Drum Machine VST Plugins

Create shaker patterns as played by a human being

Skaka is a sample-based sequencer plugin for shaker percussion instruments. It has 12 slots, each with its own instrument, parameters (lots of them!), and pattern. Klevgrand has built both the sequencer and the sampler from the ground, to optimize this instrument for these types of sounds. Each pattern contains events, with individual parameters like pitch, velocity (as in how fast the instrument is shaken), and envelope.

With full control over shuffle/swing amount, an advanced humanizer function, internal awareness of in- and out shakes (yes, they sound different), using grids divided into triplets/quintuplets/septuplets, timing fine-tuning and variable sequence lengths, Skaka can get very close to how a human percussionist would sound in almost any tempo without any use of degrading time stretching or similar techniques.

To top it off, there’s a nice reverb, a room simulator, and a high-shelf filter. Skaka comes with nearly 200 ready-made patterns covering most genres and styles.

• 1. Slot machine – 12 slots, each with its own instrument, parameters (lots!) and pattern.
• 2. Mr Tambourine man – Choose between 18 carefully sampled shaker instruments.
• 3. Pre-baked shakes – Choose between different presets, both global and per-slot.
• 4. A double room, please – A high quality reverb combined with a room simulator. No one will think that you didn’t hold the shaker yourself.

• 1. Hit the mode, Jack – Set each event’s velocity, duration, pitch, and gain independently.
• 2. On or off the grid – Choose between many different grids, and decide whether your events should snap to them or not. Independent per-pattern setting of the loop’s length.
• 3. Chill amount – The whole pattern can be delayed or early for different feels.
• 4. Human behavior – Adds some micro-changes (customizable) to make the loop sound just like anything between a robot and you.
• 5. Sneak in, sneak out – The loop may “sneak” in or out, just as it would in the real world.

Features

• 12 parallel slots, each with individual settings for instrument and pattern
• 18 different shaker instruments (Egg, Shaker, Tambourine, Caxixi, Single Shot, Ghungroos, Calabash & Seeds + much more)
• High-quality reverb plus room simulation
• High-precision editing of each pattern, with a plethora of controls for getting the exact right timing, pitch and velocity
• Wide range of presets covering most genres and styles
• Advanced and customizable humanizer
• 8 (or 9) velocity layers with more than 30 round-robins per layer for each instrument (thousands of samples used)

SnareClack is a powerful, compact and easy to use hybrid electronic snare drum generator / synthesizer.

At its heart SnareClack makes use of genuine 16-bit integer precision digital synthesis techniques (widely used on late-90s hardware devices) together with a modeled DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter) circuit with saturation control. Finally, a built-in stereo expander circuit makes SnareClack a self-contained device capable of producing snappy, large, electronic drum snares for EDM, Techno, Trance, Ambient music and far beyond.

Features

• Accurate physical modeling simulation achieved by the adoption of the Advanced Component Simulation (ACS) approach
• Full 64-bit processing accuracy for every single aspect of the simulation
• A complete, self-contained, hybrid digital-analogue electronic drum snare generator device
• Two independent (Tonal / Noise) digital synthesis layers featuring late-90s, genuine 16-bit integer precision algorithms
• Modeled DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter) circuit with saturation control
• Built-in stereo expander circuit
• Including 50+ ready-to-use factory presets collection covering multi-genre styles
• MIDI automation
• Support for sample rates from 44.1 kHz up to 192 kHz
• Available in multi-size GUI resolutions

ThaLoops is bringing you the Hortator – virtual instrument plug-in of a big bass drum. The drum sound is so versatile that it can be used in every genre.

Add the tribal feel to hip hop beats, add suspense if you are film scoring, or make soulful rhythms for ballad song production.

Hortator Main Features

• 6 Types of kicks
• 5 Types of snare samples.
• Each kick and snare type has up to 12 velocity layers to provide realism and authenticity.
• Layer Hortator with drum loops, or use it solo.

The plug-in is programmed to be played with a MIDI controller.

Kick samples from C1 to F1. Snare/side stick samples from F#1 to A#1. Each kick and snare type has up to 13 velocity layers to provide realism and authenticity while playing the drum with a MIDI controller.

Assign a separate stereo output through the combo menus “Kick out” and “Snare out”. That way users are able to apply plug-in effects to the sounds separately. We suggest using parallel compression track on “squashed” settings to add modern energy to the sound.

Either layer HORTATOR with drum loops, or use it solo. There are no limits or a specific genre. Have fun making music!

Write Your Next Acoustic Hit – Fast

The Hitmaker Bundle from UJAM

Need to write a hit acoustic pop song fast? Looking for backing on your next ballad? How about starting with a tried and tested trio of timeless quality, guaranteed to satisfy the crowd?

With this Bundle you’ll get:

• 3 virtual session musicians (drums, bass & acoustic guitar) suited for many popular musical genres
• 121 complimentary styles with over 1740 professionally played phrases to choose from
• Powerful and easy to use tone-shaping controls
• Great value for money!

Easy as 1-2-3

The Hitmaker Bundle is a perfect pop music combo that specializes in popular genres, ready-made for songwriting, composing and finishing tracks quickly in your DAW. No musical instrument skills are required to take advantage of the signature UJAM instruments frustration-free plugins – just your imagination.

Timeless and True

This special complementary combination of instruments and sounds has been used on countless hit records. Listen to some song examples containing elements of the Hitmaker Bundle and get inspired…

Buy the Bundle – Save Money

UJAM is committed to offering great value instrument bundles to help you create and finish your music tracks faster, better and easier than ever before.

►AMBER

Get Your Strum On! Warm and Shiny Strums

In the mood for livid steel-string acoustic guitar strums? Virtual Guitarist AMBER is your musical companion. AMBER adds warm and shiny strumming to your production. It comes loaded with more than 50 Styles, over 600 Phrases, multiple effects, and sound shaping controls.

After testing and measuring dozens of combinations of high-end guitars and microphones, we found sonic delight: A boutique American vintage dreadnought and a legendary German vintage large diaphragm microphone. For even more sonic versatility we’ve captured the guitar pickup too.

Features

• Steel-string acoustic guitar strumming
• More than 50 Styles and 600 Phrases
• From full-bodied warm to metallic-sparkling bright
• Select or mix between microphone and pick-up signal

A Virtual Virtuoso
AMBER plays lively chords and patterns across many genres and comes with more than 600 characteristic Phrases grouped in 57 Styles.

Be Real
AMBER provides control over sound aspects that create a realistic feel such as play position and fret noises.

Make it Shine
The unique Shimmer control dynamically accentuates high frequencies while attenuating the mid range to add that certain shiny gloss to your mix.

Feel is Everything
Match your track’s groove: Laid back and swinging? Virtual Guitarist AMBER follows suit.

