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The Ensemble Drums Black Friday deal puts Heavyocity's Master Sessions drum collection for Kontakt at $49, 67% off, until Dec 18, 2026.
Ensemble Drums is a Kontakt instrument built around seven multi-sampled drum ensembles and over 300 tempo-synced loops. Heavyocity records the Master Sessions series in New York City, and it runs inside Heavyocity's own engine, powered by Kontakt.
Each ensemble holds up to 10 different drums, played at the same time by 5 players. Together the seven ensembles cover:
The kits come as menu presets and single kit presets, plus 24 extra presets that Heavyocity pushed toward a more aggressive sound.
The drums were recorded at Bunker Studios in Brooklyn, in a pinewood room with a 25-foot ceiling. Close, room and ceiling-mounted X-Y mics captured the ensembles, and each one has round-robin performances at multiple velocities.
Its panel offers reverb, delay, distortion and a chorus modulation effect across the whole kit, plus individual EQ for every drum, an ADSR envelope on each channel, TriggerFX, and the Punish and Twist knobs. Punish combines saturation, distortion and compression, while Twist modulates the shape of the sound.
The Mixer gives you tune, pan and level for close, room and hall channels. You can purge a channel you don't need, which cuts the instrument's memory footprint.
The Stage is a 3D view of the stereo field with 35 positions, so you can place each drum visually and see playing sounds light up in real time.
The loops are split into straight and triplet grooves, arranged as Loop Menus and Single Loops. Menus are mapped as breakout presets, so you can play a full loop from one key or mix its layers.
The Loop Mutator lets you re-compose any loop. You set the step count, time signature, subdivision (straight, dotted or triplet), step duration, slice selection and velocity, with a randomize option for quick patterns.
Each preset holds eight linkable patterns of up to 128 steps. Layer the kits with the loops to stack a wall of percussion, or mix loop stems into your own rhythms.
The download is 3.5 GB uncompressed, or 1.9 GB on disk with NI lossless compression. It is direct download only.
Yes. The Ensemble Drums Collection by Heavyocity is 67% off, at $49, until Dec 18, 2026. It is a Kontakt instrument from the Master Sessions line, delivered as a direct download with no physical media.
It has 7 multi-sampled drum ensembles and over 300 tempo-synced loops. The download holds 1,650+ samples, 30+ kits, 27 Loop Menus, 400+ Single Loop presets and 5 Multis, plus the Stage, TriggerFX and the Loop Mutator.
It runs stand-alone and as VST, AU and AAX. It needs Kontakt 5 (Player) version 5.5.1.451 or higher, and it is NKS-ready with Komplete Kontrol integration. The download is 1.9 GB on disk with NI lossless compression.
It re-composes the 300+ loops. You control step count, time signature, subdivision (straight, dotted or triplet), step duration, slice selection and velocity, and can randomize patterns. Each preset holds eight linkable patterns of up to 128 steps.
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