$35.00
Attention all you tough guys and gals out there – the Handy Drums METAL STANDARD kit is not for wimps! This kit is made for those who can handle loads of double kick blasts and crave a snappy kick with plenty of “click” attack to complement those wicked guitar riffs.
Get ready for an aggressive, in-your-face sound with this kit! The fat and explosive snare sound achieved naturally in the recording room will blow your mind, along with the toms that have plenty of fast attack and are played even harder to capture the total energy and carry it into the sampled instrument.
And let’s not forget about the bright (but not harsh) cymbals that complete the package and make this kit ideal for all types of Metal subgenres, including Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Progressive Metal, Groove Metal, and much more.
So if you’re serious about your Metal music and want to achieve that perfect sound, don’t be a wussy – get your hands on the Handy Drums METAL STANDARD kit today! You won’t regret it – unless, of course, you can’t handle the power. 😏
This product is included in the Producer Collection plugin bundle.
Format: VST/AU/AAX/Standalone
Genre: GRUNGE, PUNK, ROCK, METAL
Platform:
(Win 7+) 
(MacOS 10.11+, dual binary)
When the budget is tight, but you need realistic-sounding, professional-quality drum tracks for your project, Handy Drums are here for you.
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.
Spend time creating music instead of trying to make a usable drum sound. Achieving a great drum sound takes a significant amount of time, even when you are highly skilled for the task and have a quality drum recording, to begin with.
We invested hours upon hours painstakingly editing and carefully mixing drums from multitrack recordings so you don’t have to.
With just the right blend of close mics, overheads, and room mics, expertly sculpted for a robust, punchy, natural-sounding drum set, it will sit right into your mix!
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 drum plugin, drop in your favorite midi drum groove, and bam!- you are ready to groove! We did the heavy lifting for you—a finished drum sound right out of the box. You are free to focus on the musical aspects of the drum track.
Make the tweaks using the intuitive interface.
Handy Drums reminds 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
Drum sounds behind the hit drum machine are here for your DAW!
Goran Rista, the producer of Handy Drums, used the same recording and production techniques he did for BeatBuddy’s original drumsets, an award-winning, best-selling drum machine.
The revered drum sounds that have made the BeatBuddy such a hit with live performers are now available in their expanded versions for your recording needs.
I have to say that I’m impressed by the core drum sounds… In summary, great value, great sounds, and great usability.
Brilliantly recorded, mix-ready kits. Handy Drums might just rock your world…
Handy Drums – Perhaps The Simplest Drum VI Around
PRODUCTION EXPERT
We believe that high quality should not be limited only to those with deep pockets. We priced the Handy Drums range to be affordable to anyone. These virtual drum instruments are the best value you’ll find anywhere.
… individually, they are an absolute steal given just how good they sound.
– SOUND ON SOUND
Use them as they are or as a starting point for your own grooves.
Pair Handy Drums METAL with our METAL DRUMS, MIDI drum loop package from our Handy Grooves range for instant wickedness. All of our midi drum loops have been produced 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
Unless you are a dab hand at programming your own drum parts, these are a great complement to the instruments themselves.
– SOUND ON SOUND
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 do not require a complicated manual to use. An elaborate design of over 50 samplers and smart algorithms power your seamless experience behind the simple user interface.
Access all of the essential functions intuitively.
Simple and immediate UI saves time.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
Each drum and cymbal was sampled at multiple dynamic levels to ensure the instrument’s fullest dynamic range when played back. Handy Drums Vintage Ludwig contains up to 9 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 10 samples per dynamic level
When a drummer strikes a drum, each subsequential stroke is ever so slightly different from the one preceding, no matter how consistently they are played. That’s why our ear can instantly tell the difference between a roll played by a real drummer and a single sample being looped.
Each drum and cymbal has been sampled numerous times at every dynamic level. During a playback, no sample is repeated sequentially, but a different sample is triggered.
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
All Handy Drums samples come in 24bit wav format for the ultimate resolution and sound quality.
To achieve larger-than-life yet completely natural-sounding drums, every step of the sampling process is critical. Starting with the drum tuning, drums were carefully treated before even a single note was played.
They are captured using the highest-quality mics, preamps, and converters to preserve every minute detail.
Sound so natural; you can almost touch them.
Handy Drums sound like an actual drumset being played right in front of you in a room instead of a bunch of individual drums sounding in their own isolated spaces.
We achieved realism by recording the full breadth of acoustic drums and their natural ambiance, then meticulously edited and mixed 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
Handy Drums are compatible with all DAWs that support virtual instrument plugins in either VST2, VST3, AU, AAX.
They are available in 64bit for both Windows and MacOS. They come in dual binary for MacOS and can be run natively on systems equipped with either Intel or Apple silicon chips.
kick
snare
hats
tom 1
tom 2
tom 3
tom 4
ride
crashes
splashes
claps
tamb.
cowbell
shaker
triangle
snaps
click
For a detailed drum mapping, see GoranGrooves Standard Drum Map.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONALITIES
While the Handy Drums come pre-leveled between components, you still have an option to tweak and automate individual drum components to suit your mix. More kick or snare? No problem.
Handy Drums conform to GM drum mapping wherever possible. Drop in any standard midi drum loop onto your DAW timeline to hear instant results. Easily match the mapping of Handy Drums to any custom midi drum loop.
Use your favorite compression, reverb, EQ, distortion, or other FX plugins to further manipulate Handy Drums’ individual components. Output each drum components to any of the available eight stereo subgroups and independently process them.
An acoustic hi-hat is a complex instrument in its own right. Handy Drums’s variable hi-hats utilize the 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, multiple dynamic ranges, and round robins, you can seamlessly switch from one to another using only TWO notes and a CC4 controller.
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
The variable Hi-hats alone contain over 700 samples!
In addition to variable hats, standard open/close/foot hats are also included for better compatibility with GM drum loops. As a bonus, included is foot splash hi-hat articulation on B1.
For e-drummers who want to use Handy Drums, you can adjust your hi-hat foot controller curve. The curve is particularly beneficial for drum modules that do not output the full value range from 1-127.
Sure, it is metal, but you can still add color and subliminal drive with the use of percussion!
METAL STANDARD comes with several percussion instruments and their dedicated mixer tab:
Handclaps, fingersnaps, tambourine, cowbell, shaker, triangle, and metronome sounds.
Quickly preview the sounds of the drumset by clicking on the icons. They will play at random velocities.
Make the high-definition interface as large or as small as you need to suit your computer monitor best.
In a perfect world, there would be no need for drum replacements. Unfortunately, as producers or sound mixers, we are sometimes handed drum recordings of substandard quality, so to rescue the mix, drum replacement becomes essential.
This sampled drum instrument makes for an ideal drum replacement contender. If your DAW can extract transients from an audio recording, it is a simple task to create a MIDI track from it and rout it to Handy Drums instrument. Instant punch and presence!
Alternatively, you can use a dedicated drum replacement tool such as appTrigga3.
Goran Rista is a professional session drummer and producer based out of Miami, FL, and founder of GoranGrooves.com.
He has produced over 25 virtual drum instruments, and over 13,000 midi drum beats and drum fills, making him one of the world’s most prolific drum loop producers.
Goran’s drum set libraries and drum loops are used by over 85,000 musicians and producers in both live and recording settings.
Read more here.
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