Vintage Folk Rock Kit

VINTAGE FOLK ROCK KIT

MIXER VIEW

EQ VIEW

DYNAMICS VIEW

TAPE CONTROL VIEW

SENDS VIEW

MIC MIX

This is another kit which comes into its own with Mic Mix. Because this kit was recorded with 5 microphones (a Kick, snare, two kit mics and a mono overhead) the best way of blending the sound of the drums is by mixing the balance of all 5 mics. For example if you want fine tune the balance of the hi tom you can mix all five microphones to get the sound you want.

Each channel has access to the mic mix section.

THE DRUM KIT PAGE

The drumkit page shows a full graphical view of the drum kit. On this page you can listen to each drum and the percussion, switch between hotrods, sticks or brushes, access the drum voice section and humanize section and change the velocity curves.

The Drum voice section allows you to edit the attack, hold, decay and tuning on each drum and unload drums you dont want to use from memory. The humanize section allows you to add more realism to the kit by randomly changing the volume, velocity, tuning and timing of the hits. You can further change the sound of the kits by adjusting the velocity curves.

MASTER EFFECTS

In version two of the kontakt instrument we have totally redesigned the master fader section. The stereo buss now has four dynamics included.

A stereo compressor, limiter, EQ and new Crush section. There is also included a Stereo width control and a L/R swap.

GROOVE PLAYER

Included is a MIDI Groove player. We have included a large selection of MIDI grooves covering a variety of genres.

In the Vintage Folk Rock Kit we have included 2111 loops played by a variety of our drumdrops drummers.

318 of these loops are Folk Loops played by Martyn Barker.

Once you have found a groove you like and selected it, you can drag it into your DAW.

MIDI MAPPING

In version two of the Kontakt instrument we have completely overhauled the MIDI mapping. As usual we include a number of V-drum patches. Within this section it is possible to select whatever MIDI map best suits your needs whether that be General MIDI or a V-Drum map. We have worked really hard at the e-drum compatibility and for the Roland V-Drums and Yamaha DTX-900 this kit works perfectly.

The Roland and Yamaha maps contain MIDI controller data for the hi-hats and in the case of the Rolands, for the snares to work. This may mean that you experience some unusual behavior with regards to the hi-hats if you choose to use these maps with any MIDI files that have not been recorded with an E-Kit. Our V-drum map supports Roland models TD-12, TD-20 and TD-30 but you’ll probably find that either of our E-Drum maps will work with most E-Drums on the market. If they don't, you can use some of the new features in our instrument to make a custom map and make it work seamlessly with your E-Kit. Once you have changed it you can save it in any of the 5 customer presets. For more on the E-Drum compatability check below.

E DRUM COMPATIBILITY

Our Kontakt packs work perfectly with various models of Roland V-Drum Kits and also with the Yamaha DTX-900 Electronic Drum System. The upshot of all this hard work is that anybody who owns these V-Kit models, can just load up the MIDI map for that kit, in the MIDI Map page of our Kontakt pack, and start to play immediately.

However anyone with any other type of E-drum should be able to tune the kit exactly as they want it with our great new MIDI CC data editing page. Our hi-hats have been recorded with six articulations each for the center and the edge of the hi-hat, which will trigger seamlessly as the hi-hat pedal is opened and closed.

The foot pedal articulations will also play back as the pedal is shut, using just your foot. If you own a Roland V-Kit that supports cymbal choking, our instrument is also set up to support cymbal chokes via MIDI. Users can also change the cc data themselves to tweak their E-drum maps.

For anyone who has any other E-Kit, our mapping page now includes a section where you can edit the MIDI controller data that is sent by your E-Kit to the instrument. In this new section you can change and edit various parameters that affect the playback of the snare, hi-hat, and cymbals, depending on what MIDI CC data is transmitted by your E-Kit.

You have the ability to change MIDI CC numbers for the snare and hi-hats so that they can be affected by any controller data.  You can activate articulation switching for the snare, if your E-Kit supports this, so that the centre and edge snare hits can be played from the same pad - likewise the rimshot and sidestick.

You can apply different curves to both the centre and the edge hi-hats to affect how much the hi hat opens and closes so that the hi-hats play back perfectly according to your own individual setup. 

And finally you can activate cymbal choking if your E-Kit supports this function. The instrument is also capable of learning cymbal chokes should you need to edit them for a different setup. In short you should be able to customise this instrument for any E-drum kit.

MIX PRESETS

The Vintage Folk Rock Kit ships with a number of mix presets included. A number of engineers (including Phill Brown) have saved their own mixes of the kit which you can access by using 'load Mix'. This is a great starting point if you want to quickly and easily get a different sounding kit and tweak it. You can save your own mixes using the 'Save Mix' button. Why not save your own mixes and email us the preset? If we like what we hear we may add your preset to the kit.

Presets Included:

• Ben Thackeray - 8 Bit Kit
• Ben Thackeray - Glitch Kit
• Ben Thackeray - Glitch Spring Kit
• Greg Montano - Preset
• Joe Hartwell-Jones - Hyper-Ballad
• Joe Hartwell-Jones - Roomy Zener
• Joe Hartwell-Jones - Toms Attack
• Joe Hartwell-Jones - Trippy Spring
• Joe Hirst - Tame Gazzelle
• Kike Paglia - Girl From The Crowd
• Kike Paglia - Summer Breeze
• Matt Foster - Sgt Dekker
• Matt Foster - Tones Again
• Matt Foster - Toned And Dirty
• Pendle Poucher - Cardboard Folk
• Pendle Poucher - Folky Folk
• Pendle Poucher - Foxed Folk
• Pendle Poucher - Next Room Folk
• Pendle Poucher - Tea Towel Folk
• Pendle Poucher - Toy Folk
• Phill Brown - Brushes Preset
• Phill Brown - Hotrods Preset
• Phill Brown - Sticks Preset

REQUIREMENTS

We currently build our packs with the latest version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5 - Minimum 5.5 full version. Please note the Kontakt 5 Free Player will only run the software for 15 minutes.

You need the full version of Kontakt 5 to run our kits. We are looking at releasing kit packs compatible with the Kontakt player in the future.

Kontakt 5.5 Requires:- On a Mac Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8 (latest Update), Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM (4 GB Recommended) On a PC Windows 7 or Windows 8 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit), Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) High-Speed Internet required.

UNLOCK CODE

The library is protected with a serial protection system.  You will find the activation code on your purchases page.  Enter the code when prompted when you first load the instrument to unlock.