Sonic Reality Ocean Way Drums Gold Edition Software

Ocean Way Drums is the brainchild of studio owner Allen Sides, one of the audio industrys most esteemed figures. The concept is simple make the sound of Ocean Way, the worlds most awarded studio complex, available to artists who are serious about their music.

An enormous library of killer sounds is available via the 19 kits, each with 12 presets in both snare on and snare off versions. These presets instantly provide shocking impact and spatial depth. And for those who want to experiment, adjustments to the individual instrument faders and stereo sub mixes offer unlimited possibilities. Imagine booking time in one of the worlds most revered rooms, using the best sounding drums and then having multi platinum engineer/producers record and balance your session. Ocean Way Drums can help your music sound like a million bucks.

Creating The Ultimate Expressive Drum Kit
Allen Sides and Steven Miller chose to collaborate with Sonic Reality because they demand the very best. Ten years ago Sonic Reality created the first high-end drum kit sample library that incorporated expressive performance articulations of the drum hits across the keyboard. Sonic Realitys proprietary I-Map technique is the gold standard of drum mapping. And for Ocean Way Drums, an additional, state of the art map was created just for Roland V-Drum users.

With expert programming in formats such as Native Instruments Kontakt 2, Ocean Way Drums incorporates extraordinary natural room ambiance, high resolution audiofile… read more sound and extended flexibility to make it THE industry standard in sample drum kits.

Each instrument has discrete microphone mixing control deeper than any other drum product to date. Snares contains over 15 different microphones options including multiple stereo directs and more!

A Tour of the Library
There are two types of patches included in Ocean Way Drums:
- Instruments and Multis. Instruments are individual drums (Kick, Snare, Hat, etc.)
- Multis are combinations of instruments specially picked and made into full drum kits.

The Instruments and Multis are then further broken up into two folders labeled IMAP and V-Drum.The IMAP material has been programmed to be used with a keyboard while the V-Drum material was programmed to use with Rolands electronic V-Drum kit.

I-MAP
I-MAP is a proprietary MIDI note mapping/drum kit layout scheme developed by Sonic Reality that facilitates improved live performance of drum kits via MIDI keyboard input. I-MAP places drums in their most flexible and intuitive position, allowing each of the fingers on both hands independent and coordinated control over the loaded kit. With very little practice, it is possible to lay down complete drum grooves in a single take that have incredible feel and groove. Having Ocean Way Drums mapped over the I-MAP gives the user an amazing amount of versatility and creativity having dedicated keys for rolls, ghost notes, cymbal swells and alt hits just to name a few.

V-Drum
The V-Drum Instruments and Multis have been carefully programmed to work with Rolands electronic V-Drum drum kit.

All the kits have been designed with a four Tom set in mind. Just like a real kit you have center, edge and rim hits all programmed with a multitude of samples for great dynamic range and playability. The only difference between the IMAP and V-Drum kits is that no extra hits or rolls have been added to the V-Drum patches virtually keeping the characteristics of a real drum kit.

Snare On and Snare Off
When first seeing Snare On or Snare Off you may think that the only difference between the two is that the Snare drum simply has snares on or snares turned off. This is not the case. All of the Snares in Ocean Way Drums have the snares turned on. The difference between, say Kit 1 Snare On and Kit 1 Snare Off is the Kick and Toms. Snare On means that the Kick and Toms also have the snare rumble of the snare drum picked up the recording of the Kick and Toms.

The Multis Folder
The multis folder contains four sub folders, IMAP Snare On, IMAP Snare Off, V-Drum Snare On and V-Drum Snare Off. Inside each of these folders you have two Multis for each kit making there a total of 38 Multis per folder. The only difference between the two multis per kit is the snare configuration changing from the 57 to C12A preset which well get into more later.

The Instruments Folder
Like the Multis folder the Instrument folder also contains two sub folders, IMAP and V-Drum. Inside those sub folders you have an individual folder for each actual instrument (Kick, Snare, Hat, etc.) Just inside these folders you will find all the individual split out instruments per kit. Each of these Instruments can be opened individually or brought in to replace an Instrument inside a preexisting Multi. read less