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Drum Sample Library with 100 Drum Kits, Signature Mix-ready Kits, and a New SSD Player - Mac/PC - AU, VST, RTAS

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Steven Slate Drums Signature Drumkits Platinum Pack 3.5 (Platinum - Boxed) (No Longer Available)

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Drum Sample Library with More Than 40 Drum Kits, 13 Modeled Kits, and SSD Sampler - Mac/PC - AU, VST, RTAS

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Powerful, Punchy, Radio-ready Drums!

Steven Slate Drums 3.5 Signature Drumkits Platinum Pack delivers the kind of high quality drum sounds we've come to expect from Slate. Having sold big, fat, and punchy drum samples to top names in the industry for quite some time now, Slate brings all his know-how to this more than 40 kit collection. Plus, with the Platinum Pack, you get 13 modeled kits that recreate the sounds of some of your favorite bands including, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Led Zeppelin. Giving you the kind of raw, no-tweaking-necessary samples you need, you'll have radio-ready drum tracks in no time when you put the power of Steven Slate Drums Signature Drum Kits Platinum Pack to work in your studio.

Steven Slate Drums Signature Drumkits Platinum Pack at a Glance:
  • Powerful, ready-to-go drum samples
  • Multiple ambient spaces to choose from
  • High-quality models of famous kits
  • Drums sampled a variety of ways
  • Includes the SSD virtual instrument

Powerful, ready-to-go samples
Steven Slate has sold samples to some of the country's top mixers, and has worked hard to tweak and test them in actual mixes, within various musical styles. What you get with this pack is the assurance that they're going to sound great right "out-of-the-box," with no tweaks necessary. Plus, Slate's already EQ'd and compressed these samples with precision - just throw the fader up and get right to work on your mix.

Multiple ambient spaces to choose from
A unique feature to Steven Slate Drums is the Z system. Each drum sample set is actually processed in one of four ambient spaces, giving you a variety of tones and "feels" to choose from when you're selecting the right sound for your mix. Z1 mono sets have a slight amount of overhead micing for a three dimensional, airy, punchy, natural drum sound. Z2 sets are stereo samples, and have heavily compressed far room mics that are mixed in with closer mics, resulting in deep, fat sound that's ideal for your thick rock mixes. Z3 mono sets are dry and not processed with any ambient mics for a more in-your-face punk or speed metal type sound. Finally, the newest Z4 sample sets offer just the isolated room sound of each sample. So, if you mix a Z1 with a Z4, for example, you'll get a pure, 3D drum tone that delivers the characteristics of a stellar-sounding drum room.

High-quality models of famous kits
Incorporate the drum kits of some of the biggest bands in recent rock history. This collection includes dead-on kit models of Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Motley Crue, Metallica, Greenday, Deftones, AC/DC (Vintage and Modern), Foo Fighters, Pantera, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Dream Theater.

Drums sampled a variety of ways
Acoustic drummers know that you can produce a variety of tones depending on how you tune the drum at certain tensions, by dampening and undampening the drum, by using different drum heads, or by tightening and loosening the snares. Steve Slate Drums makes use of all of these different signature sounds, and many of the drums are sampled with different tunings, different heads, and different dampenings - it's like having an acoustic kit, and a live drummer right inside your studio.

Includes the SSD virtual instrument
The 3.5 Signature Drumkits Platinum Pack from Steven Slate Drums comes with the SSD Virtual Instrument, a VST/DX/RTAS/AU MIDI drum sampler. You can use it within any DAW. Plus, it has mapping for keyboard and Roland V-Drum modules, so you can put the samples to work in whatever way you create best.