Native Kontrol Standard
Virtual Guitarist supports Native Instruments NKS. Virtual Guitarist will be mapped to Komplete Kontrol keyboards and Maschine straight out of the box. Enabling you to use Virtual Guitarist with the Light Guide, Smart Play features, and the full creative potential of KOMPLETE KONTROL without any configuration hassle.

►SOLID 2

For Your Top Notch Studio Drum Tracks

Virtual Drummer SOLID is your personal gold-standard session drummer, the backline bandmate we all dream of having – dependable, reliable and comfortable playing all popular styles and moods with ease. Build your tracks on the strongest foundations with Virtual Drummer SOLID and fully realize and finish your rhythmical arrangements in record time. The versatile sound and intuitive & accessible controls mean that SOLID is truly suited to any level of music production skill.

Novices can get instant access to many popular musical styles and rhythmical phrases without a steep learning curve whilst more experienced musicians and producers will delight at being able to get such great sounding results so quickly.

It’s easy to quickly customize the sound of each of the five different drum kits by dialing in some extra punch with the slam control or by using one of our six tone-morphing character presets – here is where the sound of Virtual Drummer SOLID can quickly change from being smooth and retro to being smashed to pieces!

Finalize and finetune your drum mix by individually adjusting the volume of each component of the kit including separate controls for overhead & room mics before adding a touch of reverb. Virtual Drummer SOLID even lets you control the feel of the performance allowing for pushing or pulling of the beat and adjustment of a humanize control for added authenticity.

What’s New in Version 2?

• Drag-and-drop phrases to DAW
• Multiple Audio Outputs
• Enhanced Mixer Section
• 30 new styles and 150 presets

What’s in There?

• A virtual gold-standard drummer that follows your direction
• Build your own drum kits with kit editing options
• New Master Section with saturation and maximizer
• Fresh improved look – easy on eyes and brain
• 200 presets, 60 musical styles with 1380 different patterns

Everybody Comes to Hollywood

Virtual Drummer SOLID is your seasoned pro for sophisticated, grand productions. For all popular genres and moods, SOLID provides those untouchable gold-standard drumming styles and sounds that open record label executives’ doors, hearts, and wallets.

Gold-Plated Perfectionism

The key to SOLID’s benchmark drum sound is in the meticulous way it was recorded. It has 200 presets, 60 musical styles containing a total of 1380 different patterns. The creation of all patterns started with the highest quality ingredients, right at the source, with a fantastic drummer, in prime acoustical space sitting in front of a collection of ‘desert island’ drum hardware. Only then were we happy to hit record, capturing each hit and phrase with a combination of premium microphones and recording chains to ensure the end results were of the highest calibre.

►ROYAL 2

The Session Pro – Smooth & Noble Fingered Electric Bass

Virtual Bassist ROYAL is a session bass professional – effortlessly fitting into any popular styles and genres with its rounded electric fingerstyle tones. Perfect for pop, ready to rock, impressive on indie and smooth on singer/songwriter material.

What’s new?

• 20 new styles
• 30 new presets
• 15 Finisher multi-effect modes
• MIDI Drag and Drop
• Backwards-compatibility

What You Get

• A total of 60 Styles and 1380 Phrases
• A distinct and professional electric bass
• Powerful-yet-simple sound shaping options
• Artificially intelligent articulation modelling

Session Superstar

ROYAL adapts to every situation, but especially primes in acoustic and electronic songs, bands and arrangements. From a super-smooth, round tone for ballads to enough sharpness and drive to support a good rock song – ROYAL offers a wide range of studio bass styles.

High-end Professional, Low-end Satisfaction

Virtual Bassist ROYAL – it starts with an experienced vintage electric bass modified with the best electronics money can buy and played by a decorated professional. Integrated into a virtual instrument that adds realism, behaviour and a player who knows his stuff. Add tuned amps and effects that create a round sound.

Frustration-free Design

ROYAL really is suitable for any music productions skill level. It caters to anyone who wants to create great sounding bass guitar tracks fast. The ‘fewer controls, more control’ idea within the Virtual Bassist series and all UJAM plug-ins ensure that beginners can quickly and easily get end results that will never be musically or technically wrong – without sacrificing creative freedom.

Features at a Glance

The versatile nature and range of exceptional, authentic sounds within ROYAL mean that even seasoned bass players themselves will appreciate the ability to get great-sounding ideas down fast – with practically zero learning curve.

Player Mode

Virtual Bassist ROYAL has two distinct modes – Firstly there’s the Player Mode, with its instant access to 60 styles and 1380 phrases via simple MIDI key commands. The smart technology behind the Virtual Bassist series means that not only will ROYAL automatically follow the key and chord you play, it will also intelligently select the most musical bass articulations available to support your tracks.

Instrument Mode

For those with keyboard skills and an adventurous spirit, the brand-new Instrument Mode will let you access the full span of this meticulously sampled bass-guitar with your MIDI controller allowing for greater creative expression including adding dead notes, full stops and even slides.

Sound Shaping Options

The versatility of Virtual Bassist ROYAL goes further with its powerful, yet simple sound shaping options. Quickly choose from a variety of tone altering amps and effects before dialling in the right character and tweaking the EQ and dynamics to suit your song in a flash. Would you like to go even further? With UJAM’s proprietary Finisher, you shape your sound using 15 different multi-effect modes at the turn of a knob.

Instantly fun drumming with carefully sampled drums

Slammer is a multi-sampled drum plug-in that contains 30 different instruments made from a large number of carefully recorded and edited samples. Integrated custom-built real-time effects combined with some clever routing makes Slammer a versatile and flexible virtual instrument that is capable of rendering anything from natural acoustic to heavily distorted and compressed drum sounds.

Each sound can be customized with a wide array of settings like pitch, filtering, effect sends, decay time, velocity mapping, and much more.

There’s also a “Dirt” section for distortion and compression, a reverb, and tone control. The amount of “dirt” and reverb can be tweaked individually for each instrument. On top of all, Slammer comes with a set of factory presets, covering anything from light and slick to heavy and gritty.

If you’re looking for a drum instrument, giving you ‘instant gratification’ from the first hit, this is it.

Main View

• 1. A dozen of noises – There are 12 sound slots, each with selectable sounds + lots of individual settings
• 2. Go to your room! – A very nice built-in reverb module.
• 3. De-polish – Squeeze & distortion will add lots of character to your kit.
• 4. Tone in – No-fuss EQ for the final touch

Instrument Details

• 1. The hit list – A well-balanced smörgåsbord of all the sounds you may need.
• 2. Jet-settings – Individual settings for shaping the gain, pan, pitch, decay, and transient impact.
• 3. Above the curve – Control the curve that decides how the instrument responds to your key velocity
• 4. Final touch – Simple EQ + reverb & dirt send control.

