Acoustic Drum kits are sorted by style: Jazz kits, Natural kits (Brushes and Hot Rods), Raw kits (for pop and rock) and Treatment kits (distortion, gate and spring reverbs...). Next comes the electronic drum section. The first folder offers a selection of sounds sorted by machines from which they originates. From the 70’s to the 90’s there are not many missing boxes in this selection. All the classics are there, and a good number of forgotten models as well!

The Stylistic kits offer another wide selection of electronic drums which are not so instantly recognizable, and are sorted by style rather than by machine: drums for Dance, Electro, Groove, House, Techno, Trash, Jungle, Disco, Lo-Fi, Vinyl…

With so many presets available, emphasis was put on the ease of use. This is why each drum sound is accessible in three ways.

To complete this rhythmic arsenal, an extraordinary percussion selection is supplied. It features more than 60 different instruments such as Congas, Djembe, Bongos, Shakers, Triangle, Tambourine, Castanets, Windchimes, Clave, Darbuka, Woodblock, Berimbau, Timbales, Rainstick and many more.

Features

The plug-in:

Identical in every volume of the series, the Plug-in is a sample-playback virtual instrument powered by the powerful UVI-Engine. Plugsound provides you with essential and useful synthesis tools: resonant filters, Amplitude and Filter envelopes (ADSR type); LFO, the most realistic mono-legato you’ve heard on a virtual synth, Reverb’ module...

The sound library:

Each volume comes with a “data file” full of multisampled presets that are easily accessed through the interface of the plug-in. There is enough space to offer the most in-depth exploration of a given instrument that a tone module has ever done. It evens beats most professional CDROM, limited by archaic formatting conventions which leave only 200-300 megabytes per disc… No mess on your hard drive, just those two files.

Plugsound formats:

Each Plugsound is available for Mac OS X (Audio Units, MAS, VST, RTAS), for Mac OS9 (VST, MAS, RTAS) and for Windows (XP recommended) based PC (VSTi, DXi, RTAS):

MachFive integration:

You can use Plugsound in a multitimbral plug-in, and enjoy dozens of exciting editing features: Three fully featured envelopes, a distortion module, new filter algorithms, syncable LFOs and dozens of great effects…

Integrating one of these instruments is easy: open MachFive and create a new empty soundbank. Now go to the corresponding folder on your hard disk and place an alias of your Plugsound’s “.dat file” in the soundbank folder you've created. That’s it! Rescan your MachFive Sounds Folder and you’re now ready to use your instrument directly in MachFive.

Each volume is supplied on a CDROM with printed manual and sound listings, plus multi-language PDF manuals & tutorials.

- Windows 98/ME/2000/NT/XP - Pentium III 400MHz - 256 MB RAM - VST 2.0, Dxi, RTAS PC compliant host

- Mac OS 8-9/ OS X  - 400 Mhz PowerPC G3 - MAS, RTAS, Audio Units or VST 2.0 compliant host