Cymbal Swells
12 cymbals played with short, medium and long swells
The story
As part of the Patchworks collaborative birthday gift for Christian Henson I asked one of my friends, James Walker, to record some percussion parts.
One of the parts was an isolate STEM of cymbal swells and I wondered how well they might work as a sample pack. Turns out, they worked pretty good – so James recorded me a set of 12 different cymbals played short, medium and long swells.
For the Kontakt version there is an added feature to sync the swell peak to the downbeat of the nearest bar, regardless of the tempo or key signature set in your DAW. This overcomes one of my usually challenges using cymbal swell samples. A DecentSampler version is also available but without the advanced features only available in Kontakt.
Check out my video below for more info on the sample pack. Also, check out James on Instagram, Twitter and his website.
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Reviews
Cymbals Fantastic!
sorry about the playful pun. These are fantastic. The fact that there’s also a video tutorial. How lucky are we. Once I installed them I literally went through every note to try and create some descriptions for when I might use them as there really is quite a variety.
Perfect!!
I was searching for a cymbal swell instrument plugin and this one is perfect. Thank you!!
Cymbal swells
Absolutley fabulous, exactly what I needed for my project, thanks!
By Stephen Tallamy
I'm a composer and sound maker. I have scored independent films and release production music for placement in TV and film. I make videos on composing and...