Phillip Dixon
Air on a shoestring
Anyone know of a good kontact inst.
For shakers clave ect.
Cheers
For shakers clave ect.
Cheers
For Latin shakers (there are other types, including Brasilian coconut shakers, but that's not usually what people are asking for), here's my ranked list:
Claves are trickier to get right in a sample library -- even in loops -- and a good pair is cheap (I recommend the just-released hickory set from Gon Bops), but even so, this is my ranked list, with qualifiers:
- IK Multimedia Cinematic Percussion (SampleTank)
- BFD Percussion
- Sonuscore Symphony Series - Percussion (Kontakt) — aka NI Symphony Series
- Evolution Series: World Percussion: South America (Kontakt)
- Impact Soundworks Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion (Kontakt)
- FlyingHand Percussion (Kontakt)
- Wavesfactory Sharine (Kontakt) — great loop patterns; flexible as well, and many types
- Wavesfactory W-Shaker (Kontakt) — Sharine's predecessor; similar, but fewer sounds
- Vir2 Elite Orchestral Percussion (Kontakt)
- Best Service Forest Kingdom (Engine)
- Miroslav Philharmonik (SampleTank)
- UVI World Suite: Latin Percussions: Shakers (Falcon)
- Acoustic Samples Percussiv (Falcon)
- Kontakt: World Percussion
Note that all of my BFD stuff has been up for sale for eons; I'm weaning myself off that product, even though its Percussion library remains just about the most deeply and authentically sampled. I just find that the single-hit drum-kit-setup approach doesn't work so well for a lot of those instruments.
- BFD Percussion
- Sonuscore Symphony Series - Percussion (Kontakt) — aka NI Symphony Series
- UVI World Suite: Latin Percussions: Claves (Falcon)
- Sonokinetic Percussao do Brasil (Kontakt) — too high
- Evolution Series: World Percussion: South America (Kontakt) — too high
- Acoustic Samples Percussiv (Falcon) — too high
- Vir2 World Impact (Kontakt) — too high
- FlyingHand Percussion (Kontakt) — too high; incorrect interval
- Impact Soundworks Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion (Kontakt) — too high; incorrect interval
- Vir2 Elite Orchestral Percussion (Kontakt) — only one pitch
- Native Instruments Discovery Series: Cuba (Kontakt) — too low; only one pitch
- Garritan World Instruments (ARIA) — too low; only one pitch
- Xsample Library (Kontakt) — too high; only one pitch
Also, as I own Falcon, I always list that as the engine for libraries that run on either it or UVI Workstation, but all of the ones below are compatible with the free version as they don't use the extended synthesis engine of Falcon.