ILIO has release Andy Narell Steel Pans – The Ellie Mannette Collection for Kontakt users.
The world’s foremost steel pan recording artist and the “father of the modern steel pan” have teamed up to create this definitive collection of Steel Pans. There are five types of pans—each one a distinct voice of the steel orchestra. In all, 22 instruments were recorded, presented in solo and ensemble combinations, and grouped to individual faders on the GUI console. From steel band music to jazz, film scores to electro DJ music—Andy Narell Steel Pans — The Ellie Mannette Collection will deliver authentic, beautiful sounding instruments. Comes with Kontakt player engine, NKS compatible.
Every once in a while, a new virtual instrument comes along that captures its subject so well, it becomes the new benchmark. Such is the case with Andy Narell Steel Pans—The Ellie Mannette Collection.
The first steel pans made their appearance in Trinidad in the 1940s, fashioned from discarded biscuit tins and paint cans, beaten with wooden sticks. The steel bands were mostly gangs of youth from poor neighborhoods, but the discovery that different notes could be tuned on the top of a drum gave birth to an island-wide movement and the creation of a new family of instruments and a whole new genre of music. A teenage Ellie Mannette was among the first to experiment with hammering distinct tones into the top of an oil barrel, and he was the first person to tune a pan that could play melodies.
From the beginning, Ellie’s work was considered the standard of steel pan tuning, and for the next 70 years he developed his techniques, relentlessly searching for perfection, and earning him international recognition as “the father of the modern steel pan”. In 2003 he was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame. In 1967 he moved to New York and began a long and fruitful relationship with 12 year old pan player Andy Narell, who has been playing Ellie’s pans ever since.
There are five types of steel pans in the collection—tenor, double second, triple guitar, tenor bass, and bass, with multiple instruments of each type included. In all there are 21 sampled Mannette instruments arranged into logical presets that let you explore the gamut of steel pan performance, and a bonus vintage early 1960’s tenor pan. There are also multiple performance enhancements—rolls, harmony, keyswitches to quickly change settings, and a MIDI velocity control that helps you access the full dynamic and tonal possibilities of the pans.
Features include:
- 21 Mannette instruments and one vintage pan
- Five types of steel pans: Tenor, Double Second, Triple Guitar, Tenor Bass, and Bass
- Solo and Ensemble presets
- Intuitive controls to easily mute and solo instrument groups
- Built-in effects
- Dynamic Touch control
- “Rolls” feature
- “Harmony” function for authentic chords and intervals
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