Now shipping Culture 1.5! Including all interfaces for Mac and PC, new copy protection with the Yellow Tools authorization key and 290 MB additional instruments (tablas and taiko drums). Culture Groove Pack- a vast, Culture customized MIDI file library, more than 700 files of African, Brazillian, Flamenco & Latin grooves!

Culture - a yellow tools Modular Virtual Instrument - containing nearly 9GB (2 DVDs) authentic and highly otimized sounds of world, ethno, industrial and orchestral percussion instruments, combined with a highest-end audio engine which includes amazing features. Purest authenticity and an absolute pleasure to work with...

Culture includes a full range of percussion instruments such as: djembes, tamdrums, udus, darabukas, shakers, barrels and cans, framedrums, orchestral timpani, orchestral snares, cymbals, tonal gongs, chimes, bongos, congas, claps, tambourines, dunun, sangban, kenkeni, and many more standard and exotic percussion instruments.

With over 9GB of finest sound samples Culture is the world's largest collection of percussion instruments. You will find instruments from all over the world, with every detail, making Culture sound incredibly real. For example, a single djembe contains the playing techniques: bass tones, closed, half closed, open, damped and fingered... everything with 16 velocity splits per note for left AND right hand. All these techniques are available for the different playing styles like hits, flams, rolls, ghosts and drags. With… read more the recording of all these playing styles and playing techniques Culture achieves a so far unrealized and stunning authenticity of the instruments.

One single conga set, for example, consists of more than 1,000 different sound samples, which can be played easily and intuitively - based on the powerful MVI engine and its clear user interface. All sounds exist as single files on the DVDs, so you don't have to copy the whole nearly 9GB to your hard disc but just the samples you want to use.
About the engine behind Culture...

Culture's audio engine is a completely independent development of yellow tools and offers powerful features, an intelligent user interface and is optimized for the simultaneous use of several-thousand sound samples. The amazing results are possible by the fact that the engine was developed for the sounds AND the sounds for the engine. Because Culture includes acoustic percussion instruments, which characters has to be conveyed to the MVI as realistic as possible, we consciously dispensed with any filters. read less