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 picks and bows. It’s the sound of Satan’s cello, weeping softly for your burning soul.
Tonehammer Frendo Facts:
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 .nki and .wav
