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.