Soniccouture AC-DR Acoustic Drum Machine v1.5 KONTAKT

August 26, 2024 0

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Soniccouture AC-DR Acoustic Drum Machine v1.5 KONTAKTACOUSTIC DRUMS THAT FEEL ELECTRONIC
An old school drum machine with 21st century sampling techniques: round-robin samples, multi-channel sounds, generative sequencers.

It features acoustic drums recorded in innovative new ways to achieve a warm, dry, chunky sound. There are no traditional velocity layers, only ‘normal’ + ‘accent’. Each of these layers has 10 round robins which gives the drums a living, organic feel.

MICROPHONES | CONTACT TRANSDUCERS | TRANSFORMERS | ECHO CHAMBERS
All the sounds in AC-DR are generated from acoustic drums, using mics, contact mics, live echo chambers and transformer distortion.

Each AC-DR drum module has up to 5 channels to blend. Each of these channels is part of the same drum hit, all perfectly in phase and time aligned together.

Warm acoustic tones that you can tweak and shape like analogue.

ROBIN POWER:
– EACH HIT IS UNIQUE
– 20 HITS PER DRUM
– NORMAL + ACCENT
– HAND EDITED SETS

Each drum was painstakingly recorded in large sets of hits which were then edited by ear to produce a tight set of 10 random hits which sound as close to identical as possible.

ORGANIC SPACES:
– 2 ECHO CHAMBERS
– RECORDED @ ROCKFIELD STUDIOS

All the bass drum, snare, rimshot and tom samples were re-amped in Rockfield’s 2 echo chambers. The resulting reverb samples can be blended as a separate channel:a vital extra building block for drum design.

AC-DR 1.5 UPDATE: BLOCKS + CLAPS
We have added some great NEW STUFF to AC-DR Acoustic Drum Machine.
Firstly, a Hand-clap module with new sample data, as that was an unintentional omission from the initial release. This features the echo chamber samples which makes the clap very versatile sonically.

Secondly, a whole new sequencer: Blocks. This is another new take on step-sequencers, with totally flexible speed and length. Half-time, Three-times, Any-time. Layer triplets against dots, or any combination you can think of. It’s a bit like a combination of Beat-shifter and Poly Beats.

James explains Blocks in this video:

MECHANISED
AC-DR’s samples were created using innovative recording processes such as robot triggers to create precise multichannel layers.