Drum Masters 2: NDV Stereo Mapx Blstks Kit
Infinite Player library for Kontakt

Drums sampled in the style of Rock/Progressive Rock

MSRP $39.00
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Big Drums From One of Today's Top Prog Rock Drummers!

The NDV Mapx Blasticks Stereo Drum Kit is part of the Drum Masters series where you can pick out a la carte kits and grooves that work with Sonic Reality’s Infinite Player plugin and build one of the most powerful virtual drum collections ever!

About the NDV Mapx Blasticks Stereo Drum Kit:

This product is a multi-sampled Mapex drum kit made to be played from Sonic Reality’s Infinite Player. It was recorded by Mark Hornsby in a large live room in a Nashville studio with progressive rock drummer Nick D Virgilio. This is a 6 piece kit that was played with Blastix (aka Hot Rods) and snares on. It has a great modern acoustic pop and rock drum sound that is lighter than regular sticks but more edgey than other Hot Rod or Brush kits.

ProFile on Nick D Virgilio:

Nick D Virgilio is one of today's top modern rock / progressive rock drummers.  He has worked with Genesis, Spock's Beard, Tears For Fears, Kevin Gilbert, Jordan Rudess, Mike Keneally, as well as numerous other side and solo projects.  Nick delivers everything from solid pop grooves to quirky odd time signature progressive rock rhythms and is one of the only drummers to have a fluid effortless feel on par with that of one of the most distinct sounding drummers in rock history, Phil Collins.

Sonic Notes:

Quote from Dave Kerzner of Sonic Reality about Nick D Virgilio: "After we had done sessions with Nick at Mower Studios recreating various vintage BIG drum sounds in the style of bands we both love such as Genesis, Nick and Mark Hornsby set out to sample his signature Mapex kit and capture more general progressive rock grooves as well as beats from Spock's Beard and Kevin Gilbert's Thud. Those sessions were done in a large studio in Nashville and have a very modern progressive rock sound. I had also done a sampling session with Nick in LA in a small tight sounding drum room which are some beautiful organic sounds also featuring Blastix and Brushes. Those are ideal for acoustic pop and alternative rock. They will eventually be released for the Infinite Player at some point too. He's a very versatile drummer with great energy."

Easy to Use, Intuitive and Flexible Graphic User Interface!

Whether you play from the keyboard, V-Drums™ or any electronic drum kit, Drum Masters 2 has some of the most advanced features for round robin randomization of hits, performance articulations like ghost notes, snare rolls, and hits from center to edge to rim. With new “ MIDI learn”, custom kits can be tailored for any drum pad set up. It includes GM, iMap and a new Performance mode for expressive MIDI grooves and universal compatibility all in one package. Top that off with ready to go mixes, built-in effects and infinite expandability, Drum Masters 2 is the ultimate virtual drum solution!


Example Drum Masters "Multi" Drum Kit Screen Shot

Drum Masters Stereo Drum Kits:

Drum Masters Stereo Drum Kits are great for quick loading and efficient use of your computer's power. Instead of discrete mic channel mixing like Drum Masters Multi-track kits, with the Stereo Kits you have a "Ready to Go" mix of the mics preserved in less channels taking up less polyphony. You still have a individual control of the overall levels for each kit pieces like kick, snare, toms, hats and cymbals which offers a balance of speed and convenience without total sacrifice of sonic flexibility. Additionally most of the drum kits mixed without additional processing for a natural acoustic sound with the flexibility to get a wide variety of produced sounds within your DAW using your favorite effect plug-ins. The kit pieces are also easily interchangeable for creating an unlimited number of customized kits. Drum Masters kits can also be combined with authentic played audio grooves from the same session for building the ultimate drum track with realism.

Features:

• Diverse Range of Kits: Unique custom and vintage drum kits from legendary drummers and top drum brands.
• Signature Styles and Sounds: Authentic techniques and recording equipment used in the session to recreate drum sounds from iconic Classic Rock albums to Jazz, Soul, Blues, Hip Hop, World, Pop and other styles.
• Ready to Go Stereo Mixes! Stereo mixed kit pieces with overall level control of the kick, snare, toms, hats and cymbals. Stereo Kits load fast and are incredibly efficient on your computer power. It's ideal for laptops!
Unprocessed Natural Acoustic Sound: Recorded naturally with no additional processing for maximum flexibility to produce, process and engineer within your DAW.
• GM and iMap Drum Maps: Both General Midi and Sonic Reality’s award-winning iMap™ drum layouts for the ultimate in compatibility and expressive realism when creating drum tracks.
• Left and Right Hand Alternate Hits! Drum Masters iMap kits have left and right stick alternate hits on separate keys for avoiding machine gun effect and simulating a drummer’s natural alternating two hand playing.
• Dynamic Velocities and Multiple Drum Positions! Drum Kits are mapped both with multiple velocities and a variety of positions of each drum from center to edge to rim.
• Ideal Material to Use with Effect Plug-ins: Process each mic channel separately or together through your favorite studio effects plug-ins and channel strip EQ in your DAW.
• Unlimited Custom Kits Can Be Made! Drum Master kits are flexible and customizable allowing the ability to swap out kit pieces between kits to create your own custom hybrid drum kits.
• Uses the Infinite Player Software: All Drum Masters Kits and Grooves are played from Sonic Reality’s Infinite Player library for Kontakt, which works stand alone for the Mac and PC and as a plug-in for major DAWS like ProTools, Cubase, Logic, Sonar, Digital Performer and more.
• Endlessly Expandable Collection! With the Infinite Player you can expand and add more Sonic Reality drum kits, grooves and other instrument sounds to your collection.

