traditional family of hand-held percussion instruments is usually defined as a drum with open frame and large cymbals or jingles. They are similar in appearance and origin to a very large tambourine, but instead of being just accompaniment, the drums of the Rik family can often play a lead or lead role.
Jingles, rattles, or rings are often used as an inconspicuous drum component, along with a wide range of unique finger and hand articulations on the top and rim. This vast family of specialized drums is considered a very serious and deeply developed class of instruments in both traditional and contemporary music of the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
For our multisampled Riq Drum library, we grabbed a pair of full-size drums, one large 15 “daf” drum from Greece with metal rings and cylinders (actually called a daf) and one smaller 13 “riq drum from Egypt with wide tin” cymbals. “. We also recorded a toy frame drum, which we turned into a miniature rick by adding an egg shaker.
We’ve also included a complete collection of atmospheric and sustained ambient instruments, each fully crafted through significant manipulation of the source recordings for this library and equipped with options for layered morphing, shaping, and effects chaining.
• 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.
