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Ultimate Heavy Drums
OVERVIEW
Ultimate Heavy Drums is an extremely versatile drum kit. Boasting 14 different snares, 10 different kick drums, 3 sets of toms and a wide array of cymbals. These impressive sounds are finely honed and pre-processed to perfection. The instrument also harbours an incredibly valuable arsenal of built-in mixing features.
Designed and recorded by Josh Middleton, an award winning guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer from the UK. Josh has been involved in producing and mixing a wide variety of bands throughout his career (Sylosis, Architects, Kreator, Heriot, Nakkeknaeker, Malevolence).
Ultimate Heavy Drums
Tilt EQ
The tilt EQ will allow you make any piece of the kit brighter or darker with a simple horizontal fader. I wanted this library to be fully processed and ‘mix-ready’ as soon as you open it. But having the ability to fine-tune the how bright or dark each element is will give you even more control over these sounds in your mix.
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Transient Designer
This enables you to increase or decrease the attack and sustain of each individual piece of the kit to give you maximum control of the punch and sustain of every element of your drum mix.
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Envelope Filters
The envelope filters also enable you to control the attack, sustain and release of each kit piece but in a different way to the transient designer. These work more like fade ins and fade outs. The combination of the sustain and release features in particular can allow you to hear a full sustain and resonance in a drum but add a more abrupt fade out. For example, this technique can allow your drums to ‘sing’ with a nice initial sustain but control a more abrupt fade-out to balance out the length of the decay.
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One-Shot Sample Loader
One-shot samples are single hit samples that can be loaded into this Kontakt instrument to combine with the sounds from the library. This one-shot sample slots are on both kick and snare mixers. Don’t have your own library of samples? We’ve included single kick and snare WAV samples from this library as a separate download so you can combine different sounds in your mixes.
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Pitch & Reverb
Pitch - As with every other mix feature within the instrument, the pitch controls also work on every single piece of the kit. This can open up even more possibilities of drum tones. It’s particularly useful in changing the characteristic of a snare drum. It can also be used to match the pitch or phase of any one-shot samples you may want to use.
Reverb - Have full control over the amount of reverb you want on each piece of the kit.
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Slate Trigger Files
Provided as a separate download with your order is a folder containing Slate Trigger TCI files. These are the multi-velocity sounds from the drum library in TCI form. All of the pre-processed and ‘mix-ready’ sounds that you can load into your mixes to get the same kick, snare and tom sounds as the ‘Ultimate Heavy Drums’ Kontakt instrument. These include close, overhead mic (stereo) and room mic (stereo) samples for all kicks, snares and toms. To use these files you must own the ‘Slate Trigger’ plugin. You do not need 'Slate Trigger' to download and use the 'Ultimate Heavy Drums' Kontakt instrument.
Testimonials
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I've been using this on everything since installing it. This is hands down the best drum library I've ever used.
Chris Clancy
Machine Head, Kataklysm, Evile, Overkill
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Josh has outdone himself with this drum pack. It's slick and polished but also powerful and hard hitting.
Justin Hill
Sikth, Heart of a Coward, Hacktivist, Bury Tomorrow
Install requirements
Designed for Kontakt or the free Kontakt Player (6.7.1+). Activate and install with Native Access.
Activation & installation
Download and install Native Access: visit the Native Access download page and install the latest version.
Open Native Access: launch the app, then install or update to Kontakt Player 6.7.1+ or Kontakt 6.7.1+.
Add your serial: click “Add A Serial” in the top left corner.
Register your product: enter your serial number and click “Add Serial”. Make sure you're connected to the internet.
Find your library: click the ‘Not Installed’ tab on the left and locate your library.
Install your library: click ‘Install’ — it will download and install.
Launch Kontakt: close Native Access and open Kontakt. Your library appears in the Libraries rack.
Ready to use: your library is ready to load and play.
Ultimate Heavy Drums
I wanted to create a drum instrument that instantly sounded amazing without touching anything, but to also have the ability to tweak things easily if I wanted more control over my mix. Ultimate Heavy Drums has been an absolute game changer for my work flow when writing and mixing!
Josh Middleton — Award winning guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer.
