GROUP BUY: Ocean Way & Drum Masters Ultimate Studio Drum Bundle!

[bronxsound]

>>>Read Ocean Way Drums Review @ Sound on Sound Here<<<

>>>Watch Ocean Way Drums Videos Here<<<

Price triers:
1-25 Joined $149.
26-50 Joined $139.
51-100 Joined $129. <----WE ARE HERE
101-150 Joined $119.
151-200 Joined $109.
201+ Joined $99 (Final Price)

What You Get When 200+ People Join!

Everything in the "Ultimate Studio Drums Group Buy" is downloadable exclusively from eSoundz.com This is a limited-time bundle that includes the following kits that are playable from Sonic Reality's latest Infinite Player plug-in powered by Kontakt 3.5:

• Sonic Reality's Infinite Player plug-in powered by Kontakt*
• 12 different Ocean Way® Drums DL mix kits from dry to medium to ambient
• 15 Drum Masters 2 Signature Drum Kits featuring drum kits of legendary drummers
• Ambient Impulse Responses from some of the best sounding studio rooms in the world to use with Infinite Player/Kontakt's convolution reverb
• Bonus Midi Grooves

* If you already own the Infinite Player you can get a brand new previously unreleased Drum Masters 2 Ludwig® Jazz Kit instead!

>>>Join here<<<

Feel free to refer me: lukianowicz

[Reverend Rhythm]

Wow! We already have 94 signed up! I love it when a GB takes off!

[MountainKing]

Feel free to visit this referral thread and choose one of the members that you can refer at esoundz check out:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=217796

Note that referrals work for ANY (download) purchase at esoundz (not only for Group Buys).




esoundz: MountainKing

[Dolphono]

Thanks for the heads up on this group purchase, I've seen alot of these lately.
Sells most be slow for audio merchants?. Nice to have all these great deals though.


member #95. =)

[autodafe]

I told you this GB was easy
we already did thousands for the T-Racks and the Amplitube ones ....

I will jump on this at the very end, really no money right now...I know that I won't be charged right now, I will wait until the end of December just to be sure some more money will come in...


in the meanwhile...ePointz to autodafe, pls

[mn]

Referral goes to MN (miken).

Cheers.

[zedd]

>>>Read Ocean Way Drums Review @ Sound on Sound Here<<<

>>>Watch Ocean Way Drums Videos Here<<<

Price triers:
1-25 Joined $149.
26-50 Joined $139.
51-100 Joined $129. <----WE ARE HERE
101-150 Joined $119.
151-200 Joined $109.
201+ Joined $99 (Final Price)

Hey bronxsound,

Just out of curiosity, how do you know when the previous page of the thread has been filled? You've been very consistent with getting this information at the top of every page.

It is useful... I have used the link several times to go to the Group Buy page and listen to the audio samples again. Thanks.

[autodafe]

he lives on the forum

[Reverend Rhythm]

Should we tell the secret?

I think it's 15 posts per page, You just count. But it takes time and attention....

[jensa]

Hey bronxsound,

Just out of curiosity, how do you know when the previous page of the thread has been filled?

My guess is p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-rogramming.

[bronxsound]

I'm glad that someone has found the links useful. That's the point.
15 posts/page is the "secret" as RR mentioned above.

[zedd]

Should we tell the secret?

I think it's 15 posts per page, You just count. But it takes time and attention....

Ahhhh! Thank you for that. I figured that it was probably something like that.

I imagine that it does take time and attention. I didn't write that last message without thinking about you, Reverend Rhythm, and how many Group Buys I have seen you diligently doing the same.

I appreciate the efforts of all you Group Buy "regulars". It really feels like a nice little community we have following and participating in these threads. I enjoy these GBs, in part, because of the presence of familiar faces.

[Squids]

I posted this over at the Gearslutz forum and thought it might be a good read here about e-Drums:

Sounds like an amazing deal. Can you elaborate on the new E drum features?

Yes. The e-Drum features are deep so there will be video tutorials coming as well as GUI breakdowns of what each button does on each panel.

