Drums On Demand Introduces New Line of Drum Sample Kits
Drums On Demand, a manufacturer of drum loops, samples and music production tools announced recently that it has released seven new drum sample kits.
The new sample kits from Drums on Demand provide a high level of detail for drum programming.
The kits are formatted for Logic, Reason, Kontakt, Pro Tools and GarageBand, include the genres of jazz, heavy metal, funk/soul, solid rock, crossover brushes, metal, and country, plus a basic Drums On Demand workhorse kit.
The kits start at $9.95 each, and download include all five formats for producers, engineers and musicians who work across several software platforms.
Each kit features multi-velocity layers on each drum element, and as many as nine different snares. The 24-bit/44.1 kHz hits were recorded in the same sessions and on the same drums as the company’s best-selling audio loop volumes.
According to Drums on Demand, drums were laid out very close to the General MIDI map for ease of auditioning and use. Some liberties were taken for the left-right snare hits on all kits (for round-robin), and for some value-added hats, sustains and rolls in the lower and upper registers on many kits.
One example of the collection’s attention to detail is the jazz-latin kit, which uses a vintage ’60s Gretsch kit with 10 velocities left and right snare hits on a limited-edition, 75th anniversary Noble & Cooley snare (only 100 were made). The virtual instrument includes a stick kit, closed snare kit and a brush kit. The pack is rounded out with bongo, conga, djembe hits and rolls, cymbal sus’, as well as snare buzzes and rolls.
For producers, engineers and musicians who prefer not to program or play drums on the keyboard, Drums On Demand has also partnered with Groove Monkee to offer 11 volumes of premium MIDI drum loops: rock, jazz, metal, funk and more. These volumes include General MIDI mapped loops for use with the DOD kits, plus mappings for other popular software like Addictive Drums, BFD, EZdrummer, Live Session Drums, Session Drummer, Steven Slate & more.