EASY FLEXATONE

Playing the Flexatone has never been easier!

Play realistic flexatone accents and phrases in a fun and intuitive way. With a gorgeous sound, clever mapping, and an open format (Kontakt & SFZ), it’s never been so easy and fun to add iconic flexatone sounds to your productions!

Fantastic functionality for just a couple of bucks! The realism and playability are great, and the sound is clean and flexible.

KEYBOARD MAPPING

EASY FLEXATONE offers the most useful techniques across two octaves:

First octave: C1 - B1: 12 most used Flexatone techniques, with 8 round-robins for maximum realism

Second octave: C2 - B2: 12 complementary single samples (no round-robins)

!!! All the white keys offer medium and long Flexatone phrases, with multiple hits.

!!! All the black keys offer shorter Flexatone sounds and single hits.

NB: the instrument automatically mutes the previous samples when a new key is played: this lets you create your own Flexatone phrases in a fun and intuitive way, while assuring realistic results.

PARALLEL MAPPING:

The instrument uses a parallel mapping on two octaves: the notes spread one octave appart (ex: G1 and G2) offer either a similar technique/ sound, or a complimentary technique. 

For example, C#2 features a sample that is similar to the one on C#1. The two notes can be used alternatively in a track to bring variety and authenticity. F2 and F1 offer complementary techniques: F1 is a long sample with the pitch going up, and F2 is the opposite technique with the pitch going down: play one note after the other several times to improvise your own Flexatone phrases!

OPEN FORMAT

Use any SFZ player and get the same playability and the same sound quality!

The instrument is also available in the open SFZ format. Use any SFZ player, such as the free Sfizz or Sforzando to enjoy the same playability and the same sound quality.

SFZ is a plain text file format that stores instrument data for software synthesizers and samplers. The SFZ format is open and manufacturer-independent: Anyone can use it, it does not have to be activated or authorized in any way. The samples remain simply as WAVs and can easily be accessed in the library folder.

Kontakt interface

The Kontakt instrument gives you access to a 3-band equaliser, a warm saturation, and a parallel compressor.

You can also add reverb and select one of 19 custom Impulse Responses.

A switch lets you activate or de-activate round robins for the C1-B1 keys, and a knob lets you precisely adjust the release of samples.

A gorgeous sound

The samples were recording with an AKG C480B, using an hypercardioid CK63 capsule. For maximum versatility, the sound is dry and focused, with very little room ambience. Simply add your own reverb to easily fit the Flexatone into your track!

Special INTRO offer (ends Dec.2nd)

Why such a crazy ‘no brainer’ intro offer? Because I’ve been asked many times in the past to create virtual instruments in an open format, such as SFZ. 

Therefore, I decided to make EASY FLEXATONE as affordable as possible at launch, while still covering the extra bandwidth cost and ensuring the viability of the project. An open price also means that you can choose to help by giving a small donation and make a positive impact: every extra dollar you donate will support the creation of new affordable and useful instruments ;-) Thank you! Julien Tauban, developer & owner

Need more Flexatone samples?

Check our sample pack FLEXATONE SAMPLES: it offers a different set of 142 samples recorded with a vintage EV RE15 dynamic mic and a custom binaural set-up of two AT4022.

The sample pack FLEXATONE SAMPLES includes only WAV files, and no instrument preset. You’ll find it on this page (scroll down): ONE-SHOTS PACKS