Percussion Sounds

I like to use musical instrument sounds in my sound design (e.g. drums, bells, cymbals, etc), and I had some percussion instruments handy so I figured I’d work on a percussion library. I themed it around “classroom percussion”, i.e. the sort of thing you’d find in a primary school music room!

I recorded a lot of different instruments, and made a sound library with them and also a Kontakt library. Turns out that despite being an industry standard program, Kontakt has absolutely awful UI for making libraries! Thankfully I got it all working after battling with the editor for a while!

Here are some loops I made from the Kontakt library:

And here are some of the recording subjects!

I bought a “drum-style” tambourine, which I could record with and without the cymbals taped down, so I could use it as a traditional tambourine or something more like a frame drum/bodhran. For a bit of fun, I also made some “ocean drum” sounds by putting a bunch of ball bearings in it and tilting it!

I included this squeaky dog toy, which I figured suited the silliness of the library’s theme!

This is a small djembe-like drum my parents brought back from Zambia when I was a kid

And of course, obligatory pink bongos!