AudioWarrior have released Banghis Khan, a “Premium Natural-Akoustik Reason Drum Kit Module”. This is almost irresistable because of the name alone. The sound samples of the kit do sound nice, though they seem to concentrate on cymbals and hand drums. Here’s their information on this kit — it sounds like just the thing if you really want to have a realistic ashiko sound in Reason.

They write: Treat yourself to a punchy, highly-detailed half-gig Genuine-Vintage early 70’s Ludwig Vistalite ready to rock in Reason’s NN-XT advanced sampler as a flexible self contained Combinator module and tons of flexibility. Sampled @ 24/44.1, you’ll have in your arsenal many of the reminiscent tones made historically famous by legendary Led Zeppelin Drummer John Henry Bonham including new ones with all the nuances you’d expect from a real drum set.

Banghis Khan will be the most powerful sample based drum set you’ve ever played. AudioWarrior brings it to your desktop mapped for the easiest playability that makes the most sense whether you’re left handed-right handed, new to computer music or a seasoned pro. AudioWarrior’s Banghis Khan features a completely programmed 14+ channel personal dedicated drum mixer with separate channel strips per drum for the following:

From within Reason, users can add Reason Rack effects like Studio Quality Reverb, Compressor, Distortion, Chorus, Flanger, EQ, Delay, and adjust the individual level of each separate drum and cymbal, including outboard routing options and exportable Audio/MIDI performances @16 or 24 bit. Using any of 38 Rewire Hosts, Banghis Khan audio can be sent into your favorite multi-track mixing software including Cubase, Nuendo, Sonar, Traktion2, Sony Acid, Pro Tools, and Ableton Live.

Last but not least, play 2 Hand-Built Ashikos exactly like you would play a hand drum except now it’s mapped perfectly on 15 keys, from the center of the drum, and multi-sampled outwards to rim shots with up to 12 velocity layers.