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

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