Hapi Drums

Resonant steel tongue drums for Kontakt

Hapi Drums is a set of four steel tongue drums crafted by legendary instrument makers Grahm Doe & Tricia Kelly at their workshop in the Sierra Mountain foothills of Oakhurst, CA. Steel tongue instruments are known for a smooth fundamental tone wrapped in a haze of complex harmonics and a long, mellow sustain. Hapi Drum is one of the oldest and highest quality steel tongue drum makers in the world, with unique body designs and tuning options and clear, rich notes that cut cleanly through clusters of carefully-balanced lush, swirling overtones.

Soundiron recorded four instruments, capturing each of them with a wide stereo pair of large-diaphragm Neumann TLM 103s and a binaural Rode NT-SF1, to provide you with two distinct tonal options. Instruments included the low "Origin" D minor model (D3 - A4), a pair of "Slim Tunable" mid models (A3 - E5) and the small, treble Tini (A4 to A5). Each model can be loaded separately - including individual tongue soloing - or you can play all of them together as a combined chromatic scale. They played each one with soft rubber mallets, hard metal picks, and nylon jazz brushes. With their intuitive multi-layered modular UI, you'll enjoy complete freedom to mix, layer, retune and customize each sound to your heart's content.

Product Specs

• 2 Master presets and 20 Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets

• Four drums sampled with soft rubber mallets, hard metal picks, and nylon jazz brushes

• 133 Ambience patches created from the source content

• 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples

• 13,624 stereo samples in locked .ncw format

• 18.5 GB Installed

• Flexible and intuitive multi-layer user interface controls, with LFO, filter, glide, and arpeggiator

• Full FX rack with convolution reverb with custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 6.1.1+ is required.