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church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:52 pm
by GM1K
Hey!
I am planning on producing something "christmas themed" soon
so I am looking for a good VST to use those kind of church or tubular bells, that you hear often in christmas (pop) songs.
awful but good example: Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas .... ^^
or like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph_i3HEc0b4 (I am talking bout the bell, that starts at 7 seconds!!!)
does anyone have any good suggestions or tips?
thanks in advance, guys!
Re: church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:36 pm
by GM1K
mhh... well, okay. I've finally found some very useful sounds to sample.
If anyone else was also interested in those sounds, go check out these:
http://www.freesound.org/search/?q=tubular+bells
but if one of you knows way better VSTIs or whatever, I'm still interested
...
Re: church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:17 pm
by Turnipish_Thoughts
zebralette has some lovely tubular-esque patches and it's programming capabilities more than cater for that type of sound. In the OSC editor you can add/remove harmonics e.t.c. and get some really bell/organ like sounds ala FM synthesis
Oh, and it's free
Re: church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:13 pm
by GM1K
hey thank you! sounds good
I even used to have the demo version of Zebra on my computer ...
it was actually a great VST!
Re: church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:54 pm
by overture
Personally I'd go with samples but FM8 is great for bells, it's the only sound I can ever make in that synth
Re: church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:33 pm
by glottis5
sub_lox wrote:Personally I'd go with samples but FM8 is great for bells, it's the only sound I can ever make in that synth
yeah this, the Korg M1 VST as well (which i absolutely love)
also check out some general midi soundfonts, they always have a lot of bells
Re: church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:46 pm
by Blingley
Chromaphone is a physical modelling synth that creates really nice sounding mallets/bells. Definitely worth a look. Combine with a quality reverb for best results.
Re: church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:04 pm
by Cryoshok
I recently needed a church bell in a tune so what I did was find a sample of a church bell ringing. Then I threw it in Kontakt and mapped it to the keyboard/adjusted the pitch of it. I also added reverb with large decay. Worked quite well and now its like a playable tuned instrument!
Re: church or tubular bell VST?
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:35 pm
by NinjaEdit
I don't know if this has been resolved, but the Alchemy player has mallet sounds (at least the CM version). Xoxox has a mallet emulator as well. These are freeware.