Heavyocity Master Sessions: Ethnic Drum Ensembles Collection KONTAKT
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Ethnic Drum Ensembles Collection

Master Sessions is Heavyocity’s boutique line of scoring tools for the pro composer. Recorded in New York City, the Master Sessions series focuses on specific instruments and ensembles housed in Heavyocity’s award-winning engine (powered by Kontakt). Master Sessions delivers an epic sound without the epic price! Master Sessions: Ethnic Drum Ensembles Collection delivers 6 unique multi-sampled drum ensembles and over 375 tempo-synced percussion loops. Each ensemble consists of up to 12 different drums, performed simultaneously by 7 players. Through creative processing and mixing, Heavyocity’s team composed banks of loops to be inspiring and immediately useful.

It is a veritable “Barrage – à – Trois”. Rearrange and adjust the loops by slice with Heavyocity’s signature “Loop Mutator”. Dial in the Trigger FX, master effects, filter modulation and ADSR for radical sonic results. Layer massive kits with hybrid loops to create huge walls of percussion. Mix and match loop “stems” to build your own unique combinations of tempo-synced rhythms.

Ethnic Drum Ens – Kits

The 6 ensembles contain a mixture of taikos, daikos, bongos, congas, frame drums, djembes, dumbeks, bodhrans, darbukas, batas, cajons, and surdos. These expressive, punchy ensembles are presented in both menu and single kit presets, providing complete control over your sound. Heavyocity has further tweaked and affected the world percussion VST kits, creating an additional 28 presets with a more aggressive edge. Mix and shape your sound using Heavyocity’s proprietary interface containing global effects (reverb, delay, distortion, and chorus mod), per-drum EQ, per-channel ADSR, TriggerFX, and the signature Punish and Twist knobs.

Ethnic Drum Ens – Loops

Ethnic Drum Ensembles Collection – Loops contains over 375 tempo-synced phrases arranged in menu and single loop presets. As an exciting new feature, the content is now divided into straight and triplet loops. This drum VST is a veritable “Barrage – à – Trois”. Rearrange and adjust the loops by slice with Heavyocity’s signature “Loop Mutator”. Dial in the Trigger FX, master effects, filter modulation and ADSR for radical sonic results. Layer massive kits with hybrid loops to create huge walls of percussion. Mix and match loop “stems” to build your own unique combinations of tempo-synced rhythms.

Control Your Sound

Master Sessions: Ethnic Drum Ensembles Collection user interface was designed FOR composers and sound designers BY composers and sound designers, providing simple, intuitive ways to alter the sounds without leaving the interface. Three levels of effects are intrinsically bound to the Kit and Loop components — apply effects globally, engage the Trigger-FX, or tweak individual sounds.

Twist, Punish, Effect

Globally affect the preset with one of the 4 Master FX (Delay, Mod, Drive, and Convolution). You have control over four effect-specific parameters (like effect amount, rate, size, or depth). Dial in the aggression with the signature “Punish” Knob, a combination of saturation, distortion, and compression. Or, modulate the shape of the sound with the “Twist” knob.

EQ, Filter, Modulate

Sculpt your sound with per-channel and per-loop EQs or add sizzle and punch with the 4-band Master EQ. Control the modulation of filters with an envelope or LFO in Ethnic Drum Ensembles Collection – Loops, altering the amount and rate of an LFO, or trigger the Filter with an ADSR envelope.

Technical Specifications:

3.38 GB uncompressed (1.96 GB on Disk with NI lossless compression)
Available as direct download only
6 Ensembles
494 NKI Presets
28 Kit Presets
466 Loop Presets
375+ Loops
The Stage for easy stereo placement
Playable Trigger FX for real-time control
Loop Mutator for real-time re-composing of loops
Stand-alone, VST, AU, AAX

Kontakt 5 (Player) Version 5.5.1.451 or higher required.

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