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Image of Drum Tools 01 Deluxe Drum Tools 01 Deluxe offers over 5800 exquisitely produced minimal drum samples. All drum sounds in the collection have been built from the ground up using a ja w-dropping array of analogue circuitry and exclusive high-end outboard gear. Gre at care has been taken to capture the tone / vibe and warmth of the equipment us ed and all sample editing and file naming has been done by hand for maximum prec ision. "What a fantastic, and infinitely useable sample CD - I'm very impressed!" Chris Lake The drum samples in Drum Tools 01 have been created by the creative layering and processing of drum machines, exotic synthesizers / modulars, field recordings a nd the recording of live drum and percussive instruments. "I LOVE IT !!! The drums will play a big role in my productions for the next mon ths / years" Robert Babicz / Rob Acid Drum Tools 01 is an essential purchase for anyone looking for high quality, 100% original drum samples. Although designed with Minimal Techno & Tech House music in mind, Drum Tools 01 would also make an essential toolkit for producers of Ho use, Trance, Electro or even down-tempo / hip-hop styles. Whats included in the sample pack? 1950 24-bit 100% royalty free electronic drum hits! 3854 additional tape saturated drum hits recorded to 1/4 tape via a Studer A80 Mk 1 tape machine A professionally dithered 16-bit version of the full library for hardware sample r enthusiasts

472 premium kick drum samples arranged by tone (deep minimal, punchy, solid, pro cessed, 808 & fx) 251 snare drum samples arranged by type (classic, layered, punchy, processed & n oise) 594 exotic percussion samples created with a wealth of highly sought-after studi o gear and divided into such folders as 'blips & pops toms & tones world 'analogue sy nth driven digital & miscellaneous 125 luxurious claps and snaps 141 hi hat & creative noise samples 75 glitch shots devised from exclusive analogue circuitry 62 minimal stabs and chord hits 88 sound effects samples 26 uniquely layered crash cymbal sounds 58 drum creation tools including snaps & sub enhancers Ableton Live 8 pack (requires latest version of live) 13 drum kits including sampler patches for Battery, Kontakt, Reason NNXT, Halion , EXS24 and SFZ 42 bonus tb-303 licks + much more Drum Tools 01 has been produced and recorded by Wave Alchemy s Daniel Byers and St even Heath. The two have all the gear necessary for making modern electronic mus ic and, more importantly, know how to achieve the right sounds for the various s ub-genres tackled by each of their sample collections. Minimal Techno & Tech House is a very specific title, telling us exactly what to expect from the content, although it is also applicable to electronic music in general. As indicated by the word tools , the collection contains the basic building blocks needed for producing minimal techno and tech house, the onus being on the musici an to use them in the right way. Indeed, there are no editable sound banks like th ose used by Ueberschall s Elastik player, nor are there any loops or grooves. Ther e are, however, kit patches formatted for all the major software samplers and di thered 16-bit versions of the 24-bit WAV files to cater for hardware samplers an d memory-precious setups. Some libraries inexplicably divide their content across an unfathomable system o f folders - Wave Alchemy, on the other hand, have done the right thing and organ ised their 1950 samples into a logically conceived set of folders, which can be navigated in a matter of seconds. The main folders are dedicated to individual sound types like claps, crash cymba ls, hi-hats and kick drums. Where it s been necessary to narrow things down more p recisely, however, the library employs further layers of sub-folders. Percussion , for example, contains the descriptively named Blips & Pops and Toms & Tones fo lders, amongst others. Similarly, in Snares, a Classic Snares sub-folder holds a familiar, but essential, set of hits, while Layered Snares contains non-standar d creative combinations. Folders such as Sound Effects and Glitch collect togeth er miscellaneous experiments, which are reasonably varied but still recognisably appropriate for the genre. Also included is a list of gear that was used for generating sounds and shaping them, highlighting the point made by the team that everything was created from th e ground up . Predictably, Roland s TR808, TR606 drum and TB303 bass synthesizers we re called upon when crafting some of the content, as were a Korg MS20 and ARP Od yssey, but there are also some live recordings and material created on slightly more exotic instruments, such as the Vermona DRM MkII and Elektron Machinedrum. In general, the samples are clean and punchy, having been recorded using some tr uly top-end analogue processors, although one or two clearly overloaded somethin

