The Ultimate Cymbal Roll Collection Using Multiple Mallets & Cymbals
When creating Cymbal Rolls, the aim was to create the ultimate collection of cymbal roll sounds that composers and producers need for productions (available in both Kontakt and standalone .WAV format)
In order to do that, we decided to record a huge variety of cymbal types and sizes (in crystal clear 24 bit / 96KHz) at a range of velocities and intensity levels, using a number of different mallets, sticks and beaters.
- 14″ Sultan Hi Hat
- 15″ Mystery Cymbal
- 16” Alchemy Crash
- 16” Power Crash
- 16″ Sweet Crash
- 18” Sultan China
- 18” Traditional Crash
- 19” Medium Crash
- 19″ Traditional Crash
- 20” Ride
- 21” Crash
- 21” Jazz Ride
- 21” Flat Ride
- 21″ Turk Ride
- 22” Agop Turk China
- 22” Alchemy Ride
- 24” Sultan Ride
- 28″ Factory Metal
Each cymbal was played at various tempos and with various sticks/beaters such as large and medium mallets, scrapes and super ball mallets. A variety of rolls were also recorded including short rolls, medium rolls, long rolls, soft rolls, loud rolls etc.
Cymbal Rolls was engineered and recorded by the incredible sound designer Rick Allen. The percussionist Jon Mattox (endorsed by Istanbul Agop Cymbals) who has worked on a huge range of films, trailers, TV shows and video games.
Play It Backwards, Add Reverb, Change the Speed
Cymbal Rolls has a 18 patches in total – one per cymbal recorded, ranging in size from 14 inches to 28 inches, offering a wide range of sounds. Each patch is colour mapped, showing a different colour for each articulation.
The GUI is simple and effective, offering everything you need in one place:
- Large waveform view – so you can see how the sample will sound without waiting to play it
- Sample name listed below waveform – so if you like a sound, you can find that .WAV sample and drop it into your project for further mangling and editing
- Volume, attack and release knobs
- Speed knob – playback the sample in half speed, normal speed, double speed (and every % in between) without pitch changes
- Play mode button – press this to instantly play a sample backwards for a reverse cymbal sound
- 25 reverbs – choose from 25 reverb IRs including halls, chambers, cathedrals and a range of much more unusual ones that are great for sound design
Cymbal Rolls library also comes with standalone .WAV files if you don’t use Kontakt or would rather just drop them into your project instead.
Cymbal Rolls
Technical Requirements and Specifications
- Standalone .WAV files included
- Recorded in high end 24 bit / 96k for crystal clarity on ProTools through Apogee AD16X converters
- Room mics used: Roswell Audio K47’s through UA4410 Pre
- Close mics used: JZ Microphones BT-201’s through UA4410 pre, X/Y mics: Schoeps CMC6’s with MK4 capsules through API3124+ pre, Earthworks MC30 reference mic under cymbal through API3124+ pre.
- 18 patches in total – one patch per cymbal
- 25 reverb IRs to choose including halls, chambers, cathedrals and a range of much more unusual ones
- Full Retail Version of Kontakt 5.5.0.409 or higher required – NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player
Cymbal Rolls
A huge collection of cymbal rolls for composers and producers
Why its awesome:
- 1.06GB of content
- Kontakt and WAV format
- 18 Kontakt patches – one per cymbal
- 25 reverb IRs
- Instantly reverse a sound with a button
- Play at half speed or double speed (and anything in between) with no pitch changes
- Large waveform view on Kontakt GUI
- Recorded in stunning 24 bit / 96k quality
- The best microphones and pre-amps used for high quality recordings
- Engineered and recorded by the incredible sound designer Rick Allen
- Recorded with Jon Mattox
- Each cymbal played with a selection of mallets and scrapes
- Full Retail Version of Kontakt 5.5.0.409 or higher required – NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player
Alex – :
This is a perfect pack for quickly inserting cymbal rolls of all types, at various pitches (which is the feature I appreciate the most). The fact that is it shipped as Kontakt as well as WAV files is a great time saver for me !
Robert – :
The quality of Cymbal Rolls is excellent. The variety of cymbals is great for the price. You can use this for an extensive range of music genres.
Stephane – :
Great stuff that is hard to find. It’s for Kontakt, but the samples are also available as WAV files.
There could be a bit more content or a more advanced interface, though.
Jonathan – :
An excellent product with lots of uses!! This library can provides the perfect cymbal roll to nail those transitions and provide much needed energy in choruses etc. Top marks.
Owen – :
Sounds good, easy to use and I like being able to see the sound wave which helps in alignment. Definitely worth it!
Andrew – :
My go-to library for my cymbal swells / rolls needs. I use it on nearly all my orchestral productions, and it sits perfectly.
Bill – :
Useful collection and a good addition to my toolkit. The ability to change speeds is also a nice touch.
Dawoud – :
This is an excellent collection of Cymbal Rolls. I’ve always had trouble trying to create rolls through programming, so this definitely fits the bill for that purpose.
Christian – :
Nice variety of rolls, scrapes, etc. on various sizes of cymbals. It’s always so difficult to effectively simulate rolls on a MIDI keyboard. This collection makes for a quick and easy way to add effective cymbal gestures to your project. And you can’t beat the price!
Tom – :
Nice variety and very useful. It’s well recorded, and will be a great addition to my libraries. Well done!
John – :
This is exactly what I needed. Sounds great, very easy to use. It’s a time saver and samples are detailed and easy to access in Kontakt
Jesse – :
Love it! Exactly what i was looking for. It’s a great addition to my other instruments in my own vault. Works great.
Urs – :
very diverse and good sounding… a real enrichment of my possibilities… 18 cymbals, each with several variations… very good…
Markus – :
Good Sounds, clear Interface, Speed Knob, available in both Kontakt and WAV-format, different mallets, sticks and beaters.
Not the best out there but good and cheap!
Craig – :
There are other sample packs out there that are free, but if you just listen to their samples, and then listen to Cymbal Rolls, you can tell that the free ones were played by an audio engineer. This pack was obviously played by a percussionist, in this case Jon Mattox. I know, that sounds pretentious, or whatever, but the difference is indeed obvious.
Tune Titan – :
This worked PERFECTLY for my needs. It was a simple, affordable and affective way to get cymbal swells without searching through huge sample libraries.
osamu – :
It’s a nice cym set !
I just used this , in my production (intro. Of new song)
L.R.2 cym.roll was sounds good!