The traditional family of hand percussion instruments is generally defined as an open shell frame drum with large cymbals or jingles. They are similar in appearance and origin to a very large tambourine, but rather than simply being an accompaniment or backing instrument, the Rik family of drums can often take a lead or solo role. The jingles, rattles or rings are often played as a discreet component of the drum, along with a broad range of unique head and rim finger and hand articulations. This broad family of specialized drums is treated as a very serious and deeply nuanced instrument class in both traditional and modern Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Eastern European music.
For their Riq Drum multi-sample library, they captured a pair of full-sized drums, one larger 15-inch “daf” drum from Greece with metal rings and bearings (actually called a daf) and one smaller 13” riq drum from Egypt with wide tin “cymbals”. They also captured a toy frame drum that they’ve modified into a miniature riq, by adding egg-shakers. They’ve also included a full collection of atmospheric and ambient sustaining instruments, each created entirely through heavily manipulating the source recordings for this library and equipped with multi-layer morphing, performance shaping and FX chaining options.
CONTENTS
Megamixer kit building interface, with customizable modules
Dual layer tuned percussion building interface to create uniquely playable multi-layered melodic and effect instruments.
Standard Ensemble presets that put the whole library at your findertips
Uberpeggiator meta-arpeggiation and roll generator system
Rack DSP Effects, including a huge range of custom room and environmental reverb impulses.
Riq bone mallet strikes (center, edge) 6-8 velocity layers, 10X variations per layer
The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 5.1 (or later) is required to use .nki instrument presets included in this library. The free Kontakt “Player” and “Add Library” import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library. Windows XP or higher. Mac OSX 10.6 or higher. Dual Core CPU, 2 GB System Ram, SATA or SSD hard drive recommended for this library. This software is delivered as a digital download, so a broadband connection is required.
Product Specs
1.86 GB installed
2,298 Samples
12 .nki instrument presets
24 bit / 44.1kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
Unlocked Kontakt presets and wav samples to allow user customization
Includes a bonus collection of custom sound-designed ambiences, drones and special FX presets.
