Saga: Acoustic Trailer Percussion
A collection of thunderous drum ensembles, dynamic metals, and world instruments.
$149
Audio Demos
- The Saga Begins (Library Only) Ashton Gleckman
- The Saga Begins Ashton Gleckman
- Attack Of The Cyborg Llamas Brad Jerkins
- Into The Sea (Library Only) Firoze
- Into The Sea Firoze
- Landwaster (Library Only) Henning Nugel
- Landwaster Henning Nugel
- Facing Our Destiny J. Gabriel Rodrigues
- Assumption Javier Arnanz
- They Are Here (Library Only) Kurt Landre
- They Are Here Kurt Landre
- March Of The Machines Lawson Madlener
- Exodus Mitchell Gibbs
- The Chase Nathan Madsen
- Tyrant Pixelee
Overview
An all-in-one resource for those needing earth-shattering percussion on their soundtrack, film score, or trailer. Saga: Acoustic Trailer Percussion is a massive collection of orchestral, world, and metallic percussion instruments designed to add impact and scale to any production.
Product Info
Over 11,000+ 24-bit samples
Recorded in a gorgeous medium-sized orchestral hall with close & far mic mixdowns. Blend between up-close, focused, and punchy to reverberant and epic or anything in the middle.
Immense dynamic and expressive range
Up to 7 dynamic layers and 10 round robins, plus fine tuning options for more dynamic rolls. Get expressive and powerful performances even with quantized MIDI.
Powerful ensembles and soloists
Orchestral ensembles, world ensembles, world solos, oil drums, cymbals, gongs, anvils, and other various metals. Includes 5 distinct orchestral ensembles and 6 world ensembles for an instantly full and powerful sound.
Crucial articulations
Go beyond simple ‘hits’ with rolls, rims, edges, various sticks & mallets, plus separated right and left hand keyswitches for maximum realism.
Concert, world, and found percussion
In addition to a massive selection of traditional concert and world percussion instruments, choose from unexpected found percussion like oil drums, silo booms, metal sheets, or even everyday objects such as pipes, doors, and containers. 10 patches, 110+ instruments.
Features
Gorgeous and easy-to-use UI
Ultra-easy tone shaping controls
Simple mapping, load-and-play
Edit instruments individually or all at once
12 built-in FX with 4 insert slots
Requirements
5 GB of disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
4 GB RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt 5.8.1+ Full Version
This library requires the FULL version of Kontakt (not the free Kontakt Player.)
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.11-10.15, 11, 12 or higher
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11, 12 or 13 (latest update).
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows: Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack), Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 2 GB RAM. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Library Walkthrough
Official Trailer
Featured Artists & Composers
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.
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!"
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
"Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit."
Saga: Acoustic Trailer Percussion is an extensive collection of thunderous drums, dynamic metals and other real-world acoustic percussion instruments focused on providing impact and scale to cinematic and trailer music.
This enormous library features a broad range of deeply sampled instruments and articulations recorded on a scoring stage, including orchestral and world drum ensembles, world drum soloists, cymbals and gongs, oil drums, anvils and a plethora of large metal slams and crashes. Also included are field recordings of giant silos, metal doors, machinery, tools and various small metals.
There are over 110 instruments in total and the easy-to-use Kontakt GUI offers plenty of performance and sound shaping options that allow you to customize Saga to suit your compositions.
