The Stormdrum 3 Software from EastWest is a percussive virtual instrument designed for use in film scoring, production, and sound design applications. It is composed of instruments from the private collection of Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart as well as the Remo collection. The drums were played by Mickey Hart and percussionists Greg Ellis and Chalo Eduardo and produced by Nick Phoenix at EastWest Studio 1. Stormdrum 3 features approximately 86GB of samples that can be played back via the included PLAY 4 software.
Stormdrum 3 gives you access to a wide variety of drums and drum sizes including members of the Taiko family, gongs, waterphones, bells, bowls, chimes, hand drums and many more. You have access to 5 different mic positions for each drum. The FX section of Stormdrum provides an SSL channel strip with EQ and compression as well as a transient shaper and SSL's stereo bus compressor. Additionally, EastWest includes a true stereo reverb to help add depth and ambience to your drums. RTAS, AAX, VST and AU plug-in formats are supported on both Mac and PC.
- Big Drums: These are the larger drums that do not fall in the Taiko family. Many of them include large, deep and booming sounds, but others are more complex in nature. Highlights in the genre are The Beast, Double Headed Tree Drum, Lord Of Toms Ensemble and Dragon Ensemble
- Gongs Clocks Waterphones: These instruments provide the iconic sounds of several gongs and waterphones, some played underwater! The "Clockworks" patches are the result of Nicks field recordings in 6 antique clock shops
- Metals: This group includes bells, deep bowls, chimes, and cymbals collected by Mickey Hart on his world travels. Some are well known like the Brazilian berimbau (which is played on a metal wire), others are unusual, such as hammered copper pots and handmade doorstop drums
- Shakers: The instruments in this group include several made from naturally occurring objects, such as snake rattles, seed pods, and deer hoofs, in addition to the more common ganza, modern shakers and Mickeys rainsticks
- Small Drums: Here you'll find a very large collection of smaller drums. Some have names you're probably familiar with, such as bongos, frame drums, and tambourines. Many of the Indian drums in this category are particularly special, such as the tuned tablas and madal.
- Taiko Family: This collection includes taiko drums ranging from huge to small. Many of the sampled instruments came from the collections of Mickey Hart and Remo to create a wide variety of sounds. Others came from the top taiko builders in Japan. They are played both individually and in ensembles.
- Woods: In this group you'll hear unpitched sounds from wooden resonators; tuned chromatic instruments, such as a gourd marimba and a balaphone; the mighty gourd drum, a playable 12 ft. long redwood tree branch and wonderful scraped sounds, such as the Thailand frogs
- Instruments from the private collection of Mickey Hart
- Additional instruments from the Remo private collection, hand picked by Remo himself
- Played by percussionists Mickey Hart, Greg Ellis and Chalo Eduardo.
- Produced by Nick Phoenix, "Two Steps From Hell" composer and creator of Stormdrum 1 and 2, epic percussion collections.
- Includes tempo synced percussion performances directed and played by Mickey Hart, with Greg Ellis, Chalo Eduardo and Nick Phoenix
- Includes 5 user-controllable mic positions for each instrument.
- Recorded in EASTWEST Studio 1, the home of Hollywood soundtracks and television themes
- Includes PLAY 4 64-bit/32-bit software on both MAC and PC
- The FX section includes an SSL EQ and Dynamics Channel Strip, Transient Shaper, and SSL's legendary Stereo Bus Compressor; plus an upgraded "true stereo" reverb from EastWest plus new features.