Atom Hub Taster Bundle

Atom Hubs ambition with Drumming Fire was to create a library that could be used to create extraordinary percussion and textures.. Using recordings from a crackling open fire from 4 different angles and distances along with associated metallic clangs and hits Atom Hub succeeded in making a truly unique Kontakt library.

The resulting library is unusual and contains a collection of pre-configured patches that can be used to add distinctive character to your productions Containing sounds of fire, burning, crackling wood, iron banisters, barbecue tools (a shovel, a broach) and chunks of wood this library offer a rich collection of textures and sounds.

The FULL version of Kontakt 5.5.1 is required (Not Kontakt Player)

One day I took my acoustic guitar with me for a regular visit to my cottage. Also a microphone and a bottle of beer. After I picked some apples, I have made a fire and heated up, had a beer and recorded some guitar sounds together with sounds from a burning fireplace. My intention was not to record "great" guitar sound. I was hoping to make some strange, kind of unusual ethno stringed instrument.

Therefore, when playing, I used nervous vibrato and unproper bending, together with some detuning... and the result was drunken sounding, fiery stringed experimental instrument - Drunkeytar. Sounds of a burning wood gave it calming, meditative atmosphere.

The FULL version of Kontakt 5.1 or above is required (Not Kontakt Player)

I found this thing on a shelf obviously :-). We used it occasionally as Santa Claus´s bell for my little Sam, but how it got at my place... I don´t know. My girfriend said, this had something to do with my grandmother... probably she has brought it here. When I ask her, I will update this info :-).

It is maybe 0,5 Kg weighting copper (brass) bell with few holes in it and also some short wire on top - to hold it that way, or to hang it somewhere.

As I said, I had this thing on a shelf for a long time, but just recently I realized, that it has sound that could be used somehow. I sampled it, knocking on it, ringing and tolling with it holding it hanging on its short oxidized wire.

The FULL version of Kontakt 5.1 is required (NOT Kontakt Player)

This time I came back with few ideas and also with two microphones to record sounds, which I left unnoticed when recording Cottage for the first time. I stayed in a close surroundings of Cottage itself, did not taking trips to the neighbourhood :) I also wanted to put together a more balanced collection - louder as well as quieter sounds maintaining the atmosphere of this place.

So, again, you will find some nice metal sounds, like big metal hatch, or distributing box hit with a chunk of wood, or more unusual sounds, like apples falling to the grass. Some of the sounds were recorded stereo - for example, I sat on the floor and hit the stone floor around me and mics with the palms of my hands. Or I had stood in front of a pile of chopped wood, hitting it with a chunk, from left to right.

Nice addition to these sounds is old metal bath-tub and water clunks recorded in it.

Cellar is magical place ! For a recording session I had chosen my own, in our block of flats. Walking downstairs, my intention was to record everything, that got into my hands and to catch a true sonic portrait of the place. After doors closed behind me, I noticed coaches, bicycles and some plastic toys on wheels parking there in the darkness.

Right next to them, there was iron grillage protecting heater core and down, under my feet, heavy wobbling iron hatch. I recorded everything. Then I backed down to bicycles to catch sounds of spinning pedals, spokes and a carrier. Then there was an old refridgerator standing alone in the corridor, pieces of polystyrene, a traverse rod, plastic wheeled chair...

Other interesting sounds were found after unlocking the padlock hanging on nearby door. Old, unused, detuned mandolin hanging on the wall, lots of forgotten things on shelves... I grabbed them, hit them, shuffled them... and of course, recorded them. Enjoy :-)

Acoustic tones of an old piano mangled together with synth samples and metal objects sampled outside in a town park. The result is a nice little instrument capable of melancholic, deteriorated sounds reminding untuned piano, marimba, metalophone, or music box. Mechaniano comes handy anytime you need something imperfect, rusty sounding and of a piano nature. Regards to all the steam punk lovers!

What´s inside?

Some patches names: Bamboo Forest Shelter, Bones And Caves, Bottles In A Dead House, Cellar Piano, Ceramic Marimba, Dark Forest, Deteriorated Gong, Green Memories Piano, Growing Metals, Hallucinations, Lonely Piano, Music Box Of The Lost Childhood, Old Times In The Circus, Pan Flute Alike, Retarded, Tinnitus, Tremens, Wind Piano, Crystal Meditation, Gamelan Relatives, Desperate Mono Piano, Static Glass Piano...

COMPATIBILITY : This library works in KONTAKT 5 FULL VERSION (5.8.1 and above) software sampler (in KONTAKT PLAYER for 15 minutes).

INSTALLATION : Dowload *.rar file, extract it to desired destination, open Kontakt 5 and search for your library among "Files".