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Tonehammer has released Epic Dhol, the follow-up to Epic Toms Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Description: The Punjab Dhol is a double-sided barrel drum large and bulky to produce the preferred loud bass. The drum consists of a wooden barrel with animal hide or synthetic skin stretched over its open ends, covering them completely. These skins can be stretched or loosened with a tightening mechanism made up of either interwoven ropes, or nuts and bolts. Tightening or loosening the skins subtly alters the pitch of the drum sound. The stretched skin on one of the ends is thicker and produces a deep, low frequency (higher bass) sound and the other thinner one produces a higher frequency sound. In contemporary Punjabi music, dhols with synthetic, or plastic, treble skins are very common. You can preview Epic Dhol below:

Until 22 April, 2009, Epic Dhol is available for the introductory price of $89 USD for the 16bit/44.1kHz version (regular price $99 USD), and $99 USD for the 24bit/48kHz version (regular price $109 USD). Read more…

Tonehammer Anti-Drum II contains over 4.400 samples and 75 different instrument patches, each designed to represent a unique texture.

Description:

The library contains a variety of instruments, including boom whackers, PVC pipe percussion ensemble to flower vases, glasses, rainsticks, soda bottles. Also included are a  set of music box samples, which were recorded in several locations including large hall, studio and so forth.

The library also contains a variety of more unconventional instruments ranging from human beats through a cellphone (10 round robin and 10 velocity layers), stop watches and a compressive patch of “human trumpets”. Read more…

This is a video of the Tonehammer Waterphone sound library.

Tonehammer Waterphone contains 2.903 samples recorded with a variety of bows, a huge set of mallets, metal devices, hands and other contraptions. The library also contains a variety of more experimental patches, including boiled water at four different temperature levels, hydrophone recordings (underwater microphones in the waterphone), magnets on waterphone tines and filling waterphone with metal nails and other goodies.

All playable mallet programs contain 10 velocity layer – 10 round robin for maximum playability. In addition Waterphone contains a bonus set of waterphone ambiences (note: Kontakt 3 only) made by Steven Tavaglione (Instrumentalist and Sound Designer; Wall-E, American Beauty, CSI, Supernatural and 100s other movies/shows/games).

Details below.

If you’ve used Tonehammer Waterphone, leave a comment with your thoughts/ratings! Read more…

Tonehammer has Digeridoo,  a new Kontakt-based virtual instrument.

The Didgeridoo (aka Didge) is an Australian Aboriginal wind instrument dating back over approx.1500-2000 years. The instrument is made from Eucalyptus logs hollowed out by termites and is widely regarded as one of the oldest woodwind (aerophone) instruments in existence.

Tonehammer recorded two different Didges for maximum user flexibility. The first one was is an original Eucaplyptus log and the second one is modern version made from PVC pipes.

The library contains over approx. 500MB of samples and programs contain modwheel controlled time-stretching and sample offset options allowing users to get more flexibility out of the samples. The Didges come at two different mic (close/medium) distances and a far mic for our dual-didge FX group. Didge 1 is close mic and Didge 2 is medium mic.

You can preview Tonehammer Digeridoo below.

If you’ve used it, leave a comment and let us know what you think! Read more…