Experimental Acoustic

Waterphone

by Soniccouture

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A sampled waterphone in two instruments: Waterphone Phrases (366 recorded performance gestures) and Waterphone Unwrapped (playable notes with up to five harmonic layers, six articulations and water modulation), each around 3 GB with stereo and contact-mic channels. Includes sound design presets, 20 of them by Hazel Mills; Kontakt or Kontakt Player 7.6 or later, NKS.

How to use it in horror

Trigger bowed waterphone phrases with the water modulation raised for the classic wavering, eerie squeal under a slow reveal, or use a struck gesture as an acoustic stinger.