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Complete Shaker & Tambourine

CS&T Kontakt Interface
Complete Shaker & Tambourine by Noisefirm is Soundware (samples or presets that load into other products) for macOS and Windows.
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AIFF Apple Loops EXS24 Kontakt 4 REX2
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Noisefirm Complete Shaker & Tambourine is an unabridged collection of shakers, maracas, tambourines, and other ethnic and unique groove-building instruments. Noisefirm CS&T features a vast array of different percussive textures in uncompromising sonic quality. Every instrument is featured in several intensively sampled Kontakt and EXS instruments as well as a multitude of über-usable and meticulously organized loops.

Specifications

Full Uncompressed Size - 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

3 "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.

There is nothing quite as ubiquitous in popular music as the shaker and the tambourine. From the Beatles to Britney Spears, multitudes of artists across generations have utilized these instruments for their ability to establish a groove, lift a chorus, or provide a needed rhythmic element to a song. Despite the apparent necessity of these musical building blocks, many music creators have a difficult time finding consistent, high-quality, and usable shaker and tambourine material for use in their work. Noisefirm Complete Shaker & Tambourine is an unabridged collection of shakers, maracas, tambourines, and other ethnic and unique groove-building instruments. Recorded using the highest quality microphones, preamps, and converters, Noisefirm CS&T features a vast array of different percussive textures in uncompromising sonic quality. Every instrument is featured in several intensively sampled Kontakt and EXS instruments as well as a multitude of über-usable and meticulously organized loop-suites.

In researching Complete Shaker & Tambourine, we surveyed many of today's most successful producers, composers, and artists to ask them about how they currently used shakers and tambourines in their creative process. What we discovered was startling. Although most of the music professionals we interviewed possessed multiple hard drives with gigabytes upon gigabytes of samples, nearly all of them used only one or two shaker or tambourine loops for all of their songs. When we asked them why they would resort to using the same rhythm again and again, they simply replied that their other shaker and tambourine sounds were either stylistically unusable, poorly recorded, or just not well-organized. With NoiseFirm Complete Shaker & Tambourine, music creators will have access to an abundance of pristinely recorded and thoroughly organized shaker and tambourine material, and will never have to settle for those same old loops again.

Left and Right Hand Patterns

One of the other problems with many shaker and tambourine loops currently available is their use of completely unnatural rhythms. Physically impossible-to-play rhythms nearly always have the effect of distracting the listener, while making the synthetic nature of the shaker instrument plainly obvious. In researching CS&T, we interviewed many professional percussionists, and asked them how they would achieve these syncopated rhythms organically in a live performance. Through the use of "right hand" and "left hand" patterns, percussionists are able to create rhythms too complex to perform with one hand. The right hand will generally pulse a steady subdivision while the left hand plays complimentary accents. These two rhythms combine to create a cohesive syncopated rhythm that adds interest and dynamics to any groove. With this in mind, all NoiseFirm Complete Shaker & Tambourine loops are designated as either "right hand" or "left hand" loops. Not only does this mean that all of the loop material sounds completely natural on its own, but more importantly, all of the "left hand" and "right hand" patterns can be mixed and matched for a nearly infinite variety of groove-enhancing rhythms.

OmniGrüv

NoiseFirm Complete Shaker & Tambourine was created using OmniGrüv technology. Through an intensive editing process, we insure that all of the loops in this library can be used at a nearly limitless range of tempos without any artificial time-stretching or audio degradation.

Latest User Reviews

Average user rating of 4.00 from 1 review
Complete Shaker & Tambourine

Reviewed By Rah [all]
October 18th, 2013
Version reviewed: 1.1 on Windows

A large and diverse selection of excellent shaker (and tambourine) material

It is an incredibly comprehensive set, and I'm not sure why I'd need any other shaker products after purchasing this one. You get more shakers than you can shake (ahem) a stick at.

You get two parts in the package; loops and samples. You can buy them as two individual products if you wish, but you save if you purchase the complete caboodle.

The loops are very nice, I can simply drop one into Reaper and it's there and shaking in time to my track, whatever the tempo.

The samples come in Kontakt and other popular sampler format instruments, so you can build patterns from individual hits mapped to keys. Multiple velocity layers and round robin samples really bring these instruments to life. I am well satisfied with how 'deeply' sampled they are.

The sound is top notch quality through and through, and the price is very reasonable for what you get (33 shaker and tambourine types, thousands of loops, well over 3 gigabytes of content)

Excellent stuff.

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