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Models percussion resonances on a virtual surface.
Modal characteristics produce a timbre similar to hand drums such as doumbeks and congas. use of the x-y position ‘vary’ parameter provides ‘realistic’ harmonic variation for each hit.

dmiHammer is a VSTi for creating hammered chromatic percussion sounds. It’s capable of reproducing the sounds of xylophones, mbira and chimes as well as a swag of strange new sounds.

dynamite cowbell brings you more cowbell than even Gene Frenkle can deliver
6 cowbells mapped to midi keys
5 velocity layers
close and room mic levels
damping control
5 bonus digibells
1 cow

papaya is a physically modelled mallet synthesizer. it features a nice chorus module, and does a very good job of simulating steel drums, and other carribean type percussion.

4 timbre persussion synth.

Takim is a Middle Eastern Drum Module.

Just a whole lot of analog Cymbals/Hi-Hats

Carillon is a physically modelled bell and chime synthesizer. The extreme far ends of the octives detune similar to pippo. it also features the chorus and reverb modules from padawan.

Four exotic percussion instruments:-Doholla - Jerk-Doff - Rumba-Darbuka - Nubian-Riq (Tambourine) - wedding
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A waveguide drum model as shown on gui.
Note that high feedback settings can exceed unity which can be employed for timbre or overload. Always use a limiter and low monitor levels when patching!

A snare drum simulator - it has 4 snare ’vectors’, which gives a sound that is closer to a gut snare (eg. Tabor) than modern snares, both may have similar damping dynamics.

A 2d square resonance for percussion.

A 5-channel FDN that can produce sounds similar to 909 hihats.

Brush is a quick wrapper for an impulse cluster modulator. The length of the impulses can be changed to produce timbres similar to bitcrushing.
The output is routed through a state variable filter coded by Chris Kerry to produce a simple and flexible midrange percussion module.

Two separately filtered and pitch-enveloped noise, sine or sample oscillators.

An attractor-based percussion oscillator perhaps similar to the T-circuit used in Roland’s classic analog drum machines.

A hand-clap simulation vst.
a simple additive synth that’s optimized for realistic bell sounds and for fender Rhodes-type instruments. Bella comes with 16 presets, but it’s very easy to program and create your own unique soundz.



