Sound pack No. 11 · Afro house and afrobeats
AFRO
Rolling drums, sunny guitars, wooden melodies.
Everything for afro house and afrobeats on the FM-1: a rolling kit with congas, shaker and agogo, round and bouncing basses, highlife guitars, sunny keys and a reedy organ. Kalimba, marimba, balafon and steel pan carry the hooks, and a talking drum, a slit drum and a wooden flute sing over soft pads and a hummed choir.
- Tempo
- 98–124 BPM
- Inside
- Kit, 24 sounds · 2 songs
- On the FM-1
- AFRO · any bank
- afro house
- afrobeats
- hypnotic percussion
- summer
- organic house
- dance floor
Hear it0:00 / 0:28
2 songs · made only with AFRO
Songs inside.
Hear what the sound pack can do, then put a song on your FM-1 and take it apart. Each one goes into an empty project slot; nothing is replaced without asking.
01DRY SEASON122 BPM · 4 bars · 0:18
Afro house at 122 in E dorian: congas high and low talking over an agogo in 3-3-2, a rolling bass off the beat, an interlocking balafon figure and a talking-drum fill.
02NIGHT MARKET104 BPM · 4 bars · 0:21
Afrobeats at 104 in G dorian, swung: a kick in threes, rim on the off 16ths, a muted guitar skank, a bass that walks the kick, and a highlife line in the second half.
Slots 1 to 8 · AFRO HOUSE
The kit.
Eight pads made for AFRO. Press one to hear it. On the FM-1 the kit is under KITS, on the drum track.
The kit's beat
Slots 9 to 32 · 24 sounds
The sounds.
Basses, chords, leads, pads and effects made to sit together in one song. Press one to hear it.
Bass5
09AFRO BASSVA
a triangle and sub with a soft filter bounce and a short glide: the round rolling afro bass
10BOUNCEFM
a round FM body that knocks in a little sharp and bounces off: the afrobeats bass
11PICK BASSFM
a fingered FM string with a quick pick and an octave growl: the highlife bass guitar
12RUBBERVA
a square and a sub under a resonant filter that bounces on every note: the rubbery afro house bass
13SUN SUBVA
a triangle and a sub with a soft start and a long legato glide: the warm sub under afrobeats roots
Chords & keys4
15CHOP GTRFM
short palm-muted FM strings with a nasal bite: the guitar chop on the afrobeats off-beat
16SUNNY EPFM
a bright FM bark, an octave body and a shimmer under a wide chorus: sunny afrobeats keys
17LAGOS ORGFM
a buzzing 8', a twelfth and a 4' with a quick vibrato: the reedy organ of 70s afrobeat
18AFRO STABVA
a soft saw chord with a quick filter pluck that rings into the reverb: the deep afro house stab
Leads8
14HIGHLIFEFM
a 3:1 pick that snaps shut over two ringing bodies: the clean highlife guitar for riffs
19KALIMBAFM
a sine tine that snaps shut, a sixth-partial shimmer and a click: the thumb piano
20MARIMBAFM
a sine bar, a short fourth partial and a mallet click: the wooden marimba for afro lines
21BALAFONFM
a wooden bar whose third partial buzzes on the strike: the balafon for afro lines
22STEEL PANFM
a soft-struck FM body with a sharp octave and twelfth: the steel pan, tuned for melodies
23HOUSE PLKVA
a short pulse with a resonant blip: the plucky top line of tech and afro house
24WOOD FLUTEFM
two sines with a chiff, breath and a late vibrato: the wooden flute for organic afro house
31TEMPLEFM
two inharmonic FM pairs that ring and fall slowly: a temple bell, tuned
Pads3
25CHANT PADFM
soft voices in a wide ensemble humming 'mm' with a nasal edge: the choir behind afro house
26DUNE PADVA
a few drifting saws under a dark filter that slowly breathes: the deep pad behind afro house
27HARMATTANVA
a drifting triangle and a breath of dusty noise that opens and closes like the dry-season wind
FX4
28TALK DRUMFM
a membrane that bends up and sinks back, its tone talking as it rings: the talking drum
29SLIT DRUMFM
a hollow wooden body with an inharmonic tongue: the slit drum, tuned so it plays a melody
30CONGAFM
a sine membrane that settles into tune with a slap: a conga you play on the keys
32RAIN STICKVA
noise through a resonant band pass that a fast random LFO scatters: pebbles falling through a rain stick