550 Epic Drum Sounds and Stunning Cinematic FX!

The Drums & FX patch is built on over 550 samples (257 drums [10x RR each] and 296 fx) and contains 30 drum kit presets along with a wide range of impacts, rises, drops, textures and sweeps.

Drums within Juggernaut are organized into 8 categories. This organization is useful if you are dragging WAV files directly into your DAW, or if you are assembling a kit and don’t know where to start. The bold number is the # of sounds in each category:

Kick (45) – Short, bass-heavy kick drums with lots of 40-120hz punch and ‘oomph’.

– Short, bass-heavy kick drums with lots of 40-120hz punch and ‘oomph’. Snare (35) – All manner of electronic and physically-modeled snare drums, including noise-based snares.

– All manner of electronic and physically-modeled snare drums, including noise-based snares. Thip (44) – Short, quickly-decaying sounds at a higher pitch and with mid/high frequency emphasis (i.e. hi-hats).

– Short, quickly-decaying sounds at a higher pitch and with mid/high frequency emphasis (i.e. hi-hats). Splash (20) – Medium-decay open hihats, splash cymbals, and other drums full of upper-spectrum noise.

– Medium-decay open hihats, splash cymbals, and other drums full of upper-spectrum noise. Crash (19) – Emulations of long-decay crash cymbals of various types.

– Emulations of long-decay crash cymbals of various types. Slam (23) – Full-bodied drums that lie somewhere between a snare and kick – great for big hits with punch.

– Full-bodied drums that lie somewhere between a snare and kick – great for big hits with punch. Perc (54) – Toms, shakers, claps, rotos, orchestral bass drums, and ethnic drum emulations are all found here.

– Toms, shakers, claps, rotos, orchestral bass drums, and ethnic drum emulations are all found here. Tonal (17) – Short noises with a very defined pitch.

There are plenty of kits to choose from and all drums have 10 round robin variations for extra realism!

In order to use the FX patches, you simply click the little slider button (to the right of the mixer) and you get the access to the 6 FX categories provided, these are:

Impact (92) – Powerful hits, great for downbeats or emphasizing cuts.

– Powerful hits, great for downbeats or emphasizing cuts. Reverse (37) – Sounds that gradually build in volume, useful for transitions.

– Sounds that gradually build in volume, useful for transitions. Drop (40) – Synths that steadily drop in pitch, useful to bring the energy down before bringing it back.

– Synths that steadily drop in pitch, useful to bring the energy down before bringing it back. Riser (48) – Any kind of sound that rises and builds in pitch, volume and intensity before reaching a high point.

– Any kind of sound that rises and builds in pitch, volume and intensity before reaching a high point. Sweep (46) – Often tonal sounds that swell in volume, pitch or intensity, useful as transitions.

– Often tonal sounds that swell in volume, pitch or intensity, useful as transitions. Texture (33) – Tonal sounds best used solo to establish ambience, atmosphere, and mood.

Also included in this mode are a 32 channel mixer, divided into four sections of 8 virtual mixers channels each. A different drum or FX sound can be loaded into each slot with individual tuning, levels, and pan position, allowing you build complete kits. The Bank Selectors switch underneath the mixer controls which bank of 8 channels are being edited at any time. Additionally Audition mode maps your selection across the keyboard, helping you explore each instrument category.

The FX Section contains a whole host of tools for processing the entire kit. Each effect can be switched on and off, and all parameters are saved with the preset. The effects included are Limiter, Exciter, Phaser, Filter, Reverb, Delay & ADSR.