The Insect is a very small instrument, both disarmingly simple and unexpectedly versatile. Each Insect consists of a short piece of small-diameter metal pipe (through which compressed air comes in) covered with a latex membrane held tightly by fixed clamps. A second membrane may sometimes be knotted around the end piece like a cord, at the discretion of the performer, by doing so altering the way the first membrane is vibrating.
Your tool: the PTC sound library
1600 + sounds
To compose your work, PTC gives you access to a bank of more than 1600 different sounds from instruments unique in the world.


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To guide you in your exploration, each sound has been meticulously described according to 9 criteria, such as register, musical pitch, mass, grain, etc.
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