g during recording. The editing, apparently done by hand, ensures that the attac k of each sample comes in straight away, so layering multiple sounds works well and there is no particular need to trim samples further. Creating samples can be fun, but it s sometimes better to let experts do the work. That is precisely the point of this very well-conceived product. Drum Tools 01 Deluxe full software download cracked + key Rating 4/5 Bass Music Blog Review - Drum Tools 01 By: James (Bass Music Blog) - 31/05/2010 Wave Alchemy is a relatively young company based on Nottingham; they've been aro und since 2008 and in that time have established themselves as providers of top quality samples for bedroom producers and industry professionals alike. This is the first in their Drum Tools series, Minimal Techno and Tech House. Rather than sampling records or using the same soft synths that everyone rinses, the guys at Wave Alchemy build their sounds from the ground up using high end h ardware. The list of equipment used should be enough to get any self-respecting production geek drooling - Jomox XBase 999, Elektron Machinedrum, ARP Odyssey, T hermionic Culture Vulture, SSL EQs and Compressors, API 512c Preamps, and (lots) more. Of course, all this kit is useless if the people pushing the buttons don' t grasp the finer points of how to use it, but a few hours spent playing with th e sounds should be enough to demonstrate that they most certainly do. Initial impressions are that the collection positively drips with class and insp ires creativity; when I was flipping through the previews in Live I often had to stop myself from loading sounds into a sampler and laying down some patterns. T he sounds don't fall into the common trap of being overcooked with freaky fx to make them interesting, instead the focus is on subtle character and rich tone. T hey have that indefinable quality (fatness, warmth, whatever) that comes from a good source processed well and recorded with a high end preamp - the difference in quality is noticeable when compared to similar collections. The pack is organised logically with folders for kicks, claps, snares and so for th, as well as prepared sampler instruments in all commonly used formats and 13 drum kits. I like how the samples are subdivided into descriptively named folder s (eg. punchy or solid or minimal), as it can really help to improve workflow. O ne thing that I also like and you don't see much elsewhere is the inclusion of a folder of 'Drum Tools' - a collection of transient clicks and sub notes that ar e specially designed for layering up. Also provided is a folder of bonus sounds; in this case some very useable stabs & chords, and some less interesting 303 sq uelches. When I assess a sample pack of this type, I tend to look at the kick dr ums first, and I can honestly say that this is one of the best sets have in my s ample folder.The sound quality and character on offer are stunning - each one is flawlessly engineered with the perfect bass weight to them, and will provide a rock solid foundation to your track with very little additional processing requi red. Overall, this is probably one of the best sample collections I have come across in recent months; although billed as a minimal and tech house set, you will easi ly be able to use the samples in any sort of electronic music such is their qual ity. It's also ludicrously cheap at a mere 35 quid for the download, so if your drum sample library needs an injection of real class you need look no further. H ighly recommended! Drum Tools 01 Deluxe full software download cracked + key

Future Music Mag Review - Drum Tools 01 By: FM (Future Music Magazine) - 19/05/2010 This impressive new release from Wave Alchemy contains just under 2,000 individu al drum hits in 24-bit and 16-bit WAV format, along with sampler patches in the most common formats, including Battery, Kontakt, ESX24 and Halion. Although it s clear that the sounds were designed with Minimal Techno and Tech Hou se in mind, most of the samples are versatile enough to fit into any production style. It s clear that the Wave Alchemy guys have put some serious effort into the creati on of Drum Tools 01 and as a result it comes highly recommended for producers of all electronic genres. Rating 9/10 Waveformless Blog Review - Drum Tools 01 By: Tom Shear (Waveformless Blog) - 05/03/2010 There is certainly no shortage of drum sample packs on the market these days. Co mpared to even 5 years ago, the sheer volume of samples available to musicians t o