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The Crow Hill Company has recently introduced a new Vaults series instrument library featuring the sounds of one of the world’s most ancient drum designs.
Bringing the heartbeat of traditional Irish music to the line of free and accessible instruments, Solo Bodhrán turns to the artistry of Callum Convoy, one of the most sought-after bodhrán players in Scotland, to bring about the authentic sound and expressive spirit of the long-lived frame drum.
Instantly Irish-sounding by virtue of its musical roots, the bodhrán is most commonly played in solo contexts. It is shaped like a big tambourine and played on its side with a tipper or beater, while the left hand is placed on the inside of the drum to control pitch and timbre. The bodhrán propels tunes with a vibrant energy and the potential to shine in almost any genre, regardless of the instrument in question’s historically rich roots. And, as The Crow Hill Company’s accompanying artwork for VAULTS – SOLO BODHRÁN helpfully states, YOU PRONOUNCE IT BOR-RAN.
As an inspirational addition to its lengthening line of free and accessible instruments, The Crow Hill Company’s latest library lets anyone experiment with both simple and complex grooves of varying time signatures while also making use of its wild distortion and beautiful multi-band compression controls to twist and shape its authentic sound into something else entirely.
Split into two parts, the white keys play varying accented grooves, while the black keys are multi-samples. Both parts are velocity based, and the loops are time-synch’d to your DAW.
Vaults Solo Bodhrán is free to download from the Vaults page.
