Chocolate Audio Modern Retro Drums For Kontakt

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Chocolate Audio Modern Retro Drums For Kontakt NEW: now includes Drum Singles Kontakt instruments - Modern Retro edition, for even more power and flexibility Read below for more in fo. Free for all registered customers, old and new. Two kits that helped shape the sound of the 90s Modern Retro Drums features 4 full drum kits sampled from: a 1997 Sonor Designer kit played with sticks and hotordsa Tama Starclassics kit played with stick and brushes The kits come with 4 sets of cymbals sampled from a Zildjian set (sticks and hotrods) and a Turkish set (sticks and brushes) and additional Cymbals (Sabian and Ufip) and 6 snares from Ludwig, Sonor and Tama, presented in 13 different versions. These kits have been largely used since the '90s to craft some of the best selling music ever recorded. The Room After a through analysis of the best selling singles from the 90s we realized, contrary to our belief, that drums featured a rather large real room sound, even if sometimes very low in the mix. So we opted for an historical room in Italy that is not operating anymore as a recording studio. When we were granted access to this space, we had just a few days to setup and capture the drums. The Drums Another recognizable sign in music of the '90s is the importance in the mix given to the kick: if the '80s saw loud snares, the '90s where all about kick sounds, mixed rather up front and with a lot of work on both the "click" and bottom of the kick sound. For this reason, we opted for an extensive use of microphones on the kicks and we prepared the two kicks we had at disposal in no less than 13 different ways. The 6 snares offer a range that goes from piccolo snare to lowly detuned and muted either using a cloth or various damping materials, resulting in 13 very usable sounds. Even if slightly different in regard to recording technique, the single drums from each kit can be easily mixed since they share the same room, mics and positioning in the room. Drummer for Kontakt - a custom engine When we decided to support Kontakt we knew we needed to offer a custom interface for drums. Development took a bit under two years and now we are proudly shipping the first version. The user interface is thought out to be easy and quick to learn and use while featuring the power-user tools some of us love to tweak when working with drums. Behind the curtains of the engine allows us to: feature up to 11 round robins - hitting a drum many consecutive times will never trigger the same sample twice in a rowgive you the chance to easily build, mix & match the kit in both the 3D (DrumKit) and Mixer pagesmanage RAM very efficiently with purge - no need to load separate .nki load just another kitfeature a full-fledged mixer with mute, solo, 4 insert effects: EQ, comp, transient and tapeinsert a built-in global and channel-specific preset managementbe MIDI mapping agnostic - we already built in support for a large number of articulationscolor-coding for easy recognition of drums on Kontakt keyboardfeature up to 4 Room mic channelsgive you up to 4 mixable Close mics on Kicks and Snare, 2 for hi-hats, rides and tomsgrant drum-specific control on tuning, velocity curve and attack, hold and release times - instant damping, gating or creative effectsfeature an exclusive ADH envelope on Room channels for creative effectsintelligently switch pan-pot and width controls in case of mono or stereo channels (and stereo Rooms get both width and pan for maximum flexibility)insert channel-specific controls in the settings page, like hi-hat control, snare bleed, or cymbals/percussions management... and much more The Style Player in Kontakt We developed a custom Style Player for the Kontakt version. In depth info is available in the walkthrough video above or read through for some more info. 3 ways of interacting with the MIDI Player Play from the Kontakt interface: switch in realtime (and in Sync to the host, if desired) between multiple intros, main grooves, fills and outros.Drag and Drop any pattern to the desktop or your DAW for further editing on MIDI tracksAssign any pattern to a MIDI key on your MIDI Keyboard and play through in a "one-finger-drummer" fashion Modify each pattern in realtime (and modifications are kept when assigning to a MIDI Key or dragging to the DAW) at the global or atomic level in terms of: intensitytempo (original, x2, 1/2x)delay: both in ticks (960 PPQ) and