Toontrack EZ Drummer + FREE Twisted Kit EZX Expansion DV MEGADEAL

EZ Drummer + FREE Twisted Kit EZX Expansion DV MEGADEAL description:

The Toontrack EZ Drummer is a multi-microphone drum sampler designed for musicians and producers in need of a compact, affordable, easy to handle plug-in without compromising sound quality or control.

The visualized drums in the interface combine auditioning of sounds and drumkit construction. The extensive drag and drop MIDI-library (featuring 2000+ MIDIfiles) enables users to create a great drum-track in just a few clicks. For more advanced handling, users can control microphone bleeding and levels between drums using the internal mixer. The mixer also allows stereo and multitrack routing into the host through one single plug-in, and thanks to the second generation Toontrack Percussive Compression (TPC), system requirements are kept to a minimum.

The main features of the Toontrack EZ Drummer include:

• Ranges from entry level usability to pro handling.
• Multiple microphone control.
• TPC G2 reduces system requirements to a minimum.
• Operates in General MIDI.
• Internal mixer allows stereo and multi-track routing into the host through one single plug-in.
• Preset mix modes for quick sound changes.
• Interface visualizes the drums loaded and combines auditioning and kit construction.
• Drums recorded at Avatar Studios, New York by world-class drummers and producers.
• Instant access to a large library of drum patterns with pre-listening, quick browsing and drag'n'drop functionality.
• The humanizer function combines drum hit randomizing and non-cycling.
• Velocity sweep allows instant seamless velocity changes from 1-127.
• Possibilities for the user to add their own MIDIfiles to the library.
• Windows and Mac OS X in VST and AU formats (with RTAS TBA)

Toontrack Twisted Kit EZX is a result of a collaboration with Michael Blair and Sontronics Microphones.

The Twisted Kit EZX by Michael Blair was sampled through the very best of outboard with distortion, reverb, compression and attack effects included in the internal mixer. This enables you to access a large number of mixer presets by STS 9, Richard Devine, DJ Amplive, sub-ID and Count Bass D. And you can save your own custom mixer presets (with EZdrummer 1.1).

In October of 1985 Tom Waits released the album Rain Dogs. The album was an instant classic and marked a new sound for him. A rough, dirty neo-blues style with awkward rhythms and hard edges. Part of the band that contributed to that sound was drummer and percussionist Michael Blair. His highly personal instrument set-up which included a mix of regular drums and odd bits and pieces like trashcans, bedroom furniture and rusty bicycle frames fit perfectly with the sound that Waits was looking for. The combination of Michael's timing, expression, and junkyard sounds created a rich and useful range of musical textures to accent Waits' intricate storytelling.

Michael Blair also played and toured with Waits on Franks Wild Years, the follow up to Rain Dogs, and later became an integral part of the recordings for Elvis Costello’s Spike (1989) and Lou Reed's Magic and Loss (1992). Spike became Costello’s most commercially successful and sonically adventurous album to date. Michael also has added his trash-can consciousness to records by the respected producer Hal Willner, in "tribute" albums celebrating the work of composer Kurt Weill, poet Allen Ginsberg, Walt Disney, Charles Mingus and in collaboration with avant-theatre director Robert Wilson.

So, two rototom frames form a tonal hi-hat, a duck call suggests an alternative cowbell, tack drums from China become rack toms and putting the hubcap of your very first car on top of your snare seems like the right thing to do. Michael Blair crosses over boundaries of industrial, blues, ethnic, orchestral, and replacement percussion to form a unique sound. The Twisted Kit EZX brings you that sound both in the recordings and the MIDI recorded by Michael.

Toontrack Twisted Kit EZX main features:

• Sampled through the best of outboard effects with compression, distortion, attack and reverb made available in the EZmixer
• Mixer presets by STS 9, Richard Devine, DJ Amp live, SUB-id and Count Bass D.
• The possibility to save your own mixer presets with EZdrummer 1.1 installed.