soundscapes, scores and sound design

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

• 850 MB of free hard disk space
• 4 GB RAM minimum
• Bit Depth: 32-bit, 64-bit

MAC

• OS X 10.9.5 or later
• Intel Core 2 Duo or higher

WINDOWS

• Windows 7 SP1 or later
• Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 or higher