StormDrum3

• Electronic Musician Editor’s Choice Award Winner
• Created by award-winning sounds producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix
• Tempo synced percussion performances played by master percussionists Mickey Hart, Greg Ellis and Chalo Eduardo
• Features the best instruments from the private collections of Mickey Hart and Remo
• Now included in OPUS, along with individual downloads, custom controls, and dozens of MIDI Tools and Mixer Effects
• Mixer Effects Include: SSL EQ and Dynamics Channel Strip, Transient Shaper, SSL’s legendary Stereo Bus Compressor, and upgraded “true stereo” reverb

THE MOST EXTENSIVE PERCUSSION LIBRARY FOR THE BIG SCREEN

Featuring huge cinematic drums and percussion from around the world, you won’t find a collection as complete as Stormdrum 3. Designed for film and game composers looking to create bombastic and thunderous percussion, Stormdrum 3 delivers more power than you could ever ask for. And even when you want subtle, tame, more ambient drums and metal hits, it places all of this and more in your arsenal.

DRUMS FROM THE WORLD OVER

The true potency of Stormdrum 3 is that it enables you to craft a fantastic musical story of any culture, any era, in any context. A documentary of the Amazon rainforest would be incomplete without deep tribal drums, and an intense sci-fi thriller featuring a heart-pounding speeder chase wouldn’t be the same without futuristic, designed auxiliary percussion. Stormdrum 3 gives you vivid realism, clean recordings, and maximum strike on every hit. We put all of our focus entirely on designing the perfect tool to architect cinematic experiences on command. Whenever your stream of ideas begins to dry up and you begin forcing yourself to continue composing, Stormdrum 3 will jumpstart your inspiration with a bang.

MICKEY HART

Mickey Hart (of The Grateful Dead) brought his private collection to Studio 1, in tandem with the Remo company. The producers recorded an arsenal of drums, woods and metals hand-selected by one of the world’s greatest percussionists over his career. “In SD3, our focus was to capture Mickey’s unrivaled percussion collection in the best possible multi-sampled way. It is very flexible. And note that even the close mix comprises the input from 8 microphones. This virtual instrument is his legacy, and mine as well,” says producer Nick Phoenix.

MICROPHONES

Stormdrum 3 was recorded in Studio One, the same location as Hollywood Orchestra, allowing them to blend seamlessly in a single mix. The library includes 5 microphone positions, including: Close (set of 8 Neumanns and Sennheisers), Mid (mid tree, 15 ft), HiFi (super-clean and modern, 15 ft), Main (Neumann M50 Decca tree, 20-25 ft), and Vintage (RCA ribbons, 25 ft). You can blend these different tones and positions as you choose into a single composite sound.

WHAT WILL YOU CREATE?

Stormdrum 3 gives you control over a larger arsenal of drums, metals and miscellany than you’ve ever used, from all over the world. When Stormdrum 2 provides a solid foundation for your cinematic percussion work, SD3 provides many additional layers of depth and a much broader range of sampled instruments. If an instrument is in this collection, it was chosen for its unique sound, for the fact that very few libraries even have it. If you’re looking for a complete percussion solution for film, games, or world music, Stormdrum 3 will deliver every time.