Sansation

The Whale Drum (aka Tongue / Slit drum) is one of the world's oldest known instruments. Tongue drums are found around the globe in various cultures spreading from Africa, Asia to South America. The drums were originally made from holly piece of wood, which were struck to make tones. It is one of the few instruments considered older the the human voice itself. Tonehammer decided to (re)visit this majestic instrument and deep-sample it once and for all. The end-result is a massive sample library containing over 3100 samples, following our standard 10/10 (10 velocity layers / 10 repetition).

We primarily sampled our high-end whale drum in a dry studio environment with mallets and brushes. We sampled its each note, at both center and rim positions. We also captured sticks and brushes on multiple surfaces over the whole drum. We also extensively sampled it naturally "wet" in our classic epic hall and also created a variety of artificially wet patches, b using choice selections from our custom convolution impulse catalog. We did every humane and inhumane thing with this ancient instrument, resulting in the most comprehensive sample set ever done of any tongue based drum.

In addition, we also sampled a smaller (baby) whale drum comprehensively and a small xylophone, which both compliment the larger whale drum in terms of texture and deep sampling. The library also contains an extra bonus section with delicate ambiences sculpted from original source material of the whale drums.

Tonehammer Whale Drum specs:

• $59
  
• Instruments/articulations 
  • Whale Drum (dry & convolution) clacks
  • Whale Drum (dry & convolution) brushes
  • Whale Drum (dry & convolution) center based mallets
  • Whale Drum (dry & convolution) edge based mallets
  • Whale Drum (dry & convolution) crossfade center to edge mallets
  • Whale Drum (natural wet) mallets
  • Whale Drum (natural wet) sticks
  • Baby Whale Drum (dry & convolution) sticks & mallets
  • Small (Toy) Xylophone (dry & convolution) sticks & mallet
  • Bonus section of 8 whale drum based MW-controlled ambiences
• Extensive read me (.pdf) install, patch and hint documentation
  
• Listen to exclusive (.mp3) interview w/ Mike and Troels
• 53 instrument patches, 3158 Samples
• 1.2 GB installed, 431 MB .rar download
• Sample resolution: 44.1Khz / 24Bit stereo .wav format
• Format(s): Kontakt and .wav
• Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 2 / 3 / 4 full retail versions required.
• Note: Free Kontakt Player will only work for 30 minutes with this product. Full version required to remove this restriction.

Whaledrum Demo 1 by T.B. Folmann

Featuring: Tonehammer Whaledrum. Additional samples from upcoming Forgotten Voices: "Terrie", Tonehammer Tabla, Anti-Drum 2, Zitherette
Note: Integrated convolution reverb (comes with library) added.
Download "Whaledrum Demo 1" mp3 demo
Download "Whaledrum Demo 1" (Whaledrum only)  mp3 demo

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Whaledrum Demo 2 by T.B. Folmann

Featuring: Tonehammer Whaledrum (wet), Tonehammer Hang Drum, Finger Cymbals and custom vocals.
Note: Integrated convolution reverb (comes with library) added.
Download "Whaledrum Demo 2" mp3 demo
Download "Whaledrum Demo 2" (Whaledrum only)  mp3 demo

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