Carillion Library

[Michiel Post]

A quick introduction of my latest work:The PMI Carillion.
It's a huge carillion with 58 clocks, equal tempered, starting at Bflat that spans 4 full octaves. All bells of the Carillion have been sampled on a quiet day: no traffic noise disturbs the sound.

It's still work in progress but I managed to make some demos for who's been waiting for this instrument to become available as a sample library.

Demo 1 (http://www.postpiano.com/products/demos/car/CARILLION%20DEMO.mp3)
Demo 2 (http://www.postpiano.com/products/demos/car/Carillion%202.mp3) and here is the same MP3 clip of the big bells in a duet with church organ (http://www.postpiano.com/products/demos/car/Carillion%20wth%20Organ.mp3).

We're working with a woodwork craftsman who is making a Carillion "play-table" equipped with midi outputs, so you can create a virtual Carillion for educational and recreational purposes.

Release somewhere next week, info to follow.

Enjoy!

[rob morsberger]

Michael, you're amazing. That sounds great. Big smile here.

[Michiel Post]

Thank you!

Here's a picture of the carillion keyboard!

http://members.lycos.nl/cb32/CeS/bestanden/fotos/klavier.gif

[Nick Batzdorf]

Coo-well!


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[Michiel Post]

And here is a short MP3 clip of the big bells in a duet with church organ (http://www.postpiano.com/products/demos/car/Carillion%20wth%20Organ.mp3).

[Rich Pell]

Amazing...Rich

[Bela D Media]

Congrats PMI! Something very different.

[Crystal]

Isn’t it the first one ever sampled ?


Four octaves... it’s a big one !

And it sounds pretty right. (It’s the danger with carillons : a bad pitch on one or another bell in the scale which make it unplayable...)



All bells of the Carillon have been sampled on a quiet day: no traffic noise disturbs the sound.

I can imagine the neighbors on the city place : « Ha no ! Again ! Pull out this guy out of this church or I take my shotgun, we wanna sleep, here ! »
I suppose your in the police file now...
Are you banned from the village ?

Don’t worry, we support you anyway. We have guns too. It’s for the sample cause.


(But maybe it is not in a church...)

[Herman Witkam]

All bells of the Carillion have been sampled on a quiet day: no traffic noise disturbs the sound.

Was that during the official "traffic-free sunday" we just had a few weeks ago? ;)

[Chris Hein]

become available as a sample library.
Hi Michiel,

Sounds great!
Could you please use one ore different drumsticks and hit the bells manually.
This would be a beautiful instrument if you record it with a minimum of 5 dynamics.
I don´t care if this is realistic or not.
Make a version with a very slow attack. That could be a wonderfull glassharp.

Just some ideas.

Chris Hein

[Michiel Post]

Isn’t it the first one ever sampled ?True, this is the first library to capture a complete carillon instrument and makes a playable sample set out of it. :cool:
There is not exactly a high demand for this kind of sampled instrument but this crossed my path so to speak.

[Michiel Post]

I can imagine the neighbors on the city place : « Ha no ! Again ! Pull out this guy out of this church or I take my shotgun, we wanna sleep, here ! » I suppose your in the police file now...Are you banned from the village ?LOL, some audio recording techniques are risky, true. :D
And I guess this was the first sampling session ever that was closely followed by such a large audience. Another "first".

[Michiel Post]

Hi Michiel,

Sounds great!
Could you please use one ore different drumsticks and hit the bells manually.
This would be a beautiful instrument if you record it with a minimum of 5 dynamics.
I don´t care if this is realistic or not.
Make a version with a very slow attack. That could be a wonderfull glassharp.
Just some ideas.
Chris Hein
Hi Chris,
The bells don't "speak" when hit by drumsticks. Have a look at the typical bell activation mechanism!

http://www.postpiano.com/products/carillon/mechanism.jpg

Large and very heavy hammers are used. Some are so heavy that dynamic playing is impossible.
Beside this, all the way up in the church tower only trained alpinists should attempt to get close to the bells.

http://www.postpiano.com/products/carillon/tuimelaar.jpg

[Michiel Post]

BTW, the release is sheduled for Monday.

[Theodor]

Wow...what have you done Michiel? This must be the largest instrument sampled! Sounds very nice, well done :)

[Bruce A. Richardson]

That is simply awesome. Wow.

[Pingu]

Any idea how much the library will be? I just want to sow the seed in my wife's mind now.

[Michiel Post]

Thank you guys...

The introduction deal is $50 and the library has just been added to our online store, follow this product page (http://www.postpiano.com/products/prod_iteminfo.php?id=171&subCat=PMI+CARILLON).
You can place orders, shipping begins on Monday

[Crystal]

There is not exactly a high demand for this kind of sampled instrument but this crossed my path so to speak.
There is maybe not a lot of demand, but you can create it with the demos you give.

The one with the organ sounds gorgeous. I never heard such a thing before. (We don’t have lots of carillon in France...)


Very inspiring.

[Michiel Post]

These instruments are rather popular here in the Netherlands. Have a look at the world carillon organisation for a list of instruments in your country.
http://www.carillon.org/eng/fs_carillon.htm

It IS amazing to have such an instrument under your fingertips. One would normally have to travel and sit in a tower to play this sound.

[Ashermusic]

It really does sound great. It is now on my wish list. (I have winnowed it down to about 15 items with a total cost of about $15,000.)