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The SSD Blackbird Expansion Black Friday deal takes 67% off, which puts this Steven Slate Drums expansion at $49 until Dec 31, 2026.
It's a drum sample library for Steven Slate Drums (SSD) and the TRIGGER drum replacer plugin. Steven Slate Drums is required to use it.
Blackbird founder John McBride tracked it in the spring of 2014 with Chris Tyrell, the drummer from Lady Antebellum.
The sessions used three of Blackbird's rooms, including the chambers of rooms A and D. The maker says the kits span fifty years and were captured with plenty of vintage mics and gear.
The pack covers the core of a kit:
The hi-hats, ride and crashes load in SSD only, so the TRIGGER plugin gets the kicks, snares and toms.
The maker calls Blackbird Drums one of the most amazing drum libraries you'll ever experience. If you already run SSD, it adds new Blackbird kits to the same virtual instrument.
Yes. The Black Friday deal takes 67% off the SSD Blackbird Expansion, which brings it to $49. The deal ends Dec 31, 2026. It's an expansion for Steven Slate Drums, so you need SSD to use it.
It has 6 kick drum samples, 10 snare samples and 7 sets of toms. Two hi-hats, one ride and four crashes are also included, and those cymbals work in SSD only, not in TRIGGER.
Yes. Steven Slate Drums is required to use this expansion. It was recorded for the SSD virtual instrument and the TRIGGER drum replacer plugin, and the hi-hats, ride and crashes are for SSD only.
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