Features

• 30 multi-sampled instruments using more than 2000 samples
• 12 slots/instrument players with individual tweaking possibilities
• Compression and Distortion section (dirt) with 8 different dist algorithms
• Reverb with several presets
• Plenty of factory presets
• Global tone control

Brushed Percussion 

Borsta is a new innovative percussion instrument specially designed for strokes and brushes. Its unique audio engine allows for an endless number of truly natural-sounding brushing phrases and rhythms. What sets Borsta apart from similar instruments is that its audio engine supports continuous changes in intensity. This makes it possible to create very life-like brushing phrases and patterns, something that can’t be achieved with traditional sample-based instruments.

The parallel envelope and events sequencers allow you to determine exactly when to start a stroke, how the stroke’s pressure/speed should evolve over time and when to end it. On top of that, all instruments also offers multi-sampled one-shots with advanced choking capabilities. Each instrument is based on more than 400 high-quality samples, recorded for playing with different velocities and round robins.

Borsta emulates a single drum instrument at a time, but comes with 18 different instruments to choose between. The sequences are played one at a time, however switching between sequences can be done seamlessly via MIDI, and additional one-shot samples can be triggered using an ordinary MIDI track.

The instruments are all structured and MIDI-mapped in a uniform way, which makes it possible to use the same sequence on any instrument. For instance, a traditional swing pattern will sound musically correct no matter whether you choose a Frame Drum, Tambourine or Snare Drum – it will just sound like the musician changed instruments. Borsta is a Swedish verb, meaning ”to brush”.

Features 

• 18 high-quality instruments with 6 multi-sampled one shots each 
• 230 pre-made factory sequences 
• 60 Global presets covering different sounds and genres 
• Separate volume and velocity curve control of each sound type 
• Room simulation (9 different rooms) 
• Reverb with adjustable decay time (6 different algorithms) 
• Timbre adjustment control (harmonics) 
• Overall pitch 
• Three band equalizer 
• Rusty Bucket 
• Guira 
• Pancake Drum 
• Tambourine 
• Frame Drum 
• Pizza Box 
• Cardboard Pipe 
• Cajon 
• Pandeiro 
• Bakestone 
• Cymbal Chains 
• Snare Drum 1 
• Snare Drum 2 
• Snare Drum 3 
• LOFI Snare Drum 
• Metal Spade 
• Djembe 
• Iron Sticks

Cyberpunk Beats – Broken, Dark and Intense
Put on your exoskeleton and gear up for dystopian adventures with Beatmaker NEMESIS. The action-packed drum machine has everything you need for creating powerful, dark and complex music.

Raise a Fury
The heavy-hitting drum sounds in NEMESIS have been designed to be aggressive and futuristic. The Mix presets provide different types of distortion and compression for beats so tough and punchy, they’ll cut through any mix. NEMESIS really shines in any situation that requires heavily processed, broken aesthetics.

Dark & Atmospheric
Inspired by contemporary film and game scores, NEMESIS brings the rhythms of dystopian cyberpunk scenes and epic space battles: A range of sounds from mysterious, dark and cold to explosive and intense.

Made by Rusher
Veteran Drum and Bass producer and DJ Rusher is the Musical Director and sound designer behind NEMESIS. Rusher’s mastery for dystopian soundscapes and staccato beats is at the red-hot pulsing heart of this Beatmaker.

For Sci-Fi Soundtracks
Beatmaker NEMESIS is already being used in game development. Rusher is working on the soundtrack for the upcoming title Kato by Imagine Dreams.

Features at a Glance

Take a look at the NEMESIS inventory for producing the most intense broken beats.

Mix Presets

Create your music without overthinking! Select and adjust one out of 12 custom mix templates. Each is a complete multi-bus mixing desk under the hood with multiple effect chains per channel.

Special Control

Push sounds in different directions: Hypercharge uses multi-band distortion for a more aggressive, electrified sound. It can really be driven over the top, especially in combination with the Mix Presets. Pressurize uses multi-band compression to condense the signal, and cut through the mix.

Let’s Go to Space!

Grab the Beatmaker equivalent of an intergalactic battleship and start producing today!

Features

• 60 Plug-in Presets
• 10 Drum kits
• 30 Styles
• 12 Mix Presets

Drumbada: Polyrhythmic Cinematic Drums

Drumbada simplifies the process of creating polyrhythms by offering intuitive controls within its five groups of sound sources and arpeggiators. With independent adjustments for signature, speed, spread value, and accent, users can effortlessly explore various rhythmic combinations without feeling overwhelmed. This thoughtful design allows for natural experimentation and encourages creative exploration, making polyrhythms accessible to musicians and producers of all skill levels.

A Rare Bass Drum

The “bombo legüero” is a drum popular in Latin American folklore. It owes its name to the characteristic it is believed to have, which is being heard even at 6 miles of distance. It consists of two leather membranes with hair attached to a box made from a hollowed trunk secured by straps made of leather or rawhide. Both the rims and the membranes are struck with leather-covered mallets called sticks or drumsticks. The legend tells that a butcher in a village, who lived in the middle of the countryside, had a drum to inform neighbors that he had meat for sale.

Crew Algorithm

Drumbada faithfully replicates the organic imperfections of a dynamic ensemble of 15 percussionists playing together. With precise control over the timing of each group of percussionists, you can finely adjust the rhythmic feel to suit your composition. Additionally, manipulate accents with ease to emulate the nuanced impact of subtle or strong hits, bringing authenticity and depth to your drum tracks.

Featuring an intuitive interface and a user-friendly mouse-drag UI zone, Drumbada grants you unparalleled control over your sound by seamlessly integrating multiple parameters into a single, effortless gesture. This transformative capability positions Drumbada as an indispensable creative tool, ideal for both live performances and studio composition alike.

Features

• Polyrhythmic cinematic drums.
• 5 sound sources with independent arpeggiators.
• 8-Round-Robins Bombo Legüero drum.
• ~300 MB.
• Low CPU usage.
• Crew Algorithm engine.
• Automated parameters for DAWs.
• Scalable HD interface.

Controls/FX

• Impulse based Reverb.
• Gain and pan for each group.

Reggaeton Rhythms – Effortless Latin pop grooves

Light up the dance floor

Add a Latin club or dancehall feel to any pop tune you create! Spice things up with deep, bassy kicks and the classic boom-chak rhythm of reggaeton that always gets the crowd moving and grooving. Whether you need straight-ahead beats or authentic world percussion grooves, RICO gives you all the pieces you need.

What’s in there?

• 20 Styles, 50 Presets
• 10 Drum Kits, 460 Patterns /li>
• 350 Styles and 5267 song parts
• MIDI Drag & Drop, Resizable User Interface
• Special Control: Me Gusta

Easy, polished pop hits

Reggaeton & Dancehall rhythms are key ingredients for some of the greatest pop hits of the past half-decade, and the Dembow groove is only on the rise. Getting a round bottom end, tasty percussion and a snare that smacks can mean hours of mixing to lock everything in… but with RICO, you’ll never have to do it from scratch.

