How to use Reason Drum Kits: Use Attack in the Transient Designer to accentuate or smooth transients: positive values boost attack, negative values cut it?

Use Attack in the Transient Designer to accentuate or smooth transients: positive values boost attack, negative values cut it

How to use Reason Drum Kits: Set short Release times on the Overhead or Room compressor for intense pumping effects; use longer Release for smoother dynamics?

Set short Release times on the Overhead or Room compressor for intense pumping effects; use longer Release for smoother dynamics

How to use Reason Drum Kits: Raise the Width knob in the Overhead section to 150% to attenuate the mid signal and boost side signals for an expanded stereo image?

Raise the Width knob in the Overhead section to 150% to attenuate the mid signal and boost side signals for an expanded stereo image

How to use Reason Drum Kits: Lower the Hi Cut frequency in the Reverb to create a smoother, warmer reverb effect?

Lower the Hi Cut frequency in the Reverb to create a smoother, warmer reverb effect

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Reason Drum Kits

Name: Reason Drum Kits
Author: Reason Studios

Reason Studios

Where to get itAvailable from Reason Studiosreasonstudios.com

Reason Drum Kits is a Rack Extension drum instrument built around microphone placement and signal leakage, designed to replicate the recording situation of a professional drum studio. Unlike traditional drum tools organized by individual instruments, it models the engineer's perspective with separate channels for kick, snare, toms, hi-hat, overheads, room mics, and direct drum outputs, plus tambourine and claps—recorded using classic microphones (Neumann, Shure, AKG) at Atlantis Studio and captured with hypersampling for multiple velocity layers, alternative samples, and distinct playing techniques.

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Key Features

01Microphone-centric architecture with overhead, room, snare top/bottom, and individual drum mics

02Hypersampling with multiple velocity levels, alternative same-velocity samples, and variation sampling per instrument

03Per-instrument controls: Pitch (±12 semitones), Decay, Volume, Pan, and Leakage to overhead/room/snare-bottom mics

04EQ per instrument: Lo Shelf (50–800 Hz), Mid (40 Hz–16 kHz with Q 0.40–4.32), Hi Shelf (1–16 kHz), each ±20 dB

05Transient Designer per instrument: Attack (±15 dB), Sustain (±100%)

06Distortion per instrument: Drive (0–60 dB), Tube or Transistor type switch

07Overhead and Room mic sections with Width (0–150%), stereo Compressor (Threshold –60 to 0 dB, Ratio 1–20:1, Attack 0–1000 ms, Release 0–10 s, Slam mode), EQ, and Distortion

08Master FX: Convolution Reverb with 11 types and master Compressor with Dry/Wet for parallel compression

09Eleven reverb types: Bright Plate, Drum Corner, Baffle Room, Thick Stage, Large Room, Hall, Arena, Cathedral, Stereo Spring, Slapbacks, Short Gated

Things to Try

01Use Attack in the Transient Designer to accentuate or smooth transients: positive values boost attack, negative values cut it
02Set short Release times on the Overhead or Room compressor for intense pumping effects; use longer Release for smoother dynamics
03Raise the Width knob in the Overhead section to 150% to attenuate the mid signal and boost side signals for an expanded stereo image
04Lower the Hi Cut frequency in the Reverb to create a smoother, warmer reverb effect

Formats

VSTVST3AUAAXSTANDALONE

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