MDL Tone – Ultimate Heavy Drums

The Ultimate Heavy Drums is an extremely versatile drum kit. It boasts 14 different snare drums, 10 different kick drums, 3 tom sets, and a wide selection of cymbals. These impressive sounds are honed and refined to perfection. The instrument also has an incredibly valuable arsenal of built-in mixing features.

Engineered and recorded by Josh Middleton, a multi-award winning guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer from the UK. Josh has produced and mixed numerous bands throughout his career (Sylosis, Architects, Kreator, Heriot, Nakkeknaeker, Malevolence).

Tilt EQ

The tilt EQ will allow you to make any piece of the kit brighter or darker with a simple horizontal fader. I wanted this library to be fully processed and ‘mix-ready’ as soon as you open it. But having the ability to fine-tune the how bright or dark each element is will give you even more control over these sounds in your mix.

Transient Designer

This enables you to increase or decrease the attack and sustain of each individual piece of the kit to give you maximum control of the and sustain of every element of your drum mix.

Envelope Filters

The envelope filters also enable you to control the attack, sustain and release of each kit piece but in a different way to the transient designer. These work more like fade ins and fade outs. The combination of the sustain and release features in particular can allow you to hear a full sustain and resonance in a drum but add a more abrupt fade out. For example, this technique can allow your drums to ‘sing’ with a nice initial sustain but control a more abrupt fade-out to balance out the length of the decay.

One-Shot Sample Loader

One-shot samples are single hit samples that can be loaded into this Kontakt instrument to combine with the sounds from the library. This one-shot sample slots are on both kick and snare mixers. Don’t have your own library of samples? We’ve included single kick and snare WAV samples from this library as a separate download so you can combine different sounds in your mixes.

Pitch & Reverb

Pitch – As with every other mix feature within the instrument, the pitch controls also work on every single piece of the kit. This can open up even more possibilities of drum tones. It’s particularly useful in changing the characteristic of a snare drum. It can also be used to match the pitch or phase of any one-shot samples you may want to use.

Reverb – Have full control over the amount of reverb you want on each piece of the kit.