buy is almost overwhelming. Even with that taken into account, however, there is no doubt that loops dominate the market, and it can sometimes be difficult fo r musicians who prefer to program all their beats from scratch to find a good se lection of single hit drum samples. Fortunately, a few developers have stepped u p recently to fill that void, among them, the very talented guys at Wave Alchemy . Their latest release consists of nearly 2,000 single electronic / minimal drum a nd percussion hits all expertly processed through an array of very pricey, high end gear. Although the name of the library indicates that it was created with Mi nimal Techno and Tech House in mind, you'll find these drum samples are extremel y usable in virtually any genre that needs purely electronic drum sounds. Althou gh the drum samples come pre-compressed and EQed to perfection, the settings are generally transparent enough that if you need to do further processing to make them more appropriate for your genre of choice, you can do so fairly easily. Sou nds are all in 24-bit WAV format (16-bit versions are also included for all you luddites) and, helpfully, sample instruments for Ableton Live, Battery, EXS24, H alion, Kontakt, and NNXT are also included to save you the trouble of mapping al l the sounds out manually. Sounds are neatly arranged into folders for claps, crash cymbals, drum kits, dru m tools (more on this in a second), glitch, hihats, kick drums, percussion, snar e drums, sound effects, and a folder of bonus sounds made up of TB-303 riffs and chord/stab sounds. Most of these folders are further divided into descriptive c ategories to help you find the type of sound you're after (for example, classic, layered, processed, punchy, etc.) much more quickly and efficiently. If you're familiar with Wave Alchemy's products, I probably don't have to bother telling you how great these sound. The kicks have plenty of oomph and the perfe ct amount of low end, the snares smack and crack in the mix, the cymbals sizzle and cut through, and the percussion, glitch, and heavily processed sounds all sp arkle with originality and can add lots of interest to an otherwise ho-hum drum track. There really are very few other companies who do electronic drum sounds a s well as Wave Alchemy. Many sample developers brag about their studio full of e xpensive kit, but few show that they truly know how to use it to its fullest as well as these guys. If you find yourself skeptical, head on over to the Drum Tools - Minimal Techno & Tech House web page where you can download a selection of free drum samples fr om this library and check them out yourself. I hate to come across as a fan boy,

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ng to sell it? Well using these drum samples is 100% Royalty Free and allows you to create your music without the worry of record labels chasing your ass. Originality is key to your tracks, the last thing you want is similarity within a given sample. Just by the way that these samples are recorded makes the drum h it samples original and unique to Drum Tools 01. The time put into this pack by Wave Alchemy shows through within the collection, it has both quality and quanti ty. Drum Tools 01 is exactly what it says, it is a tool to use within your productio n stages. There are so many drum loops available to producers that allow a few c licks, a drag and a drop, then boom, a track is made. Take Apple Loops as an exa mple, you can create songs within minutes. Chuck in Garage Band and you have an album created within a few hours, which is ridiculous. If the quality is just no t there, there is nothing worse than loops that don t actually loop without a bunc h of editing. Fair play, Apple Loops set everything up brilliantly and make thin gs very easy to work with. For us producers it is refreshing to receive the individual sound files as singl e hits and stabs. Having these drum sounds in such a format allows the producer to create their own instruments, mainly drum kits for this particular sample pac k. You could move these into a plug-in such as ESX24, which comes as a default w ith Logic. Simply find your samples you want to use and tailor your own instrume nt. I personally work using hundreds of cut up samples, so I usually just grab t he sounds I like and stick them straight into the arrange window. Kind of like b uilding blocks, but usually it just turns out like a huge audio game of Tetris. On Test Due to the type of sample pack it seems only obvious to lay the samples out in a n appropriate order. As soon as you open the disc you find a bunch of folders la belled with their content, which makes life a lot easier. There are a few option s to go from here to