I only hear snares in one of the 16" Bendirs, but I hear them in at least some of the articulations of all my other Bendirs in other libraries. One quibble: I'm not from the Middle East, but my reading tells me that Bendirs are supposed to have snares underneath their goat skin heads. Maybe Ltd could put the keyboard layout in a future version of the manual? Or even better if the GUI on instrument 15 was like the others and changed the icon for the different instruments. 7 out of the 15 instruments are Bandirs aka Bendirs (Moroccan Frame Drums) and four of them are varieties of goblet drums: 2 Dohalas (Egypt), a Darabuka (Eastern/West African), and a Djembe (Africa) There are also a Riq (Egyptian Tambourine), 5 claps, 7 Sagats (Egyptian finger cymbals) and the 15th instrument is a grab bag of middle eastern and latin percussion spread across a keyboard, so you don't know the middle eastern instruments you're playing unless you are an expert. There actually aren't that many different kinds of instruments in EPM, although each one does have variations. I really enjoy looking up the examples of the various styles and seeing people perform them in YouTube videos. The names aren't arbitrary-most of them represent the rhythms of different kinds of middle eastern music. The MIDI files are incredible and there are so many of them. It doesn't bother me that the samples are cut off or that the articulations are minimal when I listen to the whole band at once. If anybody has invested in a middle eastern percussion library they will super-charge it by buying this.īut I see the main strength of this library is to use it just as it is-as a wonderful ensemble instrument. So it's not hard to make substitutions if your interest is using the MIDI rhythms in EPM to drive solo instruments.
I really like SONiVOX's small library, Silk Road Percussion, which is currently on sale at for $5. Of course there is also more premium stuff like Impact Soundworks’ Koron, Evolution World Percussion Middle East, SoundIron’s Riq Drum (which also has Dafs), PrecisionSound’s Persian Daf, etc., as well as general libraries like Evolution World, Ra, and UVI World Suite.
In fact you can find a lot of them in the World Percussion Library that comes with Kontakt, including a Riq, Darabuka, and Djembe (as well as a Daf and a Tar).
Actually the instruments in EPM are very common in world percussion libraries.
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