Overview
Hear It In Action
Installation Requirements
Simple Where It Counts
Smack on drums and get visual feedback, then let it update the quick controls directly under the kit for the most simple, quick, and effective changes possible. It doesn't get any easier than this!
Make Big Moves Or Use Deliberate Detail
Move any control as much or as little as you want, or move entire groups of controls together for the fastest mix experience ever! This level of control is unprecedented in drum virtual instruments!
Want to go even deeper? Every drum and every cymbal has mutes and solos for each microphone set. The level of control in Deviant Drums is immense!
The Drum List Is Totally Insane
Don't you just hate it when you buy a plugin and feel ripped off? I know the feeling all too well! So I kept on recording and building Deviant Drums until Kontakt wouldn't allow me to include anymore drums or cymbals.
There is literally no room for expansion packs that include more drums or cymbals! And there are no subscription services either, which means that you get everything, for one price, in one package, forever.
And with more drums than you'll know what to do with, you'll be finding new ways to explore Deviant Drums for years!
Mix Tools On Every Drum... And Beyond
Clicking on the tape labels below the meters reveals hidden controls for additional tone shaping.
FOR EACH DRUM!
Every drum comes with it's own eq, transient designer, reverb, and frequency shifter, and every one of those controls is designed to stay within a musical range.
On top of that, there's a master section, complete with buss compression, saturation, and a 4 band parametric eq. All of this gives you total control, so that you can take your drum mix to a level that was previously not available all in one package.
Fully Compliant with Native Instruments NKS
Deviant Drums is fully compliant with the Native Instruments NKS platform, which means you have complete hardware integration. If you use a Kontrol or Maschine midi controller, you'll be pleased to see the integration at work. Light guides will show where drums, cymbals, and keyswitches are, and they update with any mapping changes.
If you're visually impaired, the Deviant Drums Kontrol integration allows for a deep level of control beyond what the competitors are offering.
But even if you're not visually impaired, you'll still enjoy 15 pages of meticulously laid out, adjustable and automatable parameters for drums, cymbals, and effects, that can be manipulated right from the Native instruments hardware controllers.
The Simplest Software Solution Possible
Being NKS compliant has even more user advantages. Use Native Access to register and download Deviant Drums, then automatically receive updates and presets as they become available.
This has the added benefit of being available for use in the free version of Kontakt, known as Kontakt Player.
Additional care was also taken to make sure that Deviant Drums released with as much broad compatibility as possible, so it was developed for Kontakt 6.8.
This Is Where Things Get Crazy
You can't call a company Chaos Tones without some madness, and you'll find things in the mapping page you're not likely to find anywhere else.
Keyboard drummers will appreciate the default mapping of 4 kick drum keys for for extreme metal, but that's just a warm up.
You can put any drum anywhere. A sound designers dream! If you ever wanted a cymbal stack and a destructive keyswitch to trigger with a kick on an unmapped key, now's your chance to bring that dream to life!
To take that one step further, we can set how brutal the keyswitch tones are with the Brutality Knob. Plus we have the ability to randomize drums on the fly with keyswitching. Could you imagine putting the snare randomizer keyswitch on the snare trigger in an instrument that has 48 available snare tones?
The options on the mapping page are truly chaotic!
Feature Heavy & CPU Lite
The Memory manager allows you to take control of the way Deviant Drums interfaces with your computer. If you're working on a lower spec computer, you can engage the Memory Manager to dramatically lower the amount of impact that Kontakt may be requiring from your machine.
You could even go one step further and start unloading drums and cymbals from ram if you only wanted specific portions of Deviant Drums, for an ultra-lite experience.
For The Power Users
The initial build of Deviant Drums comes with nearly 40 snapshots (presets) with some that aim to take on the vibe of classic drum sounds, and others that chart new territory.
But If you're in a hurry or you want to try out a different mix, the quick menu offers mix presets and ultra-fast adjustment options no matter where you are in the instrument.
And for the most demanding power users, there are still more features. Intuitive routing options exist under the mixer, giving the ability to send independent outputs straight to your daw or interface.
The Deviant Drums Experience
The sounds and features in Deviant Drums will push it to the top of your list of go-to drum instruments for years to come. This was a true challenge to develop as there are so many options on the market!
However, through my experience, I've learned that only a few drum instruments actually truly work. Some sounded incredible but wouldn't work in the mix. Some were nearly perfect, but ended up stale from their very perfection. Some are overpriced and hard to justify. And some fantastic products just sound too common to allow the music to properly stand out.
I needed to feel like I could reach for Deviant Drums first, over everything else I've ever used, every time! That was a tall order, but the mission was accomplished! Now it's time for everyone to see what Deviant Drums is about!
Deviant Drums
