3 Highly Versatile Drum Kits For Cinematic Underscore, Trailer Music & Much More
Welcome to “MAD RockScore” – the ultimate drum kit library that will easily blend with your orchestra (or anything else really…)
Features
- Iconic and vintage Rock drum kits – Handheld Sound picked vintage and well sought after drums and antique cymbals.
- Extended microphone blending – Recording in a big scoring room was just the beginning. Handheld Sound developed an expanded mixing engine that goes beyond traditional signal flow with total control over microphone bleed.
- Dynamic Expression – “MAD – RockScore” features a wide dynamic range that retains all the nuances you’d expect from percussion instruments.
- New level of playability – The drums feature extended articulations including extensive left/right hand samples. Handheld Sound symmetrical MIDI note mapping makes it easy to play and quickly create realistic patterns.
- Flexible in any production – “MAD RockScore” brings total control over signal flow and therefore can fit nicely with non Orchestral genres as well. With total control over room sound and microphone bleed, you are in control of the raw sound and tonal balance for your arrangement.
- Dedicated Groove Engine – Includes over 500 grooves systematically organized with Core patterns and respective Alternates and Fills. All grooves can be dropped to your DAW as 2 bar MIDI clips.
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A Drummer’s Delight Wrapped In A Stylish & Easy To Understand Interface
Features & Tech
“MAD – RockScore” aims to be an impactful companion to Orchestral arrangements and hybrid epic soundtracks.
Recording sessions were held in a large scoring room using an elaborate microphone array that combines intimate focus with space and room reflections. The library maintains an open mixing architecture so you’re given an opportunity to shape each kit with full control over microphone blending, extensive mic bleed control, and 2 unique scoring stage perspectives.
Combining this approach with Handheld Sound’s obsession about a wide dynamic range and extended articulations, these drums become uniquely expressive and will energize any arrangement.
Lush Scoring Stage Sound. Total Control Over Room Ambience
Experience a striking cinematic sound with every bit of detail and ultimate control.
Expanding a complete spot microphone array and a stereo overheads configuration, Handheld Sound added two additional perspectives: a Stereo Room and Stereo Outriggers. These add width and space to the drums making them very suitable to fit in a Scoring mix.
Every aspect of the room ambience can be tailored by having full control over the signal flow and utilizing the custom mic bleed matrix.
Extensive Playability. Easy And Responsive
As with Handheld Sound’s other libraries, the emphasis was on capturing an ultra wide dynamic range, virtually noiseless samples, and clear definition across all dynamic layers.
The library features 4 round robin alternates and up to 14 dynamic layers with dedicated Left/Right hand samples for Snare, Toms, and Hi-Hat.
Handheld Sound’s acclaimed Hi-Hat engine features extended articulations including 6 degrees of close-to-open modulation. The automatic foot stomp and variable attack make for ultra realistic Hi-Hat action.
Additionally, Handheld Sound have customized the voice stacking to simulate the natural resonance buildup that occurs after repeated hits without letting it chew up your headroom!
And finally, Handheld Sound used release samples and articulation crossfading on various cymbal articulations to bring out the realism of chokes, rolls, and transitions between different hi-hat articulations.
And finally, Handheld Sound’s expanded custom script enhances the performance while keeping things immediate and very easy to use.
Superior Mixing. From Intimate To IMMENSE
The Mixer is the most involved aspect of the interface.
Moving further away from traditional mixing, Handheld Sound designed the mixer engine to offer a non traditional control over signal flow.
- The Room and Outriggers microphone perspectives can work as auxiliary returns – so now you can add any combination of actual room ambience to specific spot channels!
- Handheld Sound built a comprehensive microphone bleed matrix. This is an often overlooked concept, which allows you to combine signals in a variety of ways and add variety and nuance to the raw sound of the drums.
- Each mixer channel can be bussed to your DAW for independent mixing.
Groovy. Core Patterns, Alternates, And Fills
The Groove engine is where you can quickly audition rhythmic ideas and use them in your DAW as building blocks or as is. “MAD – RockScore” comes with over 500 Rock and Cinematic Core Grooves. Each Core Groove has 5 alternate patterns and 5 fill-ins.
Alts and Fills go from subtle to extreme while retaining the context of their respective core grooves. The grooves are un-quantized to maintain the original drummer’s feel and can be dragged to your DAW as standard MIDI clips.
