HD Mallets

Create a rich and dramatic foundation

Handy Drums Mallets is an award-winning sampled drums virtual instrument for music production. Meticulously sampled mallets on drums are easy to use, affordable and sound great right out of the box. The self-contained plugin has a built-in sampler (no 3rd party samplers needed). Included drums are "album ready," pre-mixed, and come with up to 10 dynamic levels and 10 round-robins (samples per dynamic level).

Equipped with a clean, simple, intuitive GUI that offers essential functionalities such as volume control of individual components, drum mapping, routing, audition buttons, MIDI and driver settings, and a CC4 curve editor for e-drummers. A darker, more subtle drum sound with the softest attack is only made possible by using mallets.

Great for when less "in your face" drums are needed or for creating a rich and dramatic foundation for a track. With their clearly tuned note, the toms remind of classical timpani. The sound can add a dramatic quality to a track, or even a more dark and menacing character, yet the same drums could sound just at home in a more upbeat, happy-sounding track providing a jovial melodic beat.

Features

• Practical, Intuitive, Easy-To-Use Interface - Handy Drums do not require a complicated manual to use. An elaborate design of over 50 samplers and smart algorithms power your seamless experience behind the simple user interface. Access all of the essential functions intuitively.

• Multiple Dynamic Levels - Each drum and cymbal was sampled at multiple dynamic levels to ensure the instrument’s fullest dynamic range is coming through when played back. Handy Drums Mallets contains up to 10 dynamic levels per instrument.

• Round Robin - Up to 10 samples per dynamic level - Every drum stroke played by a real drummer is ever so slightly different from the previous one, no matter how good the drummer is. This is part of what gives it that “human” feel and is why our ears can instantly hear the difference between a roll played by a real drummer and the same sample being triggered over again. To make the HD Mallets sound more like a real drummer, each drum and cymbal has been sampled numerous times at every dynamic level. No sample is repeated sequentially during playback, but a different one is triggered.

• 24bit Sample Depth - All Handy Drums were sampled as 24bit wav files for the best resolution and sound quality.

• Immaculately-Sampled Acoustic Drums - To achieve larger-than-life yet completely natural-sounding drums, every step of the sampling process is critical. Starting with the drum tuning, drums were carefully treated before even a single note was played. They are captured using the highest-quality mics, preamps, and converters to preserve every minute detail.

• Unparalleled Realism From Virtual Drums - Handy Drums Mallets sounds like an actual drum kit being played right in front of you in a room instead of a bunch of individual components sounding in their own isolated spaces. They achieved realism by recording the full width of acoustic drums and their natural room ambiance, then meticulously editing and mixing them in post-production.