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Handy Drums- LATIN PERCUSSION & DRUMS v2 (FREE TRIAL)
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Original price was: $60.00.$35.00Current price is: $35.00.
Let’s be honest. You’ll achieve the best results by hiring someone like Bill Stewart or Brian Blade to lay down your Jazz tracks in a high-end recording studio. But, for one reason or another, that may be closer to fantasy than reality.
Your music and ideas can’t wait for the stars to align, and we have a wonderful, sampled Jazz drumset to help turn them into reality.
Handy Drums JAZZ STANDARD is an excellent drumset for achieving a subtle, rich musical tone. The kit features open, naturally-sustaining drums with warm mid-range frequencies.
To achieve a good jazz tone, drum tuning is crucial. The high-tension skins on the Jazz Standard kit were carefully tuned for optimal resonance and treated gently to fit nicely into a mix.
The kick drum on this drumset features full natural-style skins with minimal damping and is played with the beater off. The cymbals are also meticulously sampled to provide a smokey vintage vibe reminiscent of cymbals from the ’50s. The ride cymbal offers a beautiful harmonic wash that breathes life and air into your music.
The result is a dynamic jazz drumset with finesse and nuance ideal for jazz styles or any genre requiring subtlety.
Pair it with Ludwig Afonso’s Jazz Drum Grooves collection, and you’ll be swinging in no time at all.
This product is included in the Producer Collection plugin bundle.
Format: VST/AU/AAX/Standalone
Genre: JAZZ
Platform:
(Win 7+), (MacOS 10.11+, dual binary)
With stunning drum sound, mix-ready right out of the box, Handy Drums are the most practical, professional virtual drum instruments for your recording project.
Give yourself more time to focus on creative parts of your song instead of spending loads of time finding or making a usable drum sound. Achieving great-sounding, studio-quality jazz drums takes a significant amount of time, even when you are highly skilled for the task and have the best tools at your disposal.
We have decades of experience recording drums and invested significant time painstakingly editing and carefully mixing them from multi-track recordings so you don’t have to.
Using the right blend of close, overhead, and room microphones, we expertly sculpted them for a deep, musical, and above all, natural-sounding drum set so that it will sit right into your mix the first time!
Every kit and percussion setup has a very balanced sound–not too hyped and not too dry.
– RECORDING MAGAZINE
Brilliantly recorded, mix-ready kits.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
Without exception, the kits sound really good; this is mix‑ready stuff with a minimum of fuss.
– SOUND ON SOUND
Load the Jazz Standard drum plugin, drop in your favorite swinging midi grooves, and bam!- you are ready to groove! We did all the “behind the scenes” work to give you a finished drum sound right out of the box. You can then immerse yourself in the musical aspects of the drum track.
The intuitive interface makes tweaks super easy.
Handy Drums reminds me a bit of the Drummer VST baked into Apple Logic Pro. Namely, there is a similar simplicity and immediacy to the results.
–RECORDING MAGAZINE
I could easily imagine a Handy Drums instrument making a no‑fuss sound module, whether in the studio or live.
– John Walden, SOUND ON SOUND
To achieve larger-than-life yet completely natural-sounding drums, every step of the recording process is critical. Starting with drum selection, tuning, placement and much more, all drums were carefully treated before even a single note was sampled.
Our Jazz Drums were captured using the highest-quality microphones, preamps, and converters to preserve every minute detail.
I have to say that I’m impressed by the core drum sounds…
In summary, great value, great sounds, and great usability.
SOUND ON SOUNDthe Handy Drums series is a no-brainer for those who need a solid rhythm section
– no questions asked.
COMPUTER MUSICPRODUCTION EXPERTHandy Drums – Perhaps The Simplest Drum VI Around
Handy Drums JAZZ STANDARD is self-contained and comes with multiple powerful samplers built-in. You don’t need to spend extra money or effort buying 3rd party samplers and worrying about how to connect it all. Load Handy Drums like any standard VST/AU/AAX plugin or a stand-alone app.
Be up and running in mere minutes.
FEATURES
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Handy Drums JAZZ STANDARD does not require an engineering degree to use. An elaborate design of over 100 samplers and smart algorithms work behind the simple and logical user interface.
