Noisefirm has announced the release of Complete Shaker & Tambourine, which is an unabridged collection of shakers, maracas, tambourines, and other ethnic and unique groove-building instruments.
CS&T features a vast array of different percussive textures. Every instrument is featured in several intensively sampled Kontakt and EXS instruments as well as a multitude of usable and organized REX and Apple/Audio loops.
Specifications
Full Uncompressed Size is 6.9 GB.
33 different percussive textures:
- 3 Egg Shakers - wood, plastic, and rawhide.
- 5 Studio Shakers - various materials and sizes.
- 3 Maracas - wood, plastic, and rawhide.
- 5 Tambourines - various materials and sizes.
- 2 Tamshakers - High and Low.
- 4 Caxixis - various sizes and articulations.
- 4 Ethnic Shakers - Gourd, Tsink-Tsink, Seed Rattle, Cabasa.
- 3 Household Shakers - Nuts, Vitamins, Pillbox.
- 4 Miscellaneous - Spark Shaker Hi/Lo, Orange, Plum.
Sample Content
Kontakt:
- 95 total velocity layers per articulation.
- 5 round robin groups * 19 v. layers each.
- 33 instruments/articulations.
- 3135 Samples.
- Custom scripting for enhanced performance and flexibility.
EXS:
- 95 velocity layers.
- 33 instruments/articulations.
- 3135 samples.
- Each format includes 8 sampler instrument files:
- ALL, Shakers, Tambourines, Exotic, ALL lite**, Shakers lite, Tambourines lite, Exotic lite.
**lite version consume roughly 10% the memory of the full versions
Three "One shot" samples per instrument/articulation are also included for quick and easy use in your DAW/Sampler.
Loop Content:
- 1518 loops in AppleLoop/Audio and Rex/Stylus Formats.
- 33 instruments/articulations.
- 46 unique rhythms per instrument.
- Rhythms for both 4/4 and 6/8 (3/4) time signatures.
- Loops available in both "Left Hand" and "Right Hand" patterns for a nearly infinite number of natural loop combinations.
- Created using OmniGrüv technology for use at a massive range of tempos with no artificial time-stretching or audio degradation.
Availability & Pricing
Complete Shaker & Tambourine costs $59 and is available as a download-only product from the Noisefirm website.