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Hollywood Fantasy Percussion Black Friday pricing is 55% off, which puts this EastWest Sounds percussion library at $44 until Jan 17, 2027.
It is a set of struck and shaken instruments built for epic fantasy scoring. The maker says it works with most orchestral scores and sits best next to the rest of the Hollywood Fantasy palette.
EastWest Sounds describes it as a percussion library made specifically for fantasy soundtracks, where conventional orchestral percussion often falls short. The instruments were chosen for settings like iron forges, royal celebrations and folk festivals.
The maker's aim is percussion that sits inside the world you are scoring, not just on top of the drama.
The feature list also names gran cassas, orchestral chimes and metal shakers.
The nagado-daiko is a different animal from the other taikos. It was designed for rituals, and the maker points to slow, quiet passages where little else in the orchestra competes with it.
The ceng ceng are Balinese cymbals with a splashy, resonant character. They are softer than Western cymbals, so they add metal to a palette without the usual harshness.
The krakeb are North African castanets that sit close to the ceng ceng in tone. They are rounder in timbre and lower in pitch, with a hollow quality.
The goatnail shaker is a dry, brittle rattle made from goat hoof trimmings. The maker pitches it at eerie, mystical ritual scenes.
The nagara rub FX is a rubbed Indian drum that EastWest Sounds compares to a deep, atonal bowed instrument howling in the night.
The snare ensemble is there for drum corps parts and armies marching into battle. The toms add a deeper, rounder lower-mid layer underneath it.
Orchestral metallurgy is a set of large metals being grazed, struck and beaten. The maker says it covers forge and assembly-line sounds from a distant realm.
The orchestral bell ensemble adds chimes that lock in with a conventional orchestra, and they also cover church bells in a castle town.
Yes. The Hollywood Fantasy Percussion Black Friday deal is 55% off, which brings this EastWest Sounds library to $44. The offer ends Jan 17, 2027.
It covers 3 bodhrans, 3 large taikos, a 600 lb nagado ensemble, ceng ceng, crotales, krakeb, a goatnail shaker, nagara and ashiko drums, bells, metals, gongs, snares and toms.
The nagado-daiko is a massive taiko made for rituals and spiritual use. The maker says it suits austere ceremonies with a single, haunting low impact, and it shines in slow, quiet passages.
The maker says the instruments suit most orchestral scores but shine in combination with the rest of the Hollywood Fantasy palette. They are aimed at epic fantasy soundtracks.
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