All Toontrack EZX expansion packs half price!

Toontrack´s range of EZX expansion packs allow users to expand their music making possibilities across a whole spectrum of genres from metal and jazz right through to funk and electronic.

Designed to be used with Toontrack´s range of award winning drum sampling software – EZdrummer and Superior Drummer 2.0 – all EZXs feature drum and percussion soundbanks as well as additional midi files to offer even more choice and inspiration when building tracks.

Throughout July, all EZXs are just £24.50 at Time+Space – that´s half the normal RRP!

The nine currently available EZXs are:

EZX Claustrophobic
EZX Drumkit from Hell
EZX Funkmasters
EZX Jazz
EZX Electronic
EZX Latin Percussion
EZX Nashville
EZX Twisted Kit
EZX Vintage Rock

RRP: £24.50 / €34.50

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Toontrack’s new SDX expansion pack ‘Music City USA’ is now shipping!

Recorded with Harry Stinson and Chuck Ainlay –the duo who were also responsible for the Nashville EZX, Music City USA was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. With the city’s history and culture so steeped in the art of making and recording music, the Toontrack team could think of no better place on earth to record a library of drums that would be at home in music ranging from rock to reggae, metal to gospel, punk to polka and, of course, country and rock.

UK retailer Digital Village have just published a review in which they said:

“Recorded at Sound Kitchen Studios, all the samples in Music City USA have a natural feel and transparency which puts this pack in a league of its own in my opinion. Although the actual quantity of drums is not huge – you get just five kick drums, five snares, five rack and floor toms, only one hi-hat and eight crashes and rides – the quality is stunning. I listened to a ride cymbal in great detail, particularly the decay, which died away completely naturally without any glitching at the tail.”

RRP: £119.00 / €139.00

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50% off EZdrummer to Superior Drummer crossgrade!

If you´ve been using EZdrummer for some time now and yearn for greater control over your drum tracks, now´s the time to check out the multi-award winning Superior Drummer 2.0 as right now there´s 50% off the crossgrade price!

Superior Drummer 2.0 gives you the power to tweak and customize your tracks in greater detail with an advanced mixer functionality that includes total bleed control, bussing capabilities and built in FX such as 5 band EQ, highpass and lowpass filter, gate, compressor and transient.

What´s more, version 2.2 delivers an integrated groove player plus ´Midi Nodes´ – a feature that allows you to stack instruments on top of each other and customise your mapping – all within an easy-to-use interface.

And it doesn´t stop there. Superior Drummer 2.0 users can benefit from the endless possibilities presented by a terrific choice of EZX and SDX expansion packs, not to mention great value downloadable midi packs and the new S2.0 Producer Presets series.

Snare yourself a great deal and crossgrade to Superior Drummer 2.0 for just £64.50 / €79.50 until 30th April 2010!

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Go to the dark side with Joe Barresi’s Evil Drums SDX™ Expansion Pack for Superior Drummer® 2.0

Platinum Samples is proud to announce the release of Joe Barresi’s Evil Drums SDX™ Expansion Pack for Toontrack Music’s Superior Drummer® 2.0 software – after all, it only seems fitting to release Evil Drums for the flagship product from the company that gave us Drumkit From Hell. This outstanding library feature 64 drums and is an amazing 39GB in size!

Joe Barresi is one of the busiest producer/engineers working today with an impressive list of credits including albums by Tool, Wolfmother, Queens Of The Stone Age, Weezer, Clutch, Pennywise, Turbonegro, Bad Religion, and many more.

We are running a special introductory offer on Evil Drums allowing you to purchase for £149 saving £20 on the normal RRP.

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Funeral for a Friend bowled over by Superior Drummer 2.0!

Hailed as one of Britain’s best bands, Welsh quintet Funeral for a Friend have enjoyed seven years of rock success that have seen them triumphantly breaking into the lucrative US and European markets, playing all the major rock festivals around the world and sharing a stage with metal elite – Iron Maiden.

With their new single ‘Captains of Industry’ premiered on BBC Radio 1 last week, their album ‘Your History is Mine 2002 – 2009‘ due for release on 28th September and a UK tour starting in October, it’s safe to say things are going from strength to strength.

Funeral for a Friend’s drummer, Ryan Richards, has been using Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 2.0 in recent months and explained to Time+Space what a difference it has made…

“I can´t begin to express how much easier Superior Drummer has made my life. We´re now able to do studio quality recordings at home which aid the demoing and b-side process unbelievably – at a fraction of the price of going in to record drums at a “real” studio.

I´m able to blast out my jams on my e-drums at full volume with headphones on, hence keeping the wife onside and marriage intact.

If I´m feeling particularly lazy I can use the awesome preset midi beats and present them to my band and fool them into thinking I´ve been slogging away at my kit, when, in fact, I´ve actually been watching the footie with a cold beer.

I´m also able to rip of some of my favourite producers´ tones by selecting their custom presets, rather than endlessly browsing forums in search of the magic formulas to those particular drum sounds.

It´s much easier to carry around a little usb hard drive than it is to carry 50 different drumkits around. I´ve not actually put this to the test, but I´m sure I´m correct on that assumption.

Toontrack- we salute you.”

Check out the band’s websites at funeralforafriend.com and myspace.com/funeralforafriend

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Toontrack release significant update for Superior Drummer 2.0

Toontrack has announced a significant update to Superior Drummer 2.0 which adds a Groove Player, Midi Nodes and other features to the hugely popular drum sampler that will radically take users´ workflow to the next level.

Superior Drummer 2.2 includes…

Integrated Groove player
An integrated MIDI player, complete with drag and drop capabilities. Combine kit pieces patterns from different grooves to create totally new material that are nonetheless completely consistent with how a drummer would approach it.

Full control over the instruments response
Use the comprehensive (and greatly expanded) Velocity Controls to access the sound libraries most intimate technical and musical aspects. Change the response curve of any instrument, or change the response for one of the available articulation only.

MIDI nodes
Associate any combination of instruments – from multiple snare drums to more creative combos to be triggered simultaneously from your MIDI drum track – assembling your dream instrument in entities called MIDI nodes that can be triggered effortlessly from your sequencer.

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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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Superior Drummer 2.0′s first expansion pack is here!

June 2008 saw the eagerly awaited release of Superior Drummer 2.0 – ‘The New York Studio Legacy Series’ which became one of Time+Space’s best selling products of the year and received a whole host of first class reviews and awards from the music-making press.

Now, we are excited to announce that Toontrack’s first expansion pack for S2.0 is now shipping!

SDX: The Lost New York Studios contains unique sample recordings from two legendary New York Studios – Hit Factory NY and Allaire Studios.

The recordings at Hit Factory NY were the starting point for Toontrack® in developing Superior Drummer® 2.0 and the decision to record samples at Allaire was a result of wanting to capture the best studio rooms in New York. Sadly, for the music and recording industry both studios are now closed, thus the subtitle ”The Lost New York Studios”.

”The New York Studio Legacy Series Vol.2” feature kits recorded with 7 kick drums, 13 snares and a wide variety of cymbals sampled in extreme detail to work with one of the most advanced drum sampler engines on the planet, Superior Drummer® 2.0.

RRP: £125.00

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