The Vienna Symphonic Library has announced the release of a collection of ethnic drums and percussion instruments, recorded in the large hall of Synchron Stage Vienna. The all-new Synchron World Percussion library not only offers percussion instruments from West Africa, the Middle East, and Brazil, but also invites music creators to delve deeper into each region’s traditional rhythms with its comprehensive selection of over 500 MIDI loops.
All drums and percussion instruments were recorded in the large hall of Synchron Stage Vienna and therefore blend seamlessly with all the other sampled instruments captured in this scoring stage. Users may choose between mixer presets “Close”, “Classic”, and “Ambience”. What’s more, the “Ensemble” mixer presets give the listener the feeling of standing in the middle of the percussion ensemble.
The musicians who played on Synchron World Percussion are themselves world-class, being highly sought both regionally and globally: Ibou Ba from Senegal, Hamidreza Ojaghi from the Kurdish region of Iran, and Luis Ribeiro from Brazil.
The Vienna team not only recorded a wide variety of single hit samples for this Collection, but also invited each musician to perform a variety of typical rhythms from their part of the world. The loops can be played and pre-auditioned in the Synchron Player’s MIDI Loop Player, and from there dragged into the user’s DAW, thus affording a measure of freedom regarding tempo, dynamics, length, and arrangement. Of course, the loops can be edited to taste and for the project at hand.
Synchron World Percussion is currently available at an introductory price of $194 USD for the Standard Library (regular $257 USD), and $294 USD for the Full Library (regular $399 USD). The difference between the Standard Library and the Full Library is the number of available microphone positions.
The offer is available at the VSL store and at distributors Best Service and PluginFox.
