Vintage Funk & Disco Dual Kit Kontakt Player Pack

The Vintage Folk & Disco Dual Kit Kontakt Player Pack contains both the Vintage Funk Kit and the Vintage Disco Kit. This pack makes the kits completely compatible with the free Kontakt Player sampler (as opposed to our Kontakt packs which only work if you have the full latest version of Kontakt). Now everyone can get a chance to see the features in the Kontakt Drumdrops instrument. The instruments included in the Kontakt Player pack are also fully NKS compliant.

The two kits included in this pack were both recorded by drumdrops head honcho Mike Pelanconi at the Ironworks in Brighton, UK. Mike better known under his record name Prince Fatty, is a British sound engineer and record producer. He has worked with a diverse repertoire of artists and producers from Acid Jazz and Delicious Vinyl to Lily Allen, Manu Chao and Graham Coxon (Blur). His reggae work with veteran artists including Gregory Isaacs, Dub Syndicate, Big Youth and Alcapone has brought him world wide recognition.

The Vintage Disco Kit was recorded with a late 70s sound in mind, in a nice tight recording room. For drumdrops it means a fat low end from the kick but with a little hi end bite to cut through the four to the floor groove, a warm and rich snare to keep that beat focused that of course tonally mixes with a clap just perfect. Sweet yet fast sounding 15 inch hi hats for a classy open hi hat sound. All Toms low and dead ready for the supersonic fills and breakdowns necessary to hype the dance floor into a frenzy. Sister Sledge at your disposal.

Remo ebony ambassador and evans hydraulic heads for the ultimate disco sound. Gaffer taped, damped with dustcloths, tuned low and dead the disco sound is finally captured.

Bonus cowbells, cabassa and tambourine and electronic analogue clap trap recorded for your breakdown pleasure.

The vintage Disco kit was recorded using a 70s Rogers Big R Kit, tuned for the perfect disco sound. It comprises a 24" x 14" Bass Drum, a Sonor Sonorlite 14" x 6.5" and Sonor Maple 14" x 7" Snare Drum, a huge 18" x 16" Floor Tom, and two Rack Toms, a 14" x 10" and a 13" x 8". The cymbals used were 15" HHX X-Celerator Hi-Hats, a 17" Zildjian K Dark, an 18" Sabian HH extra thin Crash and a 20" Sabian Artisan Ride.

The Vintage Funk Kit was recorded with a 70s funk sound in mind in the same tight recording room as the disco kit. With the help of Jan Kincaid (Brand New Heavies) we sampled his Sonor Hi Lite Drum Kit with a mixture of vintage cymbals and some bonus percussion. The kit was tuned perfectly for a 70s Funk sound. So dig out your wah wah pedal bring out the platform boots and build some perfect funk tunes with this formidable sounding funk kit.

The vintage Funk kit was created on a Sonor Hilite Kit which was tuned for the perfect funk sound. It comprises a 22" x 14" Bass Drum, a Sonor Sonorlite 14" x 6.5" Snare Drum, a Sonor Horst Link 14" x 5" Snare, a 16" x 16" Sonor HiLite Floor Tom, and two Hilite Rack Toms, a 12" x 9" and a 10" x 8". The cymbals used were Zildjian 14" New Beat Hi-Hats, a Bosphorous Master Series 18" Crash, an 18" Sabian HHX Legacy Crash and a 20" Zildjian K Custom Dark Ride. Percussion for this kit includes cowbells, tambourines and a shaker. We have also included some samples from the digital Clap Trap. Everything you need for a 70s Funk kit.

The Dual Kit Kontakt Player Pack contains version 2 of the Drumdrops Kontakt Instrument in both kits. The new instrument comes with a new GUI and has many new features. Special focus has gone on the compatibility with E-Kits so e-kit owners can completely customise their kit to work perfectly with the instrument using our new MIDI CC data page. The new instrument includes many features such as:-

* New mixer design with routing to DAW, 4 Aux Sends (2 reverbs and 2 delays)
* New Channel Effects - EQ, Compressor, Shape, Tape Control
* Mic Mix section allowing you to mix together all the close mics, overheads & rooms on both Kit.
* Drum Voice - edit the attack, hold, decay and tuning on each drum
* Humanize - Randomly change the volume, velocity, tuning & timing of hits.
* New Master Effects Compressor, Limiter, EQ and Crush section
* Stereo width control and L/R swap
* Improved MIDI groove player now with 2594 loops (110 Funk loops)
* New MIDI Map section for easily building and saving your own Maps
* MIDI CC Editing Page - Edit the parameters controlling the snare, hi-hat and cymbals
* The best E-Drumkit compatibility
* Many Snapshot presets included mixed by different engineers in both kits
* Over 16000 samples recorded in 24 velocity step and 5 round robins
* Switch easily between snares.

For more details on the Vintage Disco Kit Kontakt Pack head here. For more information on the Vintage Funk kit Kontakt Pack head here.

You can see a walkthrough guide of the {See video at top of page}. To watch a video showing the features of the NKS compatibility found in the Kontakt Player pack head over here.

The Vintage Folk & Disco Dual Kit Kontakt Player pack can be purchased direct from the Drumdrops website for £ 90.00 here.