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The Frame Drum represents one of the most widespread and versatile families of drums – with a history crossing through ancient Middle East, India, Rome and through a variety of Islamic cultures. The Frame Drum defined by the simple characteristic that the width of the drumhead is greater then its depth, but besides from that the Frame Drum comes in thousands of variations. It is known for its distinct sustained sound and its multi-resonant qualities.
The Frame Drum is traditionally tuned with straps or lugs, while others are permanently set at a fixed pitch. Many also incorporate beads, rattles, cymbals, jingles, rings, bells, snares or other accessories, to augment the primary sound and add specialized auxiliary articulations. Some are played with hands, while others use thin sticks, thick bones, soft mallets, combs, brushes and other specialized tools to produce a huge range of unique musical tones and effects. Some members of the Frame Drum family may even lack a striking head and rely entirely on rattles or other elements to produce their sound.
The Tonehammer Epic Frame Drum Ensemble library contains deep sampled Irish Bodhrán drums, North African Tar drums, Egyptian Riqs, Persian Dafs and North American tribal drums. We captured them in a large A-frame chapel for an authentic, naturally massive sound that no artificial algorithmic or convolution reverb can truly simulate. We recorded in divisi and full ensemble groupings and covering both traditional and expanded playing styles and articulations. This library is ideal for powerful epic scoring and any composition that calls for massive sounding percussion.
We also captured a huge bonus collection of +1.100 BPM-based performance loops (80-140 BPM). The loops include automatic tempo-syncing functionality that allows them to be matched to a fairly wide range of custom project tempos. This library is designed to work with other of our libraries: Solo Frame Drums and Riq Drum, which are a deep-sampled assortments of solo frame drums.
Features

• 10 different frame drums, covering of all sizes and origins
• Recorded naturally wet in a rich, lush, large epic church
• Deep multi-sampling, with 10X Round robin on all notes and plenty of velocity layers for truly dynamic playability and realism
• Half-step instant retuning with key-switching, attack, room decay shaping and custom convolution reverb controls with unique real-world and sound designed impulse files
• Full Kontakt 4 and Kontakt 4 Player compatibility
• Custom Presets: Master tuned and un-tuned mega-patch
• Divisi patches for each group and subgroup Divisi patches for solo drums
• A wide variety of mallet types and hand positions Exotic percussion effects, rolls, swells and skin drones Body stomp, clap and bible thumping percussion
• A bonus collection of 1157 live-recorded ensemble and solo frame tempo-synching drum grooves recorded at 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130 and 140 BPM
• Automatic host-tempo syncing solutions for all loops also included
• Extensive read me (.pdf) install, patch and hint documentation
• 75 instrument patches, 2509 Samples
• 2.3 GB installed, 1.6 GB .rar download
• Sample resolution: 44.1Khz / 24Bit stereo .wav format
• Format(s): Kontakt and .wav
• Note: Native Instruments Full Kontakt 4 and Kontakt 4 Player compatibility

Pricing and Availability:
$99 (Note: Price goes to $109 on May 10th 2010) More information:

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