Pan Drum Live Pack

The Hang Drum is a steel, disk-shaped, harmonically tuned percussion instrument that's played with the hands. It's incredibly sensitive and dynamic; the entire disk resonates at a central frequency as your hands move around the edge, teasing the notes out.

For this Live Pack we sampled two types of Hang Drum : the Mk 1 and the Mk 2. The Mk 1 had 8 notes around the Ding (the top side of the Hang). These were available in 45 different tunings, and PANArt produced nearly 4000 of them. The Mk 2 is basically the same shape but has a brass coating on the top and around the rim. The Mk 2 comes in only five different tunings and has only seven notes around the Ding. It is a sturdier design, stays in tune better over time, and has a slightly longer and purer ring.

HANG DRUMS IN ABLETON LIVE

The Soniccouture Pan Drum Live Pack features over 1000 samples per drum, with up to 21 velocity layers all integrated into an easy to use instrument rack. We've sampled six different areas of the drum (called Gu, Ding, Outer Ding, Tone-Field Centre, Tone-Field Edge, and in-between the Tone-Field). Each area was sampled being played by finger, slap and knuckle. Each hit has up to three alternate round-robin versions, to ensure there is no "machine-gun" effect. 22 different presets show off all the different sound design possibilities of the Hang drums.

Compatibility

Official Ableton Product
Requires Live v8.13 or later, or Live 9.0.1 or later. A separate installer is supplied for each version.
Authorised by Ableton serial number, in your Ableton.com user account.