use the pack, I simply copied all of the files to my hard d rive so I could use the samples as and when they were needed. Using the Apple me dia browser allowed an easy transition from file to sequencer, with a simple dra g and drop. Technically this should be easier for the beginner music maker to get hold of an d get moving swiftly, but that isn t the case. With looping samples, everything is pretty much put on a plate and is so easy to come up with ideas. With Drum Tool s 01 all of the samples are individual, so coming up with ideas of where they wi ll fit into the track or beat becomes more of a chore. If you have no ideas wher e the track is going or what you want then its hit and miss trying to find the r ight sounds for you. When I make music, I can hear what I want to put into the track before actually getting the sound playing. It kind of plays in my head as I m listening, like a su b conscious thing (sometimes this process doesn t work!) so when searching for a s ample, I already have an idea of what I m looking for in a sound. Drum Tools 01 is perfect for this situation, but takes a long time. Wave Alchemy have looked ahead into this issue and put together 13 drum kits for various sampler patches to use straight away. They cover a few different styles that are more than enough to get started with. ESX24 kits are available within the pack along with install instructions on how to get these patches working. What the sample pack does is create a whole heap of different sounds and clips t hat you would never achieve when buying a bunch of synthesizers, modular synths and solid state recordings. The time and money spent on recreating these sounds would just be ridiculous. So thanks Wave Alchemy!

Minimal Techno & Tech House Drum Tools 01 takes it to the next level by using an alogue circuitry and outboard gear to create its audio drum samples. The quality of the recordings are very high, featuring some very unique sounds indeed! You can tell that care has been taken whilst building each of the samples. Some are just completely raw, singular bog standard recorded sounds, then others are comp lex stereo panned, reverbrial compressed beasties. Manipulating the drum sounds is ridiculously easy, especially when using the App le Loops Utility. It s all done on a plate for you, all that is left is the creati vity and drive to listen to each sound for the track and stick them in. For me i t s a cut and paste job, chucking the boxes all over the place and playing around with it all. Its just as simple as that, pop the disk in, listen to the samples, throw them into your mix. Done. The Bottom Line Simple and quality can be two words used to sum up Wave Alchemy s Drum Tools 01. W ith more samples than you will know what to do with, the sample pack is definite ly a must buy for any amateur/experienced producer. With almost two thousand sni ppets of musical morning glory you will be more than capable of producing some o utstanding pieces of music. If you have the endurance and skill to use Drum Tool s 01 to your full potential then this isn t just an essential buy, it s a must have to add to your collection! Everything is made to suit your needs no matter what genre you are making music for. The pack is designed for Minimal Techno & Tech House music, but if you didn t know that in the title you wouldn t think anything of it due to the tracks being so original and diverse. A few of the stabs and synths do seem to be tailored to wards that direction, but there is so much to get on with you can skip through f inding the little gems you need. Wave Alchemy have definitely spent a lot of time and care within this sample pac k, the detail and differential space between the audio samples are something to be very proud of. Even nailing it down to the structure on which the samples are put into categories and labels. The only down side is trying to find the right sample for you, if you can call that a bad thing! Why choose Drum Tools? Exquisitely recorded, 100% original drum hit samples Built from the ground up. Never ripped from vinyl or similar Carefully selected signal chain making use of an extensive selection of boutique studio gear and sought after outboard Edited by hand for maximum precision Carefully layered & Processed with meticulous attention to detail Recorded in 24 bit using top flight AD converters Rekkerd Blog Review - Drum Tools 01 By: Ronnie (Rekkerd Blog) - 02/03/2010 p>The beauty of sample libraries like this is that they feature sampled material from a unique combination of analog sound sources processed with high end outbo ard gear, so Drum Tools still sounds different from everything else I already have . The list of gear used is quite impressive Sound Sources - Future Retro XS, Korg MS20 & ER1, Jomox XBase 999, Airbase 99 & Mbase 11, Vermona DRM MK11, Elektron Machinedrum UW, Roland TR808, TR606 & TB303 , ARP Odyssey, Minimoog Voyager, Nord Lead 3, Waldorf Pulse, and various live re cordings & percussive instruments

