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Conjure an image of Cinematic Drums and you’ll probably be thinking about a battery of percussionists. In the case of Drumbada that means up to 15 Bombos Legüeros, which is a rare form of Andean bass drum that has apparently remained unsampled. At least until now!
Traditionally, the Bombos Legüeros is played with a stick and can reputedly be heard, in its native setting, from a distance of up to six miles away! It has an exceedingly deep and reverberant tone, and it can be muted and struck in different locations around the drum to provide other timbral colours, such as the familiar rim‑clicking sound — useful for those upper rhythmic constructs.
Upon loading, the interface initialises to a slightly unnerving picture of some native drummers, albeit represented by computer imagery. From here, you can access a number of presets and settings from the upper menus, or tweak the patch settings from the row of...
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