STIGMATIZED DRUMMER is a HI-END METAL oriended Drumming Library. Recorded under exaustive detail it provides the real deal. After trying and testing every possible setup,mic placement,and tuning the results are phenomenal. Real organic,full cracking and "just in your face" sound. Every Drum piece is recorded both left and right hand and with up to 60 velocity layers the quality is unparalleled. Using the industry standard of the Highest Sampling technology the powerfull KONTAKT 5 engine and it's build in quality effects you have access to a whole Studio. Advanced Scripting gives you the right tools to control everything in a top notch designed interface. Selecting some of the hundrends of "focused" grooves,drag'n'drop in your DAW, using all these tools,effects,our top sophisticated SPLIT technology,the 16 track flexible MIXER and the MATRIX ROUTER, the ultimate weapon in terms of full control on every internall buss of STIGMATIZED DRUMMER,creating the perfect Drumtrack has never been so easy. STIGMATIZED DRUMMER is a must for EXTREME DRUMMING.

Although it's "mix ready",meaning that you simply Load it and you are ready to go,it has a lot of headroom for adjustments and creating your own tones. Finally it can act perfect in a lot of other genres (Hard rock,Pop,etc) because it comes in 2 versions... STIGMATIZED XTREME : Processed METAL oriended "mix ready" version. STIGMATIZED RAW : A really raw version,a producers choice,100% as recorded giving the possibility to start from scratch. Using all these features the possibilities are endless...

ONLY YOU CAN SET THE LIMITS !

A QUICK TOUR TO THE INTERFACE GROOVES

Hundrends of HI-END EXTREME and not only FOCUSED GROOVES. Simply Drag'n'Drop and you are READY TO GO.

OPTIONS

With a variety of OPTIONS you can control VELOCITY, change DRUM MAPPINGS and ARTICULATIONS.

KIT

Easy control of VOLUME, TUNING,ATTACK HOLD and DECAY on every Kit Piece.

MIXER

16 Channel mixer for full control of the Drumkit. The OVERHEADS BUS is split to separate and independent channels (RIDE,CRASH, WOODEN CELLS)without altering the sound so the control is much more precise. With SOLO, MUTE and PAN controls on every channel it's easy to achive a well balanced mix but if you want to go further just route your tracks to your DAW from the coresponding build in outputs,so you can use your favourite plugins. Use the internal HI-END effects (G-EQUALIZER, TRANSIENT-MASTER, SOLID BUS COMPRESSOR, TAPE-SATURATOR) to sculpt your sound.

MATRIX

The MATRIX-ROUTER is the ultimate weapon in terms of control. From the MATRIX-ROUTER you can have access to any internal bus of every kit piece, so you have full control over the Drumkit.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

KONTAKT 5.4.1.211 or higher(full version of KONTAKT required,does not work in the FREE KONTAKT PLAYER). Watch corresponding video in our Site about ENCODED and non ENCODED Libraries. 2 GB of RAM minimum. We recommend at least 4 GB. 4.5 GB of free Hard Disc space.

NAVIGATION The interface has five main sections.You can have access in each of them by clicking on the tabs at the bottom of the instrument. These five sections are:

Grooves Section: On this section there are hundreds of grooves on a variety of different music genres that you can drag’n’drop to your host for instant Drumtrack creation. Options Section : On this Section you can control the velocity of the Drumkit and change Drum mappings. Kit Section : You can select every different kit piece and control it’s volume,tune, and ADSR value. Mixer Section : This page works like a real world mixer. 16 tracks with volume faders, pans, solos and mutes are giving you the control over the Drumkit. From here you can control all the effect settings and route your tracks to your DAW. Matrix Section : Here you can control every internal bus of every different kit element. Matrix router in cooperation with Mixer give you total control on your Drumkit.

You can change the Volume,Tune and ADSR envelope using the respective knobs

You can play the loaded groove using the groove player, which is present in all tabs.

Navigate using the prev and next buttons. Drag 'n' drop to your DAW and you are ready to go.

Use the save Mixer preset area to save any changes you made in any control of the mixer.

Mixer preset area is present in all tabs and you can navigate between presets using the prev and next

buttons, save and give your custom name in your user presets and delete user presets pressing the delete button. Use the save Matrix preset area to save any changes you made in any control of the matrix.

You can navigate between presets using the prev and next

buttons, save and give your custom name and delete user presets pressing the delete button. Use the save Effects preset area to save any changes you made in the effects.You can navigate between presets using the prev

and next buttons, save and give your custom name and delete user presets pressing the delete button.

GROOVES

The GROOVES page is a browser with hundrends of MIDI grooves and variations of different genres that can be loaded by double clicking,played by the groove player on the right top of the instrument (in all pages),select the previous and next groove by the respective buttons and drag n drop in your DAW making the creation of your Drumtrack an easy task. TIGHTNESS knob at the left bottom tends to "lock" the groove and its variations to the value represented in the GRID subdivision. Higher values lead to a "perfect-machine"feel while lower values lead to more "sloppy" feel.

SWING makes exactly what it's name says.Higher values lead to more swing feel while lower values achieve the opposite. VELOCITY controls the overall behaviour of the Drumkit. At center position the kit plays as recorded, higher values are leading to hard hitting results while lower values leading to softer feel. Finally the TEMPO buttons at the right side allow to change the speed to half or double while NORMAL plays the groove as it is.

