David Oliver's Drum Kit

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OVERVIEW

David Oliver's Drum Kit is a deeply sampled red 1980's Pearl DLX drumset, handpicked and performed by British instrumentalist and media composer David Oliver. The Pearl DLX was originally played and endorsed by the legendary Jazz drummer Art Blakey although it has a very versatile sound suitable for multiple genres of music. We put it through it’s paces sampling it with a number of different stick types for maximum scope of expressive drumming techniques from ultra loud to ultra soft. Overall, this powerhouse is ready for jazz, rock, pop, or any genre that requires drums with amazing realism and customization. With the multiple mic positions, you can quickly dial in your own perfect drum kit and be on your way to your best sound yet.

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Our interface for Kontakt offers a full suite of intuitive sound-shaping controls and professional features to give you complete artistic freedom. You can easily blend and customize sounds to create your own unique instruments with 4 independent sonic layers. Dial in every detail with a full range of deeply customizable options, or leave it stock and start playing right out of the box!

This library includes a selection of modulatable filter types for shaping motion and tone. The flexible arpeggiator module includes a variety of directions and patterns to make it easy to get in the flow.

The Remapper page lets you create your own custom kits and articulation maps, with your choice of industry standard drum maps.

The Mixer page gives you all of the standard mixing desk controls, with send effects, send effects and bus routing, and individual controls for every microphone position and type.

Videos

Listen To David Oliver's Drum Kit

DRUMS

The compact 18 inch kick is super punchy with a Remo Powerstroke batter head and Evans Level 360 resonant front head. The 22-inch concert bass drum was hand built by an artisan drum maker in UK to David's specifications, with Evans 56 Calftone and Gope Goatskin heads. The Toms include a 12 inch rack tom and 14 inch floor tom. The toms were double headed using Evans Level 360 Heads for the batter side which are great for sound control and fidelity. The snares feature an Evans 56 Calftone drum head for the Mapex Peace Snare Drum, with Remo Coated Ambassador head on the vintage Pearl Super Gripper Brass Shell Snare Drum.

Cymbals

We recorded an extensive array of cymbals which were mostly Zildjians with a few Sabian, a few Paiste and Wuhan. We included a variety of hi hats with combinations of top and bottom, custom jazz and rock rides selected for their rich character and expressive crashes and splashes. The Sabian custom 20in crash ride was customized from a minibell dry ride by artisan cymbal maker Dave Collingwood in Bristol UK working to my specifications to create a uniquely rich and tonally exotic cymbal especially for this project. We also sampled some effects cymbals, a few of which David customized with a grinder and rivets.

DETAILED RECORDINGS

We recorded this kit extensively at The Whitehouse Studios in UK. The mics we used including, a stereo pair of Blue Dragonfly for overhead mics, Stereo Neumann TLM 103s for close up tone and detail, an M-S front pair (Microtech-Geffell UM70s and cardioid TLM103), and more. Every nuance was carefully captured with an ultra-present sound, up front clarity, rich stereo image, and full-bodied tone.

Artist

David Oliver

David Oliver is an esteemed percussionist known for his brilliant and expressive soundtrack work on numerous award winning films and television programs. Working from his studio in Somerset, UK, he has an intuitively inventive approach which first brought him to the attention of multiple award winning composer William Goodchild in 2012. David went on to create rhythm ensemble recordings for William Goodchild's soundtrack to National Geographic wildlife documentary Ultimate Honey Badger. It was a fruitful first collaboration and received the highest number of Nat Geo views in its category in the history of the channel in 2014 (Earth Touch News Network Jan 9 2014).

This was the start of a string of award winning collaborations with Goodchild, notably Africa’s Giant Killers (BBC Natural World 2015) and Jago: A Life Underwater (James Morgan Films, co-Directed by James Reed 2015) - Winner of Jackson Hole Grand Teton Award and Wildscreen Panda Award 2016. Other collaborations of note include working with Emmy award winning composer Barnaby Taylor on the soundtracks for Elephant Family And Me (BBC Natural World - 2016) and Ghost of the Mountain (Disney Nature - 2017). David is an avid rhythmic explorer who has made a number of his own percussion instruments such as UDU, bamboo slit drums, rainsticks and waterdrums. He is a keen proponent of music for well being and regularly performs live. Visit him at www.davidolivermusic.com for more info.

The Kontakt Player version of this library is NKS encoded for the free Kontakt Player by Native Instruments. It is fully compatible with the NKS Standard software and hardware ecosystem, and VST, VST3, AU, and Pro Tools AAX plugin formats. Version 6.6 or later is required. This product can be registered, downloaded, and installed through Native Access. Learn more about Kontakt Player from Native Instruments: https://www.native-instruments.com/products/kontakt-player

The samples in this library are losslessly compressed 24 bit 48 kHz NCW files. They can only be played by Kontakt or Kontakt Player.

Product Specs

Deeply sampled drumset with five microphone positions
8 Crash Cymbals, 4 Hi-hats, 2 Ride, 7 Splash, 1 Kick, 2 Snare, and 2 Toms
10 Powerful Kontakt Player .nki instrument presets
81,163 stereo samples in locked .ncw format
24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo Lossless NCW Format for Kontakt presets.
26.7 GB Installed (50 GB Uncompressed)
Made for the free Kontakt Player (version 6.2.2+), Komplete Kontrol, all S-Series Keyboards and NKS software and hardware by Native Instruments
Works with the Kontakt "Libraries" browser and Native Access.

System Requirements

Kontakt 6.6 requires Windows 7 (or higher), or MacOS 10.13 (or higher). The free Kontakt Player and full version of Kontakt are both supported by this library. Native Access is required for product activation and installation, and is available for download from Native Instruments: https://www.native-instruments.com/pages/native-access
A Multi-Core CPU, 8+ GB System Ram, and SSD hard drive are recommended for this library.

Documentation

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