The Nord Drum 2 is legendary, and before I tried it, I didn’t think I would agree with the hype. At first the interface was my favourite part - it’s super easy to use, even with one hand, and there’s lots of tweakability - but then I started exploring and before long the scope of each of the oscillators became apparent. There’s so many big, round, fat, juicy sounds in the Nord Drum 2, and each of the six channels can be whatever sound you like, rather than being tied to one kind of drum sound. Making this pack has been a joy, and I am proud to share with you my exploration of this little red powerhouse.

This sample pack features 360 one-shot samples covering the full range of sounds on offer - 32 basses, 32 kicks, 32 snares, 32 hats, 32 percs, 16 weird FX sounds, 72 grouped percussion sounds and 112 raw waves. The samples range from muted to crisp and raging and demonic, and everything in-between. Perfect for electronic dance music such as techno, broken beat, hardcore and gabber.All individual samples are provided in both 24-bit and 16-bit versions to maximise compatibility with samplers, and are all presented at 48khz sample rate. All samples are royalty-free.

There are also a whopping 23 sample chains provided with the download, including .ot files designed for use with the Elektron Octatrack (pre-sliced sample chains), which allow for the sounds to be used from several big samples rather than 248 individual ones. These sample chains are presented in 24-bit and 44.1khz sample rate so they work better with the Octatrack, though the samples will work nicely in any sampler such as those from Native Instruments, Akai, Roland, Elektron, Korg, Pioneer, Synthstrom and 1010 Music, as well as all DAWs.

Finally, there is an Ableton Live Drum Selector rack (will work in Live Suite 11.2 and above) which allows you to program a pattern and change the sample with the turn of an encoder, as well as alter decay, pitch, distortion, compression and more with ease.

Each individual sound has been uniquely tweaked with dynamic EQ'ing and careful limiting they sound really full and alive right out of the box, but allowing enough headroom for further processing down the line.

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