musical termsgrid (used for quantize and swing operators)quantizeswingremap: used on some kit pieces (for example: remap all snare notes to sidestick or rimshots)activate each single instrument group (kick, snare, hihat, toms, ride, cymbals, percussions)You can randomize fills and main grooves while calling automatically a fill every 2, 4, 8, 16 bars (via the Player preferences panel)All of this turns the 1119 available Patterns, organized in 19 Styles and recorded using a real drummer especially for the release using the same samples, into billions of possibilities at your fingertip. Styles Galore With 19 Styles and 1119 patterns, our focus for Modern Retro was in delivering a collection of bread & butter grooves and fills fit to the drum sounds: don't be fooled though, when we use the term "bread & butter" we refer to the highest quality french bread and danish butter one can buy in terms of quality and usability, so much that we crafted all of our product demos with those Styles. The Styles are freely inspired by some of the most successful singles from the 90s and, again, we were amazed at how much creativity and variety we ended up discovering in those hit songs, to which we added our production style and the musical taste of a first-call session drummer. Reverb, with class The IR Reverb module in our engine currently features 36 unique proprietary impulse responses. These are originated from vintage plates, hardware and coveted real rooms, which, when used with drums, push the limits of what can be done with a single drum kit. Ready-to-go 25 global mix-ready factory presets ease your way into using these drum kits, to which we add presets for each channel, including the reverb path. ... Or mix it your way Each channel inside our Kontakt engine can be routed to a separate output, when properly configured in Kontakt, leaving you with the freedom to mix the drums using your own plugins or external outboards. The drum kits Sonor Designer 1997 Kit Ludwig 14x6.5 Maple Snare HotrodLudwig 14x6.5 Maple Snare StickSonor Designer 1997 14x5 Snare HotrodSonor Designer 1997 14x5 Snare StickSonor Designer 1997 14x6.5 Snare HotrodSonor Designer 1997 14x6.5 Snare StickSonor Designer 1997 Close Kick FeltSonor Designer 1997 Close Kick PlasticSonor Designer 1997 Floor Tom HotrodSonor Designer 1997 Floor Tom StickSonor Designer 1997 High Tom HotrodSonor Designer 1997 High Tom StickSonor Designer 1997 Hole Kick FeltSonor Designer 1997 Hole Kick PlasticSonor Designer 1997 Mid Tom 1 HotrodSonor Designer 1997 Mid Tom 1 StickSonor Designer 1997 Mid Tom 2 HotrodSonor Designer 1997 Mid Tom 2 StickSonor Designer 1997 Open Kick FeltSonor Designer 1997 Open Kick PlasticUfip China HotrodUfip China StickZildjian Crash 14 HotrodZildjian Crash 14 StickZildjian Crash 18 HotrodZildjian Crash 18 StickZildjian Fast Crash 18 HotrodZildjian Fast Crash 18 StickZildjian HiHat HotrodZildjian HiHat StickZildjian Ride HotrodZildjian Ride StickZildjian Splash HotrodZildjian Splash Stick Tama Starclassic Kit Ludwig Supraphonic Snare 14x5 StickPaiste Splash BrushPaiste Splash StickSabian Ride BrushSabian Ride StickTama S. Phillips Snare 12x5 BrushTama S. Phillips Snare 12x5 StickTama Starclassic Close Kick FeltTama Starclassic Cloth Snare 14x5 StickTama Starclassic Damp Snare 14x5 StickTama Starclassic Floor Tom 1 BrushTama Starclassic Floor Tom 1 StickTama Starclassic Floor Tom 2 BrushTama Starclassic Floor Tom 2 StickTama Starclassic High Tom BrushTama Starclassic High Tom StickTama Starclassic Hole Damp Kick FeltTama Starclassic Hole Damp Kick PlasticTama Starclassic Hole Loose Kick FeltTama Starclassic Hole Loose Kick PlasticTama Starclassic Mid Tom 1 BrushTama Starclassic Mid Tom 1 StickTama Starclassic Mid Tom 2 BrushTama Starclassic Mid Tom 2 StickTama Starclassic Open Kick FeltTama Starclassic Open Kick PlasticTama Starclassic Snare 14x5 BrushTama Starclassic Snare 14x5 StickTurkish Crash 15 BrushTurkish Crash 15 StickTurkish Crash 18 BrushTurkish Crash 18 StickTurkish Dark China BrushTurkish Dark China StickTurkish HiHat BrushTurkish HiHat StickUfip Ride BrushUfip Ride Stick Articulations Kick: Hit - up to 300 unique hits and up to 11 round robinSnare: Hit, Rim and Sidestick - up to 300 unique hits and up to 11 round robinToms: Hit, Hoop - up to 70 unique hits and 4 round robinHiHat: Tip, Shank, Foot, Splash, Pedal - 6 openings each Tip and Shank position, 4 round robin for each dynamicRide: Hit, Bell, Edge - up to 36 unique hitsCymbals: Hit - up to 24 unique hits Each