VSL Synchron Orchestral Percussion II

Synchron Orchestral Percussion II is a subset of the Synchron Percussion II Collection and contains the following instruments: Thundersheets were developed out of the necessity to produce the sounds of thunder in the theater. Two thundersheets of different sizes were recorded with the following articulations: beaten with sticks, brushes, hands, rubber mallets, gong mallets, an iron chain, shaken, bowed, and rubbed with a super ball. Wind machines were developed in the 19th century for the theater, opera and concerts to simulate the sounds of wind and storm. Most wind machines have a crank handle which is turned to pull a belt over a wooden cylinder. The faster one cranks, the stronger the wind sound. We captured steady sounds, crescendos and decrescendos, as well as free performances. The wind machine we recorded also has an additional “rumble lever” that adds more noise to the sound. All samples were recorded with and without rumble. The Rainmaker is a tube-shaped rattle that can emul