Hapi Drums

Hapi Drums is a set of four steel tongue drums crafted by instrument makers Grahm Doe & Tricia Kelly at their workshop in the Sierra Mountain foothills of Oakhurst, CA. Steel tongue instruments are known for a smooth fundamental tone wrapped in a haze of complex harmonics and a long, mellow sustain. Hapi Drum is one of the oldest and highest quality steel tongue drum makers in the world, with unique body designs and tuning options and clear, rich notes that cut cleanly through clusters of carefully-balanced lush, swirling overtones.

We recorded four instruments, capturing each of them with a wide stereo pair of large-diaphragm Neumann TLM 103s and a binaural Rode NT-SF1, to provide you with two distinct tonal options. Instruments included the low "Origin" D minor model (D3 - A4), a pair of "Slim Tuneable" mid models (A3 - E5) and the small, treble Tini (A4 to A5). Each model can be loaded separately - including individual tongue soloing - or you can play all of them together as a combined chromatic scale. We played each one with soft rubber mallets, hard metal picks, and nylon jazz brushes. With our intuitive multi-layered modular UI, you'll enjoy complete freedom to mix, layer, re-tune and customize each sound to your heart's content.

Listen to demos of Hapi Drums on our Soundcloud

Product Specs:

• 2 Master presets and 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets.
• Four drums sampled with soft rubber mallets, hard metal picks, and nylon jazz brushes.
• 133 Ambience patches created from the source content.
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format.
• 13,624 stereo samples in locked .ncw format.
• 9.79 GB Installed (18.5 GB Uncompressed).
• Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6.1+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments.
• Works with the Kontakt "Libraries" browser and Native Access.

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