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The Ethnic Drum Ensembles Black Friday deal takes 67% off this Heavyocity Kontakt library, which comes to $49 until Dec 18, 2026.
Ethnic Drum Ensembles is part of Master Sessions, Heavyocity's boutique line of scoring tools for the pro composer. The series was recorded in New York City and runs in Heavyocity's engine, powered by Kontakt.
The maker says Master Sessions delivers an epic sound without the epic price.
You get 6 multi-sampled drum ensembles and over 375 tempo-synced loops. Each ensemble holds up to 12 different drums, played simultaneously by 7 players.
The drums covered:
The kits come as menu and single kit presets. Heavyocity also made 28 extra presets with a more aggressive edge.
The loops are arranged in menu and single loop presets, and they are split into straight and triplet groups. The Loop Mutator lets you rearrange and adjust them slice by slice.
You can layer kits with hybrid loops for big walls of percussion. Loop stems can also be mixed and matched to build your own tempo-synced rhythms.
Effects work on three levels: global, Trigger-FX, or per individual sound. The four Master FX are Delay, Mod, Drive and Convolution, each with four effect-specific parameters.
The Punish knob combines saturation, distortion and compression. The Twist knob modulates the shape of the sound.
On the EQ side, there is a per-channel and per-loop EQ plus a 4-band Master EQ. In the loops, filter modulation runs from an LFO or an ADSR envelope.
The Heavyocity team played all the percussion at Bunker Studios in Brooklyn, NY, recorded by John Davis. Studio A is a pinewood room with a 25-foot ceiling, and the signal chain included an SSL 4040e console and BAE mic preamps.
Close, room and ceiling-mounted X-Y mics captured round-robin performances at multiple velocities. Heavyocity then tweaked, EQ'd, filtered and modulated part of the content for grittier, overdriven results.
The library is a direct download only. It takes 3.38 GB uncompressed, or 1.96 GB on disk with NI lossless compression.
Yes. The Ethnic Drum Ensembles Black Friday deal takes 67% off the Heavyocity Kontakt library, bringing it to $49 until Dec 18, 2026.
Six multi-sampled drum ensembles of up to 12 drums each, played by 7 players, plus over 375 tempo-synced loops. That adds up to 494 NKI presets: 28 kit presets and 466 loop presets.
It runs stand-alone and as VST, AU and AAX, powered by the Kontakt engine. Kontakt 5 (Player) version 5.5.1.451 or higher is required. It is a direct download only, at 1.96 GB on disk.
It rearranges and adjusts loops by slice, so you can re-compose them in real time. The loops are split into straight and triplet groups, and stems can be mixed and matched into your own rhythms.
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