Solo Frame Drums

8Dio Solo Frame Drums [Kontakt]

Epic Ensemble Percussion.

Solo Frame Drum Overview

8DIO Solo Frame Drum VST 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 8DIO “Solo Frame Drums” library contains 2 styles of Irish Bodhrán, one African Tar drum and a North American tribal buffalo hide shamanic drum. We captured them in a close dry studio setting, covering both traditional and expanded playing styles and articulations. The first Bodhrán is nearly 3 feet wide, with a massive low end much like a concert bass drum. The second is a deep shelled medium sized drum with powerful, clear tonality. The smallest, a tar drum, has a crisp, sharp ring. Our Buffalo drum has a flat, tight sound with a massive subsonic bass blast.

The library truly covers the traditional sound of resonating frame drums. The library was also designed to be used in conjunction with our “Epic Frame Drums” library, which is focused on capturing big sound ensemble frames and over 1.100 loops. The two libraries makes the perfect couple, since “Solo Frame Drums” covers some of the more intimate and deep sounds – where “Epic Frame Drums” covers more that brutal, big, bad-ass type of sound used in epic scores.

Note: 8DIO Solo Frame Drum was formerly known as Tonehammer Solo Frame Drum

Articulations

• The deepest multi-sampled solo frame drum library ever recorded, with over 3000 samples.
• 4 different frame drums, covering of various sizes and origins
• Recorded naturally dry and wide in a warm, intimate studio environment
• Deep multi-sampling, with 10X Round robin on all notes as many as 16 velocity layers for truly dynamic playability and realism.
• Half-step instant retuning with key-switching, attack, palm-mute/decay shaping and custom convolution reverb controls with unique real-world and sound designed impulse files.
• Master mega-patch, in both full and “lite” version
• Individual preset collections for each drum
• Tuned and un-tuned patches
• Individual articulation patches for each mallet type and hands
• Single articulation patches for maximum control and “tuned percussion” style playing.
• A wide variety of mallet types and hand positions, including soft, hard, wood, brushes and hands.
• 108 instrument patches, 3138 Samples
• 1.9 GB installed, 1.8 GB .rar download
• Sample resolution: 44.1Khz / 24Bit stereo .wav format
• Format(s): Kontakt and .wav