REQ: Midiwood Black Lotus Toolkit
BLACK LOTUS
Our music production toolkit combines authentic African instruments with a cutting-edge, vibrant Kontakt engine, delivering genre-crossing, unimagined sounds that push the boundaries of modern music. From urban pop to cinematic thunderous percussion soundscapes, this toolkit is designed for producers and composers seeking innovative ways to craft their music. Perfect for those who embrace unconventional methods, it provides the versatility needed for today’s dynamic music production.
We took our inspiration from the groundbreaking work of Cristobal Tapia de Veer – White Lotus. A simple idea really of taking authentic traditional sounds and instruments and putting them through some production tricks to make something unheard and truly unique.
South Africa is a complicated place but those of us that are fortunate enough to call it home, live with a huge variety of musical traditions and blended cultures. Black Lotus Toolkit takes this one step further. It pushes all that into a refined, production-friendly toolkit for the producer and composer looking for something different. Something unheard. Something revolutionary. We have taken 8 instruments and made a production toolkit that spans genres. Dundun, Frame Drums, Sticks, Reed Shaker, Reed Pipe, Bamboo Pipes, Bow and a unique Bass Marimba all sound unlike anything you have heard before.
WHATS INCLUDED
Dundun
Handcrafted from a single piece of hollowed-out tree trunk and pelt skinned,. The dundun reveals typically short muted sounds which lends itself perfectly to drum sections because they lack the sustained ringing of a djembe. This collection of five Dunduns played with hands, mallets and sticks with a curated collection of over 200 midi loops and presets.
5 Dundun drums
3 Articulations – hand, mallet and sticks
6 – 8 Round Robbins
5 – 8 Velocity Layers
3 mic positions – Close, Stereo, Tree
15 Individual effects channels
Frame Drum
The frame drums featured here are notably large, with pelt skins, producing a warm muted tone. As one of the oldest and most widely used instruments in history, the frame drum has rich cultural significance across many ancient civilizations.
2 Frame drums
2 Articulations – mallet and sticks
6 – 8 Round Robbins
5 – 8 Velocity Layers
3 mic positions – Close, Stereo, Tree
4 Individual effects channels
Sticks
We’ve crafted the stick sound we’ve been seeking for years. Drawing inspiration from Woodkid’s Run Boy Run, we blended Dundun stick articulations with various metal stick sounds to create something distinctive. With options to play individual samples or use one-key strikes with built-in humaniser controls, Sticks lets us fine-tune the tone for a truly one-of-a-kind stick sound.
5 wood sticks
5 Dundun Stick articulations
5 Metals sticks articulations
6 – 8 Round Robbins
5 – 8 Velocity Layers
3 mic positions – Close, Stereo, Tree
10 Individual effects channels
And more!
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