All the notes are tuned and harmonically sympathetic with each other so you can pretty much mash the keyboard and something interesting will emerge. The result is a great sounding virtual instrument which is very easy to play. Importantly, I removed the velocity to volume modulation which is typically a default setting for most synths/samplers, as the recording of the lighter velocities are, naturally, lower in volume than the higher velocities. Once these differing velocities were captured, I processed the recordings (EQ, compression, noise gate), mixed them and bounced the entire recording to one stereo file, which I then sliced up manually and loaded into Kontakt, scaling the incoming velocities to trigger the recordings of the drum being hit at the respective velocities. I recorded each strike using an AKG C414B and Beyerdynamic M160, using the mid/side micing technique which produces a recording with a wide stereo image, but which also sums perfectly to mono. I had John play each note around the drum at increasing velocities (quietest through moderate, to hardest), using the flat of his hand, his knuckle or a rubber mallet, so as to capture a variety of tonal characters. I decided I should sample the instrument, and brought a few mics, my laptop and interface round to my friend John’s house. Slapping or tapping the different divots around the outside of the metal drum produce different tones within a scale, rich with harmonics. This beautiful musical toy was in fact a “hang drum” (pronounced “ haang”) and despite it’s appearance and tone, is a very modern instrument, first designed and manufactured in Switzerland in the 1990s.
We had come back to a friend’s house after a night out and, during a lull in the conversation, he produced an unusual looking metal drum, similar in tone and character to a Caribbean steel drum. Krush is available as VST, AU and AAX for Windows and Mac.Īt the end of the night recently I found myself sitting cross-legged with something that looks like a metal UFO sitting on my lap.
Krush is a bitcrusher plugin with some extra crushing and modulation options. There are two types of Hang: the Mk 1 and the Mk 2. It's incredibly sensitive and dynamic the entire disk resonates at a central frequency as your hands move around the edge, teasing the notes out. The Hang is a steel, disk-shaped, harmonically tuned percussion instrument that's played with the hands. Browse our ever growing library of free VST plugins to use in your productions.
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