The HANG - Ethereal Hang Drum

The HANG - Ethereal Hang DrumThe HANG is an ethereal and mesmerising instrument. A deep sampled Hang Drum Hand Pan. An instrument that is notoriously difficult to capture in sample form, due to the instruments natural sympathetic resonances (when you strike a note, the entire instrument hums a returning resonance that shimmers with the overall sound of the note). We took a painstaking and trailblazing approach to sampling this tricky to capture instrument After having captured

The HANG is an ethereal and mesmerising instrument. A deep-sampled Hang Drum/Hand Pan. An instrument that is notoriously difficult to capture in sample form, due to the instrument’s natural sympathetic resonances (when you strike a note, the entire instrument hums a returning resonance that shimmers with the overall sound of the note). We took a painstaking and trailblazing approach to sampling this tricky to capture instrument - After having captured thousands of unique strikes, rolls, harmonics, ghost notes etc... we went through every sample in fine spectral detail to ‘deconstruct’ the fundamentals and upper harmonics of each note struck, isolating them from the surrounding auxiliary ‘sympathetic’ frequencies and mechanical sounds, such as the fingers striking, or the metal clanging. Allowing us to ‘rebuild’ the notes within Kontakt, and keep the purity of the auxiliary sounds, whilst harnessing the now pure harmonic structure of each note to allow us to turn it into a fully chromatic instrument, without the woes and pitching pitfalls prevalent across the board in the sampled Hang Drum landscape.

A new standard for sampling this type of resonant bodied instrument is born with The HANG - we’re very proud of it, and can’t wait to hear what you do with it!

OVERVIEW

• 4,810 samples
• Powerful Spectral Editing for full Chromaticism without Compromise
• Up to 9 core articulations [fingers/mallets dependent]
• 3 signals - A stereo set of Condensers & a Close Dynamic
• 5GB [pre-lossless compression]
• Up to 4 Round Robins (articulation dependent)
• Up to 4 Dynamics alongside Performance velocity/dynamics - (Articulation dependant)

CONTEXTUAL DEMO 1

CONTEXTUAL DEMO 2

LIVE IMPROVISATION

WALKTHROUGH SNIPPET [SPECTRAL EDITING EXPLAINED]

IN-DEPTH WALKTHROUGH

THE GUI 

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