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The Ministry Of Rock 1 Black Friday deal takes 60% off this EastWest Sounds virtual instrument, bringing it to $59 until Jan 17, 2027.
It is a 20 GB rock library of drums, basses and guitars, all recorded in EastWest Studio 2 and produced by Nick Phoenix.
The maker describes it as a modern rock toolkit that covers a wide spread of styles. Songwriters, film, TV and game composers, drummers and guitarists are the people it is aimed at.
The goal behind the library was a virtual instrument that can carry a hit record or a film score with no live drum, bass or guitar overdubs. The sounds are designed to match what current music uses.
The maker says the articulations and programming were reverse engineered from real performances. That is the idea behind the playability claim.
The Ministry Of Rock 1 plugin ships as a sample library, so you play it from a keyboard or pad controller inside your DAW.
The drums use performance hits extracted from live playing. The EastWest Studio 2 rock drum sound, which the maker says appears on countless gold and platinum records, is the core of the kit sounds. Bass drums, snares, toms and hats are round robin, so repeated hits don't trigger the same sample twice in a row.
Guitars and basses were recorded in dual amp configurations. The software lets you pick one amp or blend the signal from both, so you can dial in the tone without re-amping.
The bass is described as dynamic enough to cover everything from ballads to the hardest music you can imagine. Legato samples and release samples are included for the bass and guitars.
If you play drums on Roland V-Drums, the kits were optimised for that hardware, so you can trigger them from your own pads.
The maker's own pitch is a screeching, howling, booming noise-fest and a rock library that is hard to beat for power. Treat that as the maker's claim. The feature list above is what the library contains.
Yes. The Ministry Of Rock 1 Black Friday deal is 60% off, so this EastWest Sounds rock library comes to $59. The offer ends Jan 17, 2027.
It is a library of about 20 GB of rock drums, basses and guitars recorded in EastWest Studio 2. It includes legato bass and guitar samples, legato and staccato repetitions, release samples and round robin drum hits.
Yes. The maker says the drum kits are also optimised for use with Roland V-Drums, so you can trigger the library's kits from your own electronic drum pads.
They were recorded in dual amp configurations. The software lets you choose one amp or mix the sound from both. The guitars include clean and distorted rhythm parts and leads, and the bass covers ballads to hardcore.
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