Soniccouture's quest for the exotic, the unique, the esoteric, and
the downright weird and quirky, brings us to our latest obsession,
the Hang.

You may not have heard of the Hang - it's a relatively new instru-
ment and it's extremely hard to get hold of one. First invented in
the year 2000 by PANArt, they are hand-built in Switzerland by two
very dedicated people, Felix and Sabina. If you want one, you must
ask them if they will build you one. If they agree, then you may
have to wait up to 2 years.

The Hang is played with the hands. Everyone who gets to play one
falls in love with it a little bit. It's incredibly sensitive and
dynamic - the entire disc resonates at a central frequency as your
hands move around the edge teasing the notes out.

Two Different Drums
-------------------
There are two types of Hang, the Mk1 and Mk2. The Mk 1 had 8 notes
around the Ding. These were available in 45 different tunings, and
PANArt produced nearly 4000 of them.
The Mk 2 is basically the same shape but has a brass coating on the
top as well as around the rim. The Mk 2 comes in only five different
tunings and has only seven notes around the Ding. It is a more
sturdy design, stays in tune better over time, and has a slightly
longer and purer ring. We have recorded an example of each Hang for
this sampled instrument.

The Sampled Instruments
-----------------------
The Soniccouture Pan Drum Instruments feature over 1000 samples per
drum, with up to 21 velocity layers. The Hang drums have been
sampled in 6 different areas ( Gu, Ding, Outer Ding, Tone-field
Centre, Tone-Field Edge, and in-between the Tone-field). Each area
was sampled being played with Finger, Slap and knuckle, which is
triggered by key-switches. Each hit has up to 3 alternate round-
robin versions, to ensure there is no 'machine-gun' effect.

We have presented our Hang Drums in their original keys. This can be
quickly transposed using the drop-down menu on the front panel of
the instruments. There is also a full chromatic mapping included,
as well as a choice of different key-mappings to suit different
playing styles.

The KSP Jammer
--------------
Built into each Soniccouture Pan Drum Instrument is the Pan Jammer
script - a generative pattern sequencer. This fantastic real-time
peformance tool randomly builds on the notes you play to create
organic, evolving sequences from the Hang. The acompanying Tweak
page means you can Jam and create soundscapes using the delays,
filters and reverbs built into each instrument. This is only
available in Kontakt, although there is a reduced version of it in
Ableton Live.

Soniccouture Pan Drum is a unique and evocative sampled instrument
that will bring indefinable atmosphere to all kinds of music
production, from Film scores to IDM to Song-Writing to Trance to
World Music, there is no genre that can't be touched by Pan Drum.

http://www.soniccouture.com/en/products/g8-pan-drum/

Download File Size:2.45 GB

---