AudioThing has released Tank Drum for Kontakt 5, a new virtual instrument based on samples from a steel tongue drum.
Also called hang drums, these instruments are usually made out of propane tanks with tongues of different sizes and tuned in different scales.
The instrument sampled features 8 tongues and is tuned in E minor pentatonic. It was played both with hands and rubber mallets, along with some sound effects with hands and brushes. The sound has a long release and is rich in harmonics.
Here are official audio demos:
Here is a video walkthrough:
Specifications:
- 7 Kontakt Instruments (.nki)
- 5 Round Robin samples
- 3 Velocity Layers
- 7 Custom Impulse Responses
- 274 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)
- Formats: Kontakt 5 and WAV
Tank Drum is priced at €24.90. See the AudioThing site for more info.
Is that a typo? Hank drum?? They’re called Hang drums round here.
Shoot – I just read the oval instrument post below….
Down periscope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h9wG_WagXE
Ha ha. Thanks for catching the typo. We think faster than we type sometimes…
Actually Hank Drum is correct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_tongue_drum
http://dennishavlena.com/for-webpage-lp-hang.htm
The Hang is more like two steelpan glued together. No tongues. The Steel Tongue Drums instead have tongues. So Hank is not a typo but Hang is definitely not appropriate for this kind of instrument.