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Besides claps, hihats/cymbals, kicks, snares, and percussion samples, a bunch of perhaps not so obvious sounds are included in this library as well Drum Tools, includes almost 60 sub enhancers and transient snaps/clicks Glitch, beautifully processed little bleeps, clicks, crackles & pops and whatnot Sound Effects, 88 totally unique and well designed sound effects Xtra Bonus Sounds, a bunch of TB-303 licks and 60+ high quality chords and stabs Can hardly wait to get started? Wave Alchemy also included an Ableton Live 8 pac k and 13 drum kit patches in all popular sampler formats for your instant gratif ication. Still need 16-bit? A complete dithered copy of all 24-bit drum samples ready to rock your 16-bit hardware like your MPC. Let me quote the Drum Tools product page once more After many months of creative sound design and sonic manipulation we are extreme ly proud to announce the release of our first Drum Tools library Minimal Techno & Tech House. Wave Alchemy really took the time to create a package of both a high quality AND quantity of samples. I d be proud of this release too, well done guys! So what do I think? The Drum Tools 01 library is subtitled Minimal Techno & Tech House , but of course these drum samples are well suitable for any electronic music genre. The sample quality is of the same high standard I have come to expect from Wave Alchemy - s uperbly recorded, processed and edited. Almost 2,000 unique drum samples for a little under $60 USD If you do not yet hav e a comprehensive sample library for electronic drum sounds, Drum Tools 01 would certainly be a great choice. For those like me, who already have more sounds than they will ever use, Drum To ols 01 still offers some interesting material. The glitch, sound fx, and chords and stabs folders include many unique and usable samples that I found very inspi ring. Wave Alchemy is offering a very generous Drum Tools Teaser pack, featuring 150 d rum samples from the full release (You can check these out at the top of this pa ge by clicking the 'free samples' tab) So go and check it out and see how you li ke this library. I think it s the bee s knees! Audio News Room Review - Drum Tools 01 By: Joel Stover (Audionewsroom Blog) - 01/03/2010 As noted previously here on ANR, smart developers are standing out from the crow d by using unique recording chains to create their sample libraries. Enter Wave Alchemy with their latest offering, Drum Tools 01 - Minimal Techno & Tech House.

Drum Tools 01 is available as a download containing over 1900 electronic drum sa mples. The list of sound sources and signal processors reads like a who s who of c lassic and boutique studio gear, including top-shelf drum machines (Jomox, Elekt ron, Roland, etc.), analogue synthesizers (Korg, Moog, etc.), EQ s, compressors, a nd filters. But Wave Alchemy didn t stop there, the sample set also includes field recordings and the recording of live drum and percussive instruments. Organized samples

For sample packs of this size, a logical and consistent file structure is crucia l. On this front, Drum Tools 01 delivers. Opening the library s main folder reveal s that the drum samples are well organized into six instrument categories. The u sual suspects are here, such as kick drums , snare drums , and hi hats . Also included ar e more exotic samples, via the glitch , sound effects , 303 licks , and chords & stabs f ers (the latter two offered as xtra bonus sounds ). Rounding out the library are the preset drum kits, samples for deeper sound desi gn and creativity in the drum tools folder, and, finally, this entire library dith ered down to good old 16-bit for some lower fidelity goodness. Further, kick, sn are, and percussion samples are arranged into subfolders by tone and type. Need a punchy kick drum? You got it. How about a layered snare? Check. Looking for some ips & pops ? Who isn t? Go get em. Good file organization equals less time searching and more time creating. OK, time for the main event - the samples. What better way to audition Drum Tool s 01 than to load up one of the 13 included drum kits? The developers really wen t the extra mile here by providing the kits in a variety of popular formats, whi ch we can divide into three main categories. First off, the kit samples are copi ed from the main library and housed in their own folder, allowing for near unive rsal compatibility with DAWs, samplers, and