Rare Lamellophone MBira Available as Live Pack

The Lamellophone Mbira is a unique and rare instrument built by Bill Wesley has a special clarity and sustain not found in regular versions of the instrument.

With notes arranged to give a four octave range, it has special sound which has been captured in an Ableton Live Pack by Madeleine Bloom of Sonic Bloom. The Sonic Bloom Array Mbira can be purchased for €29 via the SonicBloom.net  store.

35 presets (34 fully macro mapped Instrument Racks, 1 MIDI effect rack)

• 3 Live Sets
• 1 self-installing Live Pack with integrated lesson in Live's Help section
• Array Mbira Round Robin Pure: true round robin alternating between the doubled or tripled notes.
• Array Mbira Random Tines Pure: alternates randomly between the doubled or tripled notes.
• Array Mbira Octave Strum Pure: simulates the strumming of the notes in all four octaves of the sampled array mbira from highest to lowest; to achieve the original sounding strum play as single notes in the octave between C1 and C2; but it works very well for glissandi as well when playing multiple notes at once.
• Array Mbira Reverse Round Robin Pure: reversed samples with round robin selection.
• Array Mbira FW_BW Round Robin Pure: combination of reversed and forwards playing samples, each with a round robin style selection of played file.
• Array Mbira Arp Pure & 2 Pure: two presets utilising the Arpeggiator MIDI effect and macro mappings