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Volko Alaturka Drum
Version 1.2.4
Your Unique Ethnic & Oriental Drummer
Volko Alaturka Drum adds new colours to your music with the oriental styles and rhythms of Middle East, North Africa, Arabia and Anatolia.
Volko Alaturka Drum is a VST instrument (Turkish drum VSTi) that supports VST, AU and RTAS plugin formats.
$99.99 – $149.99
Arabic, North African, Middle Eastern and Anatolian ethnic MIDI files
Forget about the user manual.
Just use it!
Here is a great drum plugin that easily lets you inject traditional middle eastern rhythms into your composition. Drag and drop midi drum parts, good quality drum sounds and a user interface that’s easy to use. I really like this plugin. Great job Volkan.
Volko Alaturka Drum has one of the best and playable cymbal samples among the drum plugins I tried. 1970 Model Vintage Antique kit is very cool!
I was struggling to find the right beats and drum sounds for the new album of music for oud that I was in the process of creating. I wanted live-sounding, programmable, vivid Middle Eastern percussion, and when I discovered Volko Alaturka Drum I found exactly what I was looking for: Complex and flexible Middle Eastern rhythms, odd time signatures, and rich drum sounds performed by a gifted drummer. There is no better authentic Turkish and Arabic rhythm plug-in than Volko Alaturka Drum.
Volko Alaturka Drum is one of my favorite plugins for beat production – a real “go to” instrument. The kits have a great live sound and the patterns are authentic, cool, unique and expansive. A real gem!
Quite unique with its unusual patterns and different feeling!
Quick Tutorial
Teaser
Chiftetelli Tutorial
Umut Pelit with V-Drums
Rhythms
- Ayoub-Zar, Baio, Chiftetelli
- Churchuna, Dabkkah, Darig
- Daza, Dishka, Fallahi
- Fazani, Jirk, Karachi
- Laz Havasi, Libi, Maghrebi
- Maksum, Malfuf, Mambo Sudani
- Masmoudy Kebir, Nubian Reggae, Nubian Samba
- Rai, Rhumba Khaligi, Rhumba Masri
- Roman Havasi, Saidi, Samai Thakil
- Sudasi, Sufi, Tom Tom
- Uncle Fallahi, Wahda, Wahrani
- Wals, Zafa, Zorofat
Drum Pieces
Gretsch – Renown Maple
- Kick: 22″ X 18″
- Tom: 10″ X 10″
- Tom: 12″ X 12″
- Tom: 14″ X 14″
- Snare: Sonor (1960) 14″ X 5″
Istanbuldrums – Bubinga-Maple-Woodhoop
- Kick: 22″ X 18″
- Tom: 10″ X 10″
- Tom: 14″ X 14″
- Tom: 16″ X 16″
- Snare: Full maple 14″ X 6.5″
Gretsch – Vintage Antique 1970
- Kick: 20″ X 14″
- Tom: 12″ X 8″
- Tom: 14″ X 14″
- Snare: 14″ X 5.5″
For All Kit
- Snare: Yamaha Maple Custom 14″ X 4″
- Snare: Yamaha Maple Custom 14″ X 6,5″
- Cymbal: Istanbul Agop Jazz Serial 20″ Ride
- Cymbal: Istanbul Agop 20″ Turk Heavy Ride (Old)
- Cymbal: Istanbul Agop Azure 18″ Crash
- Cymbal: Istanbul Agop 14″ Crash Medium Crash 1
- Cymbal: Istanbul Agop 14″ Crash Medium Crash 2
- Cymbal: Istanbul Agop Traditional Heavy 13″ Hi-Hat
Reviews
The Best Virtual Drums list
In May 2013, Volko Alaturka Drum was added to The Best Virtual Drums list by audio fanzine.
Volko Alaturka Drum is quite special: it allows you to incorporate rhythms from the Middle East and North Africa into your songs, but with a somewhat ”western” sound. Specially noteworthy are the two Gretsch kits (900 MB of samples with 10 velocity layers per sample), as well as the drag ‘n’ drop ability for sequencers, the humanizing functions and the processing (reverb, limiter). And let’s not forget that it is compatible with VST, AU and RTAS under Windows and OS X. Price: $119.
Creative Percussion Synthesizer
In February 2012, Volko Alaturka Drum was reviewed by Paolo Tonelli on Audio Video Music magazine in Italy.
The review highlights:
A very promising plug-in that originates from a country of enormous cultural and historical importance, famous for its natural beauty, and which has always played a vital role as a bridge between east and west.
A complete plug-in equipped with various styles, colors, imagination and music taste which is able to introduce us many new ideas.
Plug-in which is dedicated to the traditional rhythms of middle east.
An ethnic powerhouse!
I was totally unprepared to fall in love tonight. But I did.
An inspiring and flexible ethnic drummer
Features
- Real-time tempo change
- 900 MB 24/44.1 high quality sample library
- 10 velocity layers for every sound
- 3 drum kits. Gretsch – Renown Maple, Gretsch – Vintage Antique 1970,Istanbuldrums – Bubinga-Maple-Woodhoop
- Natural and processed samples
- 36 authentic styles
- 24 different variation and fill under every style
- Transferring the rhythm to the server (host) program with the Drag & Drop function
- Direct usage of any style with any drum kit instantly
- Humanizing feature, limiter and reverb
- Grouping mixer
- For every channel play, Mute/Solo, velocity level, reverb, volume and 8 stereo output settings
- With Internal bpm, usability independent from the tempo of the host program (i.e. using tempo 60 as 120)
- VST, AU and RTAS support
- Roland V-Drums compatible
Recording Notes
Microphone Preamp
- Millennia HV-3R Remote Microphone Preamp
Clock
- Studio Clock Mytek 192 CX
Digital Converter
- Lynx Aurora 16 Analog
Microphones
- Neumann KM 140
- Neumann TLM170 R
- AKG D12E
- Microtech Gefell UMT70S
- Microtech Gefell M930
- Microtech Gefell SMS2000
Recording Platform (DAW)
- Pro Tools
Minimum System Requirements
- 900 MB free hard disk space
- Windows XP SP3 or newer, Pentium 4/Athlon processor with 1 GB RAM
- Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, Intel Processor with 1 GB RAM
- Display capable of 800×600
- VST, AU or RTAS capable host program
- ASIO supporting sound card (recommended)
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