This is the first Airwindows EXS24 instrument- Heavy Drumkit! It was initially released with virtually no promotion or demos, almost a year before the other kits were ready. Now it's back and totally reworked. Heavy Drums uses a 24" Slingerland kick, a heavily modified keystone badge Ludwig Acrolite with an Evans Genera Dry head, and the toms are both giant Rototoms- a 14" and an 18"- for added explosiveness. Cymbals are Zildjian throughout, featuring a K Dark Ride and a set of A Mastersound hats. Heavy Drums is $29.99.
Here are some simple beats using this drumkit.
Here are some more, this time using my free Pressure compressor plugin.
You can hear it on this demo track, Heavy Business.
This is the EXS24 track soloed, Heavy Drums Only.
Other Airwindows plugins used on this demo:
Distorted Guitars- LeadVox
Bass- P-type, tapewounds, picked, CabSVT (FREE)
Hammond (Nord Electro 2)- Sable
Clavi (Nord Electro 2)- Sable
Reverb- VerbLarge
Everything runs though API pre- mic or line. Overs on the 2-buss are caught by ADClip. There's no other buss processing, and no processing of any kind on the EXS drums track- it's dry and exactly as it comes off the EXS24 sampler.
If you can make this free bass guitar EXS24 instrument, FlatBass, work, you'll be able to use the drumkits. (They go in Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler Instruments if you are using Logic 8)
Kick Drum- 13 samples
Snare- 31 samples
(also assigned to Snare 2 keys)
Snare Side-Stick- 9 samples
HiHat, Stick Tip- 38 samples
HiHat, Foot Pedal- 7 samples
HiHat, Open Tip- 16 samples
High Tom- 31 samples
Low Tom- 31 samples
Small Crash, Stick Tip- 9 samples
Small Crash, Edge- 12 samples
HiHat Edge, Tight- 44 samples
HiHat Edge, Medium- 28 samples
HiHat Edge, Slosh- 14 samples
Large Crash, Stick Tip- 6 samples
Large Crash, Edge- 12 samples
Ride, Stick Tip- 15 samples
Ride Bell, Stick Shank- 3 samples
Ride, crashed on edge- 4 samples
Percussion included with this kit
(L/R versions are entirely separate recordings, not flipped)
Single Chime, L- 8 samples
Single Chime, R- 6 samples
Chime Tree- 10 samples
Egg Shaker, L- 82 samples
Egg Shaker, R- 52 samples
Cowbell, L- 10 samples
Cowbell, R- 10 samples
Clave, L- 8 samples
Clave, R- 9 samples
Stick Clicks- 13 samples
Low Tambourine, Upstroke- 32 samples
Low Tambourine, Downstroke- 22 samples
Low Tambourine, Smash- 34 samples
Bright Tambourine, Upstroke- 26 samples
Bright Tambourine, Downstroke- 15 samples
Bright Tambourine, Smash- 17 samples
