Hollywood Fantasy Percussion: Virtual Percussion Instrument for Fantasy Scoring

The library includes three bodhrans, the Celtic frame drum played with a two-sided mallet or by hand, which gives a gentle but firm pulse. Three large taikos provide a deep, bassy rumble, and a separate Nagado ensemble offers a single, slow low impact suited to ceremonial passages. Nagara and ashiko folk drums add rolls, hits and rim taps for festival and street-performance textures.

A gran cassa adds a bass drum to extend the low end of an orchestra, struck across a wider range of impacts than conventional mallet playing.

The metal section covers Balinese ceng ceng cymbals, which are softer than Western cymbals, and North African krakeb castanets with a rounder, lower tone. Crotales, small chromatic cymbals, can sustain a gradual melody, while orchestral chimes and large struck metals cover church-bell and forge-style sounds.

Shakers include a goatnail shaker, a dry and brittle rattle for eerie rituals, and a metal shaker with a soft, dispersed sound for driving rhythm without cymbal splash. A nagara rub effect provides a bowed, howling texture.