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What’s up, everyone? I hope you’re having a fantastic day.

 

If you follow my channel, you know that I’m always looking for the best Reggae sounds on electronic drumset, and this time I found a real diamond.

There’s a brand new software called Handy Drums Reggae Standard. It’s produced by Goran Rista, a professional drummer and producer, and as you could already hear in the sound example, it sounds fantastic! It’s very warm, full, and punchy, in my opinion, and you get a pre-mixed drum kit right out of the box. You don’t have to worry about processing or manipulating too much. You just connect your drum kit or use it with your keyboard if you like or with midi loops, and you have an awesome Reggae sound.

 

The best thing about it is it costs only $35, so it is really affordable, and you get a lot for this little price. You have a vast selection of kit pieces: you get two different snares, one main and the side snare. You have four toms. You have lots of cymbals, including crash right, splash, and china cymbals. And another amazing thing is you get a lot of percussion instruments which are very useful and regularly used in Reggae music.

 

You can use this software as a plugin in your DAW, or you can use it standalone. Just open it up on your PC, connect your electronic drumset and have fun. You don’t need any other software or sampler like Kontakt or Superior Drummer. You just pay 35 bucks and have a fully functional drum software.

So, let’s jump to the computer and let me show you what it looks like.

 

The interface is very user-friendly. You have all the necessary things visible. Here you have all the different kit pieces, and if you click on a kit piece, you hear a sound. For example, kick drum, the snare. The snare drum offers a side stick as well. You have the hi-hats, a ride cymbal, crash cymbals, splash, and china cymbal.

 

On the other tab, you’ll find the percussion instruments. Here’s the auxiliary side snare and different percussion instruments. In the bottom left corner, you have a possibility to view a keyboard where you can see the mapping, the current mapping. And if you want to change the mapping, you click on the symbol with the key and simply choose the note you want the kit piece to be mapped to. So, it’s very easy to handle.

 

Then, you have the routing option on this button here. You can route the different kit pieces to multiple outputs. This way if you use a DAW, you can have multiple tracks and continue processing each kit piece individually. Add reverb, delay, and effects only to the kit piece that you want to.

 

One special (thing) about this software is the variable hats controller curve. This means that by using the CC4 modulation wheel on your keyboard, you can trigger the openness or the hi-hats. So, you have a very smooth curve and a very realistic feeling as it would be on a real hi-hat.

If you use e-drums, you can adjust this curve manually by hand and just play around until you feel that the opening of the hi-hat is just fine for your individual electronic drum kit.

Yeah, guys, that’s basically it.

 

It’s very simple, but very powerful and very, very good-sounding software. I use it almost exclusively nowadays for my productions, as well as for clients’ works and I can recommend it 100%.

 

It’s cutting through every mix and it just sounds awesome on Roots Reggae tracks, as well as on modern Reggae tracks. You can hear the drumset in action on my website reggaebeats.net.

If you check out the latest beats that I uploaded there, you will hear this drumkit and you can also use my reggae drumset essentials midi pack with it if you load it up in a DAW. Use my midi loops and have a great drum groove instantly. Find everything in the description, please. 

You will also find links there on where to buy the software and also my midi pack.

 

If you have any questions, please just them in the comment section below and if you find this video helpful, please leave a like. Subscribe to the channel to never miss another video and Reggae music. I wish you lots of fun with this great piece of software. Have fun making Reggae music and all the best!

 

Reggae Drummer Dominik

If you create music using loops, you may know that drum loops can be fun, inspirational, and provide a solid foundation on which to build your music.

While audio drum loops are sufficient in some scenarios, we are often limited by what we can do with them. It becomes tricky if we wish to alter them, like changing the snare drum, changing the feel, or writing custom drum fills.

 

When paired together, midi drum loops and virtual drum plugins offer far more flexibility, as you can change almost all aspects of sound and performance.

 

A combination of MIDI drum loops and virtual drum plugins allows you to easily manipulate the groove and sound. You can move notes around, remove or add new ones, lower or increase their intensity or completely change their sound by loading a different drum plugin. You can quickly turn one instrument into another by dragging a note.

The best thing is that you can write your custom drum parts from scratch utilizing any sound available in your drum plugin.

MIDI drum loops are small computer files that contain musical performances, but no actual sound recordings. Instead, they comprise information on what notes are played, at what points in time, and how long they last, among many other details. A MIDI file can be as simple as a single note or contain an entire full-length drumset track with articulations and dynamics. 

 

A midi drum loop alone does not make a sound.

For a midi drum loop to produce sound, it needs to be routed to a sound-generating, virtual drumset. 

 

So, if a midi drum loop contains, for example, notes C1 and D1 and is passed through a virtual drumset, those notes will trigger the sounds of kick and snare drums. MIDI drum loop instructs the virtual drumset on what, when, and how to play it.

Virtual drumsets mainly produce sound by synthesizing from scratch or playing back previously recorded short drum samples. The first kind is considered a drum synth, while the latter are sampled drums.

 

Loaded inside your digital audio workstation like Cubase, Logic, or Reaper, a virtual drum set is considered a plugin. Some drum plugins incorporate midi loops as well.

SAMPLED DRUMS

Sampled drums are recordings of real acoustic drums played individually, with hits repeated at various dynamic levels and captured using multiple microphones. Those recordings are mixed, cut into single drum hits, and saved as separate audio files. When carefully re-assembled within a drum sampler, they play back as a complete drumset.

Now that you know what MIDI drum loops and drum plugins are, see and hear what they can do for your music by checking out our collections at the GoranGrooves Library.

 

We have growing collections of ultra-realistic, professional drum plugins and MIDI drum loops tailored to a wide range of music styles and situations. They are super-easy to use and sound great right out of the box.

Whatever your musical passion is, you will likely find tools to foster your inspiration and help make your music groovier.