An ambitious, exhaustive and highly original collection of snare drum samples!
The SNARE PACK DELUXE features over 1400 samples of real snare drums and complementary sounds, and 23 NI KONTAKT patches.
The patches provide instant access to various categories of snares, focusing on playability and versatility. 12 included multi-patches make great use of Kontakt's sampling power and provide fascinating new sounds!
- over 1000 raw samples of real snare drums
- deep multisampling for maximum playability and realism (up to 28 velocity layers)
- wide range of playing technics, skins and tuning for maximum flexibility
- over 150 mastered single-shots snares for instant results (electronic snares, reamped snares...)
- over 300 samples of complementary acoustic sounds (tambourines, cross stick, shakers, claps, skins, metal boxes, small drums...)
- 23 NI Kontakt4 patches provide a huge palette of dynamic sounds useful for all music styles
CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING SAMPLES:
00_RAW SNARES:
Raw, unprocessed multi-samples of over 40 real snare drums:
-Stereo Natural Snares (78 samples, up to 8 velocity layers)
-Studio Snares Selection (30 snare multisamples, 4 microphone positions, 532 samples)
-Tama Starclassic Snare (200 samples, 2 mic positions)
-Maxtone Piccolo Snare (80 samples)
-Pearl Snare Brushes (16 samples)
-Slingerland Snare (41 samples, 4 microphone positions)
-Various Snares (85 samples, includes muted snares, tube snares, brush snares...)
01_REAMPED SNARES
47 raw snare samples were selected for the creation of this collection. They were pitched and processed using various high end studio gear, in order to create punchy, original sounds ready to be used in a project. (47 stereo samples) You'll find tight, powerful high pitched snares, naturally processed snares with beautiful reverbs, and funky dub snares with long echoes and reverbs.
02_ELECTRO SNARES
This folder contains 76 original electronic snare drum samples created using digital gear (Nord Rack 2X, Access Virus Ti, Waldorf Blofeld), analog monosynths (MFB Nanozwerg, MFB 522, DSI Mopho) and classic drum machines (roland TR808 and 909, Linndrum…)
All samples were reamped through a Fostex E16 tape machine for a unique, punchy sound.
03_BONUS SAMPLES:
-Claps (56 new clap samples, 6 microphone positions)
-Original Snare Pack (111 samples)
-Tambourines (87 samples, hand and stick, two mic positions)
-Various Bonus Samples: shakers, metal boxes, drum skins, cross-sticks, small drums...(61 samples)
B1. NKI PATCHES:
00_Snare Selection
A useful selection of 5 categories of snares (electro, natural, muted, open/snares-off, brushes)

01_Studio Snares_Stereo,
02_Studio Snares_Overhead,
03_Studio Snares_Dynamic
Three complementary patches with different microphone positions
04_Stereo Natural Snares
05_Reamped Snares
06_Electro Snares
07_Bonus Sounds
08_Stacks and FX
This patch features various samples pitched and layered to create fascinating new sounds!
11_Tama Starclassic Snare_close mic,
11_Tama Starclassic Snare_overheads
Two complementary patches with huge playability (5 playing technics, three different tunings)
B2. NKM FILES (MULTI PATCHES)
All the multi patches (.nkm files) combine various single nki files to create new, original sounds:
21_MULTI_Studio Snares_straight mix
22_MULTI_Studio Snares_Jungle set
23_MULTI_Studio Snares_bright mono punch
These patches combine up to three microphone positions for the Studio Snares collection. Various volumes, use of equalisers, compressors and reverb provide different sounds.

31_MULTI_Tama Starclassic_straight mix
32_MULTI_Tama Starclassic_pretty punch
These patches combine the two microphone positions for the Tama Starclassic Snare.
41_MULTI_electro_WIDE
This patch layers two widely panned single patches of electronic snares, and provide great stereo electronic snares.
42_MULTI_COMPLEX STACKS
Combining natural snare drums, reamped ones and electro sounds for some unheard, complex and punchy sounds.
43_MULTI_COMPLEX STACKS_extra wide
This patch adds widely panned layers to the previous one for even more complex sounds!
44_MULTI_Deep Impacts
A very useful patch for movie scores and cinematic effects in music tracks: lots of deep, down-pitched sounds with power and punch for an epic, out-of-this-world sound!
45_MULTI_DnB snares
This patch uses layers of high-pitched natural snares and provides typical jungle and drum n'bass sounds .
46_MULTI_Power factory
This patch combines low-pitched sounds (for the body of the sounds) and high pitched electro snares (for the attack and the precision). With a nice balance of power and precision, the resulting sounds will be perfect for industrial music, music for pictures…
47_MULTI_Point Snares
This patch layers high-pitched snare samples. The resulting sounds will be great for electronic music, as glitches and FX.
1456 samples (WAV, 48kHz, 24bits mono and stereo files)
Total size unzipped: 361MB
NB: a full version of Kontakt 4 or 5 is required. The patches will load in Kontakt Free Player in demo mode (with a time limit)
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