Details & info
A steel tongue drum or tank drum is a round steel slit/tongue drum originally made from an empty propane cylinder. The instrument is played with the fingers or with mallets.
I have recorded such an instrument and created a playable sampler instrument out of it in a format of Ableton Live’s Drum Rack.
The samples are legally royalty-free as I have recorded the physical instrument myself.
Adjustable parameters:
Fade in – Control sample fade in time
Fade out – Control sample fade out time
Spread – Stereo spread
Pan – Panorama (L-R)
Filter Freq – LP Filter Frequency (24 dB/oct)
Filter Res – LP Filter Resonance
Transpose – transpose all samples at once (by semitones)
Volume – all samples’ output volume
current version: 1.0
How to use:
- 0. Download “NoraPatches_TankDrumMachine.zip”
- 1. Open “NoraPatches_TankDrumMachine.alp”
- 2. Save to any folder you’d like -> this creates a project folder
- 3. Open this newly created project folder -> Open Tankdrum.als
- 4. On the first MIDI Track, there is an Instrument Rack, click on the save icon on the bottom left corner to save this device
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