Hopkin Instrumentarium

Lamellophones includes all of our unique Hopkin Instrumentarium libraries so far, plus two new exclusive instruments: Cat's Face and CÍque. It offers everything you need to compose your best work ever, with over 100 custom FX presets for instant inspiration.
Tines & Echoes features a pentagonal sound box with chromatically-tuned metal tines that produce a tone reminiscent of the celestial wash you hear from the top octave of a piano. It offers a flexible GUI and 20 custom FX presets to kickstart your creativity.
Rattletines features one-of-a-kind instruments that produce their own special flavor of rattle or buzz. From tine plucks to percussive hand slaps on the instrument bodies, this library offers an intuitive GUI designed to give you complete creative freedom.
Woodentines is an expressive set of wooden lamellaphones featuring a crisp and yet ponderously watery wooden essence that shines warmly. It offers a flexible palette of musical colors with intuitive layer mixing, filters and custom FX to spark your creativity.
Rumba Boxes is an assortment of large wooden bass kalimbas, featuring a rich acoustic essence that resounds brightly through each note. It offers a wide spectrum of playable articulations, ambiences and custom FX presets to give you complete musical freedom.
The U is a glissy steel lamellophone with a curious liquid and metallic timbre, ideal for projects that requires a truly unique tone. It offers a flexible palette of musical colors with intuitive layer mixing, filters and custom FX to spark your creativity.
Metaltines is a nuanced and expressive selection of metal lamellaphones, featuring the Mallet K 1 & 2, Sit or Play, and T-Rod-On-Tine. It offers a wide spectrum of playable articulations, ambiences and custom FX presets to give you complete musical freedom.
Built by instrument inventor Bart Hopkins, Miago Trod is a giant resonating lamellaphone that's tuned chromatically and played percussively. Its mysteriously bassy and metallic timbre is ideal for your next scoring project that needs something truly unique.

Hopkin Weighted Strings is a set of two amazing custom creations from the mind of master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin: The Weighted Lyre and Weighted Zither. These handcrafted experimental instruments use small weights on the strings to alter overtone relationships and create unusual, beautiful sounds.

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Aquaalt is an experimental creation from the mind of master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin: A unique Lute with a steel bowl resonator. The bridge delivers string vibrations directly to the bowl’s flat bottom. As the strings sound, water moves in the bowl, creating unusual, dreamy sounds. 

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Handsome Dan is a creation from master instrument inventor Bart Hopkin: A stringed Zither with a unique twist. This flat wooden sound box has 14 strings, with a center bridge dividing them into two segments. A magnetic pickup is placed on one side, but the strings are played primarily on the other side, usually with a slide or plectrum. The tone is dreamy and ethereal, with a floating, swelling presence.