Soundiron Dhol Drum

Dhol Drum is an Indian percussion sample library made with 2 Punjabi dhol drums, played using traditional sticks, mallets, brushes, hands, and FX articulations.

It features a flexible GUI and beautifully hand-crafted ambiences for endless creative possibilities.

The traditional Indian dhol is a closed shell barrel-shaped drum with a curvature to the body.

It is classically played as an accompanying instrument in traditional Punjabi Bhangra, and the religious music of Sufism.

For the Solo Dhol percussion library, Soundiron captured a pair of full-sized drums, one larger and one smaller.

The instrument library contains 5,147 samples and more than 110 distinct articulations, played with sticks, mallets, brushes, hands, fingers, palms and more.

Each was recorded in extraordinary detail up close in our studio.

Soundiron deep sampled two professional Punjabi Dhol drums for this library, each with distinct characteristics and tuning.

These drums have goat skin bass heads and synthetic maylar treble heads.

The bass head is tuned with a single heavy nylon rope, wound around the drum through steel rings.

The treble head is tuned with a series of steel lugs and rods, typical of most modern percussion.

While the dhol is most often performed with an intensely frenetic style at louder dynamics, we wanted to explore every nuance of these fine instruments.

Soundiron recorded an extremely wide dynamic range with two different sizes of dhol, from the softest finger articulations to the most brutal stick shattering booms.

They beat the hell out of the drums to push these instruments as far as they could go, with up to 14 velocity layers and 10 round robin per note.

The treble head can produce sounds ranging from small timables to aggressive snare-like sounds, depending on the drum size, turning, mallet type, strike position, and playing style.

The bass head produces sounds ranging from super deep bass booms to supple bayan-like bending water drop effects with profoundly rich low-end.

Soundiron also recorded wooden clacks over different areas of the drum bodies, resulting in a very well-rounded and playable all-purpose acoustic hand percussion collection.

Contents

• Bass Bends
• Bass Dagga Rod
• Bass Fingers & Hands
• Bass Felt Mallets
• Bass Hard Mallets
• Treble Thilli Stick
• Treble Fingers & Hands
• Treble Felt Mallets
• Treble Hard Mallets
• Megamixer kit building interface, with customizable modules
• Dual layer tuned percussion building interface to create uniquely playable multi-layered melodic and effect instruments
• Standard ensemble presets that put the whole library at your fingertips
• Uberpeggiator meta-arpeggiation and roll generator system
• Rack DSP effects, including a huge range of custom room and environmental reverb impulses
• 22 sustaining ambient textures, organic synth tones, and atmospheres created by manipulating the original Dhol recordings

Features

• 2.07 GB installed (1.3 GB Download)
• 5,147 Samples (standard PCM wav)
• 10 .nki files (unlocked format)
• 24 bit / 44.1 kHz stereo PCM wav format
• Format(s): Kontakt 5.1 .nki and pcm .wav

Kontakt Format

This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1 or later. Kontakt is an industry-standard advanced virtual instrument software platform.

You can view screenshots of this library's custom graphical user interface in the image gallery above.

This library is packed with features to provide you with a wide range of sound-shaping parameter controls, each one totally automation-ready in your host environment or Kontakt's stand-alone mode.

This is a standard Kontakt open-format library, so the free Kontakt Player does not fully support it and can only run it in a limited "demo mode".

However, the sample directories are unlocked so you can use them in other wav-compatible software, sampler, and synth formats.

The special Libraries tab doesn't support this open-format Kontakt library, but you can use the standard File browser tab and import this library into the Kontakt Quickload window for easy loading and navigation.