EZ Drummer / Superior Drummer 2.0 Add on Drumkit Modules
Twisted Kit, Latin Percussion, DFH [Drumkit From Hell], Nashville, Claustrophobic August 10, 2009, 04:51 PM Views: 1537
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Following on from our Superior Drummer 2.0 review here on Altsounds we have decided to do a group review of all the add on drum kit modules that we have used to showcase the best ones out there to be getting and why you should be getting them. There is everything from Nashville country influenced drums to drums by Meshuggah found here and if you're on a budget choosing the right drumkit for the jo is important. This is where we come in! Let us guide you through each drumkit and highlight it's strengths and where you should be using it.
The EZX expansion packs are currently Buy 1 Get 1 Free from our friends at Time & Space until 31st August. To check out this great offer go here: Buy 1 Toontrack EZX expansion pack get 1 free! - News - Time+Space | Virtual Instruments, Sample CDs, DVDs, Hardware and Software TOONTRACK TWISTED KIT EZX EXPANSION
Twisted Kit for EZ Drummer is a collaboration between Michael Blair, Sontronics Microphones and Toontrack (the makers of EZ Drummer). For anyone familiar with the percussion and drum sounds of Tom Waits 1985 album 'Rain Dogs' will be fully aware of the sounds and playing sound of Michael Blair. On that album Micahel Blair's setup included a full kit and then some crazy percussion instruments like trashcans and rusty bike frames which Waits felt fitted in perfectly wit the sound he was trying to acheive on that album. Michael Blair has also worked with Elvis Costello and Lou Reed.
This is called the twisted kit because of all these factors and you really can setup some pretty crazy drum setups here which I would hazard a guess that you can't find elsewhere. Twisted Kit EZX special features- Sampled through the best of outboard effects with compression, distortion, attack and reverb mics made available in the EZmixer.
- Mixer presets by Webb & Collen, STS 9, Richard Devine, DJ Amp live, SUB-id and Count Bass D.
- The possibility to save your own mixer presets with EZdrummer 1.1 installed.
TOONTRACK LATIN PERCUSSION EZX EXPANSION
If you already own the award winning pro drum sampler dfh Superior by Toontrack then you probably won't want to be buying this drumkit addition because it is simply all the latin percussion from that put on to a disk.
Granted that the sounds have been mixed further at the EZX studios and it also includes some cool grooves which don't come with dfh Superior however as previously mentioned if you own a dfh Superior then this add-on will likely not be for you. If you don't however and you are look for latin percussion instruments such as Cajons, Bongos and Shakers then this might be worth th investment. Instrument List:- Shakers
- Meinl large shaker
- Meinl Medium shaker
- Meinl 8 shake large
- LP gold big
- Meinl small egg
- Meinl rytm tech cans light shaker
- Meinl 8 shake small
- Meinl Caxixi small
- Custom Caxixi
- Maracas
- Meinl plastic maracas
- LP skin maracas
- Bongos
- Meinl Collection series
- Meinl fibrecraft
- Cowbell
- Meinl small cowbell
- Meinl Realplayer steel big
- Cymbals
- Emsing custom crash
- 20´´ paiste full crash
- 10´´ meinl BYZANCR splash
- 16´´ meinl BYZANCR thin crash
- 16´´ Sabian medium thin crash
- 6´´ Meinl BYZANCR splash
- 8´´ Zildjian A Custom Splash
- 8´´ Meinl BYZANCR splash
- Congas
- Meinl wood professional - Meinl fibrecraft
- Guiro
- Meinl mini guiro
- Meinl large guiro
- Timbales
- Meinl timbale high
- Meinl timbale low
- Tambourine
- Emsing custom
- LP classic mounted
- Meinl wood
- 2 Row gold
- Triangle
- Rytm tech triangle
- Meinl big triangle
- Blocks
- Meinl large + small blocks
BUY NOW LINK TOONTRACK DFH (DRUMKIT FROM HELL) EZX EXPANSION  Drumkit from Hell is a great name for an addon drum pack as you instantly know that this is a drum pack add on designed with the metal drummer in mind. This drumkit addon comes courtesy of their friends Tomas Haake and Fredrik Thordendal from Meshuggah and Daniel Bergstrand from Dug-Out studios.
This add-on i so importan in fact that it actually sparked the release of both EZ Drummer and Superior Drummer so in technicality without this drum addon, you wouldn't have the drum sampler you needed the kit for! Kind of messed up but it proves the importance of this must have additional drumkit.
