Waterphone

This is a video of the Tonehammer Waterphone sound library.

Tonehammer Waterphone contains 2.903 samples recorded with a variety of bows, a huge set of mallets, metal devices, hands and other contraptions. The library also contains a variety of more experimental patches, including boiled water at four different temperature levels, hydrophone recordings (underwater microphones in the waterphone), magnets on waterphone tines and filling waterphone with metal nails and other goodies.

All playable mallet programs contain 10 velocity layer – 10 round robin for maximum playability. In addition Waterphone contains a bonus set of waterphone ambiences (note: Kontakt 3 only) made by Steven Tavaglione (Instrumentalist and Sound Designer; Wall-E, American Beauty, CSI, Supernatural and 100s other movies/shows/games).

Details below.

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The Waterphone is an acoustic instrument, invented by Richard A. Waters in the late 60s, that can be played in a variety of ways, creating a wide range of often haunting musical sounds. 

According to Waters, the sound of the Waterphone has been compared to the haunting melodies of the Humpback Whale, voices from inner/outer space and the device has been described as acoustic synthesizer. 

Once you’ve heard the Waterphone, you’re likely to recognize its frequent use in soundtracks. Waterphones have been used in many films, including Poltergeist, Star Trek, The Matrix, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

“One of the reasons that the Waterphones are utilized so much on movie/tv sound tracks is that the schiziosonic water sounds and the tuning(s) represent the Strange & Unknown: other world – alien beings, drugs, ghosts, physic experiences, death, etc.) and the sound of the waterphone is frequently used to indicate this,” explains Waters.

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