articulation features no less than 16 velocity levels, all the way up to 32. Microphones Kick: AKG D112, Shure B52A, Audix D6, Sennheiser e902, Audio Technica AT4060 tubeSnare Top: Shure SM57Snare Bottom: Beyerdynamic M420HiHat: Shure SM81Ride: Shure SM81Cymbals: Shure SM81Rack Toms: Beyerdynamic M201TGFloor Toms: Audix D4Overhead Stereo: 2 x AKG C414B condenserOverhead Mono (Sonor): Beyerdynamic M260 ribbon (Sonor)Overhead Mono (Tama): a mix Beyerdynamic M260 ribbon and Audio Technica AT4060 tubeRoom Stereo: 2 x Neumann U87 condenserRoom PZM: 2 x Crown PZM30D condenser Preamps and processing Neve 1073API 312Millennia, tube and solid-stateBrunetti PAR400recorded through a Studer A800 MKII 2" - 24 tracks tape recorder with Ampex 456 tape (pass through tape - no NR)EQs and compressors (on mono overheads) were used lightly to leave room for further processing on your sideconverters: Apogee AD16Xs with Big Ben master-clock Now includes Drum Singles - Modern Retro Edition - FREE! A no frills User Interface with just two simple pages: Load a full kit Multi NKM or a single kit piece NKISelect the controlling MIDI ChannelLoad the preferred sound Eventually: Balance the microphones and optionally feed them into separate channels in your DAWSet to taste macro and micro tuning, round robin, envelope and velocity-based interactionsChange the controlling MIDI keys in the Mapping PageDone! Some applications Simplify workflow and reduce memory and CPU footprint when you do not need a full drum kit in the production you are doing Drum triggering: Easily assign more than one drum or sample to the same MIDI Key allowing for real time drum replacement or layering using any of the available drum triggering pluginsUse the embedded audio to Midi functions present on many platforms (Logic, Sonar...)Stack as many drums as you want on a single Midi keyCreate hybrid kits using our sounds or integrate other developers’ kits with our drumsOpen up endless sound design possibilities having the chance to layer, re-direct, retune, change envelope on each drums separatelyFinely tune the velocity response of each drum allowing you to better complement a live e-drumming or finger-drumming or to create velocity split stacks of different sounds(Your own creative ideas here) Quality you can tell We released the first multi-mic drum library in 2003, with Scarbee. We know drums. We know drum-sampling. We know how to turn a drum recording session into a set of coherent, greatly playable sampled instruments. Not just a collection of sounds. This effort needs a lot of love for drums, time, ear, knowledge, dedication and experience. Our drum samples have been used on countless tracks in the last 13 years, counting on an ongoing success still sprawling from our first library, Imperial Drums, re-released in BFD format through FXpansion at the end of 2013, our ever-growing product line and the large large number of companies we worked with along the years: Native Instruments, Ableton, Steinberg, Arobas, Cakewalk and Presonus to name just a few. DISCLAIMERS:- this Instrument requires the FULL RETAIL VERSION OF NI KONTAKT 5.5.2 or higher- this Instrument DOES NOT WORK with the Free Kontakt Player- this Instrument may be acquired only in downloadable format, download size is about 15 Gigabytes, so expect longer download times on slower connections Features 15 GB compressed sample content size67499 samples4 full drum kits (2 sticks + 1 brushes + 1 hotrods)72 drum piecessampled in full detail: up to 300 samples per articulation and up to 11 round robin (Kontakt)integrated, advanced MIDI player with 19 Styles, made up of 1119 patterns recorded by a top session drummerrecorded in an historic italian studio with choice micsup to 4 close mics4 room channels: Overhead stereo, Overhead mono, Room U87 and Room PZMwarm and deep sound, recorded through an analog tape machineadvanced mixing and management (Kontakt) thanks to our custom advanced scriptingrecorded at 24 bit / 96 KHz, released at 24 bit / 44.1 KHz Kontakt Features custom 3D graphics with animation on kit and snare drum changesbuild your own kitvery quick startup timesadvanced RAM management thanks to purgeup to 4 Close and 4 Room micstuning, velocity curve and AHD envelope controls on each drumadvanced engine, shared with all future drum libraries25 global factory presetsup to 11 round robinslarge number of velocity splits (always > 16)36 custom IR reverbs Registration InformationRedeem Code: http://redeem.plugivery.com Show more