Horse Pulse is a sample library for Plogue Sforzando version 1.971 or newer. It contains samples of a bass tagelharpa played pizzicato.

To register the Sforzando bank, drag the Horse Pulse.bank.xml file onto the Sforzando interface. Once registered, the instrument will be available in the Sforzando loading menu and the GUI will work.

Techniques: Pluck - a hard pluck with the tip of the finger, recorded with six round robins Scrape - a softer brush of the fingertip across the string, with four round robins Soft scrape - a very soft brush, with two round robins Nail - stroking the string with the fingernail, with four round robins Flam - several fingertip and/or nail strikes in a row FX - percussive, slide and handling noise FX

"VSOP" mode stands for velocity switch operation; here note velocity does not control the dynamics of the pitched notes (though it still does that for the FX), but instead different velocity ranges select different articulations:
1 to 32 - soft scrape
33 to 73 - scrape
74 to 114 - pluck
115 to 126 - nail
127 - flam

Control MIDI CC assignments:
31 - width
107 - release
110 - preroll (at 0 approximately 100 ms, at max approximately 10 ms)
113 - deep (an extra copy of the samples, transposed an octave down)

Thanks to Bragi's Workshop for making the instrument.

Royalty-free for all commercial and non-commercial use. Copyright 2022 Karoryfer Lecolds.