Drumdrops releases New Drum Replacement Packs & All Samples Packs for three kits (Premier, Rogers & Yamaha) - Yamaha Kit is Free

Drumdrops has released Drum Replacement packs and All Sample packs for three of their existing kits: the Vintage Premier Outfits 54 Kit, Rogers Big R Dub Kit and the Yamaha Hybrid Kit.

Drum Replacement Pack

The Drum Replacement Pack includes templates for Slate Trigger V2, Drumagog 5 and DrumXchanger.

The Slate Trigger template has been created using the close mic, overhead and room mic samples from the kits. There are samples for the kick drum, snare and toms. The samples in this template have up to 16 velocity levels and six round robins. The samples come in the tci format.

The Drumagog template uses the same samples and you can choose the balance between the close mic, overheads and room mics. This template uses up to 8 velocity levels with four round robins. Drumdrops have included samples for the Kick, Snare, toms and hi-hat. If you version of Drumagog contains the Auto hi-hat tracking feature then the samples will follow the opening an closing of the hi-hat. The samples come in the gog format.

The DrumXchanger template contains stereo mixed samples (a combination of the overhead, room and close mics samples). This template contains eight velocity levels with no round robins. The snare also contains a rimshot sample that has its own adjustable trigger threshold. The samples come in splx format.

• The Vintage Premier Outfits 54 Kit Drum Replacement Pack retails for £15.00.
• The Rogers Big R Dub Kit Drum Replacement Pack retails for £ 15.00.
• The Yamaha Hybrid Kit Drum Replacement Pack is free.

All Samples Packs

The All Samples packs contain the samples from Drumdrops Kontakt packs of the drum kits including three round robins. These samples include the separate close mic, overhead mic and room mics of each kit (where used). The pack also includes the samples from Drumdrops 'multi-velocity packs'. These are the overhead, room and close mic samples mixed together. The All Samples Packs are suited for customers who use software that Drumdrops do not support or for those who like to build their own templates from scratch. All of the samples come as 24-bit WAVs.

• The Vintage Premier Outfits 54 Kit All Samples Pack retails for £ 25.00.
• The Rogers Big R Dub Kit All Samples Pack retails for £ 25.00.
• The Yamaha Hybrid Kit Drum All Samples Pack is free.

Finally, the Yamaha Hybrid kit is now free in any format to anyone who signs up an account with Drumdrops. As well as offering the Drum Replacement Packs and the All Samples Pack for free the Multi-Velocity Pack and Single Hits pack can also be downloaded for free for this kit. Drumdrops will also be offering the Kontakt 5 pack soon.