 

Mapping Modes: iMap, GM, V-Drum, Custom

iMap

iMap is a proprietary MIDI note mapping/drum kit layout scheme developed by Sonic Reality that facilitates improved live performance of drum kits via MIDI keyboard. iMap places drums in their most flexible and intuitive position, allowing each of the fingers on both hands independent and coordinated control over the sampled kit. With little practice, it is possible to lay down complete drum grooves in a single take that have incredible feel and groove. I-Map has left and right stick positions per drum as well as a variety of positions from center to edge to rim. It includes additional performance articulations you don’t often get from other drum products such as left and right keys for snare rolls, separate ghost notes, hat foot open, chokes, crashing rides and more.


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GM (General MIDI)

GM is the classic mapping format for standard  MIDI files. Sonic Reality’s IMAP/GM remapping button works by putting selected IMAP notes remapped to GM notes instead. You can change an entire multi kit from IMAP to GM with one simple key switch. This offers the best of cutting edge expression without sacrificing universal compatibility with GM MIDI loops.

V-Drum

All Drum Masters 2 kits have been mapped for Roland's TD-20 V-Drum brain.  V-Drum mapping features include a snare drum rimshot/sidestick switch and intricate hi-hat articulation controls.   Round robin randomization and detailed articulation sampling introduce a realistic approach to e-drumming!

Custom

Assign any articulation of any instrument to any MIDI note!  By either using the MIDI Learn function or an interface knob, this mapping panel allows for ultimate flexibility for use with any electronic drum kit, multi-pad controller or any other MIDI device.

 

 

About Sonic Reality's Infinite Player

Infinite Player is a licensing mechanism that authorizes Sonic Reality sounds to be played in Native Instrumens Kontakt and the free Kontakt Player.  Kontakt is the industry's leading sampler and, combined with Sonic Reality's immaculate sampling and thorough scripting, allows for ultimate flexibility.

By registering the Infinite Player, any of Sonic Reality's sounds for Kontakt can be easily installed and expanded.  The Infinite Player library will appear in your Kontakt library in the same manner that the Kontakt Library, Akoustik Piano, or Elektrik Piano would.  After the one-time installation of the Infinite Library, all newly installed Sonic Reality sound sets for Kontakt will automatically appear!

 

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Drum Kit Overview

Please note this is for quick reference of main content and is not meant to show accurate stereo positioning or extra kit pieces that may also be a part of the kit.

Kit Pieces:

Mapex Kick Drum: 22" x 18"
Mapex Snare: 14" x 5.5" Black Panther maple
Mapex (2) Rack Tom: (10" x 6.25") & 12" x 7.5"
Mapex (2) Floor Toms: 14" x 9.75" & (16" x 13.75")
Meinl Byzance 14" Heavy Hi Hats
Meinl Byzance Ping Ride Cymbal 20”
Meinl Byzance Crash Cymbals 16" medium, 18" medium-thin
Meinl Byzance Rakes China Cymbal 16"

Multis (full kit patches):

DM2 NDV STm Mapx Blstk GM.nkm
DM2 NDV STm Mapx Blstk IMAP.nkm
DM2 NDV STm Mapx Blstk VDRM.nkm

Instruments (kit piece patches):

DM2 NDV Mapx China BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Crash 1 BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Crash 2 BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Hat BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Hi Tom A BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Kick GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Ride BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Snare BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 1 BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 2 BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 3 BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 4 BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 4A BLSTX GM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx China BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Crash 1 BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Crash 2 BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Hat BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Hi Tom A BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Kick IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Ride BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Snare BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 1 BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 2 BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 3 BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 4 BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 4A BLSTX IMAP.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx China BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Crash 1 BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Crash 2 BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Hat BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Hi Tom A BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Kick VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Ride BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Snare BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 1 BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 2 BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 3 BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 4 BLSTX VDRM.nki
DM2 NDV Mapx Tom 4A BLSTX VDRM.nki

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Specs:

Kit Size: Over 800 Megabytes (UnZipped) ; 815 Megabytes (Zipped)
Kit Brand: Mapex
Kit Model: Orion
Wood: Maple
Stick Type: Blasticks

Minimum System Requirements

PC: Windows XP Pentium 3 / Athlon XP 2GHz - XP & Vista Compatible, 2 GB RAM, DVD Drive, *An activated Sonic Reality Infinite Player + Kontakt Player or Full version 3.5 of higher is required to play these sounds.

MAC: Mac OS 10.2.6, G5 1.2 GHz - Universal Binary Intel Mac Compatible , 2 GB RAM, DVD Drive, *An activated Sonic Reality Infinite Player + Kontakt Player or Full version 3.5 of higher is required to play these sounds. [Note: Kontakt Player 4 may also be used but is not compatible with PPC Mac]

Compatibility

Works as a plug-in for all major platforms such as ProTools®, Cubase®, Logic®, Digital Performer®, Sonar®, FL Studio®, Live® and more. Can also be read by Kontakt 3.5 and higher.

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