Hey again, we've got a new and strange instrument library for for you all. Our Propanium (aka MILLTONE) is a highly emotive, metal tongue drum. It's about 14" wide and 8" deep, with 8 tongues of ascending size. The drum has certain similarities to the Hang Drum, but is cleaner, less “steel-drummy”, and has more harmonics and overtones. It's also a generally less dissonant sounding. We recorded the Propanium library using a variety of articulations, including finger, brushes, mallets and captured tons of ready-to-use performance effects. The library follows our “deep-sampling” methodology. The larger patches generally have approximately 10 velocity layers and 6-8 round robin variations per layer. Certain patches (such as the overtone patches) have over 35 velocity layers for maximum playability.Take a listen to a few demo tracks featuring the Propanium, both by itself and mixed with other instruments to give you a sense of way that it can be used. We hope you like what you hear. :) http://www.tonehammer.com/demos/tonehammer_propanium_demo_1_dressed.mp3 Demo 1 by Troels Folmann, harmonica played by Steven Tavaglione Featuring: Propanium Finger and Propanium Brushed Additional Instruments: Hang Drum, Hang Drum downtuned, Rainstick, Soda Tabs, Bamboo Flute FX, Kalimba, Live Guitar, Soft Clap, Coke Bottle, WaterBowl, Guitar Drum, Clicky Toy, Monkey Balls, Finger Cymbals and Vocals from PowerFX. http://www.tonehammer.com/demos/tonehammer_propanium_demo_1_naked.mp3 Demo 1 (Naked) by Troels Folmann Propanium Finger and Propanium Brushed Only http://www.tonehammer.com/demos/tonehammer_propanium_demo_3_naked.mp3 Demo 2 by Troels Folmann Propanium Finger, Propanium Mallet, Propanium Brush FX, Propanium Overtones, Propanium Ambiences Only. Here are a few more details about the Propanium, from our blog (http://www.tonehammer.com/?p=1285): $49 11 Kontakt patches, 2224 samples, 1.67 GB Unlocked Kontakt 2 and 44.1Khz/16Bit stereo .wav files in open directories for easy access Articulations: Brush (Nylon) on all 8 note / tongues: 10 velocity layers, 6x round-robin Brush FX: Variation of short and longer brush swells Finger strikes on all 8 note / tongues: 10 velocity layers, 8x round-robin Finger percussion: 18 velocity layers, 4x round-robin Mallet: 9 velocity layers, 8x round-robin Ambiences with Modwheel control: 6×6 velocity layers Overtones: 8×35 velocity layers Overtone flowers: 4×40 velocity layers Finger Arpeggiator: A variety of dual-tongues arpeggiated Random Arpeggiation: A variety of dual-tongues arpeggiated & randomized Random Modwheel Tuning: A variety of dual-tongues tuned on Modwheel Extensive read me install, patch and hint documentation (.pdf) and images of our Milltone. Please be aware that full a retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 2.2.4 or Kontakt 3 is required. Stripped down "Kontakt Players" that come bundled with other sample libraries or software are unable to open 3rd party sample libraries or instruments such as ours. Let me know what you guys think. :) - Mike P