SUN DRUMS

VINTAGE DRUMS FOR MODERN BEATS

100+ Velocity Layers
Beat Tools
100 Kits
8GB Library
Kontakt Player NKS

Sun Drums is a sister instrument to the acclaimed Moonkits - focusing purely on sticks, not brushes - with the same studio, the same vintage desk & mics, the same softer, dynamic drumming style.

Featuring a huge collection of vintage & modern drums, Sun Drums is built with a modern, dry sound in mind - from classic breakbeats to booming hip-hop or just fat pop drums.

ALL SUN DRUMS VIDEOS

"Sun Drums is an all-round sonic delight" - Sound On Sound

THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT

THE DRUM KIT PANEL

SELECT DRUMS BY KIT PIECE
UP TO 6 MIC CHANNELS PER DRUM
FULL SPEC MIXER
PITCH, ENVELOPE, FILTER CONTROLS

The control hub for Sun Drums. Choose kit pieces, edit mic channels, mix your groove.

THE MIXER

EQ, COMPRESSOR, SAT, REVERB, WIDTH FOR EACH DRUM
INDIVIDUAL DAW OUTPUT
MASTER FX: COMP, EQ, TAPE, LIMITER

The Mixer opens in the Drum window to enable a fast work-flow. Each kit piece has its own mixer channel, with a fully featured channel strip to shape the sound. Overhead, Rear + Room mics can routed to a seperate mix bus or stay within the individual drum's channel. Each channel can be sent to a seperate Kontakt output in your DAW for additional mixing.

BEAT TOOLS: EUCLIDEAN BEATS

8 Euclid Tracks
Drag and drop MIDI patterns to DAW

Euclidean Beats is a revolutionary way of generating drum patterns; simpler than it first looks. Set any number of hits and any number of steps per track, and Euclid will space it all out equally for you. Generate creative grooves you never imagined within seconds - you can't put a step wrong.

BEAT TOOLS: BEAT SHIFTER

8 tracks with generative 'beat shifting' functions
drag and drop patterns to DAW
save and load patterns from disc

An 8 track step-sequencer with a difference - each track can be programmed to shift its notes as the beat plays, creating new beats as the patterns evolves. Sounds can be set to move a lot, stay completely still, or move incrementally while never losing their musical timing.

BEAT TOOLS: POLY BEATS

8 POLY-RHYTHMIC TRACKS
DRAG AND DROP PATTERNS TO DAW

Poly Beats is a new kind of drum sequencer from Soniccouture. Each track divides the bar into arbitrary subdivisions, or polyrhythms. Since each track can be set completely different from each other, polyrhythms can quickly sound very strange and unnatural. Definitely for the left-field.

MAPPING PANEL

ASSIGN KEY MAPPING
ARTICULATION LEVEL BALANCING

New in Sun Drums, in this panel you can choose your own unique key mapping, and balance the articulations within a single drum piece.

MASTER CHANNEL

SUPERCHARGER GT / SOLID BUS COMP / FB COMP
4 BAND SOLID EQ
TAPE PROCESSOR
LIMITER

A useful mastering channel with a choice of processors.

SUN + MOON BUNDLE

Buy Sun Drums at full price and get Moonkits for €99 | $99

Add Sun Drums to your cart and head to checkout to claim the deal.

Existing Moonkits Users Get the Deal In User Account

THE KITS

1964 Ludwig Superclassic Kit 22/13/16

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

1960s George Hayman 18/12/14

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

1957 Gretsch Roundbadge Kit 20/13/16

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

WFLII Toms 13/16 + Gretsch 26

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

WFLII Toms 13/16 + Gretsch 24

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

PRODUCT TOUR + TUTORIAL

James from Soniccouture takes a detailed tour of the Sun Drums GUI & usage.

Includes sound design tips & tutorials to get started with the Beat Tools.

THE SNARES

1970's Rogers Dynasonic Brass 14x5 | Damped

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

1970s Ludwig Black Beauty 14x6.5

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

2006 Canopus Zelkova 14x5

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

1960s Premier Royal Ace 14x4

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

1940's Slingerland Radioking 14x7 | Damped

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

2012 Gatton Corian 13x6 | High Tuning

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

1980s Pearl Black Beauty Copy 14 x 6.5

Tuned & Prepped by Adam Falkner & Martin Oldham

1965 Ludwig 400 14x5

Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

2021 Mapex Cherry Bomb 14x6

Loaned by Mapex UK, Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

2021 Mapex Persuader Brass 14 x 6.5

Loaned by Mapex UK, Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

2021 Mapex Wasp Steel 10 x 5.5

Loaned by Mapex UK Tuned & Prepped by Martin Oldham DTS London

PRESET KITS & GROOVES TOUR

Sun Drums includes over 100 premade kits, each with it's own groove set up in the Beat Tools.

Each groove can be dragged into your DAW as MIDI for easy workflow.

Here's a small selection.

HERITAGE SAMPLING

Sun Drums was recorded at Konk Studios in North London, founded, and still owned by, Ray Davies of The Kinks. The room harbours a fantastic drum sound, as heard on records by The Stones Roses, Massive Attack, The Fall, Blur, Depeche Mode, Portishead, Al Green, The Cure, Artic Monkeys, The Kinks and about a million others.

The custom Neve console (with 1095 EQs) was bought from Utopia studios in 1974 and was used to record The Wall by Pink Floyd among many other classic records.

KONTAKT PLAYER (6.6) COMPATIBLE

This is a Kontakt Player instrument. This means that you do not need to own the full version of NI Kontakt to use it. It will run as a plug-in instrument in any VST/AU/RTAS/AAX/WASAPI,compatible host program or DAW eg: Cubase, Logic, Ableton Live, DP, Reaper, Pro-Tools. No extra purchase necessary.

System Requirements:

Windows 7 or higher (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit), Intel Core Duo or AMD AthlonTM 64 X2, 4 GB RAM (6 GB RAM recommended)

Mac: OS X 10.12 or higher, Intel Core 2 Duo, 5 GB RAM

Requires KONTAKT 6 or KONTAKT 6 PLAYER version 6.6 or later

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