Reason Studios Reason DrumKits PlugIn (download version)

Welcome back Reason Drum Kits! Add lively, realistic acoustic drums to your music with Reason’s most popular drum library, now re-imagined as a Rack Extension instrument. With a gorgeous new interface, the entire Hypersampled drum recording session is laid out before you, making it easier than ever to create the drum track your song needs.

Reason Drum Kits is a collection of expressive and playable acoustic drum kits, recorded in legendary studio spaces, using a mix of vintage and state-of-the-art recording equipment. Recorded at legendary Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, no effort was spared in order to capture the sound and soul of these magnificent drum kits.

But where Reason Drum kits really shines is in the way so many creative decisions are open for you. All drum kits were recorded using the full mics array in the recording room, and all those recordings are available in Reason Drum Kits when you create your drum sound. Do you want a tight and intimate sound? Go for the close mics. Want a big and loud drum kit? Go wild with the overhead and ambience mics!

Reason drum kits comes with sets of expertly crafted drum kits for you, but you can of course swap out individual drums if you want. Or build your own kit from scratch. 75 different drums, cymbals and hi-hats were recorded and you can combine them any way you like.

From thousands of samples, each drum kit has been meticulously crafted to allow for expressive performances. There are multiple samples per instrument to allow natural rolls and fills without the robotic machine gun effect of just re-triggering a single sample. Rim shots, ruffs, side stick and other ways that drummers turns patterns into performances are all there for your creative use. Included with Reason Drum Kits is also a large library of 600+ MIDI drum performances in a wide range of styles. These custom made MIDI clips can be used as a perfect starting point for building out a solid drum track for your song.

To add extra polish, Reason Drum Kits features its own reverb and bus compression. If you want even more detailed control of your mix, each drum channel has its own output so you can finish your mix in Reason’s legendary analog modeled mixing console.

Reason Drum Kits is more than a fantastic collection of natural sounding drum kits. It’s a complete live drum recording session packaged up in an easy-to-use Rack Extension.