Apocalypse Percussion Micro: Cinematic Drum Ensemble Library for Kontakt

Each articulation was performed by an ensemble of one drum type, with between three and six players playing in unison. Soundiron says the sets are captured with a wide large-diaphragm close mic array in the same hall used for its choir and piano libraries.

The library provides up to 12 dynamic velocity layers per articulation, with two round-robin variations per velocity. The 28 articulations are spread across seven bass drum, six concert snare, four dhol, three doumbek, and single bodhrán, riq and daf sets.

The master ensemble preset gives access to the full articulation set with performance controls for attack, release and transient start offset. A Megamixer preset lets you build a drum kit from up to eight sockets, and a dual-layer preset plays any articulation as a pitched instrument across the keyboard, with two articulations combined.

The multi-mode arpeggiator includes a step sequencer for pattern creation. The effects rack covers EQ, filter, phaser, flanger, delay, distortion and amp and speaker simulation, alongside the convolution reverb.