Quiet Music offers the Klim ($5 value) kalimba plugin for Windows and macOS as a FREE download.
Who doesn’t love a good kalimba? Who doesn’t love a good free kalimba, even?
If you answered yes to either one of these questions, you’re in luck. Quiet Music has made Klim, its Kalimba virtual instrument, free.
All you need is the code 00KLIM at checkout. If you have a Windows or Mac computer capable of running VSTs, VST3s, or AUs, you can now upgrade it with a free kalimba instrument.
So, what is Klim?
Klim is based on 15 multi-sampled presets of a 17-key Kalimba. Samples are provided at 192kHz 32-bit audio quality and come with many features to get a little wacky with things.
The presets sound great, though I will admit I don’t readily use sounds like these in my music very often.
If you like adding effects and modulation to sampled acoustic instruments, Klim has enough built-in features to help you do so.
You have a traditional ADSR, which is great for basic shaping. There’s also a state variable filter that can morph between different topologies easily through a drop-down menu. The main section also houses controls for the overall volume, panning, and tuning of the instrument. It isn’t Scala compatible, so you experimental musicians might have to seek alternatives.
Also included is a delay effect, which works as you’d expect. It is fully stereo, so you get control over the left and right tap lines. Standard controls apply. There is sadly no diffusion network you can apply to things.
You’ve also got an LFO you can assign to one target. You can further modulate it with your mod wheel or other sources.
Klim is a well-thought-out and beautiful-sounding instrument. The interface is clean and easy to read. You can, of course, purchase Klim as well, which Quiet Music is asking $5 for. If your wallet is empty from all the recent deals, however, you can snag it with the aforementioned 00KLIM code at checkout.
Download: Klim (Free with code 00KLIM)
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