Steven Slate Drums Platinum Edition $329

Full of drum sounds that are both painstakingly recorded and uniquely original, Steven Slate Drums Platinum Edition is a perfect addition to any DAW or sequencer. The modeled kits are expertly crafted and are a great launching point for your musical inspiration. In addition, there is support for Roland V-Drums, accurate control of nuances like room mic levels, humanization and more! Now version 3.5!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Version 3.5 Hybrid kit video demos (click to play)

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Steven Slate Drums Platinum Contains over 40 drumkits including 13 kits that are authentic models of classic artists and albums.

This Platinum drum suite is the most complete digital drum suite on the market, conquering all your digital drum needs with an RTAS VST AU and standalone midi plugin, instant presets for all Roland VDrum Modules, hundreds of easy to use midi grooves in our unique SONG form, as well as Drumagog GOG files and raw Wav Files for drum replacement. SSD 3.0 is now powered by Kontakt Player 2.

SSD Virtual Instrument Powered By Kontakt Player 2
New in Steven Slate Drums 3.0 is the SSD Player, a powerful drum sample plugin that works in both standalone and as a plugin for your VST, RTAS, or AU workstation.

1. Page Mixer selects different kit pages such as the EQ page, and Envelope pages.
2. Dropdown icon, used for replacing drum kit piece with another drum kit piece
3. Chooses whether the “rims shot” sample is on the rim or on the center of a V-Drum
4. Solo
5. Mute
6. Tuning knob to tune drum by increments of pitch cents
7. Overhead button turns on and off overhead mics
8. Room mics selection can select SSD Room, NRG Room, or Room Mics Off
9. Room mics volume
10. Room mics panner
11. Direct mics panner
12. Direct mics volume
13. Velocity knob that increases or decreases the dynamics of the drum hits. For instance, turning down the velocity knob on the snare channel will make the snare's lower velocity ghost notes become more equal in volume to its louder velocities.
14. Reset settings…default settings are room and overhead set to off

With the SSD Player, its easy to customize your own drumkits by choosing your favorite kit pieces from the dropdown menus

The built in eq, compression, saturation, and humanizer functions can be easily accessed via the page mixer

 

 

 

 

 

The Output Mixer allows the user to set final levels, or even route the drum pieces to channels in your DAW

 

OVERVIEW

Steven Slate Drums Platinum Contains over 40 drumkits including 13 kits that are authentic models of class artists and albums.

This Platinum drum suite is the most complete digital drum suite on the market, conquering all your digital drum needs with an RTAS VST AU and standalone midi plugin, instant presets for all Roland VDrum Modules, hundreds of easy to use midi grooves in our unique SONG form, as well as Drumagog GOG files and raw Wav Files for drum replacement.

THE SAMPLES

At the heart of any drum library are the actual samples themselves. Steven Slate has been called the MASTER of drum sounds. In the early 2000's his original drum sample disc was in high demand amongst many top Hollywood producers and mixers. By 2006, when he publicly released his first official drum sample disc, his sounds could already be heard in many top billboard hits.

Steven has recorded only the best drums, all tuned to perfection. Every drum and cymbal has been recorded first to 2inch tape, enhancing their unique rich sound. Every drum and cymbal was recorded with multiple velocities and multiple hits per velocity to ensure the most natural recreation. Then the samples were transferred to digital via high end A/D converters at 24 bit/ 44.1khz.

The samples were then processed by Steven Slate using some of the most classic analog gear from both past and present. The result are drums that sound like you've always dreamed of, with punchy transients and smooth decays. By listening to the audio demos on the homepage, its easy to hear why many pros call Steven's samples the very best sounding digital drums available.

SSD VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT

The SSD Virtual Instrument, powered by Kontakt Player2, is a standalone or RTAS-VST-AU plugin that contains many unique features. Its features preset kits that are easily customizeable by the user. It also boasts many easy to access functions such as OVERHEAD ON/OFF tab, room mic selection tabs, full pan and levels, EQ, envelope effects, saturation, humanization, and more.

The SSD instrument has 3 keyboard mappings with the new KIRK EXTENDED MIDI system. This customized GM Extended map makes SSD compatible with many other grooves from other drum softwares. One of the keyboard mappings is even pre routed so that each drum track will appear on separate tracks in your host DAW.

The SSD instrument also contains mappings for every single Roland Vdrum unit including the TD-3, TD-6, TD-9, TD-10, TD-12, and TD-20.

MODELED KITS

While you'll probably find many of the drumkits on Steven Slate Drums are reminiscent of drumkits you've heard from various bands over the years, thirteen kits have been authentically modeled for a sound so close, you'll think it is the real thing! Platinum contains all modeled kits, including drumkits modeled after Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Motley Crue, Metallica, Greenday, Deftones, AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Pantera, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Dream Theater. Keep in mind, these drumkits model the finalized mixed sounds that you have become familiar with, not just raw recordings of the drummer's kits.

ROOM MICS

The Steven Slate Drums collection contains two unique sounding sets of room mics. The first set is from a large warehouse with concrete walls. These room mics were processed with heavy doses of compression, eq, and even modulation to make a larger then life, deep, wide, expressive room sound.

The drums were then sampled in the famous NRG Recording STUDIO A, known for being one of the top drum rooms in Los Angeles. Its been home to bands like Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Billy Joel, and more. These room mics have been left unprocessed and contain the signature depth and space from this beautiful sounding room.

DRUMAGOG and WAV

Each and every drum along with BOTH sets of their room mics are available in raw WAV file and Drumagog GOG file for easy replacement or augmentation of live drum tracks. First copy the drum track, put the "direct" sample on (you can choose with or with overhead) and then copy the original drum track onto a stereo track to trigger one of the two stereo ROOM MIC PAIR samples.

 

 

System requirements

System requirements are provided to us by the manufacturer.