New SPL Drum Replacement/Enhancement Plug-In

[BLUElightCory]

Just got an email about this, seems like a great product for metal engineering:

SPL DrumXchanger
- Optimizes or replaces drum sounds in a mix
- Replaces samples phase-accurately
- Transient Designer technology for level-independent recognition
- Recognizes all drum hits faithfully, including the faintest ghost notes

Included:
- Two complete Transient Designer processing stages
- High-quality 24 bit/96 kHz SPL sample library

Launch of the BETA version at Musikmesse (March 24)

 

[Lasse Lammert]

if this works as promised it'll be awesome.
Slate should hurry before there'll be even more awesome replacers before TRIGGER is finally released

 

[006]

Yeah but it's like way more $ than TRIGGER and Drumagog5's proposed prices, isn't it?

 

[FIXXXER]

Yeah but it's like way more $ than TRIGGER and Drumagog5's proposed prices, isn't it?

hmm...availability VS. price...availibility wins!!!

 

[Ermz]

The level-independent triggering could be absolutely amazing for toms, or badly recorded drums.

 

[006]

hmm...availability VS. price...availibility wins!!!

Suuuuuure, I would love to pay more for something that might not compare feature-wise to something else on the market

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

- Transient Designer technology for level-independent recognition

Oooooh baby. Weakly played blast beats, anyone?

 

[SickBoy]

Oooooh baby. Weakly played blast beats, anyone?

And why would anyone bother to learn to hit the drums properly when a trigger plugin can fix it all... uke:

Next thing I expect a plugin that triggers guitar DIs!
"For all those who cannot play decent rhythm guitar to save their asses - our newest Guitar Trigger saves the day! Choose between multiple presets including the precisely modelled transients of right hand punch by Hetfield, Schaffer and many many more!"

 

[Fragle]

Choose between multiple presets including the precisely modelled transients of right hand punch by Hetfield, Schaffer and many many more!"

i actually got a lol out of that

 

[JeffTD]

And why would anyone bother to learn to hit the drums properly when a trigger plugin can fix it all... uke:

Yeah, because we all get perfectly recorded material as is and introducing a plugin that would aid us on the rare occasions when we get shittily played/recorded tracks is going to make drummers far lazier than they already are.

Get real, man - this is an incredibly useful tool. Bash on it all you want, but then you're not allowed to bitch or complain at all when you get tracks that are less than stellar to work with.

 

[Andy Sneap]

Im actually beta testing trigger right now, seems pretty sweet.

 

[SickBoy]

Yeah, because we all get perfectly recorded material as is and introducing a plugin that would aid us on the rare occasions when we get shittily played/recorded tracks is going to make drummers far lazier than they already are.

Get real, man - this is an incredibly useful tool. Bash on it all you want, but then you're not allowed to bitch or complain at all when you get tracks that are less than stellar to work with.

Look, read my post again and tell me where exactly I bash the plugin?!

I was ranting more at all the subpar drummers who demand to sound like another drummer god, but cannot tune or hit the skins properly... These plugins really help an engineer and I'm glad there's another useful and helpful tool, don't get me wrong.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

And why would anyone bother to learn to hit the drums properly when a trigger plugin can fix it all... uke:

Either you don't actually work with bands, or then you have gotten yourself into the admirable position where you can tell a band that comes in to record some songs to "learn how to play, you guys have a ten days booked and I'm not gonna fix shit in the mixing."

 

[SickBoy]

Either you don't actually work with bands, or then you have gotten yourself into the admirable position where you can tell a band that comes in to record some songs to "learn how to play, you guys have a ten days booked and I'm not gonna fix shit in the mixing."

Oh Jesus, why do some of you guys here take it all that seriously?!
Again, that was NOT my point! Of course you won't tell a band and their drummer that!
But I think once upon a time drummers needed to try harder because there wasn't an easy way out, and now it seems to me that many more will just think "why bother when there's plenty nice tools to rectify my shortcomings" instead of practicing more like they should...

THAT's my point and nothing less nothing more... Take it easy, people!

 

[Mikaël-ange]

Im actually beta testing trigger right now, seems pretty sweet.

Possible to get a short review Andy please?

 

[Skinny Viking]

Oh Jesus, why do some of you guys here take it all that seriously?!

Because you're from Croatia and nobody likes you!

relax man ... just a joke

back tot he topic (sorta):

Andy if you could find the time to just throw in a couple sentences about Trigger to let us know some of the pros and cons that would be awesome

 

[SickBoy]

Because you're from Croatia and nobody likes you!

I knew it, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

relax man ... just a joke

I know, at least someone isn't as strung up today

 

[LydonB]

On Gearslutz, it was stated that Trigger is done and they are testing installers right now. Should be released in the next few weeks.

 

[beechstudio]

Now this looks sweet!

 

[Plec]

Really looking forward to the new triggering solutions... SPL, Trigger and Drumagog 5.

But with the SPL... wouldn't that be just like adding their TD plugin or any other of the clones out there before Drumagog and you would end up with the same thing... basically.. no?