Monolith is a new sound library that features the sounds of 53 big drums, carefully tuned and voiced, playable as ensembles and as single instruments.… Read More New Cinematic Percussion Sound Library, Monolith
Vienna Symphonic Library has introduced Synchron World Percussion, a new collection of virtual percussions instruments from West Africa, the Middle East, and Brazil.… Read More Synchron World Percussion Features 29 Instruments From Around The World
Soundiron has introduced Rattletines – a set of unique hand-crafted tuned percussion instruments created by instrument designer and sound sculptor Bart Hopkin.… Read More Soundiron Intros Rattletines Tune Percussion Instrument Sound Library
Designer Drums is made to mimic the natural color and timbre changes of a live percussionist. … Read More Designer Drums – ‘Intelligent Rhythm Engine’ For Kontakt
Fracture uses single impulse samples like Claps, Snaps and Ping Pong Balls and then plays a group of similar samples back in a psuedo-random order, creating a crowd effect. … Read More WMD Fracture Multi-Particle Crowd Percussion Synthesizer Now Available
This video takes a quick look at the aFrame – an ‘Electrorganic Frame Drum’.… Read More aFrame Electrorganic Frame Drum Hands-On Demo
Off-topic but interesting: At Musikmesse 2016, drummer and inventor Deniz Gungor is demonstrating the Aquadrum – a tongue drum that’s designed to be easily retunable to different scales or tunings. According to Gungor, the Aquadrum builds on the original idea of Dennis Havlena’s propane tank drum (steel tongue-drum), adding the ability to retune the drum as needed, using patented… Read More The Aquadrum Brings Custom Tunings To The Tongue Drum
At the 2016 NAMM Show, Aerodrom developers introduced Aerodrums – a virtual reality Oculus Rift virtual instrument. Developed by former researchers at the Trinity College Dublin Vision and Visualization lab, Yann Morvan and Richard Lee, Aerodrums is an air drumming musical instrument which utilizes motion capture technology to create a fully functional, customizable drumset. Aerodrums are intended as an… Read More Aerodrums Intros Virtual Reality Drum Set For Oculus Rift
Aria Sounds recently released Catalyst, their “high end cinematic percussion” sample library. The library features drums and percussion instruments with four blend-able microphone positions (close, overhead, mid, far) for greater control over the sound, as well as up to five round robins per note, and multi dynamic layers. Each drum in the Catalyst sample library… Read More Aria Sounds Releases Catalyst Drum Sample Library For Kontakt
August 15 Sample Logic releases IMPAKT, a new suite of over 850 “morphed” concert percussion instruments and multis. This collection of instruments ranges from “dramatically twisted” marimbas and xylophones, peaceful chimes and bells to “massively transfigured” tympani, gongs, bass drums, cymbals, and a range of world percussion instruments. IMPAKT’s suite includes:
