ABBEY ROAD 60s DRUMS provides astonishingly authentic sound as well as deep
and detailed control. Everything you need to get the sound you want - from
vintage to modern - is clearly laid-out in three control pages: Drums, Mixer,
and Options.

On the Drum Page's top panel you can individually adjust the tuning, volume
envelope, and overhead and room microphone mixes for each drum. The kick drum
has additional controls for adjusting the balance between microphones inside
and outside the drum. Similarly, for the snare you can adjust the balance
between the snare top and snare bottom microphones.

The bottom panel lets you select articulations for the selected drum.
For example, selecting the snare drum will give an articulation menu showing
the different types of snare hits such as center, halfway, rimshot, flam,
roll and others. Each articulation has its own volume envelope, with knobs
for .Attack., .Hold., and .Decay.. One popular drum recording technique of
the 1960s was to cover the snare and toms with tea towels, so samples of
this technique are also included. In addition, each articulation can be
assigned to a MIDI note, allowing you to fully customize your kit mapping.

The Mixer Page is where you can control the levels of the various
microphones. You'll also find the panning, output routing and solo/mute
controls here. On the left side are the direct microphone channels with
the overhead and room microphones on the right. The buttons .Drums. and
.Percussion. at the top right switch the direct mic controls from the
regular drums (kick, snare, hi-hat and toms) to the percussion instruments
(tambourine, claps and stick hits).

The Options Page includes various parameters that let you fine tune the
sound of Abbey Road 60s Drums and breathe life into your drum tracks.
Not only can you make comprehensive adjustments to MIDI velocity curves
and playing ranges you can also adjust the volume of the snare bottom
microphone bleed - a common sound in acoustic drum recordings.

For that extra touch of realism, the parameters of volume, velocity,
time, pitch, and EQ may be randomized. In addition, the .Exclude Direct
Mics. option allows the samples of the direct mics to be excluded from
the randomization parameters. This lets you impart your drums tracks with
subtle, nuances that avoid sounding automatically "randomized".

Over 29,000 samples
24-bit, 44.1 kHz samples
6.3 GB library size, using the new KONTAKT 4 sample compression
Up to 30 velocity layers for a single articulation
Up to 6 variations of drum hits at the same velocity for added realism
Separate vintage and modern mic samples for direct, overhead mono,
overhead stereo
Two snare options for each kit
Separate Right and Left hand samples for the most common Snare, Tom,
and Hihat articulations
Snare Top/Bottom and Kick In/Out samples
Optional snare bleed samples for many drums

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Download File Size:6.27 GB

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