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Abbey Road 60s Drummer

Native Instruments

Where to get itAvailable from Native Instrumentsnative-instruments.com

Abbey Road 60s Drummer is a KONTAKT-based acoustic drum library featuring two vintage kits recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios with premium microphone arrays and full mixing control.

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Key Features

01Two vintage kits (Gretsch early 1960s and Ludwig 1967) with customizable drum sizes
02Up to 18 microphones per kit with independent close, overhead, and room mic mixing
03AHD volume envelope (ATTACK, HOLD, DECAY) per drum with TUNE control
04Convolution Reverb with impulse samples of acoustic spaces, Solid G-EQ, Solid Bus Comp, Tape Saturator, and Transient Master effects
05Huge MIDI groove library organized by genre (Rock n Roll, Blues Rock, Jazz, Soul, Psychedelic Rock) with Tightness, Swing, Velocity, and Grid controls
06Randomization parameters (Volume, Velocity, Time, Pitch, Tone) for humanization
07MIDI mapping presets for General MIDI, V-Drums, DrumIt Five, EZDrummer, Superior Drummer, BFD, iMap, and Addictive Drums

Things to Try

  • 01Use the TIGHTNESS knob to shift grooves from quantized and machine-like (all the way right) to loose and sloppy (all the way left) depending on musical style
  • 02Set RANDOMIZE PITCH, TONE, and VOLUME knobs to a maximum of a quarter of the way up for subtle humanization that remains natural-sounding
  • 03Adjust individual drum overhead and room mic levels on the Kit page separately from the overall OH and Room fader levels on the Mixer page to create custom mic mixes for each drum
  • 04Apply Transient Master SUSTAIN control to change the perceived dampening or room size of drums by adjusting how long the sound rings out
Formats
VSTAUAAXSTANDALONE
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