Steven Slate Drums 4
Lekisha Millison
SSD4 makes editing your kits a breeze. Select individual drums, customize the mics and routing, choose your MIDI maps, customize your velocity and dynamic curves for each drums, and build your custom tone exactly as you want it.
If the very broad selection of presets doesn't give you what you want then you can always build the kit from scratch. As it's just drag and drop, this is very simple. You can choose your view of the drums, either as a kit or a series of cells, but either way you just drag onto the position you want.
The updated GUI in SSD 5.5 makes customizing your drums easier than ever. You have total control over the dynamics, panning options, and ADSR settings of each instrument. Effortlessly mix ambient room mics and close mics with custom routing options. Did we mention you can even change the size of the plugin?
The latest SSD 4 makes it extremely easy to load, customise and mix your kits, load and audition MIDI grooves, customise MIDI Maps and route to your workstation. SSD 4 lets you also load your own samples that you can mix with the slate drumkits to add your personal touch. Steven Slate Drums Platinum 4 also includes brand new cymbal packs from Soultone Cymbals which make some of the best sounding cymbals in the world as well as five new electronic sounds covering urban, electro, dance and house genres and created by legendary producer Griffin Boice.
Steven Slate Drums 4 aka SSD4 is a flexible drum instrument plugin with excellent sound, fast workflow and easy to use GUI. Today we will have a look at the new Chris Lord Alge expansion for Steven Slate drums 4, This expansion is also available for Trigger.
The samples used within the Steven Slate Drums software is what makes it stand out from any other sampler. Being able to operate a sampler is important in the creation stages, but the end product is what musical productions are judged on. With over 100 kits ranging from classic Led Zeppelin styles to current pop style kits, as well as the option to mix and match your favorite sounds, you can choose the perfect hits for whatever style track you are working on. I would like to see more of the electronic influenced kits for House, Hip Hop, and other styles, but 808 samples are plentiful enough in other programs for SSD4 to break away and add new sounds to the market. For me, kick drums and snares usually end up being the easiest thing to find, but cymbals really sell a kit if you can find good sounds for them. The Steven Slate Drums cymbal samples were recorded using various Soultone cymbals, a legendary cymbal manufacturer used by hundreds of professional drummers. The Steven Slate team put together an assortment of tones from dark to bright cymbal hits which add tons of color to each kit. Adding these natural sounding cymbals to the kit add realism to the kit, especially when mixed well within the new Steven Slate Drums plugin environment.
I think the variation found within each kit largely creates the feeling of realism without an actual drum set. With programmed drums, music creators are usually limited to a single sound, or the tedious process of selecting dozens of samples and choosing them independently.When I first programmed drums using Steven Slate Drums 4, there were more options to choose from than suspected. Most notably, I enjoyed the realism of the hi-hats as they were split out to several keys (open, semi- closed, closed, etc.) and had various samples based on velocity. These two layers of depth to such a specific piece of the kit gave the program what it needed to sound as if the drums were being played on a real kit. Though I most noticed it in the hi-hats, most kits in SSD4 had multiple hit types for each piece of the drum kit, as well as velocity changes on everything.
SSD5 makes editing your kits a breeze. Select individual drums, customize the mics and routing, choose your MIDI maps, customize your velocity and dynamic curves for each drums, and build your custom tone exactly as you want it.