Countless style options

20 different styles allow you to manipulate hundreds of rhythms, everywhere from light to thumping beats. There are classic and more traditional latin rhythms like Paso A Paso; offbeat rhythms that break away from 4 to the floor like Perreo, in case you want to get creative; and hard-hitting beats in Styles like Pichudo. Combine these with one of 10 different kits and you’ll never run out of options!

Chop it up

Never settle for boring — the Mix settings allow you to quickly switch between various multi-effect profiles and completely punch up your sound! Delay and garble your beats with The Grinder, add extreme distortion with Wrecking Ball or liquify everything with Good 2 Go, putting your own spin on reggaeton with just a few clicks.

Dembow riddims

RICO is the perfect complement to club, EDM, hip hop and other rhythm-focused pop genres. If you want to get the party going as quickly as possible, this is the tool to do it!

A quick fix, every time

Select your Kit, Style and Mix presets and you’re off! With three simple controls, you have an endless palette of reggaeton, moombahton and pop beats to dial up the energy in moments — no more searching for samples.

Features at a Glance

RICO features 10 kits with 16 drum instruments each. There are 20 Styles with 23 ready-made patterns, for a total of 460 patterns. Plus: Pair with Virtual Guitarist AMBER and Virtual Bassist DANDY for a smooth and punchy electro-acoustic feel.

Me Gusta

Add stereo width and instrument isolation for a larger than life beat, or set it negative to bring everything mono with a tight, crunchy distortion. Perfect for distinguishing the vibe between verse and chorus.

Intensity

Use the Beat Intensity control to make quick and dirty brightness changes — add separation between your verse / chorus and change the EQ on demand.

Every Drum Sound Under The Sun

No other drum plugin has the range and versatility of SSD 5.5. With tons of legendary and artist-modeled drum kits in every style, your creative options are limitless. Whether you’re into rock, metal, jazz, funk, R&B, indie, reggae, or experimental, SSD 5.5 has you covered.

New Samples & MIDI Grooves

SSD 5.5 adds tons of new kits and samples, including Steven’s previously unreleased OG one-shot samples that started his career. With over 2,400 MIDI grooves and over 400 instruments, you can quickly get the perfect drum sound and groove. Now, you even have the option to import 3rd party grooves using the updated Grooves parameters. The new Smart-Velocity Triggering algorithm makes any one-shot sample blend perfectly with the rest of your kit.

Infinitely Customizable 

The updated GUI in SSD 5.5 makes customizing your drums easier than ever. You have total control over the dynamics, panning options, and ADSR settings of each instrument. Effortlessly mix ambient room mics and close mics with custom routing options. Did we mention you can even change the size of the plugin?

Smarter E-Drumming

With smarter MIDI Learn & Map features, you’ll spend more time playing and less time mapping. The completely redesigned Map section lets you quickly customize your drum MIDI mappings on the fly. Editing your e-drumkit or drum pad mapping has never been easier.

Steven’s OG One-Shot Snare Samples

You’ve heard them in tons of top records and for the first time, you can use them in your songs. These are the samples that put Steven on the map. Mix these snare samples into your kits and you’ll instantly notice how much character they add. Mix and match the OG One-Shots to create custom snares Zeus himself will envy.

Features:

• 148 Famous Artist & Legendary Modeled Drum Kit Presets
• Over 2,400 MIDI Grooves
• Versatile Kits For Rock, Metal, Jazz, Funk, Indie, Reggae, and More
• Lightning-Fast MIDI Mapping & Learning
• Steven’s Previously Unreleased OG One-Shot Snare Samples
• 135 Snares, 112 Kicks, 58 Toms
• 11 Hi-Hats, 14 Crashes, 6 Rides, 4 Splashes, 3 Chinas
• Ultra-Sleek New Resizable GUI
• New Smart-Velocity Triggering Algorithm for One-Shots
• Analog Processed and Raw Samples Recorded to 2-Inch Tape
• Import & Use 3rd Party Samples and Grooves

Synthetic Beats – Calculating Beats…

DrumComputer is the new specialist for synthetic drums, combining classic and modern synthesis with flexible modulations and luxurious sequencing. Intelligent randomizers, elegant pattern editing and import of your own samples are just a few of the mind blowing possibilities. Enjoy new drums everyday and get inspired by all the creativity that DrumComputer sets free. Just because, there still is all the unheard of.

Key Features

• 8 Sound Engines, each one layering a Resonator, Wavetable/Analogue Oscillator and Resynth/Sampler
• Filter, Compressor, Overdrive and 2 kinds of Send Reverbs: Room and Hall
• 2x Env/LFO, plus Synth-Engine-Modulators, Sequencer-Modulators, ModMatrix
• Intelligent Randomizers for endless Drum Sounds
• 16 Step Sequencer and Pattern Generator, Probability, Rolls, +/- Step Delay, Swing, Humanize
• Auto- und Manual Remixing/Fills
• Easy Keyboard Mapping for Patterns, Mutes and Engine Triggers
• Keyzones for Rolls, Pitch and Modulation
• MIDI File Drag & Drop
• Multiple Audio/MIDI Outputs

New in Version 1.2.0!

• A Sampler Mode has been added
• Improvements and minor fixes

Sound Engines

8 individual sound engines contain all the DSP goodies and share presets, so you can exchange sounds between engines. 3 synthesis layers cover a broad variety of timbres, from a classical analog Resonator to Wavetable, plus the awesome Resynth, which brings you liquidized cymbals, snares and synths. We also added a Sampler Mode to play back your own sounds.

Multimode filter, Compressor, Distortion and 2 kinds of Send Reverbs provide a vast toolset to carve the drums of tomorrow. Enjoy the 2 included ENV/LFO hybrids with lots of waveforms and the flexible modulation matrix with sources and targets all over the instrument.

Easy Access

The Kit Page provides the most important functions of the sound engine. Each of the eight kit channels provides a preset browser for the individual sound, controls for global pitch and decay, a modify knob and a profiled random function. Define a Mute group in oder to make a trigger on one engine choke the sound on another engine and use Choke Groups for open/closed hihat choking, but also for interesting synth sounds.

The Finalizer is a well balanced recipe of transient shaper, compressor, maximizer and saturation. Use it to bring out the Attacks of your drums and let the room breath.

Millions of Drum Sounds

Drum sound randomizers with profiles and the MakeKit button will keep on surprising you with new drum sounds and kits. Simple patterns turn into livid tracks with the Auto Fill feature, which inserts fills and parameter changes at certain song positions. The revolutionary Remix control creates crazy fills and covers lots of groove and fun.

The Pattern, Mute & Mapping section offers you extensive live-performance-oriented control over DrumComputer. Enjoy total freedom when it comes to assigning drum sounds to your keyboard and use Key zones for rolls, pitch, and modulations. 8 keys are reserved for the mute function, perfect for live-re-arranging of your beats. 16 pattern keys plus pattern chain allow for easy pattern editing and sequencing.

