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TRIGGER 2 Platinum Black Friday pricing comes to $49, which is 58% off, until Dec 31, 2026. It is a drum replacement and augmentation plugin from Steven Slate Drums, and this Platinum edition is the version on offer.
You load it on a kick, snare or tom track and it fires samples from a large library of drum sounds.
TRIGGER 2 Platinum works as a VST-style virtual instrument in the box, so you can blend sampled hits into a recording or swap the original out.
The plugin triggers sampled drums from your recorded audio. You can add weight to an existing kick, or replace a thin snare with something bigger.
The maker calls its triggering engine phase accurate and multi-layered.
It can fire 8 stereo samples at the same moment. A close mic hit, a stereo overhead hit and a stereo room hit can all play together on one trigger.
You can also stack several direct mic samples to build a custom sound of your own.
Every layer holds multi-velocity samples, so you can run several close mic layers, overhead layers and room layers inside a single instance.
Each layer has its own controls: velocity and dynamic control, attack, sustain, release and an independent level.
The maker says this multichannel setup recreates the sound of natural drums from real multitracked samples. Mixing different drum samples together also lets you build hybrid tones, then settle the final sample sound in the mixer.
The transient driven gate is there to clean up tracks. The maker says engineers have praised it for doing that cleanly and precisely.
Leakage suppression lets you send spill tracks to the plugin. It then ignores the bleed on a track, which the maker says allows very low velocity sample replacement without false triggers.
The MIDI engine triggers audio from MIDI. It can also turn audio tracks into MIDI tracks when you drag and drop.
The stock library is made up of Steven Slate's drum samples. They were recorded to 2 inch tape and processed with vintage and modern analog gear, according to the maker.
The maker lists Chris Lord Alge, Ross Hogarth, Justin Niebank, Dave Way, Jeff Juliano, Jay Baumgardner, Ben Grosse, David Kahn and Ryan Williams among the mixers who have used Slate's samples.
Expansion libraries load too, including Steven Slate Deluxe, Chris Lord Alge, Terry Date, Blackbird Studios and David Bendeth.
Yes. The TRIGGER 2 Platinum Black Friday deal is 58% off, which brings the Steven Slate Drums plugin to $49. The offer runs until Dec 31, 2026.
It replaces or augments kicks, snares and toms in your recordings with samples from a large drum library. Its triggering engine can fire 8 stereo samples at once, such as close mic, overhead and room layers.
Yes. The maker says it loads expansions such as Steven Slate Deluxe, Chris Lord Alge, Terry Date, Blackbird Studios and David Bendeth, alongside the stock drum samples recorded by Steven Slate.
Leakage suppression takes spill tracks as a sidechain-style feed so the plugin ignores bleed. The MIDI engine triggers audio from MIDI, and drag and drop converts audio tracks into MIDI tracks.
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