Handy Drums- Pop Brushes

POP BRUSHES from the Handy Drums plugin collection is a pre-mixed, sampled drumset tailored to musical situations where a gentler touch on drums is required. The plugin offers album-like, produced drum sound quality right out of the box and is primarily for users looking for instant drum results. Tweaks to the individual drum components are accomplished using the included mixer. Each drum component sounds as a part of the drumset as a uniform instrument played with brushes in an acoustic space.

In addition to regular snare drum notes and rim shots played with brushes, the instrument also contains brush sweeps. The duration of sweeps is controlled by the duration of the held note. Additionally, there are two independent controls over the volume of the sweeps: note velocity determines the attack of the sweep, while the CC1 controller controls the overall volume of the brush sweep.

As is the case with all of the plugins in the Handy Drums collection, the Pop Brushes comes with a clean, simple GUI offering essential functionalities such as drum mapping, routing, and other settings in a discreet, intuitive manner. That makes this virtual brush drumset very easy to use.

At the core of the HANDY DRUMS Pop Brushes's drum sound is the natural ambiance providing realism and character. No artificial reverb or fx's were used for the sample production. The sound is lively, ambient with full dynamic range and natural drum resonance, and lends itself well to Acoustic Pop, Acoustic Rock, Country, and similar styles. What you hear is what you get- nothing more, nothing less.

In addition to the 6-piece drumset with cymbals (hats, ride, crashes, splashes), the plugin comes with a few sampled percussion instruments, a standard for Handy Drums plugins: shaker, cowbell, triangle, handclaps.

The variable hi-hat is the norm with this plugin, but it achieves 6 stages of hi-hat openness utilizing only 2 notes (tip and edge) in combination with a CC4 controller.