Sequencer

The 16-step/16-pattern sequencer is packed with features. While it provides Tempo, Direction and Step Length per track, its also capable of generating complete, complex patterns with more than just triggers, you have to try it to believe it.

Modulation sequencers for probability, rolls, step delay and also pitch- decay- and mod sequencers are included. And the best part: A complete MIDI drag and drop feature generates a MIDI file that contains everything from triggers, modulation sequences to auto fills and their related CCs.

PUSHING RHYTHM DESIGN

A total of almost 400 convolution impulses include vinyl/radio/tape/digital noise and static, particulate and granular effects, digital and acoustic sound effects, frequency modeling, mic effects and chorusing, stereo imaging, and new, pitch-based impulses for adding harmonic interest to rhythms.

With Rezonator’s totally new sample content, the aim was to pair strong electronic drum sounds with noisy, messy hand percussion, shaped and augmented with convolution impulses. The rhythmic possibilities explode: beats infused with ordered noise jump out of the speakers; delicious rattles and soul-stirring syncopations shake up stale rhythms and give them new dimension.

Packed with this kit builder are 54 essential kits, ranging from big, deep house/downtempo kits to dirty, hyperactive electronic/tribal kits. Now with multi-out capability.

Rezonator’s all-new sample content blends custom electronic kits with acoustic cluster percussion.

Comprising PulTech, Tape, Tube, and Wah pedal kits, tone-based Modular and New Wave synthesis kits, and a swarm of custom hand percussion, striking percussive combinations emerge.

CLEAN OR MESSY?

Control the amount of randomization that is applied to velocity and quantization—separately for each kit slot. Make those snares and hi-hats extra trashy. And with 6 round-robin layers for every articulation, even fully synthetic kits can find a new groove. Let those kits run loose.

CLUSTER CONVOLUTION

Sculpt each kit slot with convolution: almost 400 custom-designed impulses that thicken, echo, warp, and spatialize every nuance. Create rippling thuds, buzzing strikes, scintillating shakers, noisy rattles, and resonant drums. Aquatronic, Glitchbomb, Kludgebase, Chordscape…

FILTER CONTROL

Each of the 7 kit slots has three dedicated, independently selectable lowpass, bandpass, and highpass filters, each with dedicated cutoff and resonance knobs for on-the-fly switching. Filtering offers another way to control how convolution impulses color the sound.

ORDER AND CHAOS

Rezonator’s all-new sample content blends custom electronic kits with acoustic cluster percussion. Comprising PulTech, Tape, Tube, and Wah pedal kits, tone-based Modular and New Wave synthesis kits, and a swarm of custom hand percussion, striking percussive combinations emerge.

PERFORMANCE CONTROL

Adjustments to tuning, sample start points, decay envelopes, and sample width can be used to control how different convolution impulses color an instrument. Rezonator is multi-out capable: kit slots can be routed to separate output channels for automation control and 3rd party plugins.

SMART RANDOMIZATION

A powerful kit-building tool, this feature preserves the kit’s performance controls and offers three randomization modes: sample banks only, convo choices only, or both. With two temporary memory slots for comparing new combos, tailor settings then save a snapshot of your new kit.

FEATURES

• 3,942 Stereo 48kHz/24bit samples
• 372 Instruments
• 394 Custom-designed convolution impulse responses
• 7 Independently controllable drum kit slots
• 6 Round-robin layers for every articulation
• Separate LP/BP/HP filters with dedicated cutoff/resonance controls for each kit slot
• 54 Essential Factory Kits

Brushed Drums for Finger-Drummers
Brushify is the first brushed drum kit created to reproduce pro drummers techniques with your fingers. Based on advanced scripting and built upon sampling + modeling techniques.

Featuring a dedicated keyboard layout will allow you to recreate brushed drums playing techniques on any keyboard or midi/pad controller.

FEEL THE JOY A PRO DRUMMER FEELS

Most of us in our team are keyboardists and programmers. No drummers at all. We always wanted to see what playing drums like a pro feels like. This is why we did Brushify Pro.

Our keyboard/pad minded layout will allow you to do things only a drummer were allowed to, until today.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Brushed Drums Module
• 12 mic position sampling of Pearl Masters Custom Kit
• Sampling + Modeling technique
• HD Scalable interface.
• Mixer with pan, width and sympathetic resonance knobs
• No extra purchases needed (like Kontakt, UVI, etc) or any other 3rd. party player.
• Ready to be loaded into major DAWs (Cubase, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cakewalk, Reaper, BitWig, Nuendo, FLstudio, etc)
• Win 32/64 bits and Mac VST/AU/Standalone versions included
• About ~65MB installed.
• No online activation required.

Maple drums have become the industry standard over the last few decades appreciated for their dryer sound with shorter sustain.

We chose the Yamaha Maple Custom drums for this VST Instrument for they have a warm, recording studio character and pack plenty of punch. It has also become one of the most sought-after kits by drummers and studios worldwide therefore we had to capture it for Handy Drums series.

This kit is suitable for most contemporary music styles, it’s a great all-rounder and a definite must-have.

These drums sound more “close up” due to their crispy presence and short sustain. The snare is snappy and at the same time deep with a real sizzly snare wire character coming through. The kick is weighty, short and punches through the speakers. The shorter depth toms have a clear note but get out of the way even faster and really sing out on the louder hits.

The hi-hats and cymbals have plenty of presence and blend perfectly with the rest of the drums. If you were stomped for choice for which kit to start with, the Studio Standard is certainly the main contender.

Pre-mixed, Ready-to-use Studio Drums

No need to waste time getting a decent studio drum sound anymore. Instead, you can focus that time on your creativity elsewhere on your track.

Achieving a quality studio drum sound takes a significant amount of time, even when you are highly skilled for the task and have the best drum recording, to begin with.

We invested hours upon hours painstakingly editing and carefully mixing drums from multitrack recordings so you don’t have to.

Our studio drum set and all other handy drums are recorded with numerous microphones, including close mics, overhead mics, and room mics, and then they are expertly blended to recreate the true stereo image and ambiance as it was in the recording room. This immediately allows the drums to sit well inside your mix.

RECORDING MAGAZINE: Every kit and percussion setup has a very balanced sound–not too hyped and not too dry.

COMPUTER MUSIC: Brilliantly recorded, mix-ready kits.

SOUND ON SOUND: Without exception, the kits sound really good; this is mixready stuff with a minimum of fuss.

This Bundle Features Drum Synth 500 & Boom!

►Drum Synth 500

Building upon Air Music Technology’s heritage of creating Strike—considered “The reference Drum Instrument” for Avid Protools—Air has teamed up with music legends Akai Professional and Alesis Drums to carry on this legacy of excellence.

In the style of the popular 500 series synth modules comes an all new software drum synthesizer that delivers full control of all electronic drum sounds in an easy-to-use, comprehensive interface.

Drum Synth 500 from AIR Music Technology has everything needed to create an endless variety of custom electronic drum sounds for all styles of music. 

