We hand picked our favorite drums (and cymbals) in our collection, recorded them in our finely tuned live room, and packaged them into an easy to use yet versatile drum sample pack! Tracked through our collection of high end outboard gear (including vintage Neve preamps, an original UREI 1176, and Burl converters), these samples have been created with flexibility in mind, allowing you to shape them to fit your mix, demo, or production.

Not only were these samples tracked in the coveted VuDu Studios live room, but Vu Du Drums offers you the ability to have complete control over each mic source INDIVIDUALLY! Only want to add the stereo room mics to your mix? Go ahead! Need to add a snare bottom mic to drum tracks without one? Not a problem! This flexibility guarantees that Vu Du Drums is ready to handle any situation you may find yourself in.

TCI is a format of drum samples that goes beyond a single “one shot“. Instead of repeating the same sound each time a sample is triggered, a TCI contains multiple unique instances of a particular type of drum hit. So even when triggering aggressive playing styles at one velocity, the result will be a group of extremely similar but unique hits, painstakingly matched during our capturing process. Each Velocity Level (up to 9 in Vu Du Drums) contains the same number of unique sounds giving Vu Du Drums upwards of 50 distinct drum hits, from ghost notes to rim shot and everything in between, all in TCI format, making replicating intricate drum patterns, fills, and feels tonally and dynamically identical across every single microphone source.

TCI is certainly a more elegant and advanced method of drum triggering, aimed at replicating (or building) dynamic performances.

They are most helpful in situations where the sound of the naturally recorded or programmed drums isn't up to par with the performance itself, and when samples need to be more prominent in the mix (rather than just subtly layering a one-shot under the source material). The more dynamically and tonally accurate/complex the sample is, the louder you can have it in your mix without the dreaded “sampler/machine gun” effect.

The more you want to retain/replicate the dynamics of a particular performance, the more simply adding a TCI can give you the power to mix freely without leakage or convoluted over-processing mix techniques.

However, if you are mostly utilizing the source drums, a one shot may be perfectly sufficient. In some instances one-shots provide a level of consistency that a performance may lack and are just the right solution.

Some mixing techniques like sending a sample to a room emulation or reverb also make a consistent one-shot the ideal choice.

Our Trigger tutorial goes in-depth to show you how to get the most out of a TCI sample and how you might utilize the many options it offers you:

Many Grammy award winning mixers have utilized one-shot drum samples in their mixes for decades. As with any audio tool, the secret is in the taste with which you select, modify and blend them. Many recordings heralded for their “organic” drum sound are in fact mixed using one shot samples. What separates Vu Du Drums one shots from other options is the beautiful, open tone of the room and signal chain, as well as the completely discrete and tunable sound sources offered for each drum, including stereo overheads and two different room configurations.

Furthermore, since a one shot is a single mono or stereo .wav file, it can work with any traditional sampler, for anyone that doesn’t have a TCI compatible drum-replacement software/plugin and/or puts in their samples by hand.

No. Vu Du Drums takes advantage of the TCI format created for Slate Trigger/Slate Trigger 2. Currently, TCI files are only for use with these products.

However, one shots do not require any specific sampling software and can be used in any DAW or sampler that reads .wav files.

Yes! Vu Du Drums one shots are mono and stereo .wav files that can be utilized with any recording software, DAW, sampler, or device that reads .wavs, or whatever audio file you choose to convert them to (.mp3, etc...)

If you’re using a device or software that requires a different format, any standard file conversion software will convert the lossless 24 bit 96k .wavs without complication (standard compression and fidelity degrading is normal when converting any file from a .wav to .mp3 or other smaller/compressed format.)

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Vu Du Drums were created with Burl Audio Converters at 96khz, but are equally beautiful sounding at any sample rate. 

If using the 96khz one shots at any other sample rate, simply convert to the sample rate of your session (most DAWS will automatically prompt you with this option upon file import when a mismatch is detected.)

If you are using a triggering software such as Slate Trigger 2:

Trigger will automatically resample Vu Du drums to the session format, which will work at 444.1k, 48k, 88.2k, 96k, etc.

Nope! No authorizations or copy protection is needed to enjoy Vu Du Drums. We believe accessing great sounds should be as easy and painless as possible. If your product is downloaded, they are essentially ready to use!

The sample rate of TCI is limited by the file format itself and based on the internal up-sampling of the Slate Trigger plugin. Putting Vu Du drums TCI in a session of any sample rate will result in clean sample accurate triggering regardless of the TCI sample rate. 

One shots are offered in the sample rate and bit depth that the samples were originally captured in so that when implemented or converted manually, you start with the highest resolution. 

There is no discernible audio quality advantage to Vu Du drums in 96k vs 48k or 44.1k. Our converters are THAT GOOD!