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| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
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Key Features
Eastwest StormDrum 3 is a comprehensive virtual drum instrument library with over seven unique drum collections. Perfect for the modern composer, StormDrum 3 boasts a plethora of different styles and types of drums that are suitable for a wide range of styles, eras and purposes. Engineered by Nick Pheonix at EastWest Studio One using top-of-the-line equipment and recorded in meticulous detail by drummer Mickey Hart (The Grateful Dead), the StormDrum 3 virtual drum instrument features everything from large Taikos, expressive metallic percussion, classic small handheld drums, wood carved instruments, gongs and much more. Comprised of drums from the personal collection of Mickey Hart and Remo Belli (Remo Drums), the StormDrum 3 encompasses a wide range of sounds for every cinematic style imaginable.
Designed for composers, StormDrum 3 offers complete control over your drum sound design to perfectly match any brief, without needing to use any external processors. Powered by EastWest's PLAY 5 software, you gain access to a world of built-in FX and processing to tune, shape and sculpt your drum sound. From delays, AHDSR envelope control, SSL-style EQ and bus compression, true stereo reverb and a dynamic channel strip, you can let your creativity run free to explore a new world of drum tones.
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Ranging from the essentials to the exotic and unique, StormDrum 3 is EastWest's most comprehensive drum library to date. Divided into seven instrument types, you are provided with everything you need to create rhythmic percussion to match your production. Coupled with the large array of drums available, StormDrum 3 features a suite of unique processing and FX built-in, allowing you to customise, shape or transform your drums to fit your mix aesthetic. Conventional parameters are included such as the envelope control with full AHDSR parameters to dial in the attack and decay of your drum to enhance the sustain for longer hits to fill out space or to reduce attack for a ramped sound for more cinematic textures. A classic analog-style filter is included with built-in resonance control, perfect when matched with the automation capabilities of your DAW for expressive risers and drops. A range of professional FX is included such as the tempo-synced delay, dynamic and true-stereo reverb settings, SSL-style bus compressor and EQ along with a transient shaper and channel strip for the final shaping of your drums.
Divded into seven different instrument types, StormDrum 3 covers nearly every eventuality you could imagine. The largest of the collection, the Taiko Family of drum sounds range from small and musical to large and powerful. Using a collection of instruments from the personal collections of Mickey Hart (The Grateful Dead), and Remo (Founder of Remo Drums) and from a collection of hand-made bespoke Japanese-made instruments, the Taiko drums offer expressive, rich and natural sounds. Recorded both individually and in ensembles, when matching with the five microphone positions, there's a huge variety of tones to unlock.
The Big Drums collection are the larger-than-life drums fit for the front lines. Large, deep and booming with complex overtones and musical tonality, these drums provide the perfect platform for cinematic war drums or impactful trailer hits. With the Gongs, Clocks and Waterphones collection, you with a suite of unique percussive elements, some of which have been played underwater! The Metals group includes everything type of percussive cymbal or FX imaginable. From bells, bowls, chimes and cymbals, this collection of instruments is from Mickey's personal collection of world instruments found on his travels. You will find the more common Brazilian berimbau to the more unusual hammered pots and doorstop drums.
Ideal for accenting a beat or rhythm, the Shaker instruments are made from naturally-occurring objects such as snake rattles, seed pots and door hooves. Of course, more traditional rainsticks and modern shakers are included to provide a wider breadth of sound to match the percussion of your beat. Within the Woods collection, StormDrum 3 exhibits the eclecticism it's famed for. Using instruments found from across the globe to add to your percussive composition. Perfect for matching exotic landscapes from dense forests to open Saharas, the Woods collection features tuned chromatic gourd marimbas, balaphones, Thailand frogs and even a hand-made 12ft. long playable redwood tree branch. The Small Drums instrument collection features more common instruments you'd find in any percussion set to add rhythm to your groove. From bongos, frame drums and tambourines to the more special tuned tablas and madals.
Recorded in the world-famous EastWest Studio One with best-in-class equipment, StormDrum 3 boasts professional-grade sounds right out of the box. Blending together five microphone positions ranging from close to far using a combination of both vintage and modern microphones, you can blend each position to your liking to create one huge sound that fills the entire wall of sound for a truly expressive and powerful drum sound.
Where other libraries will focus on one particular sound or style, StormDrum 3 gives you access to them all. Create realistic and expressive drums in a variety of cultures, eras and to fit any musical context. Whether you're looking for the sound of the deep Amazon forest with tribal marching drums, the exciting and mystical world of sci-fi adventure or following along a high-speed chase, you can match any on-screen visual with the sounds onboard StormDrum 3. Meticulously recorded with precision, every hit across the full velocity range has been tailored to help boost your creative process with hyper-realism and authenticity.
"As with previous versions of Stormdrum, the quality of the recordings is consistently high, with plenty of transient detail and just enough room ambience (which, of course, can be fully controlled via the mixer) to give the instruments space to breathe. SD3 (still) marks itself out as one of the finest ethnic/cinematic percussion libraries money can buy." - Music Tech Magazine
"As with all EastWest instruments, it's the detail which draws you in. I would go as far as to say that it is the best-sounding set of acoustic sampled percussion I have ever heard. Highly recommended." - FutureMusic
"Stormdrum 3 deserves its place by deftly bridging the world's music and cinematic paradigms. In fact, I'll go so far as to say it's one of the best-sounding percussion libraries anyone has created to date." - Keyboard Magazine
