EastWest Quantum Leap Storm Drums 2: Son Of Storm Drums
Listening to Agency of Spirits's music, you'd be surprised to hear their main composer / programmer throw around adjectives like "bombastic" and "cinematic" to describe something positively. Then again, Mike is talking about EastWest Quantum Leap Storm Drums 2, a pretty impressive and varied percussion collection.
Mike likes the second version of Storm Drums because of the added ability to edit and play individual samples, as opposed to just playing prerecorded loops. See, Mike is a control guy -- as if that advanced gaming joystick in the background wasn't enough of a clue.
MIKE: Hey. This is Mike from Agency of Spirits.
Stormdrum 2. It's -- There was a Stormdrum 1 obviously but this is like massive percussion, ethnic percussion. I mean just unbelievable, you know, just the stuff in this is like the big drums, big theatrical sounding stuff like the kind of stuff you're going to hear in movies, and this one, this version actually has loops in it, and it's like basically -- The old version of Stormdrum 1 was basically the loops were there but you really couldn't do anything with them. They were all pretty recorded for the most part. Now, you can actually take the loops and, you know, do the MIDI thing with it, and you can change the drum sounds out, you know, like one sound you can replace it with another but it's just amazing.
I mean the stuff that they recorded for this is just like pretty crazy things. I mean it's a big, big sound and that's what I like, a big, bombastic sound, and you throw it in with everything else and it's very, like these two packages actually complement themselves. Together, I mean, you can't go wrong with something like that, but that's just the tip of the iceberg with their stuff.
I mean they have a lot of different things. They have an ethnic one called RA which is a great one but they haven't updated it yet, and then there's one called Symphonic Choirs that I have. It's basically you can almost have a choir sing what you type in. I mean, you know, the typical classical choir. And it's pretty amazing but it just has a steep learning curve. It's better than your typical drum loops and stuff like that I mean, but it's got its place. I mean it doesn't apply to everybody like if you're making some kind of music, you're not going to find any use out of it but if you like to mix it up or you're doing soundtracks and stuff, that's perfect. It's unbelievably, I mean, like I said you probably heard it already by now on TV or the movies or somewhere. I mean it's everywhere. These are very reliable products and a lot of people, you know, they got good pedigree.




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