toontrack progressive foundry sdx virtual instruments

The velocity layering, for example, works seamlessly, so making a performance using piano keys or pads feels very natural. Unsurprisingly, given the size of the library, the quality is excellent. Naturally, this helps when mixing and matching drum and percussion instruments. They do differ, of course, but the sound of the room and the probable use of the same recording gear and session musician has given them a certain consistency. Importantly, the five kits do not sound wildly different from one another. This means that the user can customise their kits, adjust mic balances, insert effects and tweak things like layers, pitch, envelope shape and keyboard mappings using SD2’s extensive onboard tools. Within SD2, The Progressive Foundry’s kits appear as options in a menu just like any other expansion pack or factory kit.

In total, the library (which was recorded at Sing Sing studios in Melbourne, Australia, by engineer/producer Forrester Savell) offers five complete drum kits formed from 17 snares, nine kicks, 31 cymbals and five hi-hats, and there are 26 separate mic channels per kit to play with.

Clearly, even the basic installation is quite comprehensive so, to some extent the other, installs offer diminishing returns for their disk-space demands. Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 2 sample engine ships with 20GBs of drum samples, but products like The Progressive Foundry - a prog rock-leaning drum library - and its heavy-metal sibling Metal Foundry, offer SD2 owners the chance to expand their menu options and fill their hard drives even further.Īn initial install comes as a download so that users can get started straight away, but the rest of the library is delivered on a USB stick, simply because there is so much of it! During setup, the user is given options to install the library in full (61.4GB) with all mics, bleeds and tools, at 38.38GB with all ambiences and overhead mics, but without specialist mics, or with a relatively small 13.75GB footprint, which still includes all close, overhead and primary mics, but only minimal bleed in the snare bottom mic.

Toontrack progressive foundry sdx virtual instruments