Intuitively access all of the essential functions.
Simple and immediate UI saves time.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
Sound so natural; you can almost touch them.
Handy Drums Jazz Standard sounds like an actual drum kit being played right in front of you in a room instead of a bunch of individual components sounding in their own isolated spaces.
We achieved realism by recording the full depth of acoustic drums and their natural ambiance, then meticulously editing and blending them in the post-production.
The sound is very much like you are listening to the drums within a beautifully treated, compact studio room.
– SOUND ON SOUND
kick
snare
hats
tom 1
tom 2
tom 3
tom 4
ride
ride 2
crash
splash
claps
tamb.
cowbell
shaker
triangle
snaps
click
For detailed drum mapping, see Handy Drums Jazz Standard Drum Map.
Effortlessly browse through all MIDI drum loops on your computer, audition them, and import them into your DAW by way of drag-n-drop.
To get you going quickly, we have included a selection of MIDI drum loops, immediately accessible from within this browser.
Save your most accessed MIDI folders or favorite loops in the included Favorites section for instant access at any time.
And any Handy Grooves MIDI packs you purchase and install will show here by default.
Learn more about the MIDI Loop Browser.
Jazz Standard conforms to GM drum mapping wherever possible. Drop in any standard midi drum loop onto your DAW timeline to hear immediate results.
It’s equally easy to Map Handy Drums Jazz Standard just the way you like, quickly and effortlessly and then use the Preset Manager to save your mapping for future use.
Select a note for any available instrument, or start with a blank slate and use our “strike-to-learn-note” mapping to assign any key on your MIDI controller to an instrument.
NEW IN V2.0: Take advantage of the additional “blank” mapping to assign several keys to a single instrument sound, which is great for keyboardists looking to play drum rolls.
Read more about drum mapping in Handy Drums.
No guessing on what each drum, cymbal or percussion instrument sounds like!
Hover over any instrument name on the Key-Mapping/ Pitch-Tuning panel, and magic happens: dynamic audition pads are revealed, allowing you to trigger any available sound in its full dynamic range and articulations.
As you press the pads from left to right, the sounds are triggered at velocities from 1-127.
Learn more about the drum pads.
An acoustic hi-hat is a complex instrument in its own right. One of the most awesome features of Handy Drums is the variable hi-hats. It utilises full range of sampled hats from tightly closed to closed, 25% open, 50% open, 75% open, and 100% open, for both tip and edge sounds.
Despite these 12 types of articulations, 10 dynamic ranges, and numerous round robins, you can seamlessly switch from one to another using only TWO notes and a CC4 controller.
We made major improvements to our variable hats in v2.0 so they play, feel, and sound as close to the real thing as possible.
NEW IN V2.0: Play variable hats with any regular GM drum loop.
NEW IN V2.0: For e-drummers, play variable hats with either dual-zone or single-zone pad, as long as your foot controller sends CC4 messages. Play hat foot splashes as you would on an acoustic kit.
This approach streamlines something that was previously more of a time sink of assigning notes to each articulation.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
…the hi‑hat mapping is nicely done, providing plenty of control over the degree of closed/open status of the cymbals.
– SOUND ON SOUND
Find out more about our variable hats.
Tweak the pitch of individual drum components right inside the plugin. This is useful when you want to match the key of a song, which is usually not more than a semitone away.
Learn more about the pitch-tuning.
While we initially focused on non-drummers when creating Handy Drums, much of our focus for v2.0 has been dedicated to features relevant to drummers playing electronic kits.
With a simple switch, Handy Drums will be specifically tailored to e-drummers:
Learn more about the e-drummer mode.
Use your favorite compressor, reverb, EQ, tape simulator, or other plugin effects to manipulate Handy Drums’ individual components further. Output each drum component to any of the available 16 stereo subgroups and independently process them.
Read more about the multiple plugin outputs.
Save and recall the entire plugin’s state at any point by using the Preset Manager.
This is particularly handy for creating custom drum maps.
Learn more about the preset manager.
Initiate the Handy Drums plugin or standalone app quickly and keep the memory overhead to a minimum by differing the sample loading until needed.
