Frankensnare

Frankensnare is a free snare-layering bank for the Plogue Sforzando sampler, designed to make layering acoustic snares easy. It keeps the organic responsiveness of a well-sampled acoustic snare while allowing sounds as huge as a layered electronic snare to be created.

Key features:

• Allows layering of up to three snares at once.
• All snares sampled with four round robins and up to 11 velocity layers.
• All snares sampled with four or more microphones.
• Extras layer: four types of claps, guitar chiks, tambourine.
• Over 3500 samples total.
• Samples also included as unlocked FLAC or WAV files.

Snares sampled:

• 10"x6" ash snare: brushes and sticks.
• 12"x5" steel snare.
• 14"x5" maple snare: brushes and sticks.
• 14"x6.5" maple snare: normal and muted.
• 14"x8" aluminum snare: center hits and rimshots.
• 14"x8" birch snare.
• 18"x16" prepared birch tom.
• 20"x6" poplar snare: brushes, sticks and prepared.
• Sympathy snare (kick surrounded by six sympathetically buzzing snares) with 20"x20" kick.
• Sympathy snare with 22"x16" kick.
• 13x9" birch snare: center hits, rimshots, and hits with tambourine on top.
• 14x5" mystery wood snare.
• 16x7" sapele snare.
• 20"x12" alder snare.
• 22"x5" mahogany snare: brushes, sticks and prepared.
• 22"x14" prepared birch kick.
• Three-drum ziggurat: hits on two different levels.

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