重口味摇滚套鼓 Drumdrops Mapex Heavy Rock Kit KONTAKT

If you love the sound of drums in Rock, you no doubt like the sound of a Mapex drum kit!

To record this collection a Mapex Saturn Kit was used along with 3 different snares including the heralded Black Panther Hammered Series snare. This package also includes three crash cymbals, a china crash and a ride cymbal.

Each component of the drum kit has been recorded at 16 different velocity levels; exclusive to the ‘Multi-Sample’ pack, and multiple articulations for realism.

Each hit was recorded at The Garden Studios; responsible for recording many great drum sounds throughout the years from the likes of The Cure and The Arctic Monkeys, through a vintage Neve console. The detail that has gone into this collection is evident, and I am fond of the tone of each component.

The packages most defining feature is the MIDI loops included in the ‘Multi-Sample’ pack. Having access to 500 MIDI grooves played by one of the genres best drummers; Martyn Ford, brings an authentic Heavy Rock sound to your track, both from the drums and drummer. These MIDI grooves can be triggered by any of the included patches; such as Battery, to combine the sound of the drummer with the sound of these excellent drums, though can also be retriggered with other Virtual Instruments. The ‘Single Hits’ pack offers similar to that of the ‘Multi-Sample’ pack, but with 3 velocity layers instead of 16. For those in need of one-shots, there is also a ‘One-Shots’ pack. This collection is perfect for those working in the harder Rock genres.

What We LIke About This Pack

As mentioned in a previous Hard Rock drum sample collection, the heavier genres tend to favor programming drums with Virtual Instruments than using loops.

With Mapex Heavy Rock Kit you get Bullet For My Valentine’s drum kit, captured impeccably and presented in a range of formats including as a Battery preset. All of a sudden you can combine a realistic Hard Rock drum sound with MIDI to program a machine accurate drum part capable of melting faces.

The fusion of the loop and sample based world, with the MIDI programming world, makes Mapex Heavy Rock Kit a unique player in the heavier Rock drum libraries.