Meet Handy Drums REGGAE STANDARD: the best-selling drum plugin for Reggae music productions.
This Reggae drum set was primarily influenced by the drum sounds from Bob Marley and the Wailers records. Recorded with modern equipment, it has a more transparent tone, giving even more post-processing options to suit your genre. Run it through tape or tape emulation for a more vintage sound, or keep it clean for a more modern approach.
These drums would sound equally at home in Reggae, Roots, Ska, Afro-Beat, Funk, or anything else you may have in mind.
For their VST Reggae drum kit, they sampled snappy, warm, and full-sounding drums, providing a solid foundation for your track.
The piccolo snare used for the Reggae snare sample is tuned high and tight and cuts through without sounding the least harsh.
The kick is full and rounded with a clear and pleasant warm attack.
Toms are single-headed with a very short sustain.
Also included are a small auxiliary snare drum and percussion sounds of woodblocks, cabasa, shakers, glass bottles, tambourine, cowbell, and triangle, making this one of the most comprehensive sampled Reggae drums around.
They gave special attention to capturing natural dry room ambiance with top-of-the-line Earthworks microphones.
If you’re looking for the best sample drum kit for Reggae at an unbeatable price, this is for you.
A MUST-HAVE FOR SERIOUS REGGAE MUSIC PRODUCTION.
With stunning drum sound, mix-ready right out of the box, Handy Drums REGGAE STANDARD is the most practical, professional virtual drumset for your Reggae project.
PRE-MIXED, READY TO USE
Use your time more productively by creating music instead of trying to make a usable drum sound. Achieving a great drum sound requires special attention to detail and patience regardless of your experience and skill.
They spent a lot of time carefully editing and mixing Handy Drums Reggae Standard from multi-track recordings, so it’s ready at your fingertips.
With just the right blend of close mics, overheads, and room mics, expertly sculpted for a robust, punchy, natural-sounding drum set, it’s bound to fit right into your mix!
EASY TO USE AND MANIPULATE
Be ready to groove in minutes. Just load the Handy Drums Reggae Standard plugin, throw in your desired midi reggae groove (midi loops available separately), and that’s all. They did all the other time-consuming stuff for you—a finished drum sound right out of the box. You are free to focus on the musical aspects of the track.
The intuitive interface makes tweaks a breeze.
AWARD-WINNING PEDIGREE
Drum sounds behind the hit drum machine are here for your DAW!
Goran Rista, the producer of Handy Drums, used the same recording and production techniques he did for BeatBuddy’s original drum sets, an award-winning, best-selling drum machine.
The revered drum sounds that have made the BeatBuddy such a hit with live performers are now available in their expanded versions for producers and engineers alike.
UNBEATABLE VALUE
There is no need to spend a fortune to get the highest quality drum sound. They understand that the creative process is the most important part of music creation, so they priced the Handy Drums Reggae Standard as affordable to everyone.
The Handy Drums Reggae Standard virtual drumset is the best value you’ll find anywhere.
3RD PARTY SAMPLERS NOT REQUIRED
The great thing about Handy Drums Reggae plugin is that you don’t need any 3rd party samplers to load it. It is self-contained and comes with multiple powerful samplers built-in. Load it like any standard VST/AU plugin or a stand-alone app.
Now that is a serious time and energy saver.
PERFECT COMPANIONS: HANDY GROOVES
Use them as they are or as a starting point for your own Reggae drum tracks.
Pair Handy Drums REGGAE STANDARD with REGGAE DRUMS, our MIDI drum loop pack from the Handy Grooves collection, for authentic Reggae groove at once. All of our midi drum loops have been produced by world-class drummer producers and tailored to work specifically with Handy Drums plugins.
Or experiment with pairing it with one of our other midi drum loop packs.
FEATURES
PRACTICAL, INTUITIVE, EASY-TO-USE INTERFACE
Handy Drums do not require a rocket scientist to operate. An elaborate design of over 50 samplers and intelligent algorithms are working behind the simple user interface. They did the tweaks, so you don’t have to.
Access all of the essential functions intuitively.
MULTIPLE DYNAMIC LEVELS
Each drum and cymbal was sampled at multiple dynamic levels to ensure the instrument’s fullest dynamic range is coming through when played back. Handy Drums Reggae Standard contains up to 10 dynamic levels per instrument.
ROUND ROBIN
Up to 12 samples per dynamic level
When a drummer hits a drum, each subsequent stroke is ever so slightly different from the one preceding, no matter how consistently they are played. That’s why our ear can instantly tell the difference between a roll played by a real drummer and a single sample being looped by a computer.
Each component has been recorded numerous times at every dynamic level. During playback, no sample is repeated sequentially, but a different sample is triggered.
24BIT SAMPLE DEPTH
All Handy Drums samples are captured in 24bit wav format for the ultimate resolution and sound quality.
IMMACULATELY-SAMPLED ACOUSTIC DRUMS
To achieve larger-than-life yet completely natural-sounding drums, every step of the sampling process is as important. For example, this can include drum and skin selection, tuning, damping, room positioning, mic positioning, mic choice, etc.. to name but a few. All of this gets done before even a single note is recorded.
Handy Drums Reggae Standard are captured using the highest-quality mics, preamps, and converters to preserve the tiniest details.
UNPARALLELED REALISM FROM VIRTUAL DRUMS
Sound so natural; you can almost touch them.
The Reggae Standard sounds like an actual drum set being played right in front of you in a room instead of a bunch of individual drums sounding in their own isolated spaces.
They achieved realism by recording the full width of acoustic drums and their natural room ambiance, then meticulously editing and mixing them in post-production.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONALITIES
MIXER
While the Reggae Standard comes pre-leveled between components, you still have the option to tweak and automate individual drum components to suit your taste. More kick or snare? You got it
ADJUSTABLE DRUM MAPPING
Handy Drums conform to GM drum mapping wherever possible. Import any standard midi drum loop onto your DAW timeline to hear instant results. You can also easily match the mapping of Handy Drums to any other custom midi drum loop.
MULTIPLE OUTPUTS
Handy Drums Reggae Standard has eight separate stereo outputs so that each drum component can be routed and processed independently. You can use your favourite compressor, reverb, EQ, saturation, or other FX plugins to further manipulate Handy Drums’ individual components.
VARIABLE HI-HATS
One of the features they are most proud of.
An acoustic hi-hat is a complex instrument in its own right. Handy Drums’s variable hi-hats utilise the full range of sampled hats from tightly closed to closed, 25% open, 50% open, 75% open, and 100% open, for both edge and tip sounds.
Despite these 12 types of articulations, multiple dynamic ranges, and round robins, you can seamlessly switch from one to another using only TWO notes and a CC4 controller.
E-drummers who want to use Handy Drums with their electronic drum kit can adjust the hi-hat foot controller curve with ease. The curve is particularly beneficial for drum modules that do not output the full value range from 1-127.
BONUS PERCUSSION
To improve your Reggae track groove and pop, they have included a collection of percussion instruments with their dedicated tab and volume controls.
The following percussion instruments accompany the Reggae Standard, as an added bonus:
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