Sample Logic Rumble

Rumble Marching & Cinematic Drums is a collaborative project between Sample Logic and System Blue, capturing a certain kind of militaristic drumming which, when you think about it, is used extensively in film and TV, and even on the odd hit pop record — just ask Rolf Harris. The collection comes with a program that allows it to integrate with Avid Sibelius 7 notation software, indicating the makers' aim of attracting film and TV score writers.

Installation requires the user to already have a version of Kontakt Player 4, which is free to download from the Native Instruments web site. Once Kontakt is in place, you need to drag the Rumble folder to a hard-drive location that can cope with its 6GB of sample data. Then starts a teeth‑gnashing activation process that, I promise, does eventually come to an end! The pay-off is that Kontakt is a very sophisticated processing tool, within which Rumble becomes more than just a collection of sounds. But what about those raw sounds themselves?