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The SSD CLA Expansion Black Friday deal puts 50% off this Chris Lord-Alge drum pack for Steven Slate Drums, bringing it to $49 until Dec 31, 2026.
It's an expansion for Steven Slate Drums (SSD) and the Steven Slate TRIGGER drum replacer/enhancer. The maker notes that Steven Slate Drums is required to use it.
In the spring of 2012, Chris Lord-Alge went back to his recording engineer roots and tracked several drum kits at OCEAN studios in Burbank.
He then mixed every drum in his LA mix room, running the same processing chains you've heard on his records.
He also printed a sample layer of his SONY reverb unit onto the kicks and snares.
According to the developer, SSD CLA Expansion delivers drum sounds with a big, hard-hitting character that sit in a mix without much extra processing. That's their claim, not ours to judge for you.
The expansion ships with 12 drumkit presets and a sample set built around CLA's mixes:
Because the drums arrive already processed in his mix room, the character is baked in at the sample level. That means you load a preset and start from a finished kit rather than building the chain yourself.
The SSD CLA Expansion runs directly inside the SSD Only Player or TRIGGER, so there's no separate plugin to learn. The maker lists installation as easy.
If you already use Steven Slate Drums in the box, the CLA kits load alongside your existing sounds. You can use them as a full kit or pull individual kicks and snares into a different preset.
TRIGGER support means you can also use these samples to replace or reinforce drums on a recorded track. The printed SONY reverb layer on the kicks and snares comes along with them.
The maker also lists complete control over the sounds and a classic CLA sound as headline features.
Yes, the SSD CLA Expansion Black Friday deal is 50% off, taking the pack to $49. The offer runs until Dec 31, 2026. It's an expansion for Steven Slate Drums, so you'll need that instrument installed to use it.
The pack has 12 drumkit presets built from 12 snares, 11 kicks, 5 toms, 1 hi-hat, 4 crashes and 1 ride. The snares carry multiple articulations, and a sample layer of CLA's SONY reverb is printed on the kicks and snares.
Yes. The maker states that Steven Slate Drums is required. The expansion loads directly into the SSD Only Player or into Steven Slate TRIGGER, the drum replacer/enhancer, so it doesn't run as a standalone instrument.
Chris Lord-Alge did both. He recorded the kits at OCEAN studios in Burbank in spring 2012, then mixed them in his LA mix room using the same processing chains the maker says appear on all of his records.
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