The Punjab Dhol is a double-sided barrel drum large and bulky to produce the preferred loud bass. The drum consists of a wooden barrel with animal hide or synthetic skin stretched over its open ends, covering them completely. These skins can be stretched or loosened with a tightening mechanism made up of either interwoven ropes, or nuts and bolts. Tightening or loosening the skins subtly alters the pitch of the drum sound. The stretched skin on one of the ends is thicker and produces a deep, low frequency (higher bass) sound and the other thinner one produces a higher frequency sound. In contemporary Punjabi music, dhols with synthetic, or plastic, treble skins are very common.

The Epic Dhol Ensemble drums follows our over general direction in terms of recording all articulations at 10 velocity layers and 10 round robin pr. velocity layers. It contains a great variety of articulations, since each side of drum produces very different sounds. Essentially its divided into a bass section and a snare section. We played the bass section with the traditional big wooden Dhol stick, mallet, hands and fingers to ensure we covered the entire range. The sound is similar to that of Taiko drums, but with a little more tonality to it. The snare side was recorded with the traditional thin bamboo Dhol stick, however we also recorded this side with mallets, brushes and fingers. In addition we recorded different rimshot positions on the drum, so the users can create a variety of different soundings rhythmic textures on the drum. Th library also contains a substantial amount (+800) of BPM based loop banks for instant user gratification. We recorded the dhols and other smaller complimentary percussion instruments together. The loops work perfect with the multisampled sets, but also work perfectly as stand-alone instant-gratification type of music loops.

Overview
Price: $99
Deep sampled Dhol Ensemble
Direct download / Cloud Server System
Product only available as download

Core Articulations
Multi-sampled Dhol Ensemble
10 velocity layers / 10 repetition pr. layer
Loop/phrase sampled Epic Dhol Ensemble
850+ loops from 80-140BPM
Dhol Ensemble FX

Core Requirements
Full Retail version of Kontakt 3.5 or later required
1.7GB harddrive space
Ability to download
PC 1.4GZ+, 1GB ram
MAC 1.6Ghz, 1GB ram

Articulation
Core Dhol Drum Articulations, includes:
Dhol Bass Drum w/ traditional Dhol stick (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
Dhol Bass Drum w/ mallet (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
Dhol Bass Drum w/ hands (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
Dhol Bass Drum w/ fingers (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
Dhol Body Rim Shot 1 (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
Dhol Body Rim Shot 2 (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
Dhol Snare Drum w/ traditional Dhol bamboo stick (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
Dhol Snare Drum w/ mallet (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
Dhol Snare Drum w/ brushes (10 velocity layers – 10 round robin)
874 BPM loops w/ assorted percussion
80, 90, 110, 120, 130, 140 BPM
20 instrument patches, 2.063 samples
Sample resolution: 44.1Khz/24Bit .wav format
Format(s): Kontakt and .wav