Sound Dust has announced the mk2 version of Steel Drum Percussion Room, a percussion based sample library.
A kit of lovely dusty binaural acoustic drum samples and slightly prepared steel drums….a kind of Tom Waits percussion machine featuring drums in all shapes and sizes.
Theres 4 octaves of huge flappy marching band bass drums, ripped and rattly snares and kicks, frame drums, congas, bongos, toms, hi-hats, cymbals, boxes, metal shelving…you name it.
Plus the “prepared” steel drums. These are a neglected set of bass and cello steel pans played with fingers and soft mallets to avoid sounding like proper steel drums ( more apocalypse than calypso ), the tunings are a bit iffy, but theres plenty of velocity layers per hit for a rusty hang drum like effect.
Great for film scoring. Both kits were recorded binaurally in a great sounding room with long decays with a total of 168mb of samples.
Steel Drum Percussion Room mk2 is available to purchase for £15 GBP.
Sound Dust has announced the release of Rubber Bass, a bass sample library for Native Instruments Kontakt.
Rubber Bass is sampled from a funny little Kala ukulele bass. It’s about the size of a kid’s guitar and has big fat rubber strings which are a nightmare to tune.
It’s not very loud acoustically but when DI’d, it has a wonderful round, rubbery bottom end with a lovely hint of twang which belies its tiny stature.
Its a little bit double bassy, but essentially has a character all of its own. It’s not likely to be your go-to-bass sound , but for certain things it is bloody marvelous!
The sample library is available to purchase for £15 GBP. A simple 9-velocity layer SFZ version is also available.
Pendle Poucher of Sound Dust has released the dULCITONE1900 sample library.
It’s taken an age, but I’ve finally managed to birth a lovely sister to Dulcitone1884. This one is a 16-year younger beauty with a slightly jinglier and more even tone which really compliments the butch woody clunk of the 1884 version.
Think of dULCITONE1900 as Keira Knightly and Dulcitone1884 as Kristin Scott Thomas…..or maybe whatshisface in Twilight to George Clooney.
I’ve gone to town with the sampling, seven velocity layers of binaural recording add up to around 500mb of samples. There’s a wee video of her in action which tells you more about her than I can put into words.
dULCITONE1900 is available for Kontakt 3 and above (full version required), EXS, Ableton Sampler, Alchemy (full version required), SFZ (imports into Alchemy player) and SoundFont, priced at £15 GBP. Purchase includes all formats.
Pendle Poucher has announced the release of Mouse/Mice Organ, a free sound library.
Mouse or Mice Organ?
A very simple but cool sounding pair of instruments made using only the power of pure electromagnetical trickery.
No rodents were injured during the making of this instrument.
Mouse/Mice Organ is available as a free download from Pendle’s new Sound Dust wesbite in sfz, SoundFont, and Kontakt formats (works best in Kontakt 4).
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