OPTIONS The Options page is where we can adjust parameters of our kit, such as the Drum mapping and velocity ranges. The VELOCITY area is giving you the choice of 4 different velocity behaviours accessed by the 4 buttons at the VELOCITY panel. LINEAR shape is default STIGMATIZED DRUMMER behaviour.

EXP+ tends to compress the performance in the range of the higher values resulting in a harder feel. EXP- does the opposite leading to a smoother and softer feel. FIX forces all events to a costant velocity determined by the MAX value range meter from the right side. RANGE represents 2 value meters,MIN and MAX where we can set the minimum and maximum velocity for our kit. The MIDI MAPPING area is the place where we can change Drum Mappings or create our own custom ones. We can do this by selecting the note in the NOTE selector,select the instrument and articulation in the corresponding drop-down menus and click APPLY button. Alternatively we can click MIDI SELECT to change the NOTE value by pressing the MIDI note on our keyboard and follow the procedure as above. MAPPING PRESETS STIGMATIZED DRUMMER comes with a variety of mapping presets compatible with the most of major Drumming Libraries and General MIDI mapping as well. You can select any of them using the drop-down menu and navigate among them using the prev and next buttons. You can make your changes to your taste give a new name and save your new custom map pressing the save button. Now in the drop-down menu your new preset will appear. You can delete your custom presets by selecting it and pressing the delete button. NOTE : Factory presets can’t be deleted.As you will see if you try to delete a factory preset the delete button is inactive.

KIT

You can select each drum element by clicking on it or by pressing "MIDI SELECT" and pressing the respective key on your midi keybord. In this way you can hear the sound of every different Drum piece and abjust it's volume,tune,attack,hold and decay values using the corresponding knobs at the bottom of the instrument. Every Drum element has independed values so clicking for example on snare and changing it's values will affect only snare and not the others.

MIXING In order to create a mix of your Drumkit click on the Mixer tab.You will have access in a virtual console with the same controls as the real mixing desks.You can control volume,pan,solo,mute and track routings.You can edit your effects also from this page.The mixer

has 16 channels.You can navigate to channels 1-8 and 9-16 pressing the respective buttons.

A view of the mixer on channels 1-8. Notice that CHANNEL 1-8 button is pressed on the top. A view of the mixer on channels 9-16. Notice that CHANNEL 9-16 button is pressed on the top.

EFFECTS SOLID G-EQ

The SOLID G-EQ is a hi-end eq and controls four frequency ranges,using the HZ/KHZ knobs. With the Q knobes we can adjust the bell curve of the selected frequency. DB knobs increase or decrease the gain of the selected frequency. For the low and hi frequencies we can switch between bell and shelf curves using the BELL button. The OUTPUT knob on the right side controls the overall volume. We can switch SOLID G-EQ on and off clicking the POWER button.

TRANSIENT MASTER

Using the TRANSIENT MASTER you can alter your Drum sound in two ways. With the ATTACK knob you can make your sound harder and more wild as you increase and with the SUSTAIN you can make it bigger and more open. Decreasing we have the opposite results. The OUTPUT knob on the right side controls the overall volume. We can switch TRANSIENT MASTER on and off clicking the POWER button.

SOLID BUS COMP

With the SOLID BUS COMP you can add power to your drums in a very musical way without making your sound dirty and squashed.

The ATTACK knob adjusts the time in ms that it takes for compressor to react. The RELEASE knob adjusts the time in ms that it takes for the compressor to stop affecting the sound after the input falls below the threshold. The THRESHOLD knob sets the exact level that the input signal

must exeed in order to begin the compression. The RATIO knob determines how compressed will be the result.

Higher values lead to more compressed sound.Using the MIX knob you can add dry signal to your sound giving you the access to parallel compression. With the MAKE UP knob you can increase the level of the compressed sound. The OUTPUT knob adjusts the overall volume. You can switch SOLID BUS COMP on and off by clicking the POWER button.

TAPE SATURATOR

With the TAPE SATURATOR you can give to your sound the analog feel. Using the WARMTH knob and rolling off hi frequencies with the HF knob we have that analog vibe.

MATRIX

The MATRIX ROUTER is the page where we can control all busses of every kit element in the internal architecture of STIGMATIZED DRUMMER. The MATRIX ROUTER has two main areas. A bus mixer controlling volume and pan on every bus in the internal architecture of STIGMATIZED DRUMMER. A DRUM PIECE selector with all our Drum elements. Selecting any of our elements we have access to its internal busses and using the controls on the mixer we can change the volume and pan in every bus.

The values on the bus mixer are independent for every Drum element. We can use the value edits at the bottom of every bus for precise control,by double clicking and entering the desired value. We can have the default value on every control in all sections of STIGMATIZED DRUMMER by pressing command and left click on a mac or control and left click on windows. Finally we can save our abjustmens in the MATRIX preset area giving a name and pressing the save button. We can navigate through our presets using the prev and next buttons and we delete our custom presets using the delete button. With the MATRIX ROUTER you can access all the internal busses of every Drum element so you have full control over your Drumkit. A must for creating the perfect Drumtrack,is to have full control over your Drumkit, and MATRIX ROUTER gives you this ability.

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Credits Product Concept, Product Design, Sound Design, Graphic Design,KONTAKT Scripting,Project Management, Sound Engineer,Drummer,Drum Sound Specialist,Photography, MIDI Grooves by : DIMITRIS DALAMITRAS