virtual instruments that load .wav f iles. Secondly, the same kits are presented in native sampler formats, allowing the user to load the kits quickly into Logic, Reason, Battery, etc. Finally, the drum kits are, uhm, packed into a Live pack, compatible with version 8 of the p opular DAW. The sounds How do the drum kits sound? Overall, the audio quality is excellent. The kits ea sily meet the expectations raised by the library s impressive specs. And the sonic scope of the kits is inspiring. Each one has a unique character, demonstrating the variety and depth that can be drawn from this drum library. Standouts includ e the Berlin Minimal kit, with its cone-rattling kick drum and analogue flavored t ones, as well as the World Kit , with its wide range of percussive sounds. These da ys, 'fat' and 'warm' are terms that get thrown around quite a bit, but the inclu ded kits prove that Drum Tools 01 earns these all-important adjectives. The included kits are an excellent launching pad for exploring the rest of the l ibrary. I began swapping out kit pieces with immediately useful results. While d eveloping my own kits, I was struck by the rich, full sound of this library. As good as the drum samples without additional processing, these sounds are just be gging to be tweaked. I placed a filter plugin after some minimal stabs and chord hits, and, well, a goofy little smile crept across my face. I also placed a con volution reverb on one of my DAW s sends, loaded up some processed 808 sounds, rai sed the send level, and was genuinely blown away. Wave Alchemy really hit the perfect balance with this library by creating s that have plenty of character on their own, but without being so unique he user is given little room to customize them.Considering the reasonable of this library, as well as the depth and variety of the samples offered, ools 01 easily falls into must buy territory! sample that t price Drum T

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Conclusions Drum Tools 01 offers inspiring, unique sounds that are full of character and rea dy to be sculpted. This package is a great choice for anyone who is not satisfie d with all too often vanilla-sounding drum samples that are included in some pac ks. Sound designers and beat makers should find plenty of quality material here too. In particular, the drum tools folder contains samples for enhancing sub frequ encies, as well as transient type sounds, to help add some complexity to your ar rangement. Finally, while this library has a few minor flaws, the developers app ear to be actively involved in listening to user feedback, making improvements, and adding value to the package Plughugger Review - Drum Tools 01 By: Carl Lofgren (Plughugger) - 28/02/2010 While there isn't really a shortage of electronic drum sample libraries on the m arket, Drum Tools 01 is well worth checking out. With well over 2000 drum sample s (over 4300 depending on how you count) the main excitement is where the game i s - the kicks and snares. Read on. In my drum machine shootout, I've already showed how damn obsessed I am trying t o find the perfect drum machine. Looking back, I believe this whole mania starte d way back in the 90s when I got a few floppies from Seba with his own assembled drum kits. The drum kits just suited me perfectly and since the departure of th e EPS 16+ I still haven't found a drum kit I always reach for when starting to m ake music. Naturally, I am aware of the futility of my obsession, as the music I create have mutated many times since then, and in many respects, I am no longer the same person as I was back then. But, my need for finding that perfect drum kit seem to be etched into my DNA. With that said, it's always with double feelings I start to examine new drum sam ple packs, and Wave Alchemys latest offering was no exception. Drum Tools 01 is almost 800 megabyte large and spans over a total of 4300 files - (almost 2000 of those are 16 bit versions), prepared and 'professionally dithered' for hardware samplers. Although I cannot hear any difference from my own dithering samples a nd these - I think it is a great idea to include 16 bit version. I got two hardw are samplers in my studio and while they don't get as much use as they deserve hardware samplers/workstations are useful and prepared samples most definitely makes things easier. Apart from the drum sounds, there are also about a hundred chord and stab sounds and a bunch of 303 snippets in the form of a bonus category. But apart from tha t and the sound effect category - this is a drum sample library with a focus set on the synthetic. The structure is clean and easy to navigate through. As there are quite a few sa mples here - for