SonArte’s main objective is to stimulate creativity by offering innovative and leading edge sampled based digital musical instruments. SonArte products can be used as original solo instruments or combined with other instruments to create an infinite number of musical textures and sound effects for a wide range of artistic and media productions.

The exceptional recording quality of SonArte products offers boundless possibilities to music composers and sound effects designer alike. The no-noise technology – leaving almost no room tone and no reverb – allows for layering, transposition and manipulation of samples with minimum artifact and all samples were recorded through the whole duration of the sound, giving this organic feel.

Technical information

All samples included in SonArte’s products were originally recorded (in stereo) in 24 bits/192 kHz format, in ideal acoustic and technical conditions.

Advantages of sampling at 24 Bits/192 kHz (or 96 kHz)

Higher quality of digital audio recording:
• Enhances the attack of samples sounds, decay, tonal brightness and general sound realism
• Widens the sound range of samples with virtually no distortion, keeping sound integrity even at extreme ends of samples registers
• Makes it possible to discover unexpected and often astonishing new sounds when samples are heard in other registers

Instruments of the Sound Objects collection :

• Ceramic tiles of different sizes
• Joist hangers of different shapes and sizes
• Post holders of different shapes and sizes
• Metal plumbing elbows of different sizes
• Metal sheets of different shapes and sizes
• Saw blades of different sizes
• Metal rods of different sizes
• Ground plates
• Various metal structures
• Gardening forks
• Sink drains of different sizes
• Glass bell of different sizes
• Electrical boxes of different sizes
• Wheelbarrow pans
• Plastic baskets of different sizes
• Plastic plumbing pipes and fittings of different sizes
• ABS pipes of different sizes
• Joist hangers of different shapes and sizes played with a violin bow - with 3 different attacks (slow, medium, fast)

Conventional acoustic instruments of the Sound Objects collection

• Leedy & Ludwig tubular bells (18 notes) from the beginning of the 20th century
• Thai gongs, one bronze and one metal set
• Chinese cymbals
• Chinese gongs

Instruments of the Crystal Sound collection :

• Crystal Baschet
• Spiegelau crystal glasses