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Moss
Moss’s Reviews
Beautiful eerie pad
A lovely, smooth, mellow, haunting pad. Seems good for sci-fi or something reflective.
All you could hope for from a rubber band
A lot of effort went into this unique library. Lot's of variety of sounds to play with. Nice, useful GUI. The only thing hindering it in my opinion is lack of round robins, but it's free! I don't care for most of the processed or "designed" instruments, but the Glitchbeast one is great.
Better sound than the default Kontakt kalimba.
This instrument has a livelier sound than the one that comes with the Kontakt factory library, and it actually has individually sampled notes and multiple velocities! It includes a nice selection of "resonances" (i.e. creative convolution reverbs).
I did add an ADHSR envelope to give it a long release and short decay so that the staccato behaviour is reversed: hold for short notes and peck for long notes. That worked better for my liking. The default release is like instantaneous so probably not what people naturally want. I also think it sounds better with the low end turned down.
Lovely once I fixed things
This is hard to rate because there are different versions and there are good and bad things about each. Fundamentally the source files produce a lovely sound. The basic version has a pointless long attack. When that is removed it is much more playable. I also tried rigging the attack and a bit of the release up to the MW and that gives some nice controls.
The noise reduced version is a big improvement without the creaks and clacks and the GUI is great, BUT it has a pointless low pass filter that isn't even accessible in the GUI which sucks the life and realism out of the choir. I removed that filter from the Oohs and Mms groups and instead attached a 1-band EQ with a wide bandwidth that adjusts the high end up and down. I connected that to the MW and it makes a great dynamics/expression control.
Long story short, with a bit more tweaking this is a great free library!!!
Simple
Pros: nice sound for only one sample
Cons: just one sample with a filter and some reverb, so quiet I had to turn the volume to 100% and then add a Gainer effect and crank that up too so I could hear it.