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This deep sampled collection is dedicated to shakers, rattles and bell tree percussion. The fuzzy, buzzy, sandy -sounding "chuff", "shuck" and "jingle" of hand-held shakers and bells is an essential part of orchestral, latin, electronic, hip hop and even rock music.
We found, collected and even hand-made 14 different instruments for this library, covering the whole spectrum of shaker instruments. We included deep sampled strikes and shakes for custom rhythm creation. We also captured sustaining rolls, grooves and gliss effects, in both natural and host-tempo synching arrangements. We also included a bonus collection of ambient drones and percussive elements created by heavily manipulating the shake source material.
Shake is meant to deeply explore an under-represented niche of percussion and �nally allow composers and electronic musicians instant access to truly life-like sound and playability. It's the perfect addition to any serious composer's core instrument arsenal. We also made sure to include a variety of metal percussion, which is the perfect high-pitch compliment to epic percussion scoring.
Tonehammer Shake Vol. 1:

• Studio (dry) recorded recorded shakers, rattlers and bell tree percussion.
• All single shakes and strikes feature multiple velocities, 10X round-robin variations and precision attack and release control.
• All sustaining rolls and grooves feature long loops for greater realism, individual release-trigger samples and custom dynamic crescendo control.
• All single-shot effects and glisses feature start position and attack / release control
• Also Includes Kontakt 3 groove instruments with time stretch
• Core articulations:
  • Large concert sleigh bell tree (1 shake / strike combo. 13 sustaining rolls and grooves)
  • Small concert sleigh bell tree (3 types of single shakes and strikes. 16 sustaining rolls and grooves)
  • Small_Hand_Sleigh_Bells (3 types of single shakes and strikes. 13 sustaining rolls and grooves)
  • Wicker basket bell shaker (5 types of single shakes and strikes. 13 sustaining rolls and grooves)
  • Wrist sleigh bells (2 types of single shakes and strikes. 5 sustaining rolls and grooves. 19 single-shot strike and spin effects)
  • Long bell garland (3 types of single shakes and strikes. 13 sustaining rolls and grooves)
  • Dual egg shaker (4 types of single shakes and strikes. 26 sustaining roll loops and grooves)
  • Gourd (3 types of single shakes and strikes. 12 sustaining rolls and grooves)
  • Goat hoof rattle (2 types of single shakes and strikes. 33 sustaining rolls and grooves. 32 single-shot glisses / effects)
  • Paddle tamborines (2 sets, 5 types of single shakes and strikes. 26 sustaining rolls and grooves)
  • Pumpkin bell shaker (3 types of single shakes and strikes. 2 sustaining rolls)
  • Large cholla rainstick (3 types of single shakes and strikes. 11 sustaining rolls and grooves. 45 single-shot glisses / effects)
  • Small capado rainstick (2 types of single shakes and strikes. 12 sustaining rolls and grooves. 20 single-shot glisses / effects)
  • Shaken Ambi-drums (custom designed like acoustic sounding 808)
  • Shaken ambiences (custom sound-designed ambient droning instruments, with modwheel-based filter expression control)
  • Bonus ambient droning instruments
  • Bonus custom sound-designed / "synthetic" percussion
  • Custom articulation and performance controls
  • Also includes: Tempo-synching, Tuned and Lite instrument programs
• Extensive read me (.pdf) install, patch and hint documentation
• 46 Kontakt patches, including one patch with everything / 2.321 samples
• 1.24 GB installed, 942 MB .rar download
• Sample resolution: 44.1Khz / 24Bit stereo .wav format
• Format(s): Kontakt 2, EXS24 and .wav
• Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 3 / 4 full retail versions required for all Kontakt instruments.
• Note: Free Kontakt Player will only work for 30 minutes with this product. Full version required to remove this restriction.

Pricing and Availability:
$39 (Introduction offer ends 1/31/2010 – product goes full price $49) More information:

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