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Looking for Latin Percussion Kontakt libraries...

Hi guys sorry to perform threadromancy on this but it was the first thing that came up in Google, I'm looking for some good Latin Perc sample libs or a VI (preferable) and maybe some midi so I can figure out how to get the right groove/timings going on them. Can any one recommend some stuff ? I was thinking of getting Loops de la Creme Timbales but then I'd still need the other instruments, I've got Komplete although I haven't checked to see if that contains anything useful/usable, I was kind of hoping there'd be a complete library similar to something like Drum Fury ?
 
Hi guys sorry to perform threadromancy on this but it was the first thing that came up in Google, I'm looking for some good Latin Perc sample libs or a VI (preferable) and maybe some midi so I can figure out how to get the right groove/timings going on them. Can any one recommend some stuff ? I was thinking of getting Loops de la Creme Timbales but then I'd still need the other instruments, I've got Komplete although I haven't checked to see if that contains anything useful/usable, I was kind of hoping there'd be a complete library similar to something like Drum Fury ?


You might find this article by emusician interesting to go over:

https://www.emusician.com/gear/the-ultimate-latin-pop-world-percussion-library

I would personally vouch for Spectrasonics' Supreme Beats, ancient (and expensive) as it may be. It's very well-recorded and characteristic sounding. A more contemporary library that's probably way more affordable is Percussao do Brasil by Sonokinetic. I think there's a lot of Latin Percussion covered by different Kontakt Hub libraries for similarly affordable prices.
 
Thanks for the replies

The Pulpo Audio instruments were very nice for free, but it seems the site's gone now?

It's back, on their blog they had this message

It's been a long time.... To all of you who tried to get in touch with PulpoAudio in the last year (or so) ...apologies ;) My old website got hacked; besides developing Tentacle, creating new instruments and private duties ... no time to set up a new website.

Will give their freebies a try though

Searching a little more Wavesfactory have a Samba lib currently on sale I'm looking at and Cinesamples Rio Grooves is on sale too, does anybody have either and can recommend ?
 
This is the percussion agent in Groove Agent 4, but it's the same as the one in Groove Agent 5:



The programming is similar to Realidrums, with complexity sliders. You can see this around 7:30.
 
I have just listed NI Discovery series Cuba in the V.I.Control Music gear classifieds section might be what your looking for :)
 
I'm planning on upgrading to Ultimate at some point so buying the series would be a little redundant, thanks for the offer though. As for Groove Agent I'd rather not sacrifice another USB slot for the dongle as I've got one taken up with iLok already :)
 
If you have composer cloud EW stormdrum 3 has a ton of really good latin percussion as well as African, middle eastern, etc. At the very least it'd be a very cheap demo for a month.

I don't use it's more standard stuff much, but all of those still get a lot of use and frequently beat out other options I have.
 
As someone who has a regular client (an Afro-Cuban Latin Percussionist), I know the frustration with not being able to find the “perfect” Latin Percussion library, and my client is especially fussy when it comes to Afro-Cuban music and Latin Jazz!

As mentioned at the start of this thread with NI Cuba, this was his initial go-to library which I suggested, but he really wasn’t that impressed by it and was disillusioned with libraries in general.

Since then, I have to continually hunt around for other libraries to fit into his style of music, which is mostly Argentine Tangoes.

This thread is a great help!
 

I already got these but +1 for anyone who doesn't :D

If you have composer cloud EW stormdrum 3 has a ton of really good latin percussion as well as African, middle eastern, etc. At the very least it'd be a very cheap demo for a month.

I don't use it's more standard stuff much, but all of those still get a lot of use and frequently beat out other options I have.

I'll take a look at them as I have CC thanks
 
Muletone Audio is tops, for Brasilian stuff, which is barely covered by other vendors anyway. If you're looking for congas, nothing comes close to HandHeld Sound's Flying Hand Percussion as it models actual hand movement and articulation nuances. Most latin libraries are only good as placeholders for the real instruments, but this oversight is slowly being addressed by various vendors. I'm too tired to look up sources at the moment as I am sleep-deprived from traveling halfway across the globe. Plenty of other recent topics touched upon this, but I guess this older topic was revived in order to talk mostly about loops and patterns? I'll try to review this in more depth when I'm more caught-up.
 
Personal opinion, but I'd say that for anyone serious about doing music, Evolution Series World Percussion is one of those "must have" libraries. It seems to be uniformly loved by the community here and I haven't personally read a negative comment about it (with the exception of people saying they wish it had more instruments). I purchased it years ago and am very thankful I made that decision. If I ever had to start over from scratch with my sample libraries, this library would be one of my first purchases and certainly the first purchase for world percussion. Of course I'd add other percussion libraries too, but this would be first on the list to fill this "core" part of my template.
 
I love Salsa,Afro Cuban,Reggae etc.........
Evolution SA is very good as the entire Evolution Series is (great price!) but what's irked me for awhile is IMO the omission of having no timbales in a South America bundle.
But it's not just the Evolution Series,for some odd reason I been looking but have not been able to find timbale samples from any developer I actually want to use.
Getting samples that capture the attack & dynamic range of a great timbale player appears to be elusive in the sample library world.
In any case $59? Wow! thats a great price. :dancedance:
 
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