SampleScience has released Taiko Drums, a free virtual instrument for Mac & Windows, featuring the sound of taiko drums.
They say that a synthesizer has been used to create this traditional Japanese instrument in virtual form, and that the resulting sound is “epic and cinematic”.
Features:
- 3 Taiko drum sounds
- Multi-LFO
- Reverb and distortion
- Lowpass/highpass filter
- Low-CPU usage
- Amplitude range controls
- 3 voice modes: polyphonic, monophonic, and legato
It’s available now as a free download.
I would love a Taiko drum module for my rack. they should make a USB controller with huge mallets for this!
I always stop and listen to Matsuriza at EPCOT.
“they should make a USB controller with huge mallets for this!“
Very cool idea. You could trigger from any surface. Use velocity values if you wanted to trigger different drum sounds. I remember Akira Jimbo was using velocity to trigger different drum sounds years ago, I would think techno has evolved quite a bit since then. I wish Roland still made the TM-6 interfaces.
oooo! that’s even better! I was thinking it needed a drum, but you’re right any surface will do! just some positional sensor to allow position dependent excitation modes. cool stuff alacazam!