MAIN FEATURES:

• 8-channel electronic drum synthesizer with fully programmable drum sounds in the style of 500 Series rack modules.
• Individual instrument channels for Kick, Snare, Hats, Clap, Toms, Percussion and two Sampler channels for any mono or stereo .wav audio file.
• Load your own sounds into two separate Sampler channels, including loop, forward and reverse playback!
• Easy to use interface with no hidden panels.
• Randomize feature for quickly generating new electronic drum sounds with just one button press.
• Works with any MIDI keyboard, pad controller or drum kit controller.
• MPC Full Level and Note Repeat for each instrument channel
• Three distortion effects (including new Bitcrusher and Decimate), 5 filters and 2 compressors per instrument channel!
• Two reverb sends and two delay sends per instrument channel.
• Huge Master channel includes three saturation effects, a convolution reverb, an algorithmic reverb, a stereo delay, a mono delay, a compressor and a unique Kill EQ circuit.

Drum Synth 500’s exclusive library has been produced by the sound design veterans behind the highly-acclaimed Air Music Tech Strike, Air Structure, Sonivox Big Bang, Akai Professional’s MPC and Alesis e-Drums. The goal was to provide an incredible mixture of vintage and all-new effects that pay homage to classic sounds while also pushing into new territory.

Using a MIDI keyboard, pad controller, electronic drumkit, or the user’s favorite Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software, Drum Synth 500 brings modern electronic drum sounds into musical productions or live playing.

To get you started, Drum Synth 500 gives you over 500 drum sounds, 500 drum samples, 50 drum kits and 500 MIDI drum loops which can be loaded into any DAW and used to kick-start your song or production. 

It’s a simple step to start shaping your own electronic drum sounds. Dig in deep with individual parameter control for all instruments or use our randomizer which make a drum sound for you with just one press of a button.  Advanced users will find this to be a tweaker’s paradise to produce your own one-of-a-kind sound.

Drum Synth 500 is built on powerful all-new engine for live performance or studio use.  For live performance, you can simply fire up our PC or Mac Desktop app and perform with no DAW required for distraction free performance.  For studio use, all popular plugin formats are supported.

Drum Synth 500 is packaged into a beautiful user interface with no hidden panels for quick, fun creation of your own electronic drum sounds.

You deserve your own custom drum sounds and now you have the perfect tool to create them: Drum Synth 500 from AIR Music Technology.

►Boom

Boom features a slick modern interface that pays homage to the most popular vintage drum machines of the past.

Boom is a Virtual Drum Machine.

Boom has been used on many famous projects since its launch, ranging from hit albums, feature films and radio projects.

It’s one of the most loved Pro Tools Plugins.

Boom is now available on its own by popular demand, available to anyone who demands instant creativity in AU/VST formats.

Boom includes a diverse collection of 10 different classic electronic drum kits, offering variations on the classic 808 and 909 kits, more aggressive Dance and Urban-style kits and a powerful retro style kit modeled on the concept of a ‘CR78 merged with a 606’.

Each one has been created with great attention to detail and provides serious sonic impact.

Each kit contains 10 different drums, and you can adjust the panning, volume, tuning and decay of each drum within a kit.

Each drum channel also contains a special tuning screw that can be turned to make a sonic adjustment, specific to a particular drum. This tweaking ability provides for nearly limitless possibilities with a user-friendly interface.

You can mix and match drums from different kits to make your own custom kit, and the drum sounds can be triggered individually via standard MIDI pitch mappings.

For instant inspiration, over 50 presets are included cover contemporary, classic electronic/urban musical genres.

Boom also has an on-board sequencer that enables you to create and trigger your own patterns, which can be saved and recalled as presets.

You can select different patterns using the keys along the bottom of the interface, when you’re in Pattern Select mode, and these are conveniently color ‘coded to show you how they map to a MIDI keyboard from middle ‘C’ upwards for remote selection.

The Matrix display in the top left enables you to program a pattern, but if you prefer you can also use the keys along the bottom, this time with Pattern Edit mode selected.

You’ll find some nice touches, such as the ability to copy one pattern to another, and some simple controls for adjusting the way in which the pattern plays back within your host: normal, double, half or triplet time, and there’s even a swing control mirroring classic MPC’s and other vintage drum machines/samplers.

The Riser’s Chord oscillator introduces you to an uncharted creative continent. Use it to match The Riser’s sonic structure to your song’s key (or a contrasting one) and blend it to taste; it can be as musical as you want.

Groovy percussion for popular styles Make your tracks move and shake with guaranteed feel

The missing ingredient
You’ve cooked up your track, you’ve got bass and drums, melodies and chords and yet there’s something missing. Why does it still lack taste? Percussion!

Think of salt as a spice – working dutifully in the background, a little bitter when consumed in masses. But no dish will come to full expression of flavours without it. Same goes for pop songs and percussion.

• 30 Styles – Combi Style and Solo Styles
• 4 Sounds (Shaker, Claps, Tambourine, One Shot shaker)
• 9 Mix & 4 Ambience Presets
• MIDI Drag and Drop

ONE…2, 3, 4

Groovemate ONE quickly and easily spices up your tracks with that important feel. Just select one of the ready-made phrases and adjust them to your needs. Or play the contained instruments yourself, directly via MIDI input: Claps, Tambourine, Regular Shaker, One-Shot Shaker.

Easy, yet complex

The secret of the vibe-machine: Percussionists often use sophisticated patterns that work against or around the basic beat and emphasis, such as 3-over-4 and syncopations. Playing or programming these yourself might be tricky unless you’re a percussionist yourself. With Groovemate ONE, you just browse through the presets and pick what works for you.

Features at a Glance
Get to know the Groovemate ONE features.

Pick a Preset
Create your music without overthinking! Pick any inspiring preset and get to work instantly.

In Sync
Trigger patterns that are instantly and perfectly in sync with the rest of your session.

Make your songs shine
Get ready to move, shake, rattle, and roll!

What is MINDst?

The MINDst Sampler is an innovative leap in sampler methodology that brings unprecedented realism to your music production. At the heart of this engine lie our intelligent sampling techniques and algorithm design, focused around responding musically to your input in real time.

By considering the organic dynamics and temporal characteristics of real drumming, it recreates the nuanced timing and timbre of a snare roll or the resonant decay of consecutive crash hits with astounding accuracy. The result is drums that not only sound genuine but also feel deeply integrated into the fabric of your music, making each groove resonate with authenticity and expressive detail.

Main Features:

• Revolutionary sampler engine breaths life into any drum performance and reacts to MIDI input in real time.
• Massive Sample Base: 50,000 samples, incredible depth and diversity in every drum & cymbal.
• One-of-a-kind DW custom kit & high end cymbals produce a tight, punchy sound.
• Robust mixer with built-in reverbs and stylistic effects.
• MIDI Player: Hundreds of grooves by producers and world renowned drummers with simple Drag and Drop to Your DAW (With Free Updates)

Endless Variation: MINDst Drums comes with a massive sample base (±50,000 Samples) The amount of dynamic layers, round robins and deep customization options make the kit feel alive and sound exciting even when playing the same loop for a long time.