DFH these days comes with both the original DFH release and the Add-On pack that was released subsequently. All the sounds have been re-mixed and they´ve added custom midifiles from the diabolically gifted musician and guitar player of Meshuggah, Fredrik Thordendal plus midi played by one of the other great Metal Drummers we know, Ove Lingvall from Nocturnal Rites. Metal at its best. Instrument List:- Kickdrums:
- Sonor Designer Series 18×22″ – damped and undamped neutral EQ, extreme eq,
- Ludwig Wood Fiber Glass 24″
- Snaredrums:
- Ayotte 4×14″ Maple Shell
- Ludwig 8×14″
- Pearl Sensitone 6,5×14″ Bronze Shell
- Sonor Designer Series 6,5×14 Maple Light Shell
- Sonor Designer Series 5×14″ Maple Light Shell
- Sonor Hilite 5×12″ Maple Shell
- Tomas Haake Engineering 7×14″ Pockenholz Shell
- Toms:
- Sonor Designer Series 10×10″,
- 12×12″,
- 13×13″,
- 16×16″ and
- 18×18″
- Cymbals:
- Hats:
- Cymbal 1:
- 19″ Sabian AAXtreme Chinese
- 21″ Sabian AAXtreme Chinese
- 21″ Sabian AAXtreme Chinese
- Cymbal 2:
- 16″ Sabian HH Medium Crash
- 17″ Sabian HH Medium Thin Crash
- 19″ Sabian HH Crash Ride
- Cymbal 3:
- Cymbal 4:
- 20″ Sabian HH Crash Ride
- 21″ Sabian HH Crash Ride
- Cymbal 5:
- 18″ Sabian HH Chinese/15″ Sabian HH Medium Crash
- 15″ Sabian AAXtreme Chinese/12″ Sabian HH Splash
- 15″ Sabian AAXtreme Chinese
- Cymbal 6:
- Cymbal 7:
- 22″ Sabian HH Power Bell Ride
- 22″ Sabian HH Crash Ride
- Cymbal 8:
- Cymbal 9:
- 20″ Sabian HH Dark Chinese (Brilliant)
- 20″ Sabian HH Dark Chinese
- Cymbal 10:
- 21″ Sabian HH Medium Crash
- 22″ Sabian HH Crash Ride
- Cymbal 11:
- 22″ Sabian Ed Thigpen Crystal Bell Ride
- 23″ Sabian HH Crash Ride
TOONTRACK NASHVILLE EZX EXPANSION
Nashville is ernowned worldwide for it's country music. With this drumkit add-on, toontrack have tried to embody this drumsound into this drumkit addon.
Nashville EZX drummer Harry Stinson is a Grammy nominated drummer and award winning producer, writer, and singer having achieved No. 1 status in all of those categories. His talents have been shared with artists like Steve Earle, Martina McBride, Johnny Cash, Faith Hill, Earl Scruggs, Etta James, Brooks and Dunn, Patty Loveless, Lyle Lovett and numerous others.
Nashville EZX producer Chuck Ainlay is a Grammy winning Producer/ Engineer with a mind-blowing track record. To name but a few, artists such as Mark Knopfler & Dire Straits, George Strait, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crowe, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, The Mavericks and Dixie Chicks have all relied on his experience and expertise to guide them to the perfect sound. The Nashville EZX was recorded at Soundkitchen - Nashville. BUY NOW LINK TOONTRACK CLAUSTROPHOBIC EZX EXPANSION
This add on is another collaboration between Toontrack and Sontronics Microphones this time also working with Evans drum heads.
This kit leads the marketplace in percussive samples. In this edition you can even choose drumheads so this Clautrophobic Kit takes the detailof the EZX drumkits to even more geek filled haven.
The Claustrophobic EZX was sampled through the very best of outboard with distortion, reverb, compression and attack effects included in the internal mixer. This enables you to access a large number of mixer presets by Collén & Webb, STS 9, Richard Devine, DJ Amplive, sub-ID and Count Bass D. The Claustrophobic EZX special features:- Sampled through the best of outboard effects with compression, distortion, attack and reverb mics made available in the EZmixer.
- Mixer presets by Collén & Webb, STS 9, Richard Devine, DJ Amp live, sub-ID and Count Bass D.
- The possibility to save your own mixer presets with EZdrummer 1.1 installed.
Credits: - The Claustrophobic EZX kit was played by Per Mikaelsson at Toontrack Studios, Umea, Sweden.
- The Claustrophobic EZX was recorded, engineered and mixed by Mattias Eklund, Trevor Coley (Sontronics Microphones) and Daniel Dermes at Toontrack Studios, Umea, Sweden.
- The MIDI files for the Claustrophobic EZX were played by Derico Watson at New Polyphony, Nashville, USA and Per Mikaelsson at Toontrack Studios, Umea, Sweden.
- Sound editing; Mattias Eklund
- MIDI editing: Henrik Kjellberg, Nils Eriksson
The Bottom Line
All in all I am sure you will agree that the addition of such vast drumkits for use with both EZ Drummer and Superior Drummer make both a must buy for hi-quality MIDI drum sampling. We have experimented with all of these kits and were blown away with the amount of different instruments and sounds each one had.
A must buy for all producers looking to better their drum production without the years of pactice and experience needed to perfect acoustic drum recording and micing techniques.
Last edited by altsounds : August 11, 2009 at 01:16 PM.
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