News: Clavia – Nord Drum 2
Posted on | April 9, 2013 | No Comments
Clavia announced Nord Drum 2
The Nord Drum 2 is a 6-channel Modeling Percussion Synthesizer that combines the playability of real percussion with unique and powerful sound creation possibilities! New features included Resonance modeling, FM-synthesis, distortion effects, stereo outputs with panning and CC-control. We’re also releasing the Nord Pad, a responsive, compact multi-pad designed to be the perfect companion to the Nord Drum 2 with an elegant single cable ethernet connector. The Nord Pad is available as an optional accessory.
More info here: http://www.nordkeyboards.com/main.asp?tm=Home
News: Spitfire Audio – HZ CINEMATIC PERCUSSION
Posted on | Januar 24, 2013 | No Comments
Spitfire Audio announced HZ CINEMATIC PERCUSSION, a percussion library produced by Hans Zimmer.
“Everyone at Spitfire is delighted to announce commencement of our most exciting project so far. Produced by Hans Zimmer and his team, Spitfire is due to release the most definitive collection of cinematic style percussion to-date.
Recorded in the hall at Air-Studios by Geoff Foster and performed by the same players on the same instruments and techniques as films such as INCEPTION, THE RING, HANNIBAL AND NOLAN’S BATMAN TRILOGY, mixed by Alan Meyerson in LA and presented to you the “Spitfire way” this one is going to be a corker. Accept no imitations, this is the way it’s done, by the man who invented it and the greatest exponent of it.
Your speakers are going to hate you for it.”
Tags: cinematic > Hans Zimmer > HZ CINEMATIC PERCUSSION > library > native instruments > percussion > Spitfire Audio
News: Strezov Sampling – Thunder
Posted on | Januar 17, 2013 | No Comments
Strezov Sampling released Thunder, a percussion ensamble library for NI Kontakt.
THUNDER
DRY CINEMATIC TUTTI PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES
by Strezov Sampling
Thunder is a Kontakt-based sample library, capturing the dry and punchy sound of eight percussionists playing on a wide assortment of large, cinematic percussion.
- Eight of Bulgaria’s finest percussionists, musicians from the Sofia Session Orchestra
- Two mic positions (Close and Room) built into an intuitive Mic Mixer
- Recorded in Studio Loud-Fi – a small, dry and punchy room
- 13 instrument combinations
- 10 dynamic layers – from ppp to ffff
- 8 round-robin
- 48 kHz / 24 bit
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!
Normal price: $99
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Preview: FT Samples – Timpani On Fire Vol 1 Tutorial
Posted on | Dezember 12, 2012 | No Comments
FT Samples showed a little preview of their upcomming library: Timpani On Fire Vol 1
They released the first tutorial video now.
Timpani On Fire Vol 1 – Tutorial 1 – Basics
Tags: drum > FT Samples > library > percussion > Timpani > Timpani On Fire Vol 1
Free Kontakt Drum Instrument: Kralc -Wooden Percussion
Posted on | Dezember 2, 2012 | No Comments
Kralc, a member of V.I.Control forum posted another free NI Kontakt drum instrument: Wooden Percussion.
“Wanting to try out sampling something with round robin for myself, I grabbed a couple loose pieces of wooden decking planks, and started smacking them round like an idiot.
Was good fun though. Hopefully now a little fun for someone else too.
Two white key octaves, with 4x rr. “
More info and download here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/109416840/Wooden%20Percussion.zip
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News: Cinesamples – Cineperc
Posted on | Dezember 1, 2012 | No Comments
Cinesamples released Cineperc for NI Kontakt featuring all kinds of orchestral percussion. There are 4 different options available: CinePerc CORE, CinePerc PRO, CinePerc EPIC, CinePerc AUX. Each pack costs US $299,-
More info here: http://cinesamples.com/products/cineperc/
Tags: cinematic > Cineperc > Cinesamples > drum > drums > epic > kontakt > library > native instruments > orchestral > orchestral percussion > percussion > samples > sounds
Inspiration: Ralf Goeldner plays the Korg Wavedrum
Posted on | Oktober 27, 2012 | No Comments
German drummer and percussionist Ralf Goeldner performs an improvised piece on the Korg Wavedrum. This is the first clip in a series of four performance videos with Wavedrum, Wavedrum Mini and Wavedrum plus acoustic percussion.
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