Deviant Drums by Chaos Tones

Chaos Tones releases Deviant Drums, a brand new experimental Rock and Metal drum instrument for Kontakt Player 6.8 and up. Deviant Drums offers a high level of control to the user, a flexible and intuitive workflow, and a ton of high quality sounds to make it one of the top contenders in the virtual drum instrument space.

Drums Galore: Deviant Drums offers 9 different kits, 48 snares, and 40 cymbals, that were all recorded in a room measuring at just 13db. Drums were sampled with 7 round robins and up to 8 velocity layers that go from super light ghost notes, all the way up to ultra-hard rim shots for maximum expressiveness. Most drums and cymbals were engineered using a mixture of API, SSL, and A-Designs hardware EQs.

Simple and intuitive: Every drum and every cymbal has a close mic, overhead mic, and room mic level control on each channel strip, as well as mutes and solos for each of the aforementioned controls. This allows you total flexibility in dialing up the exact sound you’re looking for in record time. Each channel strip also includes voicing switches, tune, pan, a master fader, plus solo, mute, and default switches for maximum ease of workflow and usability. Every drum also has a hidden panel that allows for its own eq, transient shaping, reverb, and a frequency shifter button to engage a warmer tone. All of these controls can be group-moved to allow for quick changes across the entire kit.

Additionally, a Quick Menu and Quick Controls are built into the front page, housing the most effective tone shaping controls right below the kit for the most simple and quick solution to selection and tone shaping. You can make the most impactful drum changes right from the front page of the instrument without ever going into the mixer.

Output: Send each drum and cymbal to independent outputs, or keep them all within the instrument’s “master” section, to utilize the master bus compressor, saturator, and eq, to further shape your overall sound to perfection.

Mapping: Deviant Drums offers two different mapping modes by way of the Poly / Mono mapping button. Whilst in mono mode, duplicate mapping is eliminated and an auto-mapping algorithm is used to help find the next available key to map to. In Poly mode you can put any drum anywhere, even if that means putting multiple drums, cymbals, or keyswitches on the same key. This feature can create some real chaos as well as some really fun and interesting options, especially for sound design.

Of course no drum instrument would be complete without a velocity modification page. Adjust the low level and high level dynamics to suit your needs on a per-drum and per-cymbal basis, or move them all together as a group to make broad changes over the entire instrument.

Build it up… Then destroy it!: Build your own tones or get started with 50 presets, many fashioned after popular rock and metal tracks. Then destroy those sounds to your hearts content with creative keyswitching options that go from mild overdrive to all out brutality. Deviant Drums offers 7 different keyswitches. 4 keyswitches offer tonal destruction akin to a Heavyocity instrument on a modern rock drum kit, and 3 keyswitches that offer a selection randomizer for snares, kicks, and cymbals for the true chaos lovers. With 48 snares, 10 kicks, and 40 cymbals, the randomizer keyswitches (especially the snare randomizer) may actually end up being your best friend for finding the right sound for the job.

Compatibility and NKS Ready: In order to make Deviant Drums available to the widest possible user base, Deviant Drums was developed for Kontakt 6.8. Expanding on the desire to create an instrument that could be used in the largest possible context, a Memory Manager option was included, which allows users to change how much resource gets utilized by Deviant Drums. With the Memory Manager engaged, Deviant Drums runs with a smaller memory footprint, and with a very minimal impact on features.

Deviant Drums also has deep integration with Native Instruments hardware midi controllers. Utilize the light bar, use visual impairment tools, and view your parameters directly on the Kontrol or Machine hardware controllers.

One Shots: Included with Deviant Drums is a collection of One-shots created from the sounds within Deviant Drums. Each kick, snare, and tom has both natural and processed samples in 24bit/48khz.

Check out a quick collection of 18 presets in the video below.

MSRP 149.99

Get Deviant Drums today at the intro pricing of 99.99

For more information please visit: https://www.ChaosTones.com