MDL Tone – Ultimate Heavy Drums (KONTAKT)

Tilt EQTilt EQ lets you make any part of your setup brighter or darker with a simple horizontal fader. I wanted this library to be fully processed and “ready to mix” right out of the box. But being able to fine-tune the brightness or darkness of each element will give you even more control over those sounds in your mix. 

Transient Designer

This allows you to increase or decrease the attack and sustain of each individual kit part to give you maximum control over the impact and sustain of each element of your drum mix.

Envelope Filters

Envelope filters also allow you to control the attack, sustain, and decay of each kit part, but in a different way than the transient designer. They work more like a fade-in and fade-out. Combining the sustain and decay functions, in particular, can allow you to hear the full sustain and resonance in a drum, but add a sharper decay. For example, this technique can allow your drums to “sing” with a good initial sustain, but control the sharper decay to balance the length of the decay.

One-Shot Sample Loader

One-Shot Samples are single-hit samples that can be loaded into this Kontakt instrument to combine with sounds from the library. These one-shot sample slots are found on both the kick and snare mixers. Don’t have your own sample library? We’ve included individual kick and snare WAV samples from this library as a separate download so you can combine different sounds in your mixes.

Pitch & Reverb

Pitch – Like any other mixing feature in the instrument, the pitch controls also work on each individual part of the kit. This can open up even more possibilities for drum tones. It’s especially useful for changing the characteristics of the snare drum. It can also be used to match the pitch or phase of any one-shot samples you want to use.
Reverb – Complete control over the amount of reverb you want to use on each kit part.