This collection features one of the oldest types of hand percussion, the
ancient frame drum. These instruments have an amazingly warm and versatile
tone, useful for many genres of music from world groove, to film score, hip
hop, New Age, ambient, and much more. With 2,000+ samples and 37 articulations
(playing styles), Forest Frame Drums is one of the deepest ethnic drum
libraries ever released!
Each drum - the Forest Drum, Deep Drum, and Small Drum - was captured in
intense detail, featuring many dynamic velocity layers and round robin (RR)
variations. Whether performing on a MIDI controller or sequencing with the
mouse, this obsessive sampling means you won’t ever have to worry about
‘machine gun’ drums again: instead you’ll hear subtle, human variation on each
note.
Forest Frame Drums can be used as simple accompaniment, adding a subtle groove
to an existing drum part with finger taps, mutes, and light scrapes, or it can
take center stage with high-intensity slaps, strikes, and bassy thumps: with
nearly 40 articulations in total, it’s an incredibly versatile set of
instruments. Plus, everything was recorded from a close distance. Even with
the splashy ambiance of the Forest Drum, there is still a clear, present, and
“upfront” sound that can be tweaked and processed to taste.
What’s Inside?
- Three traditional deep-sampled frame drums
- 2,000+ samples / 6 patches
- Up to 15x RR, 6x dynamics per articulation
- Natural ambiance in Forest Drum
- Intimate sound in Deep & Small Drums
- Combinator patches for tone control + sculpting
- Intuitive mapping, all articulations per drum in one patch
- Finger, thumb, palm, mallet + stick playing
- 20 articulations for Forest Drum
- 17 articulations for Deep Drum
- 2 articulations for Small Drum
