E|Drums Mini Vol1

Recently, I have been pulling together resources to create E|Drums XL which will be the culmination of the E|Drums series so far.

In doing so, I came across a plugin called the Dirty Panda Drumbox (pictured below) by CFA Sound which was given away free by Computer Music Magazine.

This is one of the first plugin’s of its type that I have used to create authentic Analogue drum machine sound and found it to be a real joy to use. Therefore, I thought I would wet your appetite for the E|Drums XL release by releasing a sampler of the sounds achievable by using this plugin.

The currently available sound sets are as follows:

.WAV

This pack comes ‘as is’, with no discernable naming process used. What you hear is what you get which will be a nice surprised for your ear drums.

Download – E|Drums Mini Vol1 – WAV

Reason Refill

I have taken all of the samples and created 2 Kong patches and three NNXT patches. You will also find a Combinator as well that links a ReDrum sequencer to Kong allowing you to write sequenced drum patches.

You will also note I have fully skinned the backgrounds for each to give it that ‘Dirty Panda’ look. It is available for Reason 5 and upwards.

Download – E|Drums Mini Vol1 – Reason Refill

Battery 3

I have created two seperate patches for Battery. The first is the raw sounds that were recorded. The second takes into account Battery’s powerful effects matrix. I have used this to create a variation of sounds that are an emulation of the EMU SP1200.

Download – E|Drums Mini Vol1 – Battery 3

How I made the Pack

I patched the Dirty Drumbox in Ableton Live and set up each of its parameters onto my midi controller using the mapping function.

Then, I recorded live through some lovely Focusrite pre’s into Ableton Live in my Studio computer.

I then built the Reason pack and then sampled each hit through Reasons SSL mixer with the Buss compressor turned on.

Then I simply built the patches that you can download from here.

Tech Specs

70 seperate sound in total covering Kick Drums, Lo and Hi Toms with FM percussion

.WAV download – 24mb

Battery Download – 24mb

Refill Download – 3mb