Falcon Singles - Frame Drums & Friends

Frame Drums & Friends is a unique percussion library containing multi-sampled frame-drums, ocean drums and a special gong drum from Pakistan sampled especially for this collection. Besides a broad array of percussive and textural drum sounds with different articulations, this collection also contains bass sounds, soundscapes, tempo-synced loops in various time signatures, experimental noises, drones and synth patches derived from re-synthesized and wave-tabled drum samples. Quite a few patches also layer frame-drum samples or their derivatives with Falcon's internal synth and granular oscillators. Some gong samples and field recordings of ocean waves complete this collection.

Up to 20+ Macros and switches are assigned in each patch, many also use the modulation wheel and sometimes aftertouch, providing detailed control over volume envelopes, filtering, amplitude- and pitch modulations, time-stretching, granular parameters, EQ-ing, dynamics, stereo animation and more. All patches use some sort of background image in the UI, split patches have colored key-zones in the Falcon keyboard for easier navigation.

About 50% of the samples were produced for this library, the other half was borrowed from my sound library
Colliding Worlds for Groove Agent - distributed exclusively by Steinberg - and other patchpool libraries.

You can view/download the PDF for this library with more details, the licence agreemen and the patchlist including descriptions and playing tips here.

Specs::

• Samples from 5 different frame-drums and 2 ocean drums, electronic soundscapes derived thereof, field recordings and gong samples.
• Up to 7 velocity layers and 10x round robin.
• 68 patches.
• 1.29 GB of samples (363 wavs/stereo/48 kHz, 24-bit).
• 6 wave-tables and 5 background images.
• Library size in total: 1.31 GB unzipped.
• Content is not encrypted, samples and wavetables can be used in other samplers and synths.
• Delivery: download (zip 1.18 GB).
• Price: € 35 EUR.
• Requires the full version of Falcon, does not work with the UVI player.

The demos below were produced using only patches from Frame Drums & Friends, no post-processing was applied apart from a limiter on the master output.

Audio demos

{See video at top of page}