Tokyo Scoring Drum Kits [16 DVD]

The premier collection of acoustic drum kits (and kit ensemble), recorded and mixed by Japan’s top recording engineer Mitsunori Aizawa at the legendary Sound City Studio. Performed by drum master Ken Higeshiro, these unique and versatile drum sounds can be heard across countless anime openings, battle themes, jazz fusion tracks, and everything in between. With Tokyo Scoring Drum Kits, you can finally add this unmistakable percussive energy to your own music — and it’s punchy and flexible enough to become your drum library of choice in other contexts as well!

Sample Library Info

Content

• Five acoustic drum kits and one ensemble
• Custom kits assembled and performed by top session drummer Ken Higeshiro, recorded by legendary engineer Mitsunori Aizawa.
• Three unique sample sets
• Separate patches featuring: Aizawa Signature mix (12 adjustable mic channels with bleeds), Full mix (16 adjustable channels with bleeds), and Board mix (12 channels, no bleeds)
• Powerful drum kit ensemble
• Three drum kits played simultaneously: includes kick, snare, three toms (hand, stick, and rimshot), hihat, two crashes, and ride.
• Extensive articulations and techniques
• Up to: five snare articulations (center rim, center, flam, rimshot, roll), seven hihat articulations (pedal, closed, closed tip, half open, semi-open, open, open tip), and four ride articulations (tip soft, tip hard, cup, smash)
• Exhaustive sampling depth
• Up to 10x dynamic levels and 10x round robins per drum. Over 170,000 samples included.
• Dozens of snapshots
• Each of the 10 included patches has at least 3 snapshots with carefully-adjusted mixes and FX for many styles.

Features

• Beautiful and elegant UI
• Easily swap kit pieces, volume, tuning, and submixes from the main page, with more advanced features a click away.
• Powerful console mixer and FX rack
• Mix every mic channel individually with separate outputs available. Up to 8 effects per channel, plus master & sends, with over 30 FX modules available (analog EQs, compressors, tape and more.)
• Submixer and bleeds
• Control how much of each kit piece type (kick, snare, toms, cymbals) goes into every mic channel, including bleed mics (such as kick into snare mic, snare into tom mics, etc.)
• Completely customizable mapping
• Assign drums and articulations to any MIDI note, with per-key volume & tuning adjustments. Common drum mapping presets available.
• Three playback modes
• Lookahead offers best quality with super-realistic preroll and drum attacks. Standard is a balance between preroll and snappiness. Zero Latency reacts instantly.
• Extra tweaking options for power users
• Adjust round robin type, velocity curve, vel -> volume amount, sample offsets, and AHD envelopes.