Free Synth Drums Taster | MS20mini Drum Synthesis Guide | Video Tutorials

Following on from our highly successful Synth Drums library, we are proud to announce MS-20 mini Drums – A FREE collection of unique drum and percussive samples, each skilfully synthesized with a Korg MS-20 mini, and processed on a sound-by-sound basis using our extensive collection of high-end hardware processors and sound shaping tools!

What’s included in the sample pack?

483 24-bit, 100% royalty-free drum hits arranged into 3 main sections:

Processed Drum Section

• 268 processed drum and percussive hits - enhanced individually on a sound-by-sound basis using our extensive collection of high-end hardware processors and sound shaping tools
• 31 kick drums
• 69 snare drums
• 56 cymbals - closed hats, open hats, ride and crash cymbals
• 33 percussion sounds – rim shots, blocks, claves and cowbells
• 27 congas
• 32 toms
• 20 processed drum sounds from our example patch sheet & synthesis videos (click here to watch videos)
• Gear list - Empirical Labs Fatso & Distressor, A-Designs EM-PEQ, Elysia Xpressor, Spectra Sonics 610, Thermionic Culture Vulture, Valley People 610, API 512c, SSL E-Series EQ & Compressor, Schippmann Ebbe und Flut

Unprocessed Drum Section

• 215 24-bit unprocessed drum and percussive hits
• Identical in folder structure to the processed drum section, the unprocessed section includes all of the raw unprocessed source samples as they were recorded, straight from the MS-20 mini!

Drum Kits

The drum kits folder contains 8 ready-to-play drum kits, conveniently mapped to the following software sampler formats:

• Battery 3 – 8 kits
• Halion – 8 kits
• Kontakt – 8 kits
• NN-XT – 8 kits
• SFZ – 8 kits

Synthesise your own drum sounds!

Sound designer, Matt Urmenyi has created a series of informative videos and a comprehensive PDF guide to accompany this library. He offers invaluable tips and advice on the best ways to create your own drums from the MS-20 mini! Watch the video series on our blog here.

The MS20mini Drum Synthesis Guide contains detailed information and patch sheets for 13 variations of drum sounds, including Kicks, Snares, Cymbals / hi-hats, Congas, Toms and other Percussion.

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