Publisher: Strezov Sampling
Website: strezov-sampling
Format: KONTAKT
Quality: 24bit 48kHz stereo
Description: Fresh percussion wave straight from Africa! Huge collection of djembe recorded in various sections and ensembles suitable for all kinds of dynamic music and especially for movies/video games.
For many years, the African djembe has always been a staple of soundtracks and music around the world. Applying our sampling philosophy to the various instruments in the Djembe branch has resulted in very organic and fresh sounding results that, when combined with our X3M percussion engine, are a joy to play.
One of our main goals was to provide consistent looping for as many playing techniques as possible, so that we could write fast, yet fluid and realistic percussion sound arrangements. To do this, we carefully edited each sample of our 9 looping algorithms by hand and performed as many iterations as necessary after carefully testing the articulation in a real composition environment.
Recording took place in Sofia Session Studio, where we also recorded previous X3M libraries to ensure smooth and easy layering.
The concept of this engine is quite simple – the keyboard range is divided into 12 zones to which you can assign different sounds. After creating the template of your choice, just plug and play – nothing else is needed!
addition to this, the engine also allows you to customize individual zones as well as the entire mapped ensemble patch with different effects and mic positions. By combining them with natural and organic recordings, you get the maximum flexibility when it comes to sound.
After downloading the X3M Ensemble Builder, you will automatically upload all samples to the “Samples” directory. However, the tool is designed in such a way that it actually keeps all samples unloaded unless you load them into the zone. This means that not only do you have one patch with all the types of percussion you might need, but it is also optimized and won’t harm your RAM resources in any way!
The newly updated X3M engine also features Round Robin Selection as well as Stereo Spread control for each microphone position.
