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Wheat Williams
10-01-2010, 09:46 AM
Does anybody know of a sample library of steel-pan drums, like they use in Caribbean Calypso music?

This is a pitched melodic set of drums that function like a xylophone, if you are not familiar with them. Each drum has several tuned areas that produce a different pitch when struck with a mallet, and a number of drums are used to form an ensemble.

Steelpan drums at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelpan)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Aasteeldrum.jpg/134px-Aasteeldrum.jpg

A great YouTube video of a steelpan orchestra. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1sqliQ4IQY&feature=PlayList&p=C6063B05C5111702&index=0&playnext=1)
Haydn
10-01-2010, 04:19 PM
Don't know of a dedicated library. The Garritan World Instruments library will have some decent sounding steel drums. Library should be out soon.

Jim
Wheat Williams
10-01-2010, 04:32 PM
It occurred to me that Steel Pan Drums is a Standard MIDI instrument--program #115. I've realized I've got three rather low-quality Standard MIDI libraries/players at my disposal--and not surprisingly the steel pan drums in all of them sound rotten.
bionicbub
10-28-2010, 09:40 PM
It occurred to me that Steel Pan Drums is a Standard MIDI instrument--program #115. I've realized I've got three rather low-quality Standard MIDI libraries/players at my disposal--and not surprisingly the steel pan drums in all of them sound rotten.

Until the Garritan World Instruments comes out, you could try the Virtual Drumline Library, from which a number of instruments are borrowed in the Garritan COMB2 library. VDL has a complete set of steel pan drums (version 2.5 only).