- Orchestral & world drum ensembles
- Cymbals & gongs
- Oil Drums
- World solo drums
- Anvils & destroyed metals
- Field recordings (simulated battle gear, tools, machinery, metal doors, tanks, giant silos)
- Up to 7 dynamic layers and 10 round robin
- Recorded in a fairly dry hall with 2 microphone positions
- Multiple articulations (rolls, rims, edges, various sticks & mallets)
- Powerful 4-slot FX rack featuring 12 FX
- Simple, easy to use GUI
- 4 GB of content / 11,346 samples (24 bit/44.1 kHz NCW)
- Works only with the FULL version of Kontakt, NOT the free Kontakt Player
ORCHESTRAL ENSEMBLES
Large Drum Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
Snare Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
- Rim
Snare (Off) Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
Low Tom Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
- Rim
High Tom Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
- Rim
WORLD ENSEMBLES
Taiko Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Edge Hit
- Rim Hit
- Sticks
Tupan Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
- Rim
Surdo Ensemble (6x):
- Stick Hit
- Stick Roll (Modwheel)
- Mallet Hit
- Mallet Roll (Modwheel)
Frame Drum Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Rim
Repinique Ensemble (3x):
- Hit
- Roll (Modwheel)
Hand Drum Ensemble (6x):
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
- Rim
- Rim Roll (modwheel)
WORLD SOLOISTS
Solo Taiko:
- Hit
- Edge
- Rim
- Sticks
- Solo Tupan:
- Kiek Open
- Kiek Muted
- Top Kiek
- Top Flam
- Mid Kiek Open
- Mid Kiek Muted
- Rim Kiek
- Rim Flam
- Center Stick Open
- Center Stick Muted
- Center Flams
- Rim Stick
Solo Repinique:
- Hit
- Roll (Modwheel)
Solo Surdo:
- Stick Hit
- Stick Roll (Modwheel)
- Mallet Hit
- Mallet Roll (Modwheel)
Solo Frame Drum:
- Hit
- Rim
CYMBALS
16”, 18” & 20” Crashes:
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
- Choke
- Scrape
- Short, Medium & Long Rolls
GONGS
Tamtam:
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
- Choke
- Scrapes
Low Gong:
- Hit
- Roll (modwheel)
- Choke
- Scrapes
High Gong:
- Hit
- Choke
- Scrapes
OIL DRUMS
Large, Medium, Small Barrels:
- Various Hits
ANVILS
- Various Hits
- Scrapes
METAL SHEETS
- Various Hits
- Bows
- Rubs
- Slams & Crashes
SILO BOOMS
- Various Hits & Booms
VARIOUS METALS
- Small Metals
- Containers
- Tools
- Pipes
- Globes
- Doors
- Large Metals
Reviews
Saga: Acoustic Trailer Percussion – Sound on Sound
“If action and thriller soundtracks are your thing, then Red Room Audio’s Saga Acoustic Trailer Percussion more than holds its own. It is also competitively priced so you don’t need a Hollywood budget to get on board. If your palette of cinematic drum and percussion sounds needs expanding, Saga Acoustic Trailer Percussion is well worth auditioning”
-John Walden (Sound on Sound)
Saga: Acoustic Trailer Percussion – StrongMocha
“At a first glance, “Saga Acoustic Trailer Percussion” might appear to be another slamming, crashing, pounding collection of trailer-tailored fluff. That is simply not the case here. What Saga really contains is a highly balanced collection of drums we’re familiar with, some we’re not, and a surprisingly flexible variety of industrial percussion that makes this package a work-horse that composers can and should, by all means, invest in with comfort. It’s rock solid. 5 out of 5 stars.”
-Cory Pelizzari (StrongMocha)
Saga: Acoustic Trailer Percussion – Epicomposer.com
“The release of SAGA Acoustic Trailer Percussion came as a nice surprise as the library features a remarkably punchy and powerful, yet very flexible sound that leaves room for custom processing if needed. The sound of the recording hall SAGA was recorded in is rather unobtrusive and doesn’t color the samples too much while still providing a nice sense of depth. SAGA’s neatly arranged interface allows for instant usability and presents every important feature at first sight. You can really feel the knowledge in sampling and user experience Red Room Audio founder Dickie Chapin has gathered through his long-standing work as a creative director at Impact Soundworks. This, together with the amazing performances of the sampled percussion players makes SAGA a top-line sample library in my opinion..”
Saga: Acoustic Trailer Percussion – Ask.Audio
“This is an amazing package and the price ($149) is a steal for what you’re getting. These are some of the best drum recordings I’ve heard in ages. Plus it’s useful even beyond the drums, as this is a perfect foley tool for video games and movies too.”
-G.W. Childs IV (Ask.Audio)