Soundiron Apocalypse Percussion Elements

Welcome to Apocalypse Percussion Elements, Powered By Kontakt Player

This mighty collection of aggressive scoring and concert percussion library for the Native Instruments Kontakt platform is a powerhouse, designed for an efficient workflow in even the most demanding professional production environment, with extraordinary detail, sound quality and flexibility.This all-purpose professional drum and cymbal solution has over 40 different drums and over 100 articulations. Built from our grand 25GB flagship - the Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble - this library is slimmed down to put maximum punch into an efficient and affordable solution for everyone. Focusing on the close mic position and standard single-stroke multisampled articulations, it’s designed to be intuitive and easy to play. But weighing in at 4.3 GB uncompressed with 4519 samples, Apocalypse Elements is still a serious beast.You’ll find thunderous ensemble and solo bass drums, roaring ensemble and solo toms of all sizes, a massive 8-member snare ensemble and 6 different solo snares ranging from deep 14” wooden bodied snares all the way down to tiny 5” effect snares, ethnic drums of all shapes and sizes, clicks, clacks, hi-hats, stick and mallet rides, crashes, splashes, hybrid China crash, fx cymbals, gongs, tibetan finger cymbals and much more.

Each instrument was recorded in a very close yet wide-sounding microphone array, with each large diaphragm capsule placed within 12 inches of the drum heads to capture all of the deep tonality and resonance and every exquisite detail. We recorded this library in a naturally bright and spacious A-Frame hall using world class Neumann microphones and pristine ultra-quiet Sound Devices recording equipment.We then carefully mixed and mastered each sample by hand to deliver explosive power, unmatched acoustic quality, wide dynamic range, and stunning life-like clarity and presence.

You can use our expressive “Standard” presets for instant access to the full library in a classic percussion array layout. The main Ensemble All preset lets you customize your note mapping for each articulation, or load one of several common drum library mapping standards.You can adjust room release behavior for 4 independent sub-groupings (basses, snares, auxiliary and cymbals). These let you quickly turn this massive hall ensemble into a fat, clean powerful rock drum kit with the turn of a few knobs.You can also use the front panel controls to tighten, soften and reshape the sound on the fly, with swell, attack, release, offset, tuning, velocity response, and more. And if you need more detail, the individual section presets focus on each section with an expanded palette of normal and flam articulations, sustaining rolls, dynamic crescendos and expressive effects.

We also are proud to introduce our enhanced Megamixer. This kit-building powerhouse allows you to quickly choose from a huge variety of different drums and articulations and load them into 8 modules that you can freely customize. Designed for flexibility and exceptional ram efficiency, it’s perfect for designing unique personal kits that you can save and load. We further expand your options with the individual section Mixer presets, with access to the broader range of articulations in each instrument category.

The Tuned 2-Layer presets allow you to create multilayered tuned articulations from any of the articulations for each sub-section.These are ideal for sound design, special effects, or simply turning any of the sounds into a unique tuned percussion instrument. And of course, we included ultra-efficient “Lite” presets for every type to conserve ram and CPU power when you need it.

And we now offer midi loop loading, playback and customization through our Midi playback system within every preset. Choose from 400 hand-crafted midi grooves by a variety of excellent composers and producers included in the library or create your own.You can also choose from a number of major key mapping standards and add commercial midi loops from Groove Monkey and other popular publishers.You can change the bar divisions, switch from half to normal to double-time, add swing, tighten and loosen quantization, transpose and even drag selected midi loops directly into your DAW’s timeline.

You’ll find the heavily upgraded ARP meta-arpeggiation system (aka the “Uberpeggiator”), with preset saving/ loading, humanization, EZ-roll and dozens of other options and features to create dynamic and adaptive grooves and sequences. Every preset also includes our awesome FX rack panel, with lots of multi-effects, compression, EQ, resonant lo-pass filter, distortion, amp/speaker simulation and convolution reverb with dozens of custom impulse responses.

We here at Soundiron are no strangers to epic ensemble and soundtrack scoring percussion.Those who know our work are familiar with the passion, exacting precision and attention to detail we deliver. This library is the culmination of all of our years of experience, distilled into the most comprehensive and earth-shaking hall percussion package available anywhere on the market. We set out to build a monster that punched harder, rumbled deeper, cut through the mix cleaner and got the job done like no other could. We wanted a massive sound and responsive playability, without compromising user flexibility and choice. And it was recorded in the same acoustically-balanced hall as our famous Olympus Symphonic Choir (Mars & Venus), Mercury Symphonic Boychoir, Montclarion Hall Piano, Struck Grand Piano, Cymbology, Anklung and Tuned Artillery libraries, so it blends perfectly with any of them. Apocalypse Elements offers a wide range of uniquely powerful tools that let you personalize the library to your own needs and push it vastly beyond any other cinematic percussion library in its class or price range.With a huge sound and intuitive presets that work right out of the box, this beast gets it done.

Features:

• 52 Kontakt .nki instrument presets
• 4519 Samples
• 4.3 GB Source / 2.19 GB installed (after lossless data compression) 24bit / 48kHz stereo source audio
• 400 Midi Grooves
• Over 100 drum and cymbal articulations
• Close microphone position for a full, rich sound
• Customizable key mapping and template design, saving and loading Adaptive meta-arpeggiator system, and DSP Effects Rack
• Midi Groove loading, playback and customization