Bars & Bells is a set of 9 mallet instruments and bells for the Organelle: glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, kalimba, tubular bells and hand chimes – all real stereo recordings. It is the sister of Tines & Reeds (https://patchstorage.com/tines-reeds/) – the same pages, knobs and effects, with bars and bells instead of electric pianos.
Made for the Organelle keys, and even better on a MIDI keyboard with velocity, sustain, pitch bend and a mod wheel.
SOUNDS
1 GLOCKENSPIEL – recorded glockenspiel, 3 velocity layers
2 MUSIC BOX – the glockenspiel made small, soft and toy-like
3 VIBRAPHONE – recorded vibraphone, soft mallets (TREM = the vibraphone’s motor)
4 VIBES HARD – the vibraphone with hard mallets
5 MARIMBA – recorded marimba, 3 velocity layers, 5 octaves
6 XYLOPHONE – recorded xylophone
7 KALIMBA – recorded Tanzanian kalimba (thumb piano)
8 TUBULAR BELLS – recorded orchestral chimes
9 HAND CHIMES – recorded hand chimes
Every note is a real stereo recording, measured and tuned to A=440, that keeps its natural attack and ring and rings on for as long as you hold it.
EFFECTS
Tremolo (the vibraphone motor on the vibes), chorus, phaser, drive, wah, delay and reverb.
CONTROLS
– Encoder: turn = change page (wraps around), press = Organelle menu
– Pages: SOUND · MOD FX · AMP + SPACE · PLAY · KEYS · SETUP
– Hold AUX for sustain when you don’t have a pedal, or set AUX to switch the vibraphone motor (tremolo) on and off
– Values are drawn as bars, and settings with only a few choices as choice segments; knobs use soft takeover, so nothing jumps when you change page
MIDI
– Notes with velocity on the Organelle’s MIDI channel
– Sustain (CC64) or any footswitch in the Organelle’s jack (polarity detected automatically)
– Pitch bend, range 0-12 semitones
– Mod wheel (CC1): Vibrato, Tremolo, Tone, Drive, Wah, Chorus, Phaser or Tremolo Rate
– CC21-24 control knobs 1-4
NOTES
The samples load in a few seconds when the patch starts. Pure Data vanilla, no externals.
CREDITS
All recordings: Versilian Community Sample Library (VCSL) by Versilian Studios – public domain (CC0). Full details in samples/CREDITS.txt.
Feedback, bug reports and requests are welcome in the comments.
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Wow, I am excited! Really like your Tines & Reeds so much so looking very much forward to try this one out, thank you!
Just tried it out and it a wonderful patch, just as I thought it would be. Just noticed two minor “bugs” though. First I hear no difference in decay at all, seems to do nothing to the sound. Would be nice if the decay worked as some of the sound (as f.e tubular bells) rings like with sustain even without sustain now. That would sure profit from faster decay.
Second the music box is very similar to the glocken spiel. Seems like the Glockenspiel just have some longer decay to it. Otherwise it sounds the same.
Thanks a lot for this patch!