example, there are almost 500 kicks, but instead throwing them all into one folder, the samples have been divided into six categories - deep mi nimal, fx kicks, processed 808, processed machines, punchy kicks and solid kicks . Whether these categories actually help you find the right kick is a question t hat I discussed many times before in this blog, but Wave Alchemy is trying to br ing order and structure and that deserves respect. The drum samples are also ava ilable in soft sampler format in a wide variety of formats - Live 8, Battery/Kon takt, EXS24, Halion, NNXT and SFZ. But before we go any further let's break down this library into numbers. Claps - 125 Crash cymbals - 26 Drum kits - 13 (between 33 and 11 samples in each kit.) total number of samples - 311

Drum tools - 60 Glitch - 75 Hi hats (closed) - 77 Hi hats (open) - 64 Kick drum samples - 484 Percussion - 621 Snare drums - 256 Sound effects - 90 Xtra bonus sounds - 106 Xtra format 16-bit - 1965 Total number of drums - 2099 (excluding the 16 bit, fx and tonal sounds) Total number of files - 2295 Total (including 16 bit files) - 4260 Already with the claps (starting alphabetically here) Drum Tools 01 shows that t his is not a mindless collection of lost & found and 'cool' drum samples. When g oing through a new library the first thing I do is to throw away the stuff I don 't like. I'm very hard with this and usually a third or a fourth stays - the res t goes. My initial reaction with the claps in Drum Tools 01 was A Big Fat WTF. A t the first listening - I could almost not find anything I disliked about the cl aps. Solid good material practically made for a drum dork like me. The claps are snappy and spans from synthetic 909-style to analogue synthesizer zap-noise-sty le - from the quite ordinary to the not so ordinary - but never becomes too weir d. Crashes are usually the part of most (if not all) libraries where the inspiratio n and creative spirits hits a low mark - but I don't blame the sound designers f or that. Apart from the 909 crash and the electro analogue variations of the 808 crash - there seems to be very little source material to work from. Drum Tools 01 is about average in this respect. The crashes are good and Wave Alchemy tries to create something new by processing the sounds in various ways that sometimes make the crash sound like an outright effect. It's a good attempt and all in al l good samples with a couple of fresh sounding sounds, but it's probably not the last word we'll hear when it comes to crashes. The glitch folder contains sounds of an effectish nature - synthetic rather than analogueish. Personally I didn't fall for these sounds, but that comes from a p erson who doesn't understand the fuss about this whole glitch-thingy anyway. Sou nding like a real block-head, I must say my pulse didn't get much higher with th e sound effect category either. The sounds are mostly short tonal sweeps, ufo-es ue analogue squeeks that just left me wanting to move on to the dedicated effect libraries of Wave Alchemy When we are in our complaining mode we might as well clean it all out (yes, we'r e royal now). The extra bonus sounds category which contains the 303 sounds - an d are almost as pointless as any 303 sounds in this genre. The cleaner sounds ca n of course be used for bass sounds, but trying to juxtapose these into some 303 -ish thing is in my opinion a waste of time. The stabs however are a totally dif ferent story - seriously good material and with a good variety of sounds. If you are the kind of person who find inspiration with pre-fab stab sounds - this col lection is going to make you Very Happy Indeed. But enough of this prattle and let's go to the core and let's get dirty with wha t really matters - the kicks & the snares. It's difficult not to become impresse d by this selection of kicks. The variety is staggering and the quality is outri ght amazing! The sub categories are logical and although they often contain vari ations on the same type they are still different - longer tonal bass drums have different overdrive settings so they growl in different ways. A good example of

