￥CineSamples is proud to bring to you the first instrument in their Artist Series, Randy Kerber: Randy’s Celeste!

 

Randy Kerber is a composer, orchestrator and keyboard player, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema. The recognizable celeste theme in “Harry Potter” composed by John Williams was played by Randy Kerber who developed a unique sound for the celeste that has been featured not only in “Harry Potter I, II, and III” but also “Minority Report”, “Catch Me If You Can”, “The Adventures of Tintin”, and “Warhorse”.

 

How “Randy’s Celeste” came into being: “I was asked to create a sound that would capture the magical personality of Hedwig, the Owl in Harry Potter. First, I called up an initialized voice patch on the DX-7 synthesizer to embody the soft character of the celeste. Next, I combined a sample of an actual celeste. After some manipulation of these two instruments, I was able to arrive at the unique sound you hear today.”

 

Requirements:

 

42mb of Ram needed per instance
~200mb Harddrive Space is needed
iLok v1 or v2 (for UVI Workstation only)
Kontakt Full v4.2 or higher (For Kontakt Version, Kontakt PLAYER version is NOT available)
Works with the FREE UVI Workstation v2.0.8. Download here.
UVI version is fully compatible with MachFive v3.1.1+ (iLok is still required)
MAC OS X 10.6.8, 10.7, 10.8 or higher | Mac Intel processors | 2 GB of RAM
Windows 7 (32b and 64b) | Core Duo or faster | 2 GB of RAM
7200 RPM (or higher) or and SSD is HIGHLY recommended.