Sound Dust have released Plankton Drummer, a harmonic drum machine, available at the intro price of £25.00, increasing to £60.00 after the promotion.
All 72 sounds in Plankton Drummer have the fundamental note tuned as closely as possible to something that resembles a useful pitch. This isn’t an exact science because snares, high hats etc have a lot of complex harmonics bouncing around – it’s do-able, but tricky. Electronic components are a bit more open to being kicked into shape.
So, the C5 BOOM key is loaded with electronic kick sounds that are tuned to C, the D5 DOOF key is loaded with acoustic kicks that are tuned (if possible) to D, the B5 FULL KIT key is loaded with full acoustic and electronic drum kits that are all tuned (if possible) to a B etc…
Set key to C# and scale to Hungarian Gypsy and those Cs will play as C#, D stays where it is and B becomes a C.
Plankton Drummer is above all playful and intuitive, it quickly helps you develop unexpected and original ideas. Combine the kick of a Roland 909 with a flabby Ludwig snare, percussion from the OPTIGAN and modular high hats. Quickly load a Reggaeton kick pattern and play it against the snare pattern of ‘50 ways to leave your lover‘ with trap hi-hats. Quantize the pitch to A# Bebop minor – THIS IS ALL POSSIBLE !
Plankton Drummer comes with 72 instruments, over 3000 samples, 107 single instrument presets patterns and 30 full blown snapshots that are entire tracks in themselves.
Watch the overview video HERE.
Plankton Drummer requires a full version of Kontakt 5.8 or later.
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