Steven Slate Drums Signature Drumkits Platinum Pack 3.5 Features:
  • More than 40 kits
  • 13 modeled kits, including models of Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Motley Crue, Metallica, Greenday, Deftones, AC/DC (Vintage and Modern), Foo Fighters, Pantera, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Dream Theater
  • Recorded to 2-inch tape
  • Processed with premium vintage and analog gear
  • Huge, radio-ready, mix-ready sounds
  • Slates' samples are used by some of today's top mixers
  • Adjustable room ambience for every drum and cymbal
  • Includes the SSD Virtual Drum Instrument - AU, VST, RTAS, DX Plug-in
  • Support for all Roland V-Drums via SSD virtual instrument

Steven Slate Drums Signature Drumkits Platinum Pack brings high-quality, radio-ready drum samples to your studio!

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Reviews

The Only Drums!

by Werner Beukes from South Africa
July 13, 2010
Music Background: Producer/Engineer, Pro musician
This is the drums I've been looking for! I worked with drumming sofware in the past, but never have I heard such a true, powerful, open sounding drum sound! It's real, and in some ways better then rea... read more [+]l!!! Buy this drumming software, or don't buy drumming software! close [-]

Everything that has been said needs repeating!!!

by Joshua Hodge from Troy, Alabama
May 17, 2010
Music Background: Pro Musician, Recording Engineer, Studio Owner.
A friend had been raving about these for over a year but I seemed to always have something else I wanted to buy. There is no telling how much money I've spent on different mic's and hours I've spent ... read more [+]trying to learn new micing techniques, eq tricks, and mixing advice when this could have solved all of those. I know everyone is partial to this mic or that and this kit vs that kit but I would bet there aren't more than a handful of studios in the world that can produce these huge drums with so little effort. My clients faces light up when they hear these drums cutting though the mix and having so many options to choose from. Guitarist have so many amps at there disposal to shape their sound now so do drummers. AMAZING TOOL FOR ANY LEVEL STUDIO but especially if your working in a small drum room. These work great with my Roland V-Drum Kit as well at my M-Audio Key Studio and now they've released the Trigger Plug-in which boast the most accurate drum replacement engine available.

Do yourself a HUGE favor and buy these and the new Trigger Plug-in A.S.A.P. You'll save hours of time and even if you have a great drum room your going to get these sounds with so much less work.

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Worth every penny!!!

by Kirk from Mechanicsville, MD
March 30, 2010
Music Background: Drummer,Recording Hobbyist
The sounds inside this software are amazing. I have some of the drums and cymbals that they sampled for this software and I'd have to say you can't really tell the difference. The samples are fantast... read more [+]ic out of the box, but the fact that you can still go in and tweak each one and add fx to them is awesome. I've been researching drum software for a while and finally made up my mind to go with these. If you play on a roland kit these are what you need. They're already mapped out for them. Its also nice that you can use these a a plug-in or as a stand alone instrument. I just can't say enough about them. Also this was my first time dealing with Sweetwater and I'd have to say the other guys "And you know who you are", you need to pick up the pace on customer service because Sweetwater has you beat!!! close [-]

Proof is in the Pudding

by Brett Simms from Calgary, AB, Canada
November 1, 2009
Music Background: pro musician, intermediate engineer
So I took some raw wave files from a prospective client and Drumagog'ed the six drum tracks with either native drumagog samples, or Steve Slate drum samples. Without knowing where/who the samples came... read more [+] from, the client consistently 'liked' the Steve Slate drum samples better than the others. What does that say? To me it says that Steve's samples are good enough for anyone to detect the quality difference and prefer them. Steve slates samples will make your rock/metal records much, much better than they would have been without them. So set your 'drum miking' pride aside and buy them. close [-]

These are incredible!

by Walt from NY NY
April 12, 2009
Music Background: Musician
I can't say enough great things about this program. Very easy to use and it sounds amazing. The snares cut through, the rides have just the right amount of clang, and the bass drums are well defined a... read more [+]nd deep. The humanize function also works very well and "humanizes" in the RIGHT places.
I don't want to denigrate other drum sampling programs that I have owned so I won't mention any names but this is hands down, in the top 3!! Buy it! close [-]
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