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NaughtySealAudio · Post by **NaughtySealAudio** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 9:08 am

What Is Perfect Drums?
Perfect Drums is the innovative virtual drum instrument, featuring an intelligent sampling engine, that enables anyone to create unique multi-sampled instruments and share them in an easy and convenient way.

The Drums
First of all Perfect Drums gives you some of the best drum samples on the market. Recorded in a professional studio by experienced engineers, they are made to sit perfectly in the mix, giving the instant punch, depth and fatness to your tracks. With a total of 67 instruments, including: 4 kick drums, 6 snare drums, 12 toms and 45 cymbals by some of the best drum manufacturers currently out there, Prefect Drums is able to compliment any music style and will quickly become your go to drum sample library for all times.

The Sampler
But Perfect Drums is not just another sample library. It is also your own ultimate fully-featured sampler. And here is where it comes in to it’s own. Imagine if you could create multi-sampled drum instruments incorporating: full control over different articulations, microphone groups, dynamic layers and every single audio sample in a quick and easy way? That is all possible in Perfect Drums... Furthermore, you can share or sell your instruments knowing everyone is able to load them using a free version of the Perfect Drums Player plugin.

The Mixer
Perfect Drums also features a mixer with incredible flexibility. It gives the user comprehensive metering, instrument level, pan & phase controls, parallel processing groups, fully configurable mix routings, including internal auxiliary busses and multiple outputs. Perfect Drums is able to carry out any mixing task, keeping your drums in a perfect balance.

The software comes as 64bit VST, AU, AAX plugin compatible with both MAC and Windows operating systems.

Feature Highlights:

Extensive sound library, containing 67 meticulously sampled instruments
Parallel processing sample group
High-end reverb sample group
Smart Instrument Loading algorithm
Smart Instrument Preview feature
Intelligent Sampling Engine
FREE Perfect Drums Player, enabling anyone to load your instruments
PD CLOUD community (coming soon!)
Incredible mixing capabilities to keep your drums in a perfect balance

Hear It In Action!
https://soundcloud.com/theperfectdrums/sets/inthemix

https://soundcloud.com/theperfectdrums/ ... entpreview

See It In Detail
https://youtu.be/1dvobih6r9I

https://youtu.be/mw1vfv0gmZw

For more information regarding the product, please follow the link below:
Perfect Drums

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:01 am

SLick Package !

though you should apply some Ducking to the youtube video

the Music Drowns the announcer

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:43 am

Does the sampler sample?

NaughtySealAudio · Post by **NaughtySealAudio** » Fri Feb 10, 2017 9:23 am

realmarco wrote:SLick Package !

though you should apply some Ducking to the youtube video

the Music Drowns the announcer

Thanks! Yes we are currently rerendering the launch teaser with more ducking on the backing track. -6dB turned out to be not enough

NaughtySealAudio · Post by **NaughtySealAudio** » Fri Feb 10, 2017 9:25 am

thecontrolcentre wrote:Does the sampler sample?

You import your cut ".wav" samples in there and create the instrument.

dblock · Post by **dblock** » Fri Feb 10, 2017 9:49 am

Just bought it. Downloading now.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:47 am

NaughtySealAudio wrote:
thecontrolcentre wrote:Does the sampler sample?
You import your cut ".wav" samples in there and create the instrument.

That's a shame. A sampler that can actually sample would have been cool.

bob bobwood · Post by **bob bobwood** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 5:38 am

Having downloaded the free player, I can find no content whatsoever. Any ideas ?

dblock · Post by **dblock** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:20 am

bob bobwood wrote:Having downloaded the free player, I can find no content whatsoever. Any ideas ?

Yeah, don't know if it's cool to put a link here but if you google "Gearslutz Perfect Drums" the guy from Naughty Seal is responding to questions directly. I can tell you that as of now,the player is really aimed at people who already bought the full version which makes no sense to me but he explains it. I seem to remember though that because people have asked for at least one kit to demo and he plans on doing that.
Hope this helps

dblock · Post by **dblock** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:34 am

dblock wrote:
bob bobwood wrote:Having downloaded the free player, I can find no content whatsoever. Any ideas ?
Yeah, don't know if it's cool to put a link here but if you google "Gearslutz Perfect Drums" the guy from Naughty Seal is responding to questions directly. I can tell you that as of now,the player is really aimed at people who already bought the full version which makes no sense to me but he explains it. I seem to remember though that because people have asked for at least one kit to demo and he plans on doing that.

