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Working with samples opens the door for realistic productions but it’s sometimes at the expense of a fluid compositional workflow. Dealing with many patches, key switches, and non realtime options can interfere with the natural creative process and composing turns into an editing job or worse yet, a stitching job. This is where HandHeldsound comes in!

When we design sampled instruments they must play and feel as close as possible to the real live experience. It’s more than just capturing ‘the sound‘…

It’s the ability to control musical gestures and timbres with ease, allowing you to transfer an instrument’s musicality to your productions using MIDI controllers. All without ever compromising the feeling of fluidity of playing a real instrument.

At HandHeldSound we produce virtual instruments from acoustic instruments with a design and approach that streamlines your process and give you freedom to perform and compose in your DAW!

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Percussion Instruments Scoring Mallets Play Track $199

Cinematic Marimba, Xylophone and Vibraphone
Recorded in a beautiful large scoring room, its primary use is for scoring applications, however, using its full-featured mixer and proper microphone balance it excels in virtually every musical style! Scoring Mallets offers an abundance of features all targeting seamless Composition and idiomatic writing that compliments modern scoring. The robust 38,000+ samples along with up to 5 microphone perspectives translate to ultra authentic and playable instruments. Additional powerful features such as the Acoustic Positioner™ and numerous intuitive playing techniques extend this library to boast unparalleled quality.

Using this library requires a full version of Native Instruments’ “Kontakt”!

Please notice: This library can not be played with the free “Kontakt Player”! To use this “Open Kontakt” format, you need a full version of “Kontakt”, which is included in products such as Komplete or Komplete Ultimate.

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With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.

Wylie Stateman

Supervising sound editor,
The Hateful Eight, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.

Gabriel Guy

Re-recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Frozen, Big Hero 6

A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.

We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.

We’ll definitely be back!

Wayne Pashley

Supervising Sound Editor/Re-recording Mixer, The Lego Movie & Mad Max: Fury Road

There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!

A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.

And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!

David Farmer

Sound designer:
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogies

We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.

The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.

I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!

Charles Deenen

Director, Digital - Source Sound Inc.

A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!