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Percussion Madnesss from the Vienna Symphonic Library!

The VSL Horizon Series FXPercussion set will add new dimensions to your music! This unique collection of 31 special percussion sounds (all drawn from the VSL Pro Edition Percussion Collection) offers exotic instruments, nature-mimicing sounds and sound effects classics effective for both music and sound design.

Horizon Series FXPercussion at a Glance:

• Wide variety of exotic and unusual percussion sounds
  
• Includes a range of sound effects essentials
  
• Thousands of samples with multiple articulations

Wide variety of exotic and unusual percussion sounds
Look to the Horizon Series FXPercussion collection whenever you need a different sound to spice up your score. Celestial, moody and evocative – the waterphone delivers a broad sonic spectrum ranging from pure sonic experimentation to ethereal melodies. This volume also features percussion instruments that mimic nature, like the waldteufel, cuica and the lion’s roar. Try the thunder sheets to produce dark and metallic effects collages, or create bizarre worlds with the spring drum. This collection, taken entirely from the Percussion set of Vienna’s Pro Edition, contains the most spectacular and exceptional instruments in this category. Sounds like Japanese singing bowls, flex atone and many more inspiring treasures are dedicated to all users searching for extraordinary and rare instruments. Like the Glass & Stones edition of the Horizon Series, FXPercussion is a vast reservoir for every sound designer.

Includes a range of sound effects essentials
Also included in the FXPercussion collection is a variety of classic sound effects, ideal for insertion in plays and recordings of dramatic works. You'll find car and bicycle horns, gunshots, hammers, railroad tracks, sirens, thunder sheets and wind machines.

Thousands of samples with multiple articulations
As with all VSL collections, the FXPercussion set comprises thousands of samples. Most instruments include multiple articulations to extract the full range of sound possibilities from the FXPercussion instruments. No matter what your sound needs are, the Horizon Series FXPercussion collection is a sonic playground!


Horizon Series FXPercussion instruments and articulations:

• Anklung: A set of anklungs with short, medium, and long shakes. The instruments are mapped chromatically
  
• Bell tree: A bell tree, played with a triangle beater and metal mallets
  
• Boa-bam: A set of boobams, played with wooden mallets, single strokes, rim strokes, tremolos, rebounding rolls, and upbeats
  
• Brakes and Springs: Single strokes on brake disks; single strokes, slow and fast glissandos on metal springs
  
• Bull roarer: A bullroarer with samples of different length, and excerpts
  
• Burma bell: Burmese bells, played with hard string-wound, wooden, and metal mallets
  
• Honks: A collection of car and bicycle honks, with normal, open, and mute variations
  
• Castanets: Table castanets with upbeats, single strokes, and tremolos
  
• Chimes: Metal, glass, and bamboo chimes, with upward and downward strokes, high and low, open and damped
  
• Claves: Fiber and wood claves with single strokes and upbeats
  
• Cuica: Three cuicas with short, medium and long tones, and effects
  
• Exotic gongs: China gongs and Peking Opera gongs, with single strokes, tremolos, and tremolo dynamics
  
• Flexatone: Two flexatones with static and glissando tones, and special effects
  
• Hammer: Hammer beats, executed on various surfaces like wood boards and blocks of different materials
  
• Japanese Singing Bowls: Japanese singing bowls, played with rubber and wood mallets, open and muted after the beat
  
• Jingle-bells: Three different jingle bells, with single shakes and tremolos
  
• Lion roar: Lion roar, with variations and tremolo
  
• Log drum: Log drum, played with soft, medium, hard, and wood mallets, single strokes and tremolos
  
• Ocean drum: 2 ocean drums, with single sounds and specials
  
• Rails: 7 different railway rails, with left and right hand single strokes, upbeats, and tremolos
  
• Rainmaker: Three rainmakers with slow and fast sounds, and patterns
  
• Shots: Pistol and revolver shots in several variations, with and without reverb
  
• Siren: Three sirens with tones of different duration, dry and wet
  
• Spring Drum: 2 spring drums with various playing techniques, including pizzicato, finger snips and slides, rotation, and pulse
  
• Tamtams: Tamtams from 90 down to 30 cm diameter, played with mallets, brushes, and triangle beaters
  
• Thunder sheets: A set of 5 different thunder sheets, struck in different ways, shaken, and played with a bow
  
• Vibratone: Low and high vibratones, with pitch changes and tremolos
  
• Waldteufel: Small and big "Waldteufel" — friction drums
  
• Waterphone: A waterphone with various bowed and plucked playing techniques, with single notes with and without modulation, repetitions, arpeggios, and effects
  
• Whip: 2 whips
  
• Wind machine: Wind machine sounds

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number VSLHP1

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