Since the release of Sitar Nation, we’ve been hard at work on a new library, and at long last it’s nearing completion! Enter “Groove Bias: Vintage Drum Sounds”.
The goal of this project was to create a set of deeply sampled acoustic drumkits inspired by classic 50s, 60s and 70s records and the timeless breakbeats we all know and love. For decades, these sounds have been imitated and sampled over and over, but many producers have preferred to try and capture old kits with pristine, modern recording methods.
Not so with this library. Our motto was “the more tubes, the better,” and we armed ourselves to the teeth with beat-up mics, analog gear, vintage drums and tape machines. Groove Bias contains nearly 4,000 samples (4 gigabytes) across three custom drumkits and a set of percussion.
The audio content includes five snares, four kicks, nine toms, three hats (closed, loose, open, pedal), two rides, two crashes, two splashes, two rims, handclaps, tambourine, shaker, agogo, bongos, woodblocks, cowbell and triangle.
We’re currently programming Groove Bias for Kontakt 2 (and above) format, and are shooting to translate to numerous other formats as well. The library will be released on May 25th, but until then, check out some demos made by our beta testers. These all use varying amounts of external processing (much of which will be included with the library as presets) but all are 100% Groove Bias. Enjoy!
Brandon Bush – “Spies Like Us” (Spy Hunter remix) (secret agent funk)
Andrew Aversa – “Acoustic DNB”
Virt (Jake Kaufman) – “World’s Most Wanted Wiener” (GB Edit) (MJ-style funk)
tefnek – “Big n’ Nasty” (big beat)
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