{"id":300,"date":"2008-11-12T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T02:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-11-12T21:09:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T04:09:37","slug":"glass-armanica-vsti-10-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/glass-armanica-vsti-10-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"… Glass Armanica VSTi 1.0 Beta …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is my initial version of the Glass Armanica VSTi. It is a sample based recreation of Benjamin Franklin’s rubbed glass instrument known as the Glass Harmonica, Armonium, Hydrocrystalophone, or Armonica (whew!). I ended up changing the name to be more in line with the official name of Ben Franklin’s invention.<\/p>\n

I originally planned to recreate all three octaves of the real instrument, but I ran out of sufficiently large wine glasses. If I come across any enormous goblets in the future I may release an enhanced version of the Glass Armanica.<\/p>\n

The samples were created by filling wine glasses with water and tuning them with a chromatic tuner to the appropriate pitches (drop by drop). I used an Oktava MC-012 cardioid condenser microphone running into a Seventh Circle C84 Preamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The VSTi has:<\/p>\n

\nA single octave octave of samples running from MIDI note 72 to 84 (Octave 6)
\nAmplitude ADSR controls
\nVelocity sensitivity
\nReverb with width, size and mix controls
\nHi-Cut and Master Volume controls\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the Glass Armanica VSTi:
\n[audio:armaniumtest.mp3]<\/p>\n

Download the .zip file for the Glass Armanica VSTi:
\nClick here to download!<\/a>
\n~10mb
\nWindows PC only (sorry Mac people).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is my initial version of the Glass Armanica VSTi. It is a sample based recreation of Benjamin Franklin’s rubbed glass instrument known as the Glass Harmonica, Armonium, Hydrocrystalophone, or Armonica (whew!). I ended up changing the name to be …<\/p>\n

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