Riq Drum

Riq Drum

The traditional family of hand percussion instruments is generally defined as an open shell frame drum with large cymbals or jingles. They are similar in appearance and origin to a very large tambourine, but rather than simply being an accompaniment or backing instrument, the Rik family of drums can often take a lead or solo role. The jingles, rattles or rings are often played as a discreet component of the drum, along with a broad range of unique head and rim finger and hand articulations. This broad family of specialized drums is treated as a very serious and deeply nuanced instrument class in both traditional and modern Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Eastern European music.

For the Riq Drum multi-sample library, a pair of full-sized drums, one larger 15-inch “daf” drum from Greece with metal rings and bearings and one smaller 13” riq drum from Egypt with wide tin “cymbals” was recorded.

Soundiron also captured a toy frame drum that they have modified into a miniature riq, by adding egg-shakers. They also included a full collection of atmospheric and ambient sustaining instruments, each created entirely through heavily manipulating the source recordings for this library and equipped with multi-layer morphing, performance shaping and FX chaining options.

Contents

• 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 findertips

• Uberpeggiator meta-arpeggiation and roll generator system

• Rack DSP Effects, including a huge range of custom room and environmental reverb impulses.

• Riq bone mallet strikes (center, edge) 6-8 velocity layers, 10X variations per layer

• Riq felt mallet strikes (center) 8 velocity layers, 10X variations per layer

• Riq wooden dowel "hotrods" (center, edge) 6-8 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Riq brushes (center, edge, mute) 6-8 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Riq finger strikes (center, edge, mute) 5-8 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Riq hand strikes (center, mute) 5-6 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Riq shake singles – 5 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Riq shake rolls (slow, medium & fast rolls, grooves) 19 variations w/ release trigger samples and swell control.

• Riq "tabla-style" bass bends – 4 speed, intensity and positional variations, 10X RR each

• Daf bone mallet strikes (center, edge, rim) 5-7 velocity layers, 10X variations per layer

• Daf felt mallet strikes (center, edge) 8 velocity layers, 10X variations per layer

• Daf brushes (center, edge, rim, mute) 6-7 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Daf finger strikes (center, edge, mute) 6-7 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Daf hand strikes – 8 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Daf shake singles – 5 velocity layers, 10X RR per layer

• Daf shake rolls (slow, medium & fast rolls, grooves) 9 variations w/ release samples and swell control.

• Daf "tabla-style" bass bends – 6 speed, intensity and positional variations, 10X RR each

• Baby Riq finger strikes (center, edge) 5 velocity layers, 10X variations per layer

• Baby Riq finger strikes w/ rattle (center, edge) 5 velocity layers, 10X variations per layer

• Baby Riq sand shake singles (5 speeds/intensities) 3 velocity layers, 10X variations per layer

• Baby Riq sand shake roll loops – 3 speeds w/ release samples and swell control.

• 91 Sustaining ambient textures, organic synth tones and atmospheres created by manipulating the original Riq and Daf recordings

This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1 or later.