Spitfire Audio releases Nok Cultural Ensemble - Tape Percussion

Spitfire Audio has announced the release of Nok Cultural Ensemble - Tape Percussion, a new virtual instrument plugin developed in close collaboration with the Nok Cutural Ensemble (NCE) collective of percussion prodigies.

Explosive afro-percussion meets dub and free jazz. On Tape Percussion, the Nok Cultural Ensemble centre diverse Afro-diasporic percussive traditions expressed through free jazz sensibilities and glitching beats, extending the futuristic pulse of dub technologies. This intuitive toolkit opens with 5 one-shot jazz kits and 6 one-shot African percussion patches, followed by Caribbean rhythms and dub-inspired warps over 8 drum loops, 69 atmospheric scenes, and 13 tonal, melodic warped presets — complemented by a range of in-built FX. Recorded to tape at the legendary Ariwa Studios, these sounds and textures thrum, crackle and crash with new possibilities for modern tracks and contemporary media scores.

Led by Edward Wakili-Hick, this collective of percussion prodigies are all leading lights playing across various genres underpinning London's eclectic jazz and beat scenes.

Features:

• Recorded to tape at the legendary Ariwa Studios, London.
• Presented in Spitfire Audio's dedicated plugin.
• Five sections:
  • Full Kits (5): Detailed drum hits from five distinctive acoustic and electronic kits.
  • Kit Loops (8) - Tempo-synced drum loops, stemmed out across the keyboard.
  • Percussion (4): A selection of various African and Caribbean percussion instruments.
  • Atmospheres (2): Experimental drum loops played live with various kits and percussion.
  • Tonal Warps (13): Melodic, abstract hits and loops, warped and distorted from the original percussion recordings.
• Five controls:
  • Processed Signal — The dynamics slider allows you to fade into a processed signal featuring bespoke live FX from Ariwa Studios.
  • Reverb — Controls the amount of reverb being added. Choose between a collection of 7 impulse responses, ranging from short studios and rooms to long, cavernous churches and halls.
  • Release — Allows you to change the length of the release of a note.
  • Tape Saturation — Controls the amount of tape saturation added.
  • Attack — Allows you to change the length of the attack of a note.
• NKS compatible.
• ~2.7GB.

Price: £29.00 GBP (inc. VAT) / $29.00 USD / €29.00 EUR (inc. VAT).

Nok Cultural Ensemble - Tape Percussion is available as an AAX-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-compatible plug-in supporting Native Instruments' NKS (Native Kontrol Standard) for macOS and Windows.

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