Radio-ready, Affordable Drum Samples!

Steven Slate Drums 3.0 Signature Drumkits LE delivers the kind of high quality drum sounds we've come to expect from Slate. Having sold big, fat, and punchy drum samples to top names in the industry for quite some time now, Slate brings all his know-how to this affordable 20-kit collection. Plus, with 3.0 Signature Drumkits LE, you get 6 modeled kits that recreate the sounds of the biggest rock bands including, Nirvana, AC/DC, Deftones, Green Day, and Led Zeppelin. Giving you the kind of raw, no-tweaking-necessary samples you need, you'll have radio-ready drum tracks in no time when you put the power of Steven Slate Drums 3.0 Signature Drumkits LE to work in your studio.

Powerful, ready-to-go samples
Steven Slate has sold samples to some of the country's top mixers, and has worked hard to tweak and test them in actual mixes, within various musical styles. What you get with this pack is the assurance that they're going to sound great right "out-of-the-box," with no tweaks necessary. Plus, Slate's already EQ'd and compressed these samples with precision - just throw the fader up and get right to work on your mix.

Multiple ambient spaces to choose from
A unique feature to Steven Slate Drums is the Z system. Each drum sample set is actually processed in one of four ambient spaces, giving you a variety of tones and "feels" to choose from when you're selecting the right sound for your mix. Z1 mono sets have a slight amount of overhead micing for a three dimensional, airy, punchy, natural drum sound. Z2 sets are stereo samples, and have heavily compressed far room mics that are mixed in with closer mics, resulting in deep, fat sound that's ideal for your thick rock mixes. Z3 mono sets are dry and not processed with any ambient mics for a more in-your-face punk or speed metal type sound. Finally, the newest Z4 sample sets offer just the isolated room sound of each sample. So, if you mix a Z1 with a Z4, for example, you'll get a pure, 3D drum tone that delivers the characteristics of a stellar-sounding drum room.

High-quality models of famous kits
Incorporate the drum kits of some of the biggest bands in recent rock history. The Steven Slate Drums 3.0 Signature Drumkits LE collection includes dead-on kit models of Steely Dan, Motley Crue, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Dream Theater.

Drums sampled a variety of ways
Acoustic drummers know that you can produce a variety of tones depending on how you tune the drum at certain tensions, by dampening and undampening the drum, by using different drum heads, or by tightening and loosening the snares. Steve Slate Drums makes use of all of these different signature sounds, and many of the drums are sampled with different tunings, different heads, and different dampenings - it's like having an acoustic kit, and a live drummer right inside your studio.

Includes the SSD virtual instrument
3.0 Signature Drumkits LE from Steve Slate Drums comes with the SSD Virtual Instrument, a VST/DX/RTAS/AU MIDI drum sampler. You can use it within any DAW. Plus, it has mapping for keyboard and Roland V-Drum modules, so you can put the samples to work in whatever way you create best. In fact, one of the keyboard mappings is even prerouted so that each drum track will appear on seperate tracks in your host DAW. What's more, each drum comes in raw WAV format as well as Drumagog GOG format for live drum replacement when you need to enhance or fix poorly recorded drum tracks