Precisionsound Moldova Concert Cimbalom User Manual

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There was three pair of mallets used at the recording.

• Soft mallets - made in Hungary.

• Middle/Medium mallets – made in Moldova.

• Hard mallets – made in Romania.

The recording was made in the "Usachevsky" studio at the University of Utah, and the instrument was

played by Igor Iachimciuc, who is known as one of the best Cimbalom players/composers in Moldova.

All notes in the instruments whole range

have been recorded in 3 velocity layers for

all 3 mallet types, in both sustained and

damped versions. We also recorded

Harmonics (sustained) and the Moldova

Cimbalom played with nails (Pizzicato),

both sustained and damped and to round

it off, a huge selection of clusters and

effects has been recorded. Two

microphones for stereo representation

have been utilized (AKG 414) and the

recording was made on a Pro Tools

system.

All samples were recorded at 24 bits, and 44.1 Sample Rate. The SampleSet contains 1208 24bit stereo

WAV samples mapped in 21 programs each for HALion 1.11 – and above, and Kontakt 1.2 – and above.