Sansation

Frendo demos by T. B. Folmann and G. Shadid

Welcome to the Tonehammer Frendo.

Frendo is a custom-built Tonehammer instrument. We created this monster by stringing bailing wire around and through through steel plates and bolts, over galvanize steel piping and across wood planks. It was meant to suffer. You can help it by mistreating it in horrible ways with screwdrivers, bows, drum sticks, mallets and fingers. The instrument holds a vast amount of otherworldly sounds, which is ideal for composers looking for new disturbing, horror-like textures for their scores. Frendo is partially a mallet instrument, recorded with wooden and rubber mallets, but is also a more traditional string instrument, since we recorded finger plucks and bows. It's the sound of Satan's cello, weeping softly for your burning soul.

Tonehammer Frendo Facts:

• $49
• Two microphone positions (heads – internal mics), (tail – external big hall mics)
• Wooden mallets: "tuned", 3-4 velocity layers, 10x round-robin
• Rubber mallets: "tuned", 5 velocity layers, 10x round-robin
• Finger plucks: "tuned", 1-3 velocity layers, 6x round-robin
• Bowed FX: bow scrapes, staccato notes, 1-3 velocity layers, 6x – 9x round-robin
• Bowed high notes: stabs and sustains, 1-3 velocity layers, 4x round-robin
• Bowed low notes: stabs and sustains, tuned and un-tuned, 6x round-robin and looping "legato" patches
• Bowed tremolo: effects and sustains, with fast, medium and slow variations
• Screwdriver slides: long and short
• 3 large sound Effects patches, including creaks, cracks, groans, tuning twangs and sproings.
• All recorded with natural acoustics in our tile, glass and stone hall or from inside the Frendo resonance chamber itself.
• 30 instrument patches, 1100 samples, 990 MB installed, 336 MB .rar download
• Sample resolution: 44.1Khz/16Bit stereo .wav format
• Format(s): Kontakt and .wav
• Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 2 / 3 / 4 full retail versions required.
• Note: Free Kontakt Player will only work for 30 minutes with this product. Full version required to remove this restriction.