Stand Alone Virtual Instrument:
 

VERY low footprint for instant results

Use as many instances as you want

Mac and PC compatible

32 bit and 64 bit versions available

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In "The Force", created by Avionik, Klang was really put to use.  It is comprised of 6 Klang instruments.  The only thing not in Klang is the synth arpeggio and a bass drum.  Everything else is Klang.  Note that all but a scant few Klang instruments are recorded dry and are not distorted, so the Klangs in this demo must have been bit crushed or over amped on purpose.

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In "Starry Night", by Karmacomposer, all percussion, pan flute and sound effects were made with 9 instances of KLANG. A keyboard workstation was used to create the strings, piano and pads. The vocals are mine, processed in real time with a Roland VP-7. 

The song opens with brass elephant - a weird brassy sound. I used a set of low KLANGS (Boom Klang for that nice low end and then Thunderous Klang panned almost hard left and Thunderous Strike panned almost hard right) for the large indian/taiko drum sounding part. I used a instrument called the Tight Stove Snare for that cool snare throughout the piece. A triangle klang was used in the beginning. The Pan Flute Trill was used here and there to fill out the piece and add a nice ethnic feel. In the middle, there is a rumbling sound that could literally shake a theatre. That is called Big Breath. Hidden among the snare hits is a instrument called Pop - essentially, it's a balloon pop that was then processed to sound much bigger. It lends a nice texture to the snare and compliments it nicely. 

I used Presonus Studio One Pro to add all the KLANG elements and a Akai MPK Mini to play the parts - all on a laptop. I did add reverb to some KLANGS to make them sound nice and BIG. Most of KLANGS instruments are recorded dry, so you have the luxury of adding, or not adding, effects. Finally, I normalized the song in Goldwave and added a tiny bit of compression to the overall mix.

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"Alien Invasion" was created by Shadoe42.  He used 10 instances of the KLANG virtual instrument along with a few synths and Shreddage in his DAW.  It's a great ambient piece and well worth a listen.

Stay tuned for more info, pictures and more audio demos.

Here is a quick and easy breakdown of the KLANG virtual instrument:

The KLANG virtual instrument is VERY easy to use.  Click on the INSTRUMENT label (or anywhere to the right of it) and you will be presented with all the instruments.  Just click on one to use it.  The list is quite long and you may find yourself scrolling up or down to find the instrument you want to use.  This is easily done by 'bumping' the bottom or top of the instrument list.

If you want to use another instrument, you will need to load another instance of KLANG into another track and then use a different instrument.  The good news is that KLANG has such a small CPU footprint, you can use many, many instances of KLANG even on low-powered computers.  We have used over 10 instances of KLANG in a single production without a hiccup.

You will notice a GROUP label.  That tells you what type of KLANG you are using.  The KLANG groups are:

Brass Like

Effects

Klangs

Pan Flute

Bass Drum

Ethnic Drums

FX

Hi Hits

Large Percussion

Metallic Percussion

Snare Drums

Toms

This is for identification purposes only and currently serves no other function.  In the future, we may create various keygroups that will utilize the GROUP function.  We will notify everyone if and when those are created.

The rest of the knobs allow you to change the:

Attack - how fast or slow the sample sounds

Decay - how fast or slow the sound begins to decay

Sustain - how fast or slow the sound will keep playing before the tail

Release - how long the tail is - allows a sound to die off faster or slower

Gain - increase or decrease the volume of the instrument

Pan - where in the stereo field the sound will play (left to right - middle is dead center)

The keyboard has left and right arrows on either side of it.  This allows you to scroll up or down the octaves.  All instruments take advantage of 88 keys, so use this feature to access the upper and lower octaves.  Of course, if you have a 88 key keyboard, you will be able to access these without using the on-screen keyboard.  If you use smaller keyboards, most, if not all, have a octave up/down feature.  You will want to use this feature.

The PANIC button is an ALL NOTES OFF button.  If for some reason, KLANG gets stuck (MIDI tends to do this from time to time), press the PANIC button and all notes will be silenced and your sanity will be saved.

*** READ THIS: It should be noted that all instruments that contain the exact same name as the group are actually multi-samples of every possible instrument in that group.  The rest are individual samples spread across the 88 keys of the keyboard.  All of the instruments utilize all 88 keys and there are MANY multisamples that have more than one instrument spread across 'x' number of keys, so make sure to explore the possibilities.

And now for something REALLY COOL.  If you find a subset of instruments you love and you wish they were all on one instrument, just ask us.  We'll custom create the instrument and make it available for download.  How's that for custom service!