Reviews

James Newton Howard
Film composer for King Kong, Blood Diamond and The Sixth Sense
"True Strike is a permanent part of my palette. I use it in all my scores."

Klaus Badelt
Film composer for Pirates of the Caribbean, Catwoman and 16 Blocks
"True Strike's incredible concert hall recordings allow me to position the instruments just like a live recording: right there in the hall with the orchestra. This unique ability to blend with my live recordings and its depth of articulation makes True Strike one of the very few commercial libraries I love and use besides my own personal library."

Bill Brown
Film/TV/game composer for CSI:NY, Lady Death, Quake Wars
"The impact of the ensemble hits alone would be worth the price of the set for me. Finally, percussion that sounds like it has been recorded on a Hollywood sound stage!"

Brian Tyler
Film composer for Alien versus Predator 2 and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
"The SAM True Strike library possesses unmatched musicality and realism. You can sense the presence of the player behind the instrument - not just the instrument itself."

Robert Kral
Film/TV composer for Superman/Doomsday, Green Lantern: First Flight, Angel, Miracles, The Dresden Files
"When I first loaded the Gran Casa and played it I could have sworn it was being performed before me in the room! It's big and beefy, but the high end is also captured accurately giving an almost 3D sound."

Overview

Introduction
ProjectSAM's acclaimed TRUE STRIKE series holds the percussion libraries of choice for film and game composer wanting big, powerful and cinematic percussion samples.

The first TRUE STRIKE focuses on orchestral percussion and was recorded in the warm environment of a concert hall, which gives it its deep, cinematic sound. The library gives you lively recordings of orchestral percussion instruments such as timpani, gran casa, snares, tom toms, cymbals, tam tam, tubular bells, glockenspiel, vibraphone, celesta, various small percussion and metal hits.

This new, re-released version of TRUE STRIKE has been completely re-designed for the Kontakt format and comes with Native Instruments Kontakt Player 3.5. New features include a re-structured instrument list, a streamlined audio pool and a custom interface with on-screen ADSR control, instrument information and other options.

LIBRARY HIGHLIGHTS
Timpani
The timpani is one of the biggest instrument banks found in True Strike. You will find an extensive list of playing techniques: up to 6 dynamics, sustained and dampened notes, tremolo, tremolo crescendo in three lenghts, crescendo-decrescendo and hard mallet fortissimo. Suspenseful special effects such as pedal bends and cymbal/bowl on timpani.

Gran casa & snares
True Strike is aimed at cinematic use. Therefore the gran casa and snare ensemble are the most powerful and deep recordings you will find. Load up the stage or far microphone set and scare those aliens back to their home world. The library also includes single snare drum (snares on and off), military drum and field drum samples.

Ensemble hits
One of the most popular patches in True Strike is the Ensemble Hits bank. These are ensemble recordings of gran casa and low-tuned timpani playing together. Big and bad.

Melodic instruments
True Strike covers five melodic percussion instruments: glockenspiel, marimba, vibraphone, tubular bells and celesta. This last, beautiful instrument is the very first sampled in a concert hall and offered in 3 microphone positions.

Small percussion
True Strike offers an extensive set of small percussion instruments, among which 4 woodblocks, 5 temple blocks, whip, barchimes, belltree, 4 cowbells, triangle, tambourine, castanets and sleighbells.

INSTRUMENT LIST

1 Timpani

Timpani hits and roll

Timpani hits dual map

Timpani rolls

Timpani special effects

Timpani tremolo

2 Kits

True Strike All Drums

True Strike Orchestral Kit

3 Drums and Toms

Bongos and Congas

Gran Cassa and Tutti Hits

Military and Field Drum

Snare Drum

Snare Ensemble

Timbales

Tom Toms and Rototoms

Tom Toms Phrases

4 Cymbals and Gongs

Concert Cymbals

Suspended Cymbals

Tam Tam and Wind Gong

5 Melodic Percussion

Celesta

Crotales

Glockenspiel

Marimba

Tubular Bells

Vibraphone hit

Vibraphone motor

Vibraphone special

Xylophone

6 Small Percussion

Chimes and Belltree

Cowbells

Tambourine and Beatring

Triangle

Various Percussion

Wood and Templeblocks

7 Misc Percussion

Body Percussion

Brakes and Pans

Claps and Snaps

Thai Gongs

Trash and Metal Hits

RECORDING SPECS
True Strike was recorded in a beautiful concert hall environment. All samples in True Strike are offered to you in 3 microphone sets, each with its own unique sound:

Close mic (bright and direct)

Stage mic (orchestral setting)

Far mic (wide and ambient, surround)

All instruments have been recorded at 88.2/24 and are offered to you at 44.1/24.

Tech Specs

Kontakt Player included
Version 3.5 of the Native Instruments Kontakt Player is included with TRUE STRIKE. This sampler offers you on-screen ADSR control, EQ and Delay controls and instrument/articulation information.

Recording specs
TRUE STRIKE was recorded in a beautiful concert hall environment. All samples in TRUE STRIKE are offered to you in 3 microphone sets, each with its own unique sound:

Close mic (bright and direct)

Stage mic (orchestral setting)

Far mic (wide and ambient, surround)

All instruments were recorded at 88.2/24 and are offered at 44.1/24.

Library size
TRUE STRIKE requires 16 GB of hard disk space.

System requirements
Runs as a stand-alone application, VST® or Audio Units? plug-in, RTAS® under Pro Tools? 7/8 . Minimum: Mac OS X® 10.4 / 10.5, G5 1.8 GHz or Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz, 1 GB RAM or Windows® XP (32 Bit) or Windows Vista® (32/64 Bit), Pentium® or Athlon XP 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM. 2 GB of RAM or more is highly recommended! Library mapping is unlocked. Library audio pool is locked.

NOTE: True Strike cannot be loaded in Kontakt 2 or earlier.

Kontakt full version crossgrade offer
Native Instruments offers a crossgrade from Kontakt Player to the full version of Kontakt. The full version allows you to edit your instruments, change the programming, controllers, filters and much more. More information at www.native-instruments.com.