Algorithmic Innovation: MINDst is packed with innovative features. For example, the Hi Hat plays varying closed samples depending on the time elapsed since it was last opened. Each drum in the kit is sampled from both silence and previous resonance – our sophisticated playback algorithms then assign the ideal sample for each instrument based on its sustain, ensuring snare rolls and tom build-ups are both convincing and harmonious. The intricate work behind the scenes sets MINDst apart, truly defining its uniqueness.

Speed and Economy: With ~50,000 samples, we made sure you are always moved by MINDst’s performance, even when listening to the same loop for a long time.​ In order to deliver the immense depth of our sample base with minimal size and loading times, we developed an entirely new audio codec called MLAC, specifically tailored to load mass amounts of samples quickly and efficiently. Ensuring quick startup times, low HD signature and minimal hassle to download. The sample base can easily be downloaded from within the plugin.

Not Just One Kit… THE One Kit! We sampled Doron Giat’s one of a kind DW custom kit, paired with cymbals of his own design. This hand picked, carefully curated sonic palette is the result of decades of experience. Doron’s virtuosity and attention to nuance underline every hit that we captured for MINDst Drums and he is an integral part of what makes MINDst feel so alive and groovy.

The Drums On The Radio – Fire drums for famous hits

When it comes to popular music, the standards are quite high. World-class recording engineers track the most talented drummers in the shiniest of studios. Yet today’s top charts all have two things in common: infectious drum grooves and punchy drums, processed to perfection.

Keep it fresh

• 30 Styles, 690 playable Phrases and 100+ Global Presets
• 5 Drum Kits, 6 Mix Presets, 6 Reverb Modes
• MIDI Drag & Drop, Resizable User Interface
• Special ‘Juice’ FX Control

Platinum potential

The majority of today’s charting tracks use electronic drum samples or highly processed combinations of sample layers. However, these samples must undergo extensive engineering to sit properly in a radio-ready mix, as they are often stale, lifeless and difficult to manipulate.

Virtual Drummer HOT provides real drum performances with punchy drum machine-like processing to replace your sample library with more lively and energizing drum grooves.

Spice it up!

30 different Styles allow you to manipulate hundreds of rhythms from the most popular genres of music ranging from Hip Hop and Rap to Indie and Electronic.

Features at a glance

HOT features 5 full drum kits, 6 Mix Presets and 30 Styles, each with 23 ready-made patterns for a total of 690 playable Phrases.

Juice control
The ‘Juice’ fader offers a seamless transition from a completely natural drum variant to the archetypical sample aesthetic, much like that of the most popular drum machines.

Mix presets
Each Mix Preset shapes the overall sound by swapping out an entire multi-bus effect chain for every channel under the hood, offering you completely different sound aesthetics without the hassle of wrestling with the bus system of your DAW.

The World’s first Intelligent Drum Replacer

When creating Addictive Trigger, we developed smart new technologies (Audio Fingerprint™ and SuperStart™) to make drum replacement easy and painless. Then, we combined these new technologies with some of the best sounds and features from Addictive Drums 2. The result is a fast, accurate and fun way to raise your live-recorded drums to a whole new level.

• Audio Fingerprint drum hit detection
• SuperStart auto-adjustment of settings
• Outstanding drum sounds included
• A complete solution

Accurate and Intelligent

During the research phase of Addictive Trigger, users around the world reported that accurate hit detection is absolutely critical when using drum replacement plugins. Unfortunately, existing triggering technologies tend to have shortcomings that require lots of manual tweaking and correction.

We endeavor to make products that are better than what is currently available, and we ended up creating an entirely new method for drum hit detection called Audio Fingerprint. Our new system uses FFT analysis to accurately identify drum sounds even if there is a lot of mic bleed or background noise in the source material.

It’s fast, it’s accurate, and we think it’ll change the way you work with live-recorded drums.

What is Audio Fingerprint?

Typical drum replacement tools rely on rudimentary filtering and transient detection, resulting in many false triggers and missed hits. Audio Fingerprint solves this problem by using a novel FFT-based matching system.

It is so accurate, it usually has no trouble detecting lightly played ghost notes from background noise while simultaneously rejecting mic bleed and other unwanted sounds.

In addition to detecting low level ghost notes with great accuracy, our Audio Fingerprint system can also differentiate between different stroke types that are played at similar velocities (for example, sidestick and open snare hits). This lets Addictive Trigger play back the correct articulations of samples, even if the incoming source material has different kinds of drum hits with similar peak levels.

SuperStart, SuperFast

Super Smart Automatic Hit Detection

Once you have inserted Addictive Trigger on an audio track, simply click SuperStart and begin playback in your host software. Addictive Trigger listens to your track for several seconds, analyzes the incoming hits and automatically sets a number of different parameters based on the source material. In most cases, this is all you need to do in order to have accurate hit detection happening on your track.

World-Class Sounds Right Out of the Box

In addition to the intelligent detection and workflow features, Addictive Trigger ships with tons of fantastic and easily-tweakable presets that are tailored specifically for drum replacement.

Selected from the award winning Addictive Drums library, these sounds are recorded at world-class, impossible-to-book studios like Fairfax Recording (formerly known as Sound City) and United Recording (formerly Ocean Way) and utilize some of the finest gear and most experienced ears in the business. Even if you already have nice drums and a great studio, we think you’ll still find a lot of inspiration and benefit from having these world-class sounds at your fingertips.

A Complete Solution

Addictive Trigger works all on its own and does not require any additional software to provide world-class results. Just fire up the plugin and you’re ready to go. Accurate detection and outstanding sounds are included in the box.

Already an AD2 User?

If you own our flagship Addictive Drums 2 software, you’re in luck! You can use all of your favorite presets and ADpak expansion sounds immediately in Addictive Trigger without any need to convert presets or change any settings.

Plays Nice with Other Drum Software

Addictive Trigger supports most popular 3rd party drum instruments as well. You can easily drag-and-drop properly formatted MIDI data out of Addictive Trigger to your favorite instrument and begin working right away.

Addictive Drums 2: Pop Collection

High-end drums for a luxurious sound

Included Products:

• Indie (ADpak)
• United Pop (ADpak)
• Indie Rock (MIDIpak)
• Alternative Rock (MIDIpak)

(Also includes the Addictive Drums 2 Engine)

Make your productions sound like a million dollars

What do all big pop songs have in common? Expensive sounding production. The United Pop ADpak was recorded in the legendary room put together by Bill Putnam that gave us hits by Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, U2, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, No Doubt, Queens of the Stone Age and many many more.

