Handy Drums- Rock Legend

ROCK LEGEND drumset from the Handy Drums plugin collection is a pre-mixed, sampled instrument tailored to Rock music productions or similar. The plugin offers album-like, produced drum sound quality right out of the box and is primarily for users looking for instant drum results. Tweaks to the individual drum components are accomplished using the included mixer. Each drum component sounds as a part of the drumset as a uniform instrument played in an acoustic space.

The style of drumset's character was inspired by the sound of legendary drummer John Bonham. The sampled vintage Ludwig kit features a 28" kick drum, larger than Bonham used to use, and large toms along with a Supraphonic snare drum.

As is the case with all of the plugins in the Handy Drums collection, the ROCK LEGEND comes with a clean, simple GUI offering essential functionalities such as drum mapping, routing, and other settings in a discreet, intuitive manner. That makes this virtual drumset very easy to use.

At the core of ROCK LEGEND drum sound is the natural ambiance without the addition of reverb or FX's providing natural realism and character. The sound character of this kit is open, full-bodied, slightly aggressive-sounding, and very ambient with "oompf". It works well in Rock and other situations where ambient drums are desired. What you hear is what you get- nothing more, nothing less.

In addition to the 6-piece drumset with cymbals (hats, ride, crashes, splashes), the plugin comes with a few sampled percussion instruments, a standard for Handy Drums plugins: shaker, cowbell, triangle, tambourine, handclaps.

The variable hi-hat is the norm with this plugin, but it achieves 6 stages of hi-hat openness utilizing only 2 notes (tip and edge) in combination with a CC4 controller. The hi-hat foot features a special tambourine mounted on top of it.