Flying Hand Percussion

• Winner of Electronic Musician Editors Choice Award
• Sampled to the EXTREME
• Features over 30,000 individual samples, 4x Round Robin, up to 20 velocity layers, and up to 3 microphone positions.
• Each drum fulfills its true musical potential with a multitude of extended articulation techniques using unconventional playing styles. –
• 50dB of dynamic range and totally noiseless!
• Meticulous collection of articulations / extended techniques / Left-Right hand samples / multiple playing zones, and combination strokes.
• Realtime replication of live performance sonic nuance and instrument control.
• Custom impulses with a variety of rooms and halls.

Legato Drumming is a feature specifically designed for hand drum samples.

It adds a layer of real time gestural sounds, simulating typical vibrations and hand noises that occur when moving between articulations. Appropriate sounds are added during playback and react to speed and dynamics.

Additionally, sustain and resonance is automatically controlled when playing muted articulations or when muting a stroke on the fly.

FHP features around 50dB of dynamic range! A wide dynamic range is much more than just lots of velocity layers – it’s about the science of optimal distribution of intensity levels within the velocity spectrum.

Every dynamic level is clearly defined with musicality and character. It’s one of those things that makes FHP so special.

Percussion instruments, and hand Percussion in particular, offer so much more diversity beyond traditional articulations. Especially when expanding them with extended and unique playing methods.

In doing so, each instrument becomes a world of sound and detailed nuance, giving you an opportunity for expressive thematic writing.

FlyingHand Percussion features mostly hand drums. Although the majority of the included drums are considered ‘ethnic’, it is not your typical ‘World Percussion’ library. FHP explores depths and nuances from each instrument so that it becomes a world of idiomatic articulation, supplying you with real thematic tools to enrich your Percussion arrangements.

FlyingHand Percussion includes hand selected acoustic instruments, and several types of bonus sound design, metallic, and electronic percussion sounds.

Overview about what type of instruments were used and how they fit the vision. Also give a quick summary of the recording concept and overall production style.

• Asian Bamboo rattlers. 4 different sizes to choose from.
• 14” Ashiko African Drum. Features rope tension and solid Maple shell.
• An Orchestral Bass Drum. Suspended and played with hands.
• A variety of Bell-like instruments.
• Wooden Bongos with thin Mahogany heads.
• ‘D’ and ‘G’ Boomwhacker pipes.
• The earthy and one-of-a-kind ‘Piru’ claves.
• Custom made Clay Drum resembling an Udu.
• A hi-end set of 2x Congas.
• 3 different types of cowbells.
• 16” Djembe.
• 16” and 22” Frame Drums.
• Indian Kanjira Hand Drum.
• 14” and 16” hi-end Timbales with all Brass shell.
• Brass Triangle and the one-of-a-kind Trine Instrument.
• Custom made Indian Naal Drum.
• 5 Gallon Plastic Jug.
• Assorted Shakers including Plastic, Wood, and Bamboo.
• Electro Acoustic Drums synthesized from the resonances of found objects including electronic drum sounds.
• Cinematic Sound fx, re-pithced instruments and Virtual ensembles.