Voxengo AcuDrums Drum Sample Library Launched

Voxengo is happy to announce the launch of a new sampling product line

which extends the product offer of Voxengo brand beyond pro audio

plug-in software.

Voxengo AcuDrums is a professional sound sample library that captures

acoustical sound of various drum and cymbal instruments.  The main

idea behind AcuDrums library is to capture a maximally pristine and

unprocessed contemporary drum kit sound.  Library as a whole contains

more than 8000 WAV files and takes more than 6 GB of disk space.

Instruments of this library have multiple velocity layers with each

velocity layer having 5 sample variations reducing the “machine

gun” effect greatly.

Samples for Voxengo AcuDrums were recorded in Voxengo recording studio

which has a deep, warm and diffuse sound with less than 200

milliseconds reverb time making it an excellent room for recording

“dry”, maximally clear-sounding samples that are great for a

further reverb processing.

The microphone placement that was used for sample recording reproduces

a 3-dimensional sound stage.  For example, the cymbal samples of this

library while sounding “in your face” at high velocities sound

airy and spacious at low velocities.  Instruments of the library when

combined together as a kit have a good spatial separation and

placement: they will sound like they were placed on a sound stage, not

like they are coming from the same position in space.

It is also important to note that during sampling the instruments were

played by an experienced drummer making the recorded samples sound

maximally close to how they would sound in an actual drumming

performance.

AcuDrums library features:

    * Up to 16 velocity layers per instrument

    * 5 sample variations per velocity layer

    * Several stick and beater types

    * Several zones per instrument

    * Prolonged decay

    * Hundreds of samples per instrument

    * 44100 Hz 16-bit stereo samples

    * Stored in plain WAV sample files

Compatibility: Samples and instrument files of this library are

compatible with Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 and 4 (Kontakt Player

is supported in demo mode only) and Cakewalk Session Drummer 2 and 3.

NKI and SFZ instrument files of this library can be additionally

loaded in various compatible samplers.  Individual WAV files can be

loaded in most samplers.

Samples of individual instruments can be purchased separately or in

custom bundles (a discount may apply), with the prices currently

ranging from USD 12.95 to USD 19.95 per instrument.  Samples can be

auditioned and purchased at the Voxengo web site:

http://www.voxengo.com/group/drum-samples/