Soniccoture have updated AC-DR, currently available at the intro price of £139.00.
What’s new in version 1.5:
- Hand-Clap Module. – A classic drum machine vibe, and essential for Trap, House and Techno. A full set of Normal + Accent samples with 10 round-robins on each, it sounds mechanised yet alive. The echo chamber samples accentuate slight pitch changes into searing tails.
- New Beat Tools: Blocks – A kind of hybrid of Beat-Shifter and Poly Beats, Blocks lets you create multiple bars with varying speeds and rhythmic patterns.
Soniccoture wanted to make an old school-style drum machine. But they wanted to do it with 21st century sampling techniques: round-robin samples, multi-channel sounds, generative sequencers.
Drums that sound chunky, dry & tight – but also chatter with life.
AC-DR features only organic real life sources.
- Microphones
- Contact transducers
- Transformers
- Echo chambers
Warm acoustic tones that you can tweak and shape like analogue.
Each drum was painstakingly recorded in large sets of hits which were then edited by ear to produce a tight set of 10 random hits which sound as close to identical as possible.
All the bass drum, snare, rimshot and tom samples were re-amped in Rockfield’s 2 echo chambers. The resulting reverb samples can be blended as a separate channel:a vital extra building block for drum design.
The main control panel. Each drum has its own self-contained block with volume fader, pan, mute and solo. From here you have a huge amount of control when tweaking a preset kit, using the acoustic source channel knobs. Beat Tools patterns can be triggered using the PLAY button.
Each drum block features different sampled drum types to choose from.
- 5 Bass drums
- 4 Snare drums
- 2 Rimshots
- 4 Toms
- 3 Hi-hats
- 5 Cymbals
- Cowbell
- Claves, Cabasa
- Guiro
- Tambourine
- 2 Shakers
AC-DR’s samples were created using innovative recording processes such as robot triggers to create precise multichannel layers.
Watch the walkthrough video HERE.
AC-DR Acoustic Drum Machine requires a free or full version of Kontakt 6.8 or later.
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