Twangs, Textures & Tortured Tones

Created from MODWHEEL'S 4 metre long Strained Wires.

• ​51 Kontakt patches with up to 3 velocity levels and 8 round robins
• ​24 bit 96 kHz Multisamples (508 samples). 2.7 GB Core Library (1.8 GB via lossless compression)

Note: Requires Full Version Kontakt 5.3.1 or higher (not compatible with free Kontakt player)

Strained Wire + Garotte

The Strained Wire + Garotte was created using 4 metre lengths of wire and nylon line trimmer stretched tightly over a bridge and sound board. This was struck, picked, hit with a mallet, bowed and generally tortured. A tuning turnbuckle was incorporated to allow tuning of the instrument.

​The strained wire was then recorded using contact and stereo microphones.

This video opposite shows how we made it:

Plucked-Bowed-Mallet plays in tune over 5 octaves.

Play it as a bass or guitar, deep harp or zither, rhythm, feel or melody, choose between a metal wound string sound or the plastic nylon string of the line trimmer.

​The Wilberforce Atmospheres and Garotte offer soundscapes, cinematic drones and impacts and ragged textures. Patches are customisable with Modwheel's signature additional layers and with a range of effects for even more tightening and torturing.

What You Get

The Library is cut up into 3 sections

Bowed-Plucked-Mallet

18 Kontakt patches

• Wire, Gut and Nylon strung played with a mallet, pick, plucked and bowed and chromatically laid out.
• Up to 3 velocity levels and 8 round robins
• Tremolo has been assigned to the mod wheel with a speed adjustment on the front panel
• These patches also feature an effects tab that enables distortion, rotary, delay and phaser.

Garotte

• 6 Kontakt patches of tortured wire FX

Again features the effects tab which allows for further twisting.

The Wilberforce Atmospheres

• 27 Kontakt patches
• Long evolving pads and atmospheres created using the initial wire recordings.
• Some feature additional layers assigned to the mod wheel and an effects tab for further manipulation