Loopmasters present Drums of Sparta – a full-scale collection of Dramatic Cinematic Drums, destined to enrich your productions in music, film, TV and gaming. This exclusive debut sample pack from composer Russ Harris is lovingly crafted to ensure you get maximum rhythmic impact, and as always, is 100% royalty free.

Russel Harris has over 25 years of experience in the music industry; both in the studio and on the road with musicians from The Cure, Erasure and Bastille to name a few. Over the years, he’s gained notoriety among filmmakers and games developers for his off-kilter scores and atonal soundscape works - with a love for the bombastic beats of huge cinematic percussion orchestras.

Drums Of Sparta comes from a carefully honed arsenal of world percussion, offering producers a highly versatile and adaptable collection which lays the essential foundations of truly atmospheric drum tracks. Featuring over 400 professionally recorded samples of Taiko Drums, Daiko, Hira Daiko, Doumbek, Dundun, Mondo Toms, Chang Chang, Hang and Frame Drums alongside many other elements of orchestral percussion – Drums of Sparta takes no prisoners!

Each loop has been carefully arranged and produced to inhabit a realistic acoustic space, with the natural timings and velocities captured in fine detail, interlocking dynamics of a live cinematic orchestra. As well as full drum loops broken down into their individual elements, there are over 100 drum fills to add variation and spice to the mix.

Russ brings you a fresh, dramatic flavour and gives you the building blocks to make you production stand out. Drums of Sparta comes at tempos between 72-180BPM, so is suited for a full range of applications – as well as House, Drum & Bass, Techno, Hip Hop, Downtempo and Ambient music.

In detail expect to find 1.98 GB of content with 432 individual 24 Bit Wav files. 432 Loops include 105 Loops at 72-80BPM, 131 Loops at 100-120BPM, 79 Loops at 136-180BPM [62 Full Loops, 21 Daiko Loops, 18 Frame Loops, 14 Doumbek Loops, 32 Percussion Loops, 44 Taiko Rims, 25 Metal & Chang Loops, 5 Mondo Loops, 22 Tom Loops, 20 Shaker Loops, 11 Dundun Loops and 14 Other Loops]. 342 Rex2 Loops are included and 1 sampler patch for NNXT, Halion, Kontakt, Exs24 and Sfz.

If you need big impacting drums on your production, send in the army with Drums of Sparta. Check out the demos above and log in to download a free taster pack to hear these amazing samples for yourself!