The Tonehammer Bamboo Stick Ensemble is a powerful display of how far you can take a simple musical ingredient like bamboo poles, which provides a powerful clack sounds when they are smashed together and … serves as great tuned based instrument when (mis)treated the right way. Our Bamboo Stick Ensemble was recorded using a variety of 6′ long 2″ diameter Chinese bamboo poles. We were blown by the power of these sticks, since they made sounds we have never remotely encountered before. The impacts are powerful and sharp. They compliment our Tom Ensembles perfectly. The sustains were created by grinding the poles against wet and dry tile. Sometimes shrill, sometimes brassy and always freakin’ creepy. Great for horror and dark, dramatic ethnic scoring.
Tonehammer Bamboo Ensemble Facts:
Wet recording, Tile and Glass Hall
All major type of ensemble hits/clacks/swooshes (4-8 velocities / 10 repetitions pr. velocity)
Stabs and FX, both high and low tones
Long single-shot sustains and tremolos, both high and low tones
Looping brassy sustains
Looping warm pad sustains
8 instrument patches, 442 samples, 217 MB installed, 106 MB .rar download
Sample resolution: 44.1Khz/16Bit stereo wav format
Format(s): Kontakt 2 and .wav
Note: Native Instruments Kontakt 2.2.4 / 3 full retail versions required
