MHC Synthesizers and Effects has announced that its new Common Kits plug-in has been added to the MHC Drum Plugin Bundle. The bundle now includes Electronic Kits, Ambient Kits, Acoustic Kits, Attack Kits and Common Kits.

Common Kits includes three additional sound-packs - the bundle now includes five drum plug-ins and 15 additional sound-packs (3 each).

The plug-in bundle is available for $99 (including the five plug-ins and the 15 sound-packs). But for a limited time, KVR Audio visitors can get a 50% discount on all MHC plug-ins, including the drum bundle (lowering the price to $49.50 for a short limited time). The coupon code is 246.

The MHC Drum Plugin Bundle

The plug-ins feature 12 drum pads, a search application, predefined drum kits which may be edited and a drum sample library. The default sound-packs feature hundreds of drum samples. The user can add more sounds by downloading 9 sound-packs which upgrade the plug-ins, giving the user more than 5000 presets to explore, more than 400 preprogrammed drum kits and thousands of drum samples to use.

The plug-ins have traditional synth sections, including a resonant filter, filter envelope, amp envelope, pitch modulation and an effect section. The effect section features 130 different effect modes, including a variety of filter banks, flanger, resonator, pitch shifter etc. Effects may be layered or crossfaded and they may be modulated by a multi shape LFO.

The 12 drum pads/sounds are velocity sensitive and velocity may control amp (volume) or filter cutoff. Velocity may be switched off entirely as well, for precise programming of drum levels.

The drum search application may be invoked from the plug-ins or it may be used as a stand alone application to maintain any drum sample collection on the user's hard disk. The drum search application is used to edit kits and to search for the right drum sounds.

The plug-ins are available as VST plug-ins for Windows. An Audio Unit (Universal Binary) for Mac OS X is still planned, but no date has been set for the Mac release yet.