how the processing have been executed gets revealed in the section of processed 808 kicks. if you listen closely you can hear the characteristic 808 booming - b ut all in all, not any of these drum samples strike you as typical 808ish, which is a good thing. The style of the kicks goes from soft to hard to deep to mello w. The balance of processing is at a goldilocks zone - they are processed and fu ll with attitude, but it never goes over the top and you can gladly process the sounds further with additional compressors or distortion units without the sound starting to fall apart. For all of you who - like me - gets annoyed by kicks with too much layering of o ther percussive elements, such as hi hats, shakers or even snares, is going to b e relieved. While there are cases where you can hear layering, it never gets too pronounced. The drums are generally very clean. Before moving on to the snares, I'd like to mention the odd, but cool section named Drum Tools. This is a colle ction of 60 samples which basically is a Build-Your-Own-Kick toolbox. There are 45 deep bass sounds and 15 transient clicks - all ready for you to combine in an y way you desire to create the Perfect Kick (tm). Cool, clever and useful. The same goes for the snares - they are very well organized and instantly gives you a sense of oooh-yes-yes. The fundament of the snares lies with the Roland el ectronic sound - but processed to the degree were it keeps its snappy soul but s till feels fresh (if that makes any sense). I know I've been overusing the word snappy during this review, but that's the word that keeps coming up in my head. If you want to explore something more different than classic snares - the noise sub category gives you a lot of samples that are more vintage-electro noisy. If you're into electronic percussion but are tired to death of the 909 toms and Roland congas, you will find lots of inspiring material in this section. The sou nds range from electronic congas, toms and rim shots to hi hat-ish noises and sq ueeks - electronic percussion is a balance act between percussive sounds and eff ects and sometimes the sounds here feels more like effects and sometimes even go into the land of synth basses. I am delighted to say there are 13 prepared drum kits included with Drum Tools 0 1. Ready-to-go drum sets is something I wish more of in general. Or to put it co rrectly - I wish there were more of good combined drum sets around. Creating goo d drum samples in an art by itself, but combining the sounds into a meaningful a nd useful package is totally another. The included drum sets are well combined a nd makes me wish for more. It's a great service that the kits come in so many fo rmats. I tried the Ableton Live 8 format and the version for Kontakt - and they both worked without any issues. Another nice touch in this library is that every sample has been uniquely named. The names might not always help you find what you're looking for, but it's look s a bit nicer with names such as technofuture, obese, vulture909, filterfetish, cluedo and pitchfreak than a bunch of kicks ranging from KICK-001 all the way to KICK-498. Conclusion When Native Instruments released their Synthetic Drums library for Battery/Konta kt in 2002, they were pretty much alone in that field. Today, almost every produ cer of sample libraries are releasing their own collection of drums for electron ic music. In other words, the market is quite saturated. In my experience there are two types of sound libraries. First we have the ones that start with a sound/loop and explores that with a number of variations and a lternatives - and there we have the ones that only provide you with different id eas. Both approaches have their merits. The ones with different sounds ideas giv e you a lot of different material, which make the chances higher for you to actu

ally find something useful. The problem when you find something useful - you wil l most probably start lusting for a couple of variations. The other approach has variations but not so many ideas. Drum Tools 01 tries to combine both ways and practically succeeds to eliminate the 'I wish I had more of XXX'. There are vari ations but still a broad variety of sounds which range from the almost clean Rol and TR-camp to the very processed and ready for action. The crashes are a good e xample of this. Anyone who listened through a couple of sample libraries knows h ow little variation there can be among the crashes - some libraries sound like e ternal variations on the 909 crash. But not so with Drum Tools 01 - in general I feel that there is a thought and a reason behind the inclusion of (almost) ever y sound. To wrap it up - Drum Tools 01 is a very good drum package. Seriously good, as a matter of fact! It's executed in a very professional way, both in term of produc tion but also in terms of structure. I felt very comfortable with this library a nd quickly became a starting point for me when building beats. The library has i ts up and downs, but its ups are where it counts and its downs doesn't really ma tter. All in all, Drum Tools 01 isn't the perfect synthetic drum library, but it comes damn close. Pros - Seriously impressive collection of drum samples for electronic music. Ski llfully processed. Good value for money. Cons - Nothing serious to complain about.