Shou Drum
Shou Drum
A tempered steel tuned drum, performed with a variety of articulations and mallets.
A tempered steel tuned drum, performed with a variety of articulations and mallets.
$39
$39
Hear Shou Drum In Action
Hear Shou Drum In Action
- Dancing Shadows (Naked) Franck Barré 1:25
- Contemplation of the Forest (Naked) Andrew Aversa 1:19
- Pool of Light (Dressed) Nabeel Ansari 1:53
- The Shou Drum (Naked) Abel Vegas 1:34
- Dublin Night (Dressed) Henning Nugel 1:19
- Edge of Pluto (Naked) Ed Watkins 1:33
- Little Giants (Dressed) David Levy 1:41
- Little Jamoco for 9 Shou Drums (Naked) Alessandro Ponti 2:09
- Pool of Light (Naked) Nabeel Ansari 1:53
Reviews
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Mark Portmann
Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones
"[ISW]'s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire."
Neal Acree
World of WarCraft, Diablo III, StarCraft II, Overwatch
"Impact Soundworks has some of the most creative and innovative libraries out there. From world instruments to the insanely deep sampled Shreddage guitar series the Impact catalog is full of must-haves and unexpected and inspiring surprises. Highly recommended!
Stewart Winter
Co-founder, VideoHelper
"I'm a keyboard player -- I can't even make a REAL guitar sound convincing. But Telos and Rosette are my go-to guitars because they sound incredible, sit well in a mix and are so easy to configure to my personal playing habits. I'm constantly discovering new ways to play them and they've saved my ass more times than I can count. And the pedal Steel is still my favorite library of its kind for Country, Folk and organic layering behind synths."
Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
"I never would have thought that sampled guitars could sound as good as ISW's do. The fact that I can use them to lay down a realistic solo is unprecedented. They’ve pushed the boundaries of realism."
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"The sound of the library is very pleasing...the more I used the library the more I felt I was learning how to write idiomatically for the instrument." "Rosette Mandolin provides a good sound that could have many applications, with versatile input options that cater to writing realistic mandolin lines, impossible 5+ note chords and everything in between." Thomas Field, September 2024
Richard Jacques
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
"I'm a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It's so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments... from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further."
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
"ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch's Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!"
Audio Demos
- Dancing Shadows (Naked) Franck Barré 1:25
- Contemplation of the Forest (Naked) Andrew Aversa 1:19
- Pool of Light (Dressed) Nabeel Ansari 1:53
- The Shou Drum (Naked) Abel Vegas 1:34
- Dublin Night (Dressed) Henning Nugel 1:19
- Edge of Pluto (Naked) Ed Watkins 1:33
- Little Giants (Dressed) David Levy 1:41
- Little Jamoco for 9 Shou Drums (Naked) Alessandro Ponti 2:09
- Pool of Light (Naked) Nabeel Ansari 1:53
Overview
A beautiful tuned drum handcrafted from tempered steel and performed with a variety of articulations and mallets. The Shou Drum’s pure tone is perfect for atmospheric music, film & game scoring, evolving textures, and ambient moods. A wonderfully unique instrument sure to inspire your compositions!
A beautiful tuned drum handcrafted from tempered steel and performed with a variety of articulations and mallets. The Shou Drum’s pure tone is perfect for atmospheric music, film & game scoring, evolving textures, and ambient moods. A wonderfully unique instrument sure to inspire your compositions!
Product Info
Two intimate mic positions
Five round robin (RR) variations per note
Three types of mallets
Brushed & finger articulations included
Percussive strikes and noises
Two intimate mic positions
Five round robin (RR) variations per note
Three types of mallets
Brushed & finger articulations included
Percussive strikes and noises
Features
Suite of designed textures
Beautiful UI with polyphonic arp
Custom microtuning engine & presets
WAVs available for tweaking & design
Suite of designed textures
Beautiful UI with polyphonic arp
Custom microtuning engine & presets
WAVs available for tweaking & design
Requirements
1.5GB of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
2GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
WAV files available
Kontakt 5.5.1+ Full Version
This library is NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OSX
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12 (latest update).
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12 (latest update)
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Intro & Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
Mike Gonsolin
(Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Playboi Carti, Migos)
“Impact Soundworks’ libraries are truly in a league of their own. I’ve been a long time user for as long as I can remember and it would take me a whole other producing lifetime to build the depths of these libraries on my own. As a Kontakt enthusiast who owns just about every library out there I can confidently say that Impact Soundworks’ libraries stand in the top 1%, and that’s saying something! No snake oil here. Just meticulously assembled libraries that are overflowing with creative sound design options and inspiration igniting presets.”
Mike Gonsolin (Mike G)
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Stewart Winter
(Co-founder, VideoHelper)
“I’m a keyboard player — I can’t even make a REAL guitar sound convincing. But Telos and Rosette are my go-to guitars because they sound incredible, sit well in a mix and are so easy to configure to my personal playing habits. I’m constantly discovering new ways to play them and they’ve saved my ass more times than I can count. And the pedal Steel is still my favorite library of its kind for Country, Folk and organic layering behind synths.”
Featured Artists & Composers
Mark Portmann
(Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones)
“[ISW]’s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire.”
ShadyCicada
“Impact Soundworks software is an absolute mainstay in my work when it comes to Video Game and Anime-inspired tracks! The amount of ease and wonderful sounds these plugins offer allows me to get straight into writing and brainstorming.”
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
The Shou Drum features a classy, elegant interface offering key controls for tweaking the instrument’s tone, as well as some powerful sequencing features. Volume, tuning, mic mix, transposition, and both volume & pitch envelopes can be modified from the main page. The other tabs offer a powerful combination poly-arpeggiator, sequencer, and gate, plus a custom microtuning engine, and a four-slot FX rack.
The poly arp is quite powerful, offering many possible modes for performance and sequencing. With “Use MIDI Pitch”, the engine will arpeggiate held MIDI notes, using the Velocity & Length tables to modify each step. Alternatively, “Use MIDI Vel” will use input velocity instead. The “Gate” mode toggles a trance gate, useful for rhythmic pulses without retriggering samples. The Pitch table is used to create custom note sequences based on each played note.
Reviews
Shou Drum – Sample Library Review
“With Shou Drum, Impact Soundworks deliver a deep yet intuitive tonal metal instrument that excels at arpeggiated patterns and hypnotic ostinatos making it a great tool for ambient tracks or creating unique textures.”
AMM (Sample Library Review)