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Pianoteq Xylophone Add-On Software (Download)

Brand New

$59.00

100 in stock

SKU: 1035-108 Category: Brand:

Description

Xylo from Pianoteq is an add-on for Pianoteq 5 that contains two instruments including the Xylophone and the Bass Marimba.

Xylophone and bass marimba are similar to the vibraphone but use wooden bars instead of aluminum. Each bar, that vibrates when hit with mallets, is paired with a metallic resonator which is tuned to amplify the sound.

The origin of the xylophone dates back several thousand years in Africa and South East Asia. The marimba appeared at the same time and is today the symbol of Guatemalan music. Due to its huge size, the bass marimba sounds more than two octaves below the xylophone. Both very popular, they are used in various musical styles from classical to Latin and rock.

The Pianoteq virtual copies of these two instruments are respectively modeled after a modern 3.5-octave French brand xylophone and a modern 5-octave French brand bass marimba. Thanks to the sophisticated Pianoteq physical model, they come in several variants and benefit from the recently developed humanization feature which allows varying the strike point, adding to the musician’s interpretation a vivid and stunning realism.