In this audio example I'm taking advantage of a cool new feature on the Continuum, that allows one to create portamento slide between two fingers without reattacking the note. One can set a range for that portamento effect. I've got it set to three semitones, so the portamento will be ignored for larger intervals. In this example you can hear wholetone mordents desecending in the melody taking advantage of this feature.
The sampled Kalimba
The Kalimba Kyma sound is based on two original Kalimba samples, both the same pitch, one softer/duller and the other brighter/louder. It sounds quite nice to me. It has some of the nasty bite that occurs when a Kalimba is stuck hard. It amazing to me how far that single pitch can be stretched in the TAU player and still sound great. Having the formant shift (which is labelled Tone in the sound) makes for a nice variance in Kalimba timbres. The original Kalimba that was sampled was a Latin Percussion model, quite gentrified compared to the authentic African varieties.
