Snares which are huge, monstrous, organic and alive. Just like Dr. Viktor Frankenstein tried to put together the best parts of various humans, Frankensnare lets you create your own snares from a wide array of acoustic snare samples, from giants the diameter of a kick drum to a tiny 10" one, and also including the mad science "sympathy snares", which are recordings of a kick drum making six snares buzz sympathetically at once. There are also several varieties of claps, guitar chiks, and a tambourine. It all adds up to more than 3500 total samples.
Snares sampled:
10"x6" ash snare: brushes and sticks
12"x5" steel snare
14"x5" maple snare: brushes and sticks
14"x6.5" maple snare: normal and muted
14"x8" aluminum snare: center hits and rimshots
14"x8" birch snare
18"x16" prepared birch tom
20"x6" poplar snare: brushes, sticks and prepared
sympathy snare with 20"x20" kick
sympathy snare with 22"x16" kick
13x9" birch snare: center hits, rimshots, and hits with tambourine on top
14x5" mystery wood snare
16x7" sapele snare
20"x12" alder snare
22"x5" mahogany snare: brushes, sticks and prepared
22"x14" prepared birch kick
three-drum ziggurat: hits on two different levels
Walkthrough video part 1 - overview
Walkthrough video part 2 - controls
We came up with the concept for this while working on a track for a singer, and realizing that layering electronic snare samples for a huge sound is easy, but layering acoustic snares isn't nearly as convenient unless you use one-shot samples and therefore give up round robins, velocity layers, and all the organic nature of a well-sampled acoustic snare. Frankensnare lets you layer acoustic snare samples quickly and easily in one instance of a single plugin. It's the best of both worlds - the organic responsiveness of a well-sampled acoustic snare, and the power of a layered electronic snare.
Requires Plogue Sforzando version 1.960 or newer, which can be downloaded for free from Plogue's website. All the samples are also included as unlocked WAV files, so you can also use them as one-shot samples etc. if desired.
And here is the track which inspired the creation of Frankensnare. It uses the 14x8 birch snare, and towards the end of the verse the 80s sympathy and 10x6 snares join in to make a fuller sound. Also uses Swirly Drums for the kick and cymbals, Big Rusty Drums for the hi-hat, Gogodze Phu Vol I, String Cyborgs and Shinyguitar.