But for now I can tell you what can be done overall. Depending on the size of the overall kit you will have a variety of "ALTS" per articulation per kit piece. What does that mean? Well, a kit piece is a drum within the kit like a single hi tom or a snare drum. An articulation is the center hits or the edge hits or rim etc. An "Alt" is alternate hit of that articulation. In the "imap" drum layout (designed for keyboard performance) you have already an "alt' on an extra key about an octave away. This is for your left/right stick variation options when playing from the keyboard. So, for V-Drums/E-Drums already right there you have a nice ALT that can be round robined. But, now we've expanded that a bit further to have up to 7 different additional alts per articulation of every kit piece! Now, before you get too excited about that, remember that to have that many alts for every articulation of every kit piece the drum kit would have to be rather MASSIVE (and certainly not in a very easily downloadable size). But, some new products in the Drum Masters 2 series have kits that are 8-9 gigabytes on average and Ken Scott's "EpiK DrumS" is over 100 gigabytes total for just the kits in the package... and does take the most advantage so far of these ALT per articulation features. But that is deluxe, supreme and EPIK extreme there. Later for the Drum Masters 2 series we'll have individual lighter-sized downloadable versions of each of the drummers (Cobham, Bozzio, Morgenstein, Siebenberg and Woodmansey) that are more like the main Drum Masters 2 kits which are about 1-2 gigabytes in size each... a bit more manageable and the alts are done in smart ways where it really counts the most... basically done to avoid machine gun effects when playing from V-Drum/E-Drums and that is the MAIN goal of Alting/Round Robin etc.

Alrighty... so, (you can already tell this is a Squids mega post in the works here but you asked for it!!!!) with those extra Alts they can be put into our own proprietary Round Robin system PER ARTICULATION if you want. So you can choose to have it randomize OR NOT if you wanted the hit to be consistent! That's a big one for engineer/producers who want to control the sound if they are processing it and say "no I want THAT forte hit sound". Normally on an acoustic set you'd have to have a great drummer hit the "right spot" each time to do that but with this it makes it a lot easier to nail a specific sound sonically. Anyway, not only can you choose to have it on or off but you can choose whether you want it to be sequentially going through the ALTS (1,2,3,4...) or if you want it to be randomly mixed up (1,2,4,3,4,2,5...). Now, there's an art to it depending on the way you play! If you feel like you are hearing the cycling too much you just hit "RANDOMIZE" and it takes that predictability away! But sometimes you DO want to know what the changes are going to be - say if you wanted it to alternate between left and right stick (the first ALT is always the additional left stick) and always have it go back and forth... anyway, a lot of possibilities there.

PLUS you can now adjust the level of each articulation relative to the other. So if you wanted to say turn up or down the FOOT of the hi hat relative to the tip or edge closed... you can now do that too!

There are a ton of features that allow the E-Drummer to customize the kit to THEIR controller and their playing needs. We have a V-Drum "mode" that sets it up to map to V-Drums and also has position sensing switching of Center to Edge on snare or positions of the ride inside... fun stuff like that. But we also have a CUSTOM e-Drum mode which allows you to quickly map to whatever e-Drum kit you have! It has "midi learn" which means you click that button and then hit the pad of your drum kit and it sees the incoming midi note and automatically maps that articulation to it! Now, it IS a bit of work for you to do this CUSTOM map on your own and I'm sure some people will help others by doing it for all of the kit patches for a particular Brand/Model and we'll be happy to help share that amongst users. But, what is awesome is that you can really tailor it to YOUR e-Drum kit just the way you want it. That is what we found e-Drummers needed because each person's hardware is set up differently and the way they play is different. So the more control without making it too complicated the better we felt.

Just because these are MEGA POSTS with detailed descriptions doesn't mean these are complicated to use. One can simply just hit the "GM" button and instantly be "compatible" with most e-Drum kits out there and most midi files or keyboards on the planet! So it will work for everybody without barely having to do a thing! However if you're going for realism and expression that is tailored to your tastes... well now you can do that better than ever.

[Squids]

A few quick questions (not about the Receptor!) after listening some more:

(1) Presumably all of the pan settings can be adjusted?
(2) Are the drum master demos on the group buy page dry, or with controllable room/ambience layered in? I know that certain kits had descriptions of amb or not, but I'm curious how up close and dry the various DM kits could be tweaked to.

Thanks!

Yes, pan settings can be adjusted per kit piece.

Yes, the ones that are described to have more ambience do have them in the sample so they can't be "made dry" but there are plenty of dry to medium room kits that take advantage of the convolution impulse rooms. I will get into that some more next week when I have some time to demonstrate it because there are some cool tricks you can do with that part of the package.

[bronxsound]

3 to go for the next price drop