OT: Know of a good Steel-pan drums library?

[Wheat Williams]

Does anybody know of a sample library of steel-pan drums, like they use in Caribbean Calypso music?

This is a pitched melodic set of drums that function like a xylophone, if you are not familiar with them. Each drum has several tuned areas that produce a different pitch when struck with a mallet, and a number of drums are used to form an ensemble.

Steelpan drums at Wikipedia



A great YouTube video of a steelpan orchestra.

[Haydn]

Don't know of a dedicated library. The Garritan World Instruments library will have some decent sounding steel drums. Library should be out soon.

Jim

[Wheat Williams]

It occurred to me that Steel Pan Drums is a Standard MIDI instrument--program #115. I've realized I've got three rather low-quality Standard MIDI libraries/players at my disposal--and not surprisingly the steel pan drums in all of them sound rotten.

[bionicbub]

It occurred to me that Steel Pan Drums is a Standard MIDI instrument--program #115. I've realized I've got three rather low-quality Standard MIDI libraries/players at my disposal--and not surprisingly the steel pan drums in all of them sound rotten.

Until the Garritan World Instruments comes out, you could try the Virtual Drumline Library, from which a number of instruments are borrowed in the Garritan COMB2 library. VDL has a complete set of steel pan drums (version 2.5 only).

[Indigisounds]

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