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支持系统：Windows.MAC

音源厂商：https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/nine-volt-audio-taiko

使用采样器：Kontakt 7. Kontakt 8加载

文件大小：1GB

想要 2.3GB 的多重采样，你得对太鼓极其认真。但这种乐器在高亢的影视配乐中无处不在，这让 Nine Volt Audio 对此非常重视。他们让四位太鼓鼓手登上音乐厅舞台，用九个麦克风分别录制，敲击鼓面和鼓腔；敲击鼓槌；咆哮着喊出令人毛骨悚然的亚洲音节；跺脚。最高可达 90 个力度级别。如果工程师真的应该为此买一盒止痛药……

在 Kontakt 中，如果你只是想要一组针对特定演奏技巧和麦克风位置的力度映射多重采样，以便手动构建自己的合奏，那么你应该等到合适的时机再说。呃，我的意思是，你应该浏览一下 Ensemble Constructor Instruments。为了提升演奏体验，鼓乐器会将麦克风信号混合，形成特定的演奏技巧，带来更直接的满足感。一组效果鼓乐器会利用 Kontakt 的内部处理功能，带你进入声音设计领域。虽然它们很有趣，但我怀疑它们不会成为人们购买多采样太鼓库的主要原因……

大多数用户想要的，是多乐器带来的那种典型的秃头、汗流浃背、裹着缠腰布的鼓手军团。前往纳尼亚战场（假设你手边没有服装）的最快途径是通过十几个 Performance Multi 乐器，每个都配有一个多通道 MIDI 触发文件。这些乐器会让人联想到各种令人窒息的部落追击和史诗般的冲突。

听起来像话剧吗？是的。而且开发人员已经涵盖了我能想到的所有声音角度，甚至很多我无法想到的。 Performance Multi 音色非常真实，包含了经常出现在太鼓媒体音乐中的 5/4 和 7/4 拍子的优秀样本。考虑到其质量和数量，价格也相当合理。如果不是 Kontakt 偶尔在编程和音频编辑方面略显粗糙，我肯定会给它五星好评。

正如我所说，如果您打算购买这个音色库，就必须认真对待太鼓，而不仅仅是考虑金钱和磁盘空间。在我测试其中一个 Performance Multi 音色库时，Kontakt 的复音数几乎达到了 500 个复音，因此 CPU 占用会是一个问题（除非您打算为太鼓创作大量的独奏曲……如果是这样，我只能同情您的邻居了）。因此，尽管这个音色库很棒，但忙碌或资金紧张的媒体作曲家可能会倾向于放弃它的一些灵活性，转而尝试该公司出色且更易用的 Action Drums Taiko Edition 循环音色库。

You'd have to be bloody serious about Taiko to want 2.3GB of multisamples, but the instrument's ubiquity in high-octane film and TV scores has led Nine Volt Audio to take it very seriously indeed. They put four Taiko drummers on a concert-hall stage and recorded each with nine mics, hitting the drum head and shell; smacking the sticks together; growling and shouting blood-curdlingly Asian syllables; and stomping their feet. At up to 90 velocity levels. If ever an engineer deserved a box of painkillers on expenses...

In Kontakt, if you just want specific sets of velocity-mapped multisamples for particular performance techniques and mic positions, so that you can manually construct your own ensembles, you should be restrained until appropriate medication can be administered. Er, I mean, you should browse the Ensemble Constructor Instruments. For something more playable, Drum Instruments blend the mic signals for a specific performance technique to give more immediate gratification. A set of Effected Drum Instruments takes you into sound-design territory using Kontakt's internal processing, but although interesting, I suspect they won't be the main reason anyone buys a multisample Taiko library...

What most users will be looking for is the archetypal legion of bald, sweaty drummers in loincloths, courtesy of the Multi Instruments. The quickest route to Narnian battlefields (assuming you have no wardrobe to hand) is via the dozen Performance Multis, each accompanied by a multi-channel MIDI trigger file. These conjure all manner of breathless tribal pursuits and epic conflicts.

So does it sound the business? Yes. And the developers have covered every sonic angle I can imagine needing, plus a lot I can't. The Performance Multis sound very authentic, and include good specimens of the 5/4 and 7/4 meters that frequently crop up in Taiko-garnished media music. Given the quality and quantity on offer, the price is reasonable too. Were it not for some occasional slightly flakey Kontakt programming and audio editing I'd have awarded this five stars.

As I've said, if you plan to buy this library, you have to be serious about Taiko, and not just in terms of money and disk space. While I was testing one of the Performance Multis, Kontakt's polyphony meter threatened to hit 500 voices, so CPU munch will be a concern (unless you plan to write a lot of solo pieces for Taiko... in which case, I pity your neighbours). So, as good as this library is, busy or cash-strapped media composers might be tempted to forgo some of its flexibility and try the same company's excellent, and more wieldy, Action Drums Taiko Edition loop library.