Impact Soundworks Impact Steel [KONTAKT]

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Impact: Steel was intended to fill a gap found in popular commercial sound libraries. While several other products have metal hits and ?found? percussion, none are extensively sampled and usable as individual, expressive instruments. The goal of this project was therefore to create a unique, detailed, and playable library with the same amount of multisampled detail one would expect from a high end percussion bank.

There are six main es, eight special/alternately-mapped es, and sixteen FX es in all, totaling 73 articulations of extensively multisampled hits, scrapes, rolls, and designed textures. The instruments were recorded in a medium-sized recording booth, insulated yet retaining some ambience and air in the samples; this facilitates mixing for small ensembles and rooms as well as large orchestral forces.

Impact: Steel was designed to be as playable as possible, on both drum controllers as well as MIDI keyboards. As such, all main es are keymapped without overlap, and can be loaded on a single channel for instant playability of all instruments. On a MIDI keyboard, hits are mapped to black keys, while scrapes, rolls, and tremolos are mapped to white keys. This increases ease of playing for composers without dedicated drum controllers.

An additional set of L/R es is included as well, with left/right hand hits separated onto adjacent notes to facilitate playing fast passages.

Impact: Steel is a highly expressive percussion library containing metal hits and found percussive sounds, sampled and programmed with a level of detail normally reserved for acoustic drum kits.

Include:

6 main instrument es8 special es16 special FX esLeft/Right hand mappingsLarge and small metal objects24-bit stereo recordings