Handy Drums- Reggae Standard

REGGAE STANDARD from the Handy Drums plugin range is a pre-mixed, sampled drumset aimed at Reggae music production. The plugin offers album-like, produced drum sound quality right out of the box and is aimed at users looking for instant drum results. Tweaks to the individual drum components can be achieved using the included mixer. Each drum component sounds as a part of the drumset as a single instrument played in an acoustic space.

As is the case with all of the plugins in the Handy Drums collection, the Reggae Standard 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 drumset very easy to use.

The sampled acoustic drums are warm, with a short dry ambiance, and pack plenty of punch. The snare drum is a high-pitched piccolo, while the toms and the kick utilize only single heads with muffling. There is also an auxiliary tenor snare drum included.

In addition to the 6-piece drumset with cymbals (hats, ride, crashes, splashes), the plugin comes with sampled percussion, allowing for authentic Reggae creation of drums+percussion tracks.

The variable hi-hat comes standard with this plugin, but it achieves 6 stages of hi-hat openness utilizing only 2 notes in combination with a CC4 controller.

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