For All Musical Styles
The new sound of taiko.
Taiko. A bombastic, passionate instrument that can stir people’s emotions with a single beat. The taiko can add the ideal evocative spice to movie soundtracks, ad scores, rock, hip hop, house, techno, ambient, experimental, or any other musical style. With the release of JTP, all engineers, producers, and musicians can now get their hands on previously unattainable quality taiko sounds.
The velocity dynamics of JTP are perfectly suited for MIDI drum pads. So don’t settle for just fiddling with beats in your DAW. Swap your mouse and keyboard for a pair of sticks and feel for yourself the passionate sensation of live taiko drumming. The more MIDI drum pads, the better.
- ・Perfect reproduction of five traditional Japanese instruments — an ohdaiko drum, a chudaiko drum, two varieties of shimedaiko drums, and a kane hand cymbal.
- ・Each instrument was recorded with four direct mics and three pairs of ambient mics (for a total of 11 channels) to capture the most vivid, powerful sound possible.
- ・Authored specifically for FXpansion BFD2.1, which allows you to mix the four direct mics and three ambient mics any way you wish.
- ・Provides a host of articulations beyond rudimentary hits that are essential for taiko performances. These articulations provide an expressiveness that sheer volumes of samples cannot.
- ・Over 6 GB of taiko sounds with up to 47 velocity layers for each hand. Left and right hits were recorded separately.
- ・Left and right hits have been assigned to different keys to give the experience of really playing the taiko on a keyboard.
- ・The pack also contains the performers’ calls and shouts.
- ・Original MIDI grooves performed by Ikki Hino are available. Sixty patterns are included in the standard download version.
Over 6 GB in All, and 2.6 GB of Pure Ohdaiko Power
The highlight of the JTP pack is the ohdaiko, the biggest, baddest drum of the taiko arsenal. From pianissimo to fortissimo, we have captured 2.6 GB worth of multifaceted ohdaiko punch. Of course, all the other instruments have been recorded in equal detail from attack to final decay.
And make no mistake: 6 GB is not small for a taiko pack. Much of the size of regular drum kit packs is in the cymbals, which take up loads of memory due to their long sustain. JTP, however, has no cymbals, so every byte is devoted to rendering the full expressiveness of taiko percussion.
