Your Personal Vintage Groove Station
Soul Drums from UVI is quite possibly the most complex and configurable vintage drum plug-in that we’ve come across here at Sweetwater. Seemingly endless acoustic and digital preset libraries boast 150,000 samples that span timeless percussive elements from classic soul, R&B, funk, and jazz records of the '60s and '70s. Another 1,000 included patterns put you in command of the specific grooves you want to hear, essentially airdropping an old-school drummer right into your project! An extremely in-depth control system and effects manager feature individual settings for every element of your personalized kit, with adjustments for everything from EQ to Spring Reverb to Mic Bleed. With so much specificity and character in every kit, it’s more than safe to say that UVI’s Soul Drums is worth its weight in gold!
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Stunning vintage samples
When it comes to samples, Soul Drums is packed to the brim. There are 150,000 drum samples that await your every assignment, featuring a painstakingly tracked-down array of vintage drum sounds that helped shape the golden era of soul. Additionally, 1,000 sequences are standing by to bring your favorite vintage sounds to life. From patented lo-fi Motown backbeats to the warm vintage grooves of funk and beyond, Soul Drums is loaded with the best of 'em. Each sample was handpicked using drums and microphones that put in the hard work at the original Studio C Hit Factory, tributing the vibes of recordings from soul legends like James Brown. Now is your chance to implement that characterful sound into your very own songs — it's all just a few clicks away!
Loaded with in-depth controls
We guarantee you haven’t seen a vintage drum plug-in with a control layout as detailed as the one you'll find in Soul Drums — there’s just so much to discover! Once you have your kit and sequence picked out, the Mix page should be both your first (and last) stop on your journey to crafting the perfect kit sound. Devoted to the master balance of your drum set, this is where you’ll bring up the individual master levels for each piece of the percussive puzzle. Strap in, it only gets more specific from here!
Further fine-tune your kit
The next three pages are your essential components: Bass drum, Snare drum, and Hi-hats. Each of these pages comes loaded with an impressive amount of controls to make sure you can fine tune every element you fancy. It starts with a 3-band Equalizer, where you’ll also see Velocity, Compression, Pitch, and Pan control knobs. Next up, you’ll specify the exact style of acoustic instrument your heart desires — felt pad bass drumheads, rattly snares, vintage chick-ing hi-hats, and beyond. It’s also here that you’ll adjust features like Attack and Decay, Drive channels, and High/Low Pass Filters. Finally, a Digital sample selector is exclusive to these first three pages, allowing you to modernize your kick, snare, and hi-hat sound, should you see it fit.
Moving down the line, you’ll run into the rest of your kit components, including Toms, Cymbals, and Percussion. Though you don’t have the option for Digital samples here, Soul Drum’s versatile nature remains ever present. Floor, Middle, and High Toms are afforded the same Acoustic setting controls from earlier. The same can be said for the Cymbals, including dual Crashes and a Ride, as well as the Percussion page, boasting adjustment knobs for Claps, Tambourines, and Sticks.
Adjustable mics and Bleed Matrix
Now that you’ve built your kit, it’s time to turn it up a notch with the Ambience page. Four global microphone channels can be affected at this stage, including Overheads, Kit mics, Mono, and Room microphones. You’ll find available Drive, 3-band EQ, Filtering, and Compression controls for each channel, with devoted Effects Sends at the bottom of the page gaining you access to two pairs of Delays and Reverbs. And then, did we mention custom mics? You’re closer than ever to that analog studio sound of your dreams!
To take things even a step further, the incredible Mic Bleed Matrix sits at the bottom of every kit component page. Yes — you read that right! Soul Drums allows you to balance in and out the amount of instrument bleed into different mics on your kit, unlocking doors to the chunky and snare-heavy Motown grooves you’ve always wanted for your own musical projects.
Versatile FX panel
The final page of custom controls supplies the nitty gritty specifics of each included special effect within Soul Drums. At this stage, it’s up to you what kind of effect you want to spring for. Tape Delay? Dual Delay? What about IR and Spark Reverb with assigned samples? Soul Drums puts you in charge of every session, and anything you say goes!
Hook up your E-drum kit
Soul Drums is equipped to run through your DAW via MIDI control, making for the easiest and most flawless studio sessions. If you’d like the shot at playing these kits for yourself, its integrated mapping matrix allows you to connect your own electronic drum kit, assign each component, and play your parts exactly how you want them performed for your track.
UVI Soul Drums Software Instrument Features:
- 150,000 classic soulful drum samples from some of the most iconic studios, records, and artists
- 1,000 sequences to choose from for building your ideal groove
- Master Mix page balances the levels of each component of your kit
- Bass, Snare, Hi-hats, Toms, Cymbals, and Percussion pages give you specific EQ and Acoustic controls
- Digital samples modernize your Bass Drum, Snare, and Hi-hat sound
- Ambience page allows for altering of 4 global mic channels including Overhead, Kit mics, Mono, and Room mics
- Mic Bleed Matrix is available for each instrument within your kit, letting you adjust microphone bleed for true studio authenticity
- FX panel supplies 2 different vintage Delays and Reverbs to work with
- MIDI controllable with integrated mapping matrix for connecting your electronic drum kit
