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Heavyocity Master Sessions Ensemble Drums Collection Kontakt Radio Series From Heavyocity

It gives you control over the loops in a very interesting way.

I hold them in high regard when it comes to creating interesting and good sounding Kontakt libraries.

Heavyocity Master Sessions Ensemble Drums Collection Kontakt Radio Series From Heavyocity

Master Sessions (MS from now on) is apparently what seems to be a new series from Heavyocity.

There is what Heavyocity calls Organic versions as well as FX Versions of the Kit.

The kit in itself is the same, its just processed a bit different among the different patches.

There are 5 menu patches (containing the full kit), 7 single patches and 19 FX versions.

Lets take a deeper look at the Ens Drums Menu (Organic) HI RAM patch.

It has two different bass drums, three toms, a snare and an extra click kick.

In shear numbers it doesnt sound so special but when you begin to pound the keys it sounds awesome.

Yes its missing a hi hat and some other stuff to be called a drum kit but it doesnt matter, its not the focus of MS Ensemble Drums.

What it does very well is to add a whole lot of body and SLAM to your palette.

Each of the sounds have been recorded with three different mics, you can think of them as close, stage and hall.

Each of the sounds can be positioned on a virtual stage and this is where you place them in your mix.

Close Ok. Far away on the left Ok.

Since the drums in the ALL patch all are mapped to two adjacent keys each you can easily setup one that is closer and one a bit further back in the mix.

This button alone does about 30 of the sound, no really Want a dynamic, nice sound Dont touch it (well maybe just a tiny bit).

Want a bit grittier and a more in-you-face sound Put it at 50.

Want to make that famous drum sound from In the Air Tonight jealous Turn it up all the way Depending on the track youre working on this button can help you set the atmosphere with a simple little twist.

What it does A bit of distortion and compression at the same time I think, in a very pleasing way (for drum sounds at least).

First there are the Menu patches which gives you a different loop per key and then there is the Singles patches which gives you one loop with different slices of the loop mapped out on different keys.

How you prefer to use it may vary and that the choice even exists is great.

Sometimes a single loop split in smaller parts will be the way to go and in other circumstances it will be the loop per key method.

Furthermore the loops are divided in Straight patches and Triplet patches and there is even a Mutator variation of each.

The samples have plenty of information in them to shift them in different ways to new sonic places.

I would like to call the Mutator a kind of sequencing slicer.