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:
1-24 Joined $149.
25-49 Joined $139.
50-99 Joined $129.
100-149 Joined $119. <----WE ARE HERE
150-199 Joined $109.
200+ 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<<<

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[zedd]

I'm perfectly happy with my Steven Slate samples but i couldn't resist this. +1 for the groupbuy.

A very good decision. Sonic Reality drums and other products are fantastic. A lot of my current album project is filled with awesome instruments and drumkits I have bought from eSoundz over the years. And it looks like the quality is just going to continue to get better and better.

[standalone]

Let's just say that you of all people, Zed Lepplin, can read my mind pretty good. But let's leave it a mystery. Let's just say we've got some amazing sounding acoustic spaces in the collection.

Mmmmmm......don't know.......too difficult for me.

[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

[bronxsound]

Let's just say that you of all people, Zed Lepplin, can read my mind pretty good. But let's leave it a mystery. Let's just say we've got some amazing sounding acoustic spaces in the collection.

It's puzzling isn't it?

[DrApostropheX]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but has anyone tried triggering the Ocean Way Drums with the Jamstix brain? Does this sound remotely convincing?

[soulata]

Not directly related but:

Could someone (ehem, eSoundz maybe) make a finger-drumming and drum programming for lesser finger-drummers?

It's a strugle for me to come up with decent drum parts (no matter how good sounding the drums are) and I'm guessing I'm not alone in this.

k

[Reverend Rhythm]

Finger Drumming for Dummies!

[Reverend Rhythm]

Right now we're at 117! 200 by Monday!

[soulata]

Finger Drumming for Dummies!

Yeah, I thought of that, too. Fingering for dummies would be too suspect, right?

[Reverend Rhythm]

Finger Drumming for Dummies!

Yeah, I thought of that, too. Fingering for dummies would be too suspect, right?

different book....

[Chester Desmond]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but has anyone tried triggering the Ocean Way Drums with the Jamstix brain? Does this sound remotely convincing?

I haven't used OWD because I'm waiting for the group buy stuff, but my experience with Jamstix is that it makes any midi drum performance more realistic because it has so many features built in to do just that. The features of the Infinite Player will see to it that the samples sound realistic by using alternate hits and round robin and detailed sample layers.

Assuming you find Jamstix in general to be convincing I can't think of any reason that the OWD wouldn't make it more so (in comparison to the stock Jamstix kits).

[Squids]

I'm just curious - how much space will all of these kits take up? I remember reading that EZdrummer has 5gb worth of uncompressed samples (1.5gb on harddrive). And OWD sounds much better than EZdrummer... And, OWD is 24bit/48000hz as well. So, around 25 kits... How much will that be?

edit: "Includes over 17 gigabytes of downloadable drum kit samples." found it... but how can it be so small? well, small is relative, of course. is it compressed samples lossless?

No data compression at all for these. Each kit is about 700-800 megabytes on average which is a pretty good size using stereo 24bit/48k samples. It's not apples with apples comparing with EZ Drummer because that has mic mixing layers and this does that in a different way with separate convolution rooms etc. Drum Masters 2 and Ocean Way Drums Silver/Gold/Platinum have mic mixing layers that go even deeper than EZD and they are much larger in size per kit than both this bundle and EZD. For anyone that wants discrete mic mixing they will be able to upgrade to DM2 and OWD multichannel kits for a great price. It may or may not be necessary depending on your needs.

The kits in this group buy were designed in an efficient way to get a wide sonic variety while still working with a reasonable downloadable sized bundle and it all doesn't have to be downloaded at once I might add... you can download a kit at a time! They sound great and you can do a lot of EASY mixing right inside the plug-in such as adjusting the level and pan of each kit piece not having to worry about under-snare mics and separate overheads. When you want more "room" you have a variety of impulse rooms to choose from and can make it more or less ambient in a similar way that you would with a multichannel kit. It's not exactly the same but there are some cool trade offs such as variety of rooms and interchangeability vs. the quality of a multisampled room that is part of the kit.

Although in this bundle you DO get a taste of BOTH because some of the kits come WITH the original multisampled ambience already in it. The end result is you get a bit of both worlds (the sound of convolution and the sound of the real ambient room on every hit of the drum) in the same product. That means a LOT of variety of kit sounds and this can go WAY beyond the initial 27! That's just the starting place. Additional Kit Multi Patches and Hybrid Kits can be made ad infinitum. We'll include bonus kit patches and hybrid kits the more people join. Those will completely re-use samples throughout the collection (and thus require all of the NKX files to be installed onto your hard drive - including the new OWD kits for this bundle, even if you already own OWD, these OWD NKX's are different) but the possibilities of using the built-in effects, different convolution ambience and kit pieces means you can do virtually unlimited variations. Don't worry, we'll offer a bunch AND show you how to do it yourself.

Hope that helps. More than the answer to your question but good info for everyone who is interested.

[Squids]

Squids posted them on gearslutz.

Sure, the names were posted here as well, I just can't find the sound examples for all of them.

k

I'm doing new demos of each of them so you have a demo for each kit. I'll have that done by Monday. Some of the best sounding kits in this don't even have demos yet. So if you like what you hear so far... it's only going to get better than you might expect.

[trueparadox]

Squids - thank you so much for the info! I'm getting more and more excited after every piece of information - this deal just gets better and better! I remember when getting realistic-sounding drumtracks was either impossible or really expensive (unless you mic'd up a real drumset, which is not an option for most of us)... Well, i'm not that old, but this type of technology is pretty new, and truly amazing.