AudioThing has released Tank Drum for Native Instruments Kontakt 5.
Tank Drum features samples from a famous steel tongue drum. Also called hank drums, these instruments are usually made out of propane tanks with tongues of different sizes and tuned in different scales. The instrument AudioThing sampled features 8 tongues and it's tuned in E minor pentatonic. It was played both with hands and rubber mallets along with some sound effects with hands and brushes. The sound has a long release and is rich in harmonics.
Details:
- 7 Kontakt Instruments (.nki).
- 5 Round Robin samples.
- 3 Velocity Layers.
- 7 Custom Impulse Responses.
- Size: 790 MB.
- 274 Samples (44.1kHz / 24-bit).
- Formats: Kontakt and WAV.
Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1+ full version required.
Price: €30. Tank Drum is available for the introductory price of €24.90 until June 23rd, 2014.
SoundCloud Demo: https://soundcloud.com/audiothing/sets/tank-drum
Walkthrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0gGrWSNI0