Quantum Leap Stormdrum Percussion VSTi Mac/PC

What would happen if you gave Godzilla drumsticks?

StormDrum all started when producer Nick Phoenix decided to go down to the Record Plant in Los Angeles to record some big film grooves for movie trailers he was working on. He hired some the best percussionists in the world (Tal Bergman, Richie Garcia, Michito Sanchez), and filled up Studio A with hundreds of drums. The Record Plant said they had never seen anything like it. After a complex setup, they were ready to roll. Everything was recorded through Neuman mics into an SSL Console to 2 inch analog tape and later transfered to 24 bit, 88.2 digital. Now, after years of recording, editing, and programming, StormDrum has arrived!

Actually you get 2 libraries when you purchase StormDrum. The Intakt loops and the Kompakt multi-samples. There are 2 separate interfaces, so that each category includes all of the features needed -

Kompakt has disk streaming and multi-timbral capability, as well as a host of other multi-sample parameters like auto sample alternation. This is the perfect interface for the multi-sampled kits and percussion.

Intakt is the ultimate loop manipulation tool, and syncs the loops to the tempo of your sequencer. It has real-time time compression, cool lo-fi effects, and lots of other amazing features like legato looping.

Features
Produced by award-winning Quantum Leap producer Nick Phoenix.

6 Gigabytes of Loops and Multi-Samples from 3 world-class percussionists and 1 lunatic producer with enough taiko… read more drums to fill an 18 wheeler!

1000's of completely original, evolving drum beds, featuring some of the largest and most impressive drums on the planet.

Multi-sampled drum kits and percussion with up to 20-way velocity-switching, organic tech percussion, metal shop, big hits.

Recorded at the Record Plant, Studio A.

Includes special versions of Kompakt (with Direct-from-Disk* streaming) and Intakt Samplers from Native Instruments (plug-in or standalone) for MAC and PC.

The beats in StormDrum are the result of a desire to get a big film score sound, but not be derivative. There are many different kinds of grooves with many variations. It would be a mistake to judge the sound of the library without listening to the many different loops. All of the more break-like grooves are based on live grooves and manipulated to sound more electronic. You will find many uses for these beats, but the intention was for them to be useful in film scoring.

The drum-kits and percussion multi-samples in StormDrum are really amazing! Everything has 10-24 way velocity switching with left and right hand samples. The sound is big and sometimes ambient when necessary. There are 32 GM drum kits with automatic alternation of left and right hand samples built into each kit (snare, hats and toms). To access the full drum library, users can load up all the individual elements and make up their own 88 key kits. No combination of kicks, snares, hats, toms and cymbals ever overlaps. Load one of each, using 5 of the 8 multi-timbral parts and set the 5 programs to the same midi channel. Instant custom 88 key drum kit! The 88 Key drum setups don't utilize automatic alternation of samples, but rather give users direct control. The electronic samples are all derived from the acoustic samples in the library. As a result, they are very original sounding, but also quite familiar. There is even an organic velocity switching tech kit and other goodies like metal shop and prepared piano.

The percussion is really nice and extensively multi-sampled. There are some really useful and unusual gems in there. There is a big emphasis on big sounding drums. The 7 man Thunder Ensemble is a first in commercial sample libraries.

Quantum Leap StormDrum was produced by Nick Phoenix .

Instruments: African Bata, Ambient Egyptian Bass Drum, Ambient Taikos, Belly Drum, Chilean Bass Drum, Chun-Mo, Cuban Bongos, Darubuka With Rattle, Egyptian Riq, Frog, Huge Ambient Rain Drum From Thailand, Island Bongos, Japanese Lion Drum, Large African Djembe, Large Bodhran, Large Sioux Drum, Maracas, North Indian Taval Drum, Nigerian Udu, North African Toms, Pharoah's Dumbek, South Indian Kohl Drum,
Shakers, Talking Coconut, Turkish Bass Drums, Wood and Metal Talking Drums,
Thunder Ensemble (hundreds of huge and dynamic, multi-sampled hits played by a 7 man ensemble in a warehouse)

No Sampler Required!
The library includes a stunning new state-of-the-art plug-in audio engine/interface from Native Instruments which is specifically designed for rhythmic loop playback, manipulation, and mayhem.

The convenient one-screen interface is based on (and provides all the sound manipulation tools of) NI's new Intakt sampler, and features tremendous sound shaping abilities without disrupting the creative flow, including a first-class multimode filter, an envelope follower, two LFOs, effects, and more. The loops have been set up so that they can be automatically synced to tempo, either via the Beat Machine or the Time Machine. The Beat Machine has loops divided into their individual hits (slices) which means they can be played at a wide range of tempos without any change in pitch. It also allows the user to give each hit individual settings for pitch, playback direction, pitch envelope, amp envelope, distortion, delay, and more; a MIDI file of each loop can be easily exported so that groove, accent, and feel can be manipulated in any host sequencer. The Time Machine time-stretches or compresses loops in real time.

Not only can you sync, stretch, and pitch the loops, but also filter, effect and modulate them as well! A powerful sound-shaping filter, flexible envelopes, syncable LFOs, and distortion, syncable delay, and lo-fi effects can inject even more energy and individuality into the loops. Since the software interface is based on the Kontakt engine, working with it is fast, easy, and it sounds great!

StormDrum Loops
As an example, Centrifuse contains 15 different 4 bar loops, including an intro, ending and remix:

Action Beds
Centrifuse, Chain Reaction, Daredevils, Grand Theft, Kingpin, Manhunt, Prowler, Speed Freak, The Getaway, Violence and more.

Big Beats
Basilica, Big Trouble, Bigshot, Conquest, Coot in the Shoot, Martyred Revolutionary, Red Leppelin, Righteous Hombre, Skywalker, Slippery Sam, Sloppy Jose, Spin It, Thrillsport, Up River and more.

Ethnic Chase
Bazzar Chase, Camel Racing, Caravan, Carnival, Dark Towers, Horses, Imperial Alajah, Kvrumpaniil, Meca, Ongo Bongo, Opium Market, Panaang, Turbo Turban and more.

Fastbreaks
Blackjack, Diamond Dog, Digital Bandito, Dingo, Dr. Schwarzbaum, Fasttrack, Gauntlet, Gravy Train, H763, Harry Nipfuls, Hornet, Knobby, Marge Da Barge, Momentum, Thorazine, Through the Ringer and more.

Film Tech
Aang Djun, Admiral Synapse, Avalanche, Breeders, Countdown, Dark Ringer, Footsteps, Gobstopper, Graveyard Saviour, Green Goblin, Leppelin Island, Machine Chant, Magic Descent, Mean Machine, Mogaete, Petraglyph, Smack, Wall People and more.

Thunderous
12 Shooter, Ape City, Around the Island, Assasins, Black Horse, Chariots, Clone Army, Deep Space, Dragon Beat, Min City, No Way Out, Pharoah, Pit of Fire, Re-entry, Sandstorm, Scottish War Drums, Seismic Cannon, Stormfront, Warhammer, Witness and more. read less