Toontrack announce Custom and Vintage SDX!

Toontrack has announced the return of a sample library classic!

The Custom and Vintage SDX is a re-release of the award winning Toontrack Music sample packs Superior Custom and Vintage and Superior Vintage Add-on (both released for the original Superior Drummer software) and they have now been combined to form the The Custom and Vintage SDX for Superior Drummer 2.0.

Apart from extensive stick and brush recordings of a unique collection of drums and cymbals it also features mixer presets by producer Peter Henderson and custom MIDI by drummer Chris Whitten.

The SDX gives everyone from top producers down, access to the cream of custom and vintage drums, built by craftsmen from the 1920′s right up to the exceptional instrument makers of today, like Johnny Craviotto.

The Custom and Vintage SDX is played by Chris Whitten. The drummer on classic hits like ‘What I Am’ by Edie Brickelland The New Bohemians and ‘The Whole Of The Moon’ by The Waterboys, Paul McCartney’s ‘Flowers In The Dirt’ album.

The Custom and Vintage SDX is produced by Peter Henderson a key figure in producing Supertramp´s 20 million selling album ‘Breakfast In America’, for which he won a Grammy. He has also worked with Paul McCartney, Rush, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Tina Turner and Ringo Starr.

The Custom & Vintage SDX will be available from Time+Space and dealers from late October.

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Save £100 with Superior Drummer and SDX bundle!

“SD2.0 is a highly impressive package and possibly the best in its class...” – Rhythm magazine

“A very authentic-sounding, playable and powerful drum sampler that’s about as close as you can get to real drums without recording them yourself.” – Music Tech

Superior Drummer 2.0 was released a year ago to a whole host of first class reviews and industry acclaim. Re-developed for optimized use with e-drums with more effective use of sample layers and much improved loading times, it includes custom MIDI played by Nir Z and accessed through Toontrack´s customized MIDI engine and arranger EZplayer® pro. It also features stand alone capacity through Toontrack solo and has been fitted with, 5-band EQ, high and low pass filter, compressor, gate and transient designer filters.

The first expansion pack for Superior Drummer 2.0 – SDX: ´The Lost New York Studios´ was released at the end of March and contains unique sample recordings from two legendary New York Studios – Hit Factory NY and Allaire Studios, both of which have now sadly closed. The expansion pack features kits recorded with seven kick drums, thirteen snares and a wide variety of cymbals and receives an excellent 10/10 review in this month´s Computer Music magazine.

This special bundle pack is available throughout June at the fantastic price of £239.00! (Normally £340.00 if bought separately).

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Toontrack announce new Superior Drummer expansion pack, The Metal Foundry…

The originators of multi sampled drums and Drumkit From Hell, Toontrack®, Music presents an all-new SDX expansion pack for their Superior Drummer® 2.0 software – The Metal Foundry SDX™.

The Metal Foundry SDX™ is an all-new recording with Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake, featuring seven massive drum kits, spanning 300,000 sound files of raw, single hit drum recordings in the vein of Drumkit From Hell and dfh Superior, covering Hard Rock to Metal, from the early Blues tinged sound of the late 60s to the fragmentation of today’s music, from Power through Thrash, Death and Progressive Metal.

The Metal Foundry SDX™ celebrates the Toontrack® Music Hard Rock and Heavy Metal legacy of the first Drumkit From Hell, on which the company has built its following. This in turn has spawned such groundbreaking products as dfh Superior, EZdrummer® and Superior Drummer® 2.0.

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