New AcousticSamples Balani | 2 1/2 Octave Balafon Calabash | Mac/PC | AU/AAX/VST (Download/Activation Card)

Balani is a 2 1/2 octave balafon (or balaphon) with small calabash resonators from Guinea. 

We decided that this now so rare instrument was worth a sample library especially because it has those "noise generators" in good condition. Most of the time, people remove those because they don't like that noisy effect, but if you listen carefully to some traditional Balafon, you will hear them and we wanted it to be in our library.

The other interesting point about Balafons is the scale that usually is very different from the european ones. It originally plays a B major scale (20 notes) so we extended it (to 33 notes) for this library and also gave the possibility to fine tune it.

Balani comes with its own sample player, the UVI Workstation 2 (requires v2.5.2 or later).

We provide it for free with every library that you buy, you don't need to buy an expensive sampler to use our products. It works on Mac (10.6 or later) and PC (windows XP SP2 or later), in standalone or as a plugin (VST / AU / AAX / RTAS / MAS) and in 32 and 64 bits. If you want to use our products in osx 10.5, please contact us, you will need UVI Workstation v2.1.8 and earlier versions of the UFS files.

 As it is based on the same engine (UVI engine XT), you can also use our products in MOTU MachFive 3 (requires v3.2.1 or later).

Technical description

• 230Mb, 967 samples.
• 12 Velocity layers for the sustain.
• 4 takes per note to avoid the machine gun effect (round robins).
• about 13 Velocities for the release.
• Both original and corrected tunings are available for a traditional or contemporary sound.
• Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerful interface and advanced features.

Registration

Once your order is complete, you will be provided with a serial number.

iLok or computer based

You can register your library to your computer or to an iLok key. All of our libraries are protected with the iLok system, and you can use our libraries with or without an iLok usb key. Both V1 and V2 iLok usb keys are working with our products. To authorize your library, you will need to download the iLok authorization manager from here: https://www.ilok.com/#!license-manager and simply authorize your iLok key or your computer to use the library.

Formats

The UVI Workstation works as Standalone, Audio Unit, RTAS, VST, AAX and MAS on Mac and as standalone, VST, AAX, or RTAS on windows in both x32 and x64.

Features

• Powerful Arpeggiator, extremely flexible and complete
• Universal compatibility Mac / PC
• Operate in full 64 bits on Mac / PC
• Convenient mixing environment with meters, mute, solo, volume, pan ...
• Unlimited parts
• Up to 64 MIDI channels
• Disk streaming
• Multiple separate outputs
• MIDI learn
• Expert mode
• Cross-platform Multi’s & all host compatible
• Unlimited FX
• Complete professional effects arsenal, with easy editing (delay, reverb, phaser, chorus, EQ, filter, drive, distortion, compressor...)
• Excellent sounding convolution reverb
• Direct sync to host : tempo & transport
• State-of-the-art real-time time-stretch algorithm
• Real-time sync to the beat: loops are always in time
• Latch mode
• Sample/Slice Start for loops and phrases
• Drag & Drop MIDI & Audio
• Import REX files, Apple Loops, AIFF, WAV and more...

Requirements

Mac systems:

• MacIntel processors
• 2 GB of RAM
• MAC OS X 10.6 or higher (if you have 10.5 and want to use our products, please contact us to get an earlier version of UVI Workstation (2.1.8) and of the UFS files).
• Hard Drive: when using Streaming, faster drive will allow more voices to play

Windows Systems:

• Core duo or faster
• 1 GB of RAM
• Windows 7 or higher version, Windows 8 and 8.1
• Hard Drive: when using Streaming, faster drive will allow more voices to play, SSDs are the best choice (Solid State Drives).