Big Fish Audio announces SMACK: Claps, Snaps & Stomps for Kontakt and Kontakt Player

Big Fish Audio has announced SMACK: Claps, Snaps & Stomps, a comprehensive claps, snaps, stomps, and percussion virtual instrument for Kontakt and Kontakt Player.

Its normal price will be $99.95 but you can pre-order SMACK now and get it for $89.95. The instrument will be officially released September 30, 2014.

A time-saving resource for the modern composer, this collection of various claps, snaps, stomps, bass drums, shakers, tambourines, and found percussion is the perfect tool to add color to music of any genre, or provide the foundation for your next composition.

SMACK was created to save you time and enhance the creative process by deeply sampling various groups of percussion, claps, snaps, and stomps. With single, small group, and large group options, there are limitless song-writing applications. Use the intuitive user interface to easily navigate between up to 10 groups per patch, and strengthen each sample by adding any of the 8 FX included.

SMACK includes 7 Patches with individual groups:

• SMACK - Bass Drums, Toms, Stomps Small, Stomps Large, Claps Single, Claps Small Group, Claps Large group, Snaps Single, Snaps Small Group, and Snaps Large Group.
• Claps & Snaps Natural - Claps Natural Single, Claps Natural Group, Snaps Natural Single, and Snaps Natural Group.
• Claps & Snaps Electronic - Claps Electronic and Snaps Electronic.
• Stomps - Kick, Kick Combos, Stomps, Toms, Wood, Plastic, and Metal.
• Combos - Combo 1, Combo 2, Combo 3, Combo 4, Combo 5, Combo 6, and Combo 7.
• Shakers & Tambourines - Shaker Collection, Glass Metal Gravel, Tambourine RR, Shaker RR, and Tambourine Collection.
• Found Percussion - Low Percussion, Industrial Percussion, Household Percussion, Kitchen Percussion, Loose Percussion, and Ticks.

SMACK is powered by the Kontakt engine (Kontakt Player 5 included). It is compatible with VST, AU, RTAS (Pro Tools 9 & 10), and AAX (Pro Tools 10 & 11) plug-in formats allowing it to work seamlessly within any major sequencer, in addition to standalone use.

Patch List:

• SMACK.
• Claps & Snaps Natural.
• Claps & Snaps Electronic.
• Stomps.
• Combos.
• Shakers & Tambourines.
• Found Percussion.

Included FX:

• Stereo Width.
• Equalizer.
• Transient Master.
• Distortion.
• Compression.
• Reverb.
• Delay.
• Tune.

Features:

• Up to 10 velocity layers and 3 round robins.
• MIDI Select for easy group selection.
• Global control and FX option.
• Individual group control and FX option.
• Hand selected IR options available for the convolution reverb.
• 742MB (uncompressed).
• Kontakt Player 5 included.

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