Starting with v2.0, the Handy Drums samples are instantly loaded into the memory only when played. That means that you can run several Handy Drums plugin instances, and only the samples utilized are ever loaded.
If you wish to load the entire sample library, you can do so with a simple switch. Even so, only portions of the highly optimized sample library format are loaded into the memory, with the rest being read straight from the disk.
Learn more about the sample loading modes.
Handy Drums run on Windows 7+, come in dual binary for MacOS and can be run natively on systems equipped with either Intel or Apple silicon chips.
Use them as they are or as a starting point for your own grooves.
Pair Handy Drums JAZZ STANDARD with Handy Grooves JAZZ DRUMS, our MIDI drum loop package for instant results. Or, combine one of the other MIDI drum loops from the Handy Grooves range.
All of our midi drum loops have been produced with the utmost care by world-class drummer producers and tailored to work specifically with Handy Drums plugins.
Handy Drums and Handy Grooves is a perfect pairing for the singer-songwriter, musician, or producer who wants to get a professional-sounding drum track up and grooving.
– RECORDING MAGAZINE
The grooves are very usable, the MIDI obviously editable, and the price pretty modest given what’s on offer.
– SOUND ON SOUND
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The mixer takes center stage in Handy Drums and gives you immediate access to essential controls.
Quickly preview included components to make sure everything is in working order using the audition buttons on top of each instrument group.
NEW in V2.0:
View mute, solo, and panning states of all channels at a glance. Unmute and un-solo all channels at once.
Pan instruments, swap left and right channels, or turn them mono with a simple switch.
Additional popup mixers give you access to individual components of complex instruments, such as hi-hats.
Get all the details on the mixer here.
Each component was sampled at multiple dynamic levels to ensure the instrument’s fullest dynamic range comes through during playback. Handy Drums Jazz standard contains up to 12 dynamic levels.
The samples respond accordingly with a very realistic sound and response.
– RECORDING MAGAZINE
Throughout our tests, we never noticed any clipping or struggling to keep pace with our shifting tempo, even when aggressively swinging between extreme bpm and more leisurely paced plods.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
Up to 12 samples per dynamic level
Every drum stroke played by a real drummer is ever so slightly different from the previous one, no matter how good the drummer is. This is part of what gives it that “human” feel and is why our ears can instantly hear the difference between a roll played by a real drummer and the same sample being triggered over again.
To make our Jazz Standard sound more like a real jazz drummer, each drum and cymbal has been sampled numerous times at every dynamic level. No sample is repeated sequentially during playback, but a different one is triggered. Depending on the instrument, some internal samplers will play the available samples at random, while others will be played in a “round robin” fashion.
Every instrument has a round/random robin independent from other instruments.
This culminates in the impression of a drummer hitting each drum with minor variations each time. Something many other ‘realistic’ VIs never quite nail.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
While recorded at 24-bit depth and mixed at 32-floating point, our sample libraries are provided in a special, highly memory-optimized HLAC format, preserving the full resolution at a much smaller footprint.
The result is the sample library that sounds great while taking less space on your disk and loading instantly into your memory.
Assign any MIDI CC controller to a number of relevant controls on Handy Drums, such as volume faders, panners, mute buttons, and more.
It is as simple as right-clicking, selecting “Learn MIDI CC,” and then moving a fader or a knob on your hardware MIDI controller for instant pairing. Save your settings in the Preset Manager for future use.
Learn more about the assign/ learn MIDI CC functionality.
Make the high-definition interface as large or as small as you need to suit your computer monitor best.
Handy Drums GUI is now fully vectorized so that it will look pixel-perfect at any resolution and zoom level.
Handy Drums have an exceptionally small CPU and memory footprint. Because we have gotten away from unnecessary effects, your computer will run them without breaking a sweat.
Go ahead and load several Handy Drums plugins with no problem.
Goran Rista is a professional session drummer and producer based out of Miami, FL, and founder of GoranGrooves.com.
Over two dozen virtual drum instruments consisting of thousands of drum samples and over 13,000 midi drum beats and drum fills, make him one of the world's most prolific drum loop producers.
Goran's drum set libraries and drum loops are used by well over 250k performing musicians and studio producers worldwide.
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Original price was: $60.00.$35.00Current price is: $35.00.