Add to that the Indie ADpak, with its hand-made ICE Custom Shop kit, recorded on 2″ tape for a vibrant, organic, punchy, sound, and the Alternative Rock and Indie Rock MIDIpaks, and you’ve got a rhythmical gold mine ready to pop out hit after hit after hit.

Addictive Drums 2

It’s All About the Sound

Tweak any of the professionally designed presets or build up a custom kit from scratch, it’s your choice. Addictive Drums 2 is packed with mixing and sound-shaping features that let you transform the raw sounds in amazing ways. Whether you need your drums to sound open and crystal-clear or produced and radio-ready, or grungy and heavily distorted, AD2 has studio-grade tools to get the job done.

Lightning Fast Workflow

The best sounds and features are useless if you can’t find and use them quickly when inspiration strikes. Addictive Drums 2 really excels in this area. Every detail – from drag-and-drop audio and MIDI to rapid linking and layering, to near-instant kit piece swapping–is designed to keep you in the creative zone. The clean layout and lighting-fast workflow include hundreds of individual features that make AD2 fast and familiar – even for first-time users.

Every drum kit is recorded in world-class studios by industry professionals and amazing drummers to give you professional sonic options and creative control.

Where Do You Start?

To get the most out of Addictive Drums 2 you always start with XPN Audio’s Collections.

A Collection is a bundle of ADpaks (drum kits), MIDIpaks (beats) and Kitpiece Paks (single drums) put together to give you the best possible drum production experience.

Indie (ADpak)

Classic kit. Vintage Mics. Analog Tape.

Svenska Grammofonstudion – Gothenburg

How do you get that warm beautiful analogue indie sound in a digital drum production software? You go proper old school:

First, you take it to Svenska Grammofon Studion’s warm, organic 120m2 live room, with 10m high walls covered in old fashioned oak tiles, giving the room the kind of short, rich decay that’s perfect for drums.

Second, you enlist the help of their impressive collection of vintage gear, and if you want old school, Svenska Grammofon has a lot. From the outboard, and microphones to old Steinway uprights and rare Fender amps to Fairchild compressors and Pultec EQ’s, every piece of equipment you normally only see emulated in a plugin, is there in real life.

Third, you run it through a beautiful old desk, and they don’t come much more majestic than “The Queen”, a Neve 8048 console with 1081, 1064 and 1073 preamps, that was once owned by Queen themselves, and which has been used by rock royalty like Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones.

Finally, you capture the beautiful sounds distilled through this process on a Studer A80 2″ Tape Machine.

Is it really worth all that effort? If you want vibrant, organic, punchy and warm with just the right amount of grit. Yes, it is. Drums on tape just sound better.

Custom kit – ICE Custom Shop

This hand made ICE Custom Shop modern vintage rock kit, with its fresh “old school” shells and vintage Slingerland hardware didn’t really need the blue sparkle paint job for you to know it was a cool character, you can hear it right away in the sound. We introduced it to a Premier Keith Moon signature snare “The Spirit of Lily”, part of the rare 8 piece signature kit, and they got along just fine. After a lot of experiments, we found the Paiste 2002 and Signature series, and a vintage Zildjian K 15″ hi-hat made the perfect companions. But there’s more to this ADpak than a really cool drum kit, the real magic happened when we warmed it up in the studio by running it through analogue tape.

Kit Details:

Kick:

• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle 26×14″

Snare:

• Premier Spirit of Lily 14×6″

Toms: 

• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle Hi 13×10″
• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle Lo 13×10″
• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle 16×16″
• ICE Custom Shop Blue Sparkle 18×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals: 

• Zildjian K 15″
• Paiste 2002 Red 19″
• Paiste Signature Full 18″
• Paiste 2002 Red 16″
• Paiste 2002 Red 22″

Extra:

• Rhythm Tech Tamb

Features

• World-class studio and drum kit.
• All vintage mics and preamps.
• Recorded on 2″ tape.

United Pop (ADpak)

Colorful and polished drums that POP!

United Recording, Studio A – Los Angeles

To record the ultimate pop kit, XLN Audio went straight to the top: United Recording. This studio at 6050 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood was created in 1957 and built to the exacting standards of Bill Putnam (legendary engineer and founder of Universal Audio). Studio A has witnessed the birth of some of the most iconic hit songs of the last half-century. While the equipment has been lovingly maintained and updated over time, the actual recording rooms have remained untouched. Listening to the lush clear warmth of this ADpak you can understand why. After all, if it’s good enough for Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, U2, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, No Doubt, Queens of the Stone Age, …

Vintage Drum Kit – Leedy & Ludwig

Certain things just get better with age; fine wines, Miley Cyrus, and this Leedy and Ludwig kit. The years have been kind to these drums, drying out every drop of moisture and leaving them crisp, clear and resonant. Yesterday’s drums, treated with love to produce the kind of uncluttered sounds that are perfect for today’s pop hits.

For snares XLN went extra clean, giving you the choice between a Ludwig nickel over brass, and a 1960’s Japanese copy of a Slingerland drum called “Trump” that’s so crisp, XLN Audio just had to add it to this ADpak.

Kit Details:

Kick:

• Leedy & Ludwig 22×14″

Snares:

• Ludwig Nickel Over Brass 14×7″
• Trump 14×5″

Toms:

• Leedy & Ludwig (Hi) 13×9″
• Leedy & Ludwig (Lo) 13×9″
• Leedy & Ludwig (Hi) 16×16″
• Leedy & Ludwig (Lo) 16×16″

Hi-Hats & Cymbals:

• Zildjian Vintage K 14″
• United Pop Thin 20″
• United Pop Dark 20″
• United Pop Heavy 20″
• United Pop 21″
• United Pop 26″

Extras:

• Claves / Castanets
• Blocks – Wood & Plastic
• Tambourine / Vibraslap

Features

• Vintage Leedy & Ludwig kit – matured for more than 60 years.
• Clean crisp sound for impeccable pop.
• Legendary Hollywood studio.

Indie Rock (MIDIpak)

Beats for the Indie Rock Kit

Indie Rock is as much about a sound as it is about specific drum grooves. This MIDI Pak delivers those authentic grooves in grand fashion.

This MIDI Pak contains tons of classic Indie Rock grooves played by two of Sweden’s most in-demand drummers: Fredrik Sandsten (The Soundtrack Of Our Lives) and Staffan Ljunggren (Trummor & Orgel). Works with any Addictive Drums kit, but is particularly well suited for the Indie ADpak.

Features

• Complete songs and smaller grooves.
• Tons of variations to mix and match.
• Over 150 inspiring performances.

Alternative Rock (MIDIpak)

Bold, catchy drumming with eccentric flair!

Alternative Rock was born in the 80s, exploded in popularity in the 90s and continues to resonate with people all over the world today.

We think it’s because bands like Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M. and Kings of Leon are not afraid to break the rules of mainstream rock and compose eccentric songs with bold flavour and personality.

Features

• 200 catchy beats.
• Lively breaks and fills.
• No boring “wallpaper rock”.