This is the star. By playing legato on your keyboard, the library intelligently crossfades between different recorded drone pitches and timbres. It allows you to play melodies on a drone instrument—something physically impossible to do in real life. You can slide up and down the harmonic series with the smoothness of a cello.

(Deducting one point because your neighbors will think you have a angry walrus in your apartment.) Have you used the Tonehammer/Soundiron Didgeridoo? Drop a comment below and let us know how you use drone instruments in your productions!

Don't sleep on the staccato "toots" and vocalizations. Mapped to the upper registers, these short, punchy sounds act as incredible rhythmic accents. Layer these over a hybrid trailer drum loop, and you instantly sound like a Hans Zimmer clone (in a good way).