REQ: Felt Instruments Jasno

Jasno [i ̯asno] is a delicate recreation of a forgotten german instrument that sounds like a cross between a celesta, a music box, a hang drum and who knows what else. captured through a hand-made tube preamp, sampled with love.

The hohner guitaret (which jasno proudly brings to your studio in the digital form) is an extremely rare instrument made for about two years in the 60s. it sounds familiar, yet different enough to bring some character and interest to your scores. nick cave and warren ellis used it to great effect on a soundtrack to ‘the assasination of jesse james’.

Besides the standard finger-plucked sustains, you’ll also get an articulation where the instrument was performed with mallets (both of these have 5x repetition samples), loose tremolos as well as a softly-performed random plucks which work like this: you play a chord and magic hapens.



These humanly sampled electro-acoustic articulations are only a half of the story, though. what you’ll also find is a collection of sound design afterglow patches, created by processing the guitaret using vintage hardware and tape. some of these patches feature a digital tape looping machine, giving you control over speed, pitch, direction and overall dirt of playback.

It’s a collection of bespoke patches that evoke that dusty, analogue vibe, ranging from fragile and soft to dirty remains of the original signal. think of them as an ultimate inspiration pallette that you can shape and perform using the interface or your favourite midi controller.