The Instruments In Depth
Imagine a classic Drum sound that’s wrapped around the Orchestra and fills the score with impact and a thick stereo image…
Each of the 3 kits feature a similar signal path while having a distinct sonic signature.
The spot microphone channels are expanded with a comprehensive mic bleed matrix and stereo Room and Outriggers microphone perspectives.
The result is a dynamic drums tone that will fit any size score!
Piper – Ludwig Butcher Block Wrap Finish, 1972
- Bass Drum – 14″ X 22″
- Snare – 5″ X 14″ 6-lug Ludwig Pioneer (1950’s)
- Tom 1 – 8″ X 12″
- Tom 2 – 9″ X 13″
- Floor Tom – 16″ X 16″
Haze/Haze Brooms – WFL Marine Pearl Wrap, Late 1950’s
- Bass Drum – 12″ X 22″
- Snare – 4″ X 14″ 6-lug Ludwig heavy brass (1920’s)
- Tom – 9″ X 13″
- Floor Tom – 16″ X 16″
Umber – Mayer Bros. Drums Champagne Sparkle Lacquer Finish, 2003
- Bass Drum – 14″ X 24″
- Snare – 5.5″ X 14″ Ludwig Suprasonic (1965)
- Tom – 9″ X 13″
- Floor Tom – 13″ X 16″
Cymbals – Cymbals Are Shared Between The Kits
- Hi Hat – 14″ early 1960’s Zildjian A’s
- Crash 1 – 18″ Bosphorus
- (pre-Crescent) Antique Series
- Crash 2 – 19″ Bosphorus
- (pre-Crescent) Masters Series
- Ride – 22″ 1950’s Zildjian A
Miscellaneous
- Sticks – Cooperman Persimmon signature series/Promark Broomsticks
- Bass Drum beater – Medium and soft beaters (Haze kit only)
- Skins – All skins by Remo
Grooves
- 500+ patterns – Core groove patterns
- Core patterns – 5 groove alternates per core pattern
- Alternates / Fills – 5 Fills per core pattern
For more detailed information read the [User Manual].
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What Can I Do With “MAD – RockScore”?
“MAD – RockScore” consists of 3 highly detailed drum kits that aim to recreate all the subtleties of playing the real thing, each one is unique and they all offer a great deal of timbre contrast.
These are also highly flexible libraries that can adapt themselves to many genres, but are particularly well suited to:
- Cinematic Underscore
- Trailer Music
- Hybrid Orchestral Music
Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or higher (NOT compatible with the Free Kontakt Player).
Note: Download is via the [Pulse Downloader], manual links will not be provided by VSTBuzz.
"MAD - RockScore" by Handheld Sound
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- Iconic and vintage Rock drum kits – Handheld Sound picked vintage and well sought after drums and antique cymbals. These drum kits feature a heavyweight sound with lots of sustain that redefines what ‘bigger than life’ sounds like!
- Extended microphone blending – Recording in a big scoring room was just the beginning. Handheld Sound developed an expanded mixing engine that goes beyond traditional signal flow with total control over microphone bleed. The size and impact of the room sound can be easily controlled to fit any size ensemble.
- Dynamic Expression – “MAD – RockScore” features a wide dynamic range that retains all the nuances you’d expect from percussion instruments. This allows for customization of velocity curves to fit your playing style and the ability for real time crescendo/diminuendo performances using the new Velocity Offset feature.
- New level of playability – The drums feature extended articulations including extensive left/right hand samples. Handheld Sound symmetrical MIDI note mapping makes it easy to play and quickly create realistic patterns. With Handheld Sound acclaimed Hi-Hat engine, velocity shaping tools, and along with legato Snare grace notes and multi-sampled Cymbal chokes, you have immediate access to every bit of nuance.
- Flexible in any production – “MAD – RockScore” brings total control over signal flow and therefore can fit nicely with non Orchestral genres as well. With total control over room sound and microphone bleed, you are in control of the raw sound and tonal balance for your arrangement.
- Dedicated Groove Engine – Includes over 500 grooves systematically organized with Core patterns and respective Alternates and Fills. All grooves can be dropped to your DAW as 2 bar MIDI clips.
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or above
- Windows 7 or above
- Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or higher (NOT compatible with the Free Kontakt Player).
- Note: Download is via the [Pulse Downloader], manual links will not be provided by VSTBuzz.
- Perfect for Cinematic Underscore, Trailer Music, Hybrid Orchestral Music and much, much more!