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The TRIGGER 2 Deluxe Expansion Black Friday deal takes 50% off, which puts this Steven Slate Drums sample pack at $49 until Dec 31, 2026.
It adds 16 snares, 14 kicks and 19 toms to your TRIGGER drum library. The maker says it took three years of recording work to get there.
It is an expansion sample pack for the TRIGGER drum replacement plugin. TRIGGER 2 is required to use it.
The maker says the new drums are unprocessed but recorded in enough detail that they sit in the mix without a fight. If you want to shape them, they take EQ, compression and other effects, so you can dial in your own tone.
The pack covers a wide stretch of kit history. The maker lists these sources:
Every drum comes with its own close mic, overhead and room channel. All the snares also include bottom mic samples, so you can set how much sizzle you want from the snare wires.
TRIGGER has six sample channels, which makes it easy to stack the classic Slate samples with the new Deluxe ones. You can layer an older snare under a Deluxe one on separate channels and balance them as you would two mics.
The maker's feature list for the pack:
The maker also points to an audio section with demos of the expansion.
The maker's pitch is a bigger palette for the same TRIGGER workflow. You keep the plugin you already use for replacing and reinforcing drums, and the Deluxe pack adds more kicks, snares and toms for it to trigger.
Yes. The Black Friday deal takes 50% off, bringing the Steven Slate Drums expansion to $49 until Dec 31, 2026. It is an add-on pack for TRIGGER 2, so you need TRIGGER 2 installed to use it.
It adds 16 snares, 14 kicks and 19 toms to your TRIGGER library. Each drum has close mic, overhead and room channels, and every snare also has bottom mic samples. The maker says the drums are unprocessed.
Yes. The maker states that TRIGGER 2 is required to use this expansion. It is a sample pack that loads into TRIGGER, not a standalone plugin, and it works alongside the Steven Slate samples that come with TRIGGER.
Yes. TRIGGER has six sample channels, so you can layer the classic Slate samples with the new Deluxe ones. The maker describes combining them as a breeze, with six stereo layers of samples available.
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