EDIT! I just found one of their posts as of 23hrs ago that states,"We are finishing the DEMO kit for ya. Will be ready tomorrow I believe."
He also said he rendered some dry audio demos with no FX and almost no room and reverb for those who asked and will
upload supposedly today.

Hope this helps

bob bobwood · Post by **bob bobwood** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:04 am

Thanks for the info and link dblock.
Here's hoping someone knocks up some free kits then.

dblock · Post by **dblock** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:47 am

bob bobwood wrote:Thanks for the info and link dblock.
Here's hoping someone knocks up some free kits then.

Glad to help bob.

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:55 pm

> Dynamic Layer represents the three available dynamic layers for your instrument’s hard, medium and soft hits appropriately.
Only three dynamic layers? (Yes, you can pick the velocity ranges, but even so.)

Nothing in the manual explaining how to set up a CC4-controlled hi-hat, so presumably "open" and "closed" are all it supports.

NaughtySealAudio · Post by **NaughtySealAudio** » Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:29 am

Hi guys!
We have made a DEMO kit for you to try in the PD Player. You can download it following the link below:
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/thep ... 1_DEMO.zip

Just unzip it and open the containing ".pdpk" file in PD Player using the "Load Player Kit" command in the Kit Designer menu.
PD Player can be downloaded here:
http://theperfectdrums.com/pdplayer

So, the kit itself is one of the Perfect Drums preset kits. It has 8 instruments: kick, snare, rack tom, floor tom, hihat, ride, and 2 crashes.
All instruments have only 2 roundrobins per dynamic layer as a part of DEMO limitation. The full version has 8 roundrobins per dynamic layer.

Secondly. I've rendered the dry kit for those who asked. Find it below:
https://soundcloud.com/theperfectdrums/drykitdemo

It's the Perfect Kit 1 preset with just close mics + a tiny bit of OH and ROOM. It has no reverb, nor fx sample groups. And of course no post processing. Enjoy!

bob bobwood wrote:Thanks for the info and link dblock.
Here's hoping someone knocks up some free kits then.

Find the demo kit above

pljones wrote:> Dynamic Layer represents the three available dynamic layers for your instrument’s hard, medium and soft hits appropriately.
Only three dynamic layers? (Yes, you can pick the velocity ranges, but even so.)
Nothing in the manual explaining how to set up a CC4-controlled hi-hat, so presumably "open" and "closed" are all it supports.

bob bobwood wrote:Having downloaded the free player, I can find no content whatsoever. Any ideas ?

No CC yet. But it will be there in the nearest update. The number of dynamic layers will be expanded as well. We have set it to 3, to make it more RAM friendly for an initial release.

thecontrolcentre wrote:
NaughtySealAudio wrote:
thecontrolcentre wrote:Does the sampler sample?
You import your cut ".wav" samples in there and create the instrument.
That's a shame. A sampler that can actually sample would have been cool.

We decided to not invent the wheel implementing the audio recording and editing features, you can already find in countless specialized software applications.

kinwie · Post by **kinwie** » Sun Feb 12, 2017 2:00 am

pljones wrote:> Dynamic Layer represents the three available dynamic layers for your instrument’s hard, medium and soft hits appropriately.
Only three dynamic layers? (Yes, you can pick the velocity ranges, but even so.)

Nothing in the manual explaining how to set up a CC4-controlled hi-hat, so presumably "open" and "closed" are all it supports.

Yes, same as Peter,
I was about to ask that questions. 3 velocities just not enough for a flagship product.
And of course more hihat articulations are needed also.

I've seen the video and heard the soundcloud. It looks pretty and sounds great!
But the demo tracks all really too tooo too wet! for me.
And the Ride is also too ringy to my ears.
Is the sampler have the self-choke feature to prevent too many overlapped samples sounding?

Another question, Is the factory samples already processed (eq, comp, etc)??
Any info or availablr library that has a pure "just the recorded" samples with zero pre/post process?

Will going to download the demo and give it a test,
Thanks!

Introducing Perfect Drums! The innovative virtual drum instrument and sampler.