Toontrack offers the Eighties Pop Grooves MIDI Pack, a large collection of drum grooves and fills inspired by legendary songs and session drummers of the 1980s. More than 500 grooves and fills were individually recorded by studio drummer Norman Garschke, the audio/MIDI drummer of Superior Drummer 3, and thus provide extensive application possibilities in projects of all kinds. Whether 4/4, 12/8 straight, ballad, uptempo or halftime feeling - everything is on board and applicable in 55-162 BPM, while a clear and large browser serves the intuitive workflow. Organized in typical song structures (intro, verse, PreChorus, chorus, bridge etc.) and packed in a simple design, not only beginners are helped but also inspired!
were a special mixture of two different influences. On the one hand, newly developed drum computers with their monotonous beats and sounds increasingly pushed into the productions, while at the same time individual grooves, feeling and timing took on a more important role than ever. The drummers were confronted with this special situation, at the pulse of a time in which new revolutionary technology met traditional music.
Clicktracks were used and the drummers were expected to record with machine-like precision as the first element of a production in isolation so that the drum tracks would not conflict with the perfect sequencer parts added later. John Robinson, Ricky Lawson, Phil Collins, Manu Katche, Jonathan Moffet, Jeff Porcaro, Kenny Aronoff and Stewart Copeland were the great session drummers of these years and achieved great fame with their special skills and outstanding technique and could hardly save themselves from work. It seems like the whole decade in retrospect was a big showdown of man-against-machine and the drummers who could best deal with the increased challenges reached the absolute top of the music business. The characteristic gated reverb, the dominant drum fills and the fantastic grooves of those years will remain unforgotten.