Bunker Perc is available now at an introductory price of $29 (reg. $49) until June 23. All samples included as wav files for ultimate flexibility.
Bunker Samples was borne in a civilian WWII bom shelter bunker in Copenhagen. It's where Bunker Strings was invented and recorded, it's where I worked for 2 years, carrying in water for the coffee machine running water or toilet in the bunker. On the upside it was quiet, being constructed of one meter thick concrete under a meter of dirt. It's a long story, and you can read it in the manual here. To cut to the chase, the bunker is no more - at least it's not a recording studio any more, so there will be no more Bunker Samples libraries recorded there. luckily, because I had a feeling this day would come, I recorded a sonic memory the last time I was there (pre Covid!), recording all the sounds of slamming doors, lock zings and blast door handle drops that had been part of my life for 2 years.
I never intended to turn these recordings into a library, and to be honest I had forgotten about them until I learned the bunker was no more. So I pulled them out of the back corner of my backup drive, gave them a listen and realised that with the right engine, this might just have potential for a cool and unusual percussion library. 6 months forward:
Introducing Bunker PERC
The sonic DNA of the Bunker is embedded in each and every sound in this library – the sound of a damp, underground space full of metal and concrete. These sounds are raw and full of character: big metal doors being slammed and hit, air ducts struck with mallets and locks and heavy metal handles clicking into place, captured in great detail with a pair of AKG 414s.
You not only get all the 21 original sounds exactly the way they sounded in the Bunker, but also 62 organic sound designed hits, conveniently divided into impacts, low booms and low, mid and high hits.
All together this collection offers a refreshing and highly versatile alternative to traditional drums recorded in halls and at a very reasonable price. And best of all, you also get every single sound, with every single variation, as wav files, ready to drag and drop into your DAW for further manipulation.
THE ENGINE
Designed to be easy and intuitive to use, yet powerful, the PERC engine gives you the flexibility to sculpt each individual sound in detail, letting you create your own completely unique percussion ensemble in minutes.
To edit a sound, simply play it and start moving controls, no menu diving necessary. Radically transform any sound by tuning it up or down, adjust attack, release and sample start offset. The velocity controlled filters can add dynamic realism to your performance, while the 3 band EQ let’s you sculpt the sound in subtle or extreme ways. The punch control can add subtle transient emphasis or extreme snappiness to any sound. The tube compressor is a global control that can add tube saturation, compression and loads of character to the combined output of the engine.
BUILD YOUR STAGE
At the center of the interface you’ll see the positioning grid which lets you place each individual sound in an environment of your choise, from small ambiences to a huge sounding car park. Together with the per-sound stereo width control, the positioning grid makes it easy to create front-to-back depth and precise panning for each instrument in your ensemble – simply play a sound, move the white puck to your preferred position in the room, done!
REVERSES MADE EASY
Have you ever bounced out a sound to reverse it and use as a transition, maybe going into a hit? Bunker Perc’s reverse patches makes this easy, hold a note, it plays any sound in the library in reverse, and (if you want it to), when you let go of the key, it plays the corresponding hit. All you have to do now is adjust the length of the midi note, line up the end of it with the beat you want the hit to land on, and done! And best of all, you can edit the reverse or hit independently or together – it’s completely up to you.
Requires the full version of Kontakt 6.7.1. Regular price $49, but intro price of just $29 is good until June 23.
