Bells and rivers - Old bells. Strange bells. Beautiful bells. Damaged bells. A Kontakt library celebrating the imperfect voices hidden inside metal.

Bells & RIVERS

Bells & Rivers — From tiny forgotten bells to enormous resonating towers. A Kontakt collection exploring the strange poetry of metal and motion.

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Bells And RiversVST

For N.I. KONTAKT Retail Version 6.4.2 and up

PATCHES

55

SAMPLES

4175

SIZE

4.1 GB

VERSION

1.3

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A Kontakt library made from bells with personality. Rusty bells, giant bells, moving textures and metallic sounds that refuse to behave.
v1.3
Bells & Rivers by Wrongtools. A collection of unusual bell instruments, flowing textures and resonating metals for composers and sound explorers.
Bells & Rivers — The sound of metal remembering. Antique bells, deep resonances and evolving rivers of tones captured for Kontakt.
Bells & Rivers by Wrongtools. Thousands of bell recordings transformed into playful instruments full of clunks, character and unexpected beauty.
v1.0

“Bells & Rivers” is a tuned percussion kontakt-library made from bells in a wide range of sizes and pitches.

Includes 4 World-of-bells:

TOWN HALL BELLS

45 tuned carillon bells recorded for Kontakt

ANTIQUE BELLS

Small and medium sized old bells in a wooden studio with serious microphones, alternative sticks and several velocity layers.

TAINTED BELLS

Cinematic patches from Soft tapping or careful bowing on bells through different audio-manipulation tools

‘WHERE THE RIVER RUNS’

Made from continuous evolving streams of bells

Wrongtools raises the ancient art of hitting sheep-bells to the highest level. 

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A world of bells beyond the ordinary. Bells & Rivers explores the hidden life inside metal.

Bells & Rivers — thousands of recordings shaped into expressive instruments where metal, movement and imagination meet.
Tiny rings. Huge resonations. Strange little objects turned into expressive Kontakt instruments full of movement, colour and personality.

SPECS 

  • Weird And Wonderful Bells Of Different Sizes
  • Rich And Complex Unusual Timbres
  • 4175 samples
  • Recorded With Analogue Signal Chains And Great Mics
  • enriching for your percussion section
Boutique Kontakt instruments designed for composers who need unconventional and experimental sound textures.
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cowbells than pounding clanks.

Tiny rings. Huge resonations. Strange little objects turned into expressive Kontakt instruments full of movement, colour and personality.

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A Kontakt library made from bells with personality. Rusty bells, giant bells, moving textures and metallic sounds that refuse to behave..

Modern sounding flexible bell-sounds, programmed for Kontakt, and with an intuitive user interface

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Use Modwheel to let the textures change colour and density on the cinematic patches marked [mw]. 

Bells & Rivers by Wrongtools. A collection of unusual flowing textures and resonating metals for composers and sound explorers.

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Use the [FX] presets for pathways to unique guitar-based pads.

Bells & Rivers collects unusual bells of all shapes and sizes — transformed into playable instruments, textures and flowing soundscapes. 

Made in Norway. Used by composers everywhere. Wrongtools instruments have quietly travelled into Oscar-nominated films, acclaimed television series and some of the largest video games in the world.

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Bells & Rivers explores clunks, rings, vibrations and the strange emotional language of resonating metal.

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Bells and Rivers is a collection of bells in almost every shape and personality — from tiny rusty antique bells full of character to enormous resonating town hall bells with long, evolving tails.

“The perfect clunk to your favourite moments”  — Rosa

“beautiful bells playing. Fantastic library!” – D.G

“it sounds beautiful! Thank you for making such lovely libraries.” R.K

“Bought it. Best sounding Town Bells I’ve heard. I’ve been looking for these all my VST days.”  — S.

“The Ultimate Bell Experience:) “ – F.L

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FAQ :

Frequently Asked Questions

Bells and Rivers is a collection of bells in almost every shape and personality — from tiny rusty antique bells full of character to enormous resonating town hall bells with long, evolving tails.

Small bells.
Huge bells.
Beautiful bells.
Damaged bells.
Bells that behave exactly as expected — and bells that definitely do not.

Bells & Rivers is a free-thinking, playful, no-borders bell-sound library with unusual clinks and clonks that you won’t find anywhere else.  There’s a colorful collection of small rusty bells, as well as the (probably) biggest Town-hall bells in Norway. They were huge!  

This library features a massive number of samples, ensuring a high level of detail. For the shorter-sounding small bells, we sampled each bell so many times that there are little risk of the same sample are played twice.

These are not your typical orchestral instruments. Some are custom-made, some are antique each with its own unique sonic fingerprint. Definitively not your average orchestral-bell library

Given the sheer number of samples and the deep-sampled nature of the instruments, the library is designed for professional use and may require a certain amount of system resources. However, the patches are designed to be as efficient as possible without compromising on sound quality.

Jepps. . Due to their unusual and complex harmonic content, these bells are an incredible resource for sound designers and composers looking to create some very special atmospheric textures, evolving drones, and custom sound effects. The deeply sampled layers provide a wealth of raw material for manipulation and creative processing.

This library is intentionally focused on unusual and non-traditional bell sounds. If you are looking for a standard set of crystal-clear bellsounds, this is likely not the right starting point. 

However, if you’re ready to move beyond the basics and want to add truly unique and inspiring bells, of all materials and sizes, to your percussion programming or in your cinematic scores, this is the perfect library to explore.

Yes. Bells & Rivers is a custom-built instrument that requires the full version of Kontakt 6.4.2 or higher. It is not compatible with the free Kontakt Player. This allows us to use advanced scripting and features that are only available in the full version of Kontakt, providing you with a deeper and more expressive instrument.

While this library is not officially NKS-compatible, the core functionality works seamlessly with Native Instruments hardware. You can map and control all parameters of the instrument directly from your Komplete Kontrol keyboard, allowing for a hands-on performance experience.

Wrongtools creates Kontakt instruments by searching for sounds with a life of their own.

Our approach combines deep sampling, acoustic exploration, experimentation, and curiosity — building instruments that hopefully create new musical ideas. We like to make samples that inspire.


Oh, and you might probably already have heard Wrongtools somewhere— Our sounds have quietly travelled into Oscar-nominated films, major cinematic productions, acclaimed video games, and television productions around the world.

REQUIREMENTS:

4.1 GB of space

FEATURES:

  • ANTIQUE BELLS
  • TOWN HALL BELLS
  • Evolving streams of bells
  • Additional Sound Design Patches
  • Randomizing Capabilities
  • Round-robin options
  • Sample Start options
  • Mighty sound-shaping toolS

CURRENT VERSION:

[changelog]

1.3 (build 207)

  • tweaks and fixes
  • larger UI

1.0 initial release

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