Summary

Abacus by Richard Harvey is a virtual instrument collection featuring a diverse range of vintage children's instruments, sampled with care for authentic nostalgic sound. The collection includes nearly one hundred instruments from Richard Harvey's personal collection, spanning early 19th century to the 1980s, suitable for various genres such as fantasy, adventure, mystery, horror, and educational contexts.

Features

• 42 unique instruments plus an extensive percussion ensemble
• Includes rare and vintage instruments with exclusive sounds
• Focus on chromatic musical boxes tuned to modern pitch (A440)
• Five mixable microphone positions for sound control, including vintage spot mics
• Sampled by expert musicians maintaining faithful instrument characteristics including pitch ranges and articulations
• Instrument categories include musical boxes, tuned percussion (bells, metallophones, kalimba), wind instruments (recorders, whistles, melodica), plucked instruments (banjolele, concert and bass ukulele), toy pianos, and varied percussion (washboard, guiros, drums, toy shaker)

Designed With Richard Harvey

Richard Harvey, a renowned composer and multi-instrumentalist with extensive film and TV soundtrack experience, curated and performed the instruments. He is an expert collector of unique world instruments and has collaborated closely with Orchestral Tools to create this authentic collection.

Compatibility and Requirements

• Runs in Orchestral Tools' SINE Player (latest version required)
• Supported on macOS (10.15+) and Windows 10 with recommended 16 GB RAM
• Formats: Standalone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX
• Sample size: 63 GB (19 GB compressed), 24 bit / 48 KHz

Applications

The collection is ideal for creating nostalgic and historic moods as well as fantasy, horror, and storytelling music for media such as television, film, and advertising.