Superior Drums

"VC-64 is a powerful processor and is capable of a wide range of corrective and creative tasks. From warming up or increasing the level of an entire mix, to trashing a perfectly good drum loop, VC-64 has something to offer and it seems to do a particularly good job as a vocal processor." —Sound on Sound

Learning EZDrummer 3, EZBass and EZKeys

William McKinley "Red" Garland, Jr. (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984) was an American modern jazz pianist. Known for his work as a bandleader and during the 1950s with Miles Davis, Garland helped popularize the block chord style of piano playing. William "Red" Garland was born in 1923 in Dallas, Texas. He began his musical studies on the clarinet and alto saxophone but, in 1941, switched to the piano. Less than five years later, Garland joined a well-known trumpet player in the southwest - Hot Lips Page, playing with him until a tour ended in New York in March 1946. Having decided to stay in New York to find work, Art Blakey came across Garland playing at a small club, only to return the next night with Blakey's boss, Billy Eckstine. Garland also had short-lived career as a welterweight boxer in the 1940s. He fought more than 35 fights, one being an exhibition bout with Sugar Ray Robinson.

We could mention that we set out to record the best Jazz drum library ever made but ended up with something far bigger; drums that transcend the narrow confines of a genre and rather define an era - an age of music spanning from Jazz, Blues to Hip Hop and Rock. We could mention Blackbird Studio's stock of 1400 Microphones, 35 channels of Pultec EQ, 24 channels of Fairchild compression and hundreds of outboard mic/pre channels including Telefunken, Neve, API, RCA and Chandler. Or how this studio not only is the natural choice for the who's who of the music industry but that it is known to lend a documented bit of magic to every project to ever enter and exit its doors.

Digital Juice Sound FX Library II is the most comprehensive collection of audio effects ever collected together into a single package. Produced by renowned industry-veteran sound designers and distributed at 24-bit/96kHz resolutions, the artistic and technical quality is state of the art. This time we managed to squeeze more than 15700 unique sounds into more than 220 categories.

Over the past ten years, the team at Toontrack ® Music produced and made available in the industry of the drum and percussion instruments heard in numerous hit films, TV shows, video games, live performances and platinum albums. We recorded numerous libraries with hundreds of the best drums and cymbals with a total area of 200 + gigs of custom content, derived from 1000000 plus audio files ….. ….. still, it was 100% acoustic.

13 snare drums, seven sets of toms, seven kicks and a wide assortment of different cymbals – all sampled in extreme detail and showcasing the incredible sonic qualities of two New York City landmark studios.