DAYTON DRUMS

A raw, organic and soulful drum kit with amazing realism!

 
 
 
 

A splendid soulful drum kit for Kontakt

Instantly create realistic and authentic drum tracks with DAYTON DRUMS! Deeply sampled in an underground jazz club using top gear, this drum kit offers a raw, flexible, and characterful sound with fantastic realism!

With its wonderful playability, extended articulations, and clever automatic grooves and rolls, DAYTON DRUMS is super intuitive and fun to play.

Use the mixer and built-in effects to create your signature sound, from natural and unhyped to gritty and characterful.

With a wide range of inspiring style presets and rhythms, you will produce amazing drum parts within seconds!

Organic, soulful, and pure fun :)

Raw and natural drum kit for Kontakt

  • Intuitive mixer with maximum sonic flexibility

  • Extended range of articulations

  • Great realism with up to 38 velocity layers

  • Scripted round-robin, and left and right-hand sampling for snare drum

  • Tempo-synced grooves and fill-ins with mod wheel variation

  • Automatic snare drum MW rolls

  • ‘Humanize’ knob for breathtaking realism

  • 17 Kontakt instruments

  • 1674 samples (24bit, 48kHz, mono and stereo WAV)

  • 20 custom IR samples

  • Total size uncompressed: 1.41GB

  • full Kontakt 5.8+ required!!!

  • list price: €49,- (+VAT for EU customers)

Inspiring and authentic presets

Use one of the16 style presets to instantly create authentic and splendid rhythm tracks!

Explore natural-sounding presets for modern jazz, bossa and latin styles, or folk.

Easily get a really tight, dry and natural rock kit sound.

Create raw original breaks with textured and characterful drums.

Get inspired by authentic retro presets for fusion, old-school reggae, vintage soul, or 80s funk!

PRESET LIST

 

Intuitive and powerful controls

Spend less time mixing and more time playing!

This section lets you mix the different microphone signals, and intuitively create a wide range of drum sounds.

Control the amount of close, overhead, and room signals for each element.

Adjust the pitch of the kick, snare and toms with the TUNE knobs.

Control the stereo width of the overheads and room signals.

 

Room ‘character’ switch

A unique and handy way to fully change the character of the drumkit!

This switch lets you choose between two alternative processing for the room signals:

New York reproduces a typical NY-style compression processing: using a pre-set chain of equaliser and parallel compressors, the sound you get is clean and punchy. Perfect to add size and power to the drum elements!

London offers a completely different sound, with grit, extra decay, and tasty saturation and overdrive. Perfect to add character and vibe to the drum elements!

 

Amazing playability

Use your mod wheel to instantly perform realistic snare drum rolls.

Create realistic rhythms with the built-in grooves, and play live variations and fill-ins with your mod wheel: it’s fun and super quick to get splendid drum tracks!

 

Unique and detailed articulations

The keyboard layout follows standard GM drum mapping and offers many original and tasty articulations:

 

MOD WHEEL ROLLS:

C#0- snare buzz roll

D0 - snare center roll

D#0 - center rimshot roll

E0 - edge Rimshot roll

REGULAR PLAYING ZONES:

F#0, G0, G#0, A0: alternative cross stick sounds

Bb0: Center SD with no snares

B0: full Rim SD with no snares

C1: Kick

C#1: cross stick

D1: Snare Drum center

D#1: SD center rimshot

E1: SD edge rimshot

TOMS:

F1, G1, A1, B1, C2: 5 toms

HiHat:

F#1 closed HH

G#1 foot HH

Bb1: Open HH

F#2: semi open1

G#2: semi open2

Bb2: fully opened 

A2: foot ’splash’ sound

B2: alternative foot HH

CYMBALS:

C#2: 16” crash

D2: 18”crash ride

D#2: 20” ride

EXTRAS:

E2: tip of stick on tom rims

F2:  tip of stick on SD rims

G2:  tip of stick on SD rims (no snares)

C4 to B4 (White Keys): GROOVES

 

DAYTON DRUMS