The definitive drum pack
A labour of love spanning 2 years, Drum Tools 02 delivers over 4,000 ground-breaking electronic drum samples and percussive hits, each carefully crafted by hand from the ground-up using a huge array of drum machines, analogue synths, foley recordings and acoustic sound sources; processed and layered on a sound-by-sound basis using a boutique collection of high-end outboard gear…
Pushing the boundaries of creative sound design, Drum Tools 02 delivers production ready drums for modern electronic music production; an essential toolkit for Techno, EDM, Rap, House, Trap, Pop and everything in-between!
For added character, warmth and punch, selected sounds have been re-recorded to both ½ inch analogue tape via an Ampex ATR-102 analogue tape machine, and 12” Vinyl via a classic Neumann VMS 70 vinyl mastering lathe.
Boasting custom built Ableton Live racks, NI Maschine presets, 79 drum kits along with 24-bit WAV file formats, Drum Tools 02 integrates with any DAW…
What’s Included?
4,025 24-bit, 100% royalty-free drum hits arranged into the following sections:
Processed Drums
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2029 processed drum and percussive hits – enhanced and layered individually on a sound-by-sound basis using our extensive collection of high-end hardware processors and sound shaping tools
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450 unique bass drums arranged by type across 6 sub-folders: ‘classic kicks’, ‘deep & minimal’, ‘fat & punchy’, ‘heavy and EDM’, ‘processed machines’ and ‘short & snappy’
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225 luxurious claps arranged across 3 sub-folders: ‘processed machines’, ‘stacked & layered’ and ‘synthetic & noise’
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100 crash cymbals & rides
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192 hi-hats arranged across 3 sub folders: ‘classic hats’, ‘metallic & synthetic’ and ‘noise, acoustic & layered’
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343 electronic percussion sounds arranged by type across 6 sub-folders: ‘analogue & nu-perc’, ‘blips, pops & snaps’, ‘blocks & cowbells’, ‘clicks, sticks & rims’, ‘deep & dissonant’ and ‘hand drum & tribal’
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240 acoustic percussion sounds arranged by type across 5 sub-folders: ‘bongo & conga’, ‘claves, blocks & bells’, ‘hand drums’, ‘shakers & sticks’ and ‘timbale
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282 snare drums arranged by type across 4 sub-folders: ‘layered snares’, ‘lo-fi & gritty’, ‘noise & synthetic’ and ‘processed machines’
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77 glitch & abstract percussion hits
Dripping with Character
Add bucket loads of character with true analogue tape and vinyl processing. Drum Tools 02’s ‘tape drums and ‘vinyl drums’ folders include a selection of samples bounced through 12” Vinyl and sought-after analogue tape for added character, tone, warmth and punch…
Tape Drums
528 Tape processed drum samples with multiple saturation levels and vari-speed pitches, recorded via a classic Ampex ATR-102 analogue tape machine.
Vinyl Drums
468 Vinyl processed drum samples recorded via a classic Neumann VMS 70 vinyl mastering lathe.
SP-1200 Drums
A selection of drums processed through a vintage SP-1200 12-bit sampler for girit and lo-fi texture.
In the Press
What people are saying about Drum Tools 02…
“A staggeringly expansive library of individual and layered drum hits, the follow-up to Drum Tools 01 is every bit as essential as its predecessor…”
“I cannot rave enough about the Drum Tools packs. If you’re looking for one shot drums, this is the one stop shop. No loops and frills just brilliant drums which lay the foundation to solid sounding tracks…”
“A Swiss Army knife of machine driven samples. The diversity of the included samples alone is staggering. A very wise investment…”
“Seriously, I batter the s**t out of your drum sample packs. They are fantastic!”
Ableton Live Pack
- 3,557 drums
- 36 pre-mapped drum racks for Ableton Live, carefully mapped with full Push compatibility
- 32 ‘modular’ drum selector modules for kicks, claps, crash cymbals & rides, hi hats, percussion, snares, toms & tones
- Each drum has 8 pre-assigned macros for quick editing and tone shaping – tune/pitch, gate/decay, tone and multiple distortion parameters
NI Maschine Pack
- 4025 drum samples
- 35 drum kits
- Easily edit sampler voice settings including pitch/tune, filters, envelopes, LFO’s and FX per sound via the Maschine controller
Sound Generation
- Elektron Analog RYTM
- ARP 2600
- MFB Tanzbar
- Roland Jupiter 8
- Sequential Circuits Prophet 5
- Roland TR-808
- Roland TR-909
- Roland TR-707
- Roland TR-606
- Roland CR-78
- EMU Drumulator
- Sequential Drumtraks
- Linn Linndrum
- Future Retro XS + Moog CP-251 & Moogerfoogers
- Mutable Instruments Ambika
- Korg MS-20
- Acidlab Miami
- MPS Drum Synth
- Pearl Syncussion
- Jomox Mbrane
- Jomox MBase 11
- Jomox Xbass 999
- Vermona DRM
- Metasonix D-1000
- Various acoustic drums, percussion & foley recordings
Processing
- Thermionic Culture Vulture Mastering Edition
- Ampex ATR-102 Analogue Tape Machine
- Eventide H8000
- API 2500 Compressor
- API 5500 EQ
- Studer A80 Analogue Tape Machine
- Elysia XPressor 500
- A-Designs EMPEQ
- SSL E Series EQs & Compressors
- Empirical Labs Distressor
- Empirical Labs Fatso
- Oto Machines Biscuit
- Schippmann Ebbe und Flut
- Spectra Sonics 610
- Valley People 610
- Akai S950 Sampler
- EMU SP-12 Turbo
The drum kits folder contains a number of ready-to-play drum kits, conveniently mapped to the following software sampler formats:
- Battery – 79 kits
- Halion – 79 kits
- Kontakt – 79 kits
- NN-XT – 79 kits
- SFZ – 79 kits
- EXS24 – 79 kits