Human Touch Technology has released Darbukator Dance, a powerful and easy tool for creating ethnic percussion tracks.
Darbukator Dance is a real-time arranger for popular dance styles from the Middle East and North Africa. There are 4 instruments per style with separate controllers for each instrument.
There are 12 Popular Arabian dance styles. Free style, Maksoom (2 Styles), Sombaty, Adan, Rai (2 Styles), Libi, Fazani, Wahrani, Waltz, Zaffa.
Human Touch Technology has released version 1.6.1 of Sika Oriental Scale, a free SoundFont player for Windows and Mac.
Sika is a free sound font player dedicated to oriental and Arabic scales with 9 popular oriental instruments and the ability to play Arabic traditional scales accompanied with beat track (Maksoom style)
Changes in Sika Oriental Scale v1.6.1
User banks can now be saved with the song.
New panic button (fixes sound problem with some hosts).
Fixed AU Validation issues in “Logic pro 8.x”.
Works properly with “FL Studio 8″.
General improvements.
Sika Oriental Scale is available as a freeware VST instrument for Windows and Mac (requires Pluggo runtime).
Human Touch Technology has released HTP4 Darbukator Desert Drums, a live real time arranger instrument plug-in for Windows PC.
Desert Drums offers the most popular rhythm in the Arabian region called “Khebety” commonly used in Saudi Arabia Khebety is very rich of variations and instruments, we used up to 16 bounced tracks to record some of the styles and it take some times more than 30 players to perform a single Khebety live track. We also offer what we believe is the most detailed Arabian kit with all the percussions and drums needed for the Khebety style.
HTP4 Darbukator Desert Drums features
Darbukator optimized original drums and percussion styles.
4 main groups to control complexity.
Multi and single instrument styles.
New rare sounds like Mergaf Tar Sagale and Zeer.
Up to 16 players per instrument.
35 arranger styles with limitless combinations.
24BIT multi layer kit.
Drum Kit includes single and grouped instruments.
5 stereo outputs (4 routable for arranger + 1 for kit).
HTP4 Darbukator Desert Drums is available as a VST instrument plug-in for Windows for $89 USD.
Human Touch Technology has also released Desert Drum Loops, a 24bit collection of loops and single shots in WAV, EXS24, REX and SF2 formats for $39 USD.
Human Touch Technology has released the Darbukator Series, a collection of VST instruments for ethnic sounds.
Darbukator Series features
HTP1 DARBUKATOR Maksoom, the most popular rhythm in the Middle East. It has wide variety of styles and HTP1 covers them all, plus other styles like Baladi and Sonbati. Sagat, hand claps and Riq included.
HTP2 DARBUKATOR Oriental Beats, free style playing with Darbukator engine. Features 11 popular north African styles. Mix and match styles gives endless possibilities.
HTP DARBUKATOR Lite (free), all the features of HTP series with 4 single instruments from 4 styles: Doholla – Jerk, Doff – Rumba, Darbuka – Nubian, Riq (Tambourine) – wedding.
HTT-SIKA Oriental Scale (free), 8 sampled instruments, easy and fast way to change scales with the ability to record scale changes and a simple effect processor included.
HTP1 DARBUKATOR Maksoom and HTP2 DARBUKATOR Oriental Beats are available as VST instruments for Windows PC for $150 USD each. The HTP DARBUKATOR Lite and HTT-SIKA Oriental Scale can be downloaded for free.
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