A Top Quality Modern Drum Kit for Any Style!
The JB Session Sonr Stereo Drum Kit is part of the Drum Masters series where you can pick out a la carte kits and grooves that work with Sonic Reality’s Infinite Player* plugin and build one of the most powerful virtual drum collections ever!
About the JB Session Sonr Stereo Drum Kit:
This product is a multi-sampled Sonor® drum kit made to be played from Sonic Reality’s Infinite Player. It was recorded at Dungeon Studios in Miami during the same Studio ProFiles sessions done with R&B/Fusion/Pop/Hip Hop drummer John Blackwell. Multiple mic options and a medium to large sized live room make this a versatile kit to produce a wide variety of drum sounds from. This kit was played with sticks with snares on and features a Yamaha® Sub Kick for getting deep bass tones and extra Earthworks® room mics for added depth. It is an inspiring modern kit that is diverse for use in many musical styles.
Sonic Notes:
Quote from Dave Kerzner of Sonic Reality about the JB Session Sonr: "Very often when we re doing a session we have extra snares on hand to sample and occassionally if there is a great instrument that is at the studio we'll sample that too! We sample everything that sounds good that we get our hands on. This Sonor kit was the set at the studio in Miami where we were recording at the time and it sounded so good we had to sample it! So using most of the same mics and mic pres we were using for the kits John was playing we captured the sound of this very cool sounding kit as well. This Sonor kit doesn t have any accompanying grooves but it is a nice one just on it's own especially played from our iMap keyboard layout. It's very expressive! Keep an eye out for more too. We'll also be releasing some of the additional snares that were recorded during that session for the Infinite Player as well. That plus this Sonor kit, the Blackwell Tama and Yamaha Birch sets make a nice collection of kit pieces to do your own custom kits from since they share some of the same recording elements such as mic channels, sound of the room..."
Specs:
Kit Size: Over 900 Megabytes (UnZipped) ; 922 Megabytes (Zipped)
Kit Brand: Sonor
Kit Model:
Wood: Maple
Stick Type: Stick
Heads: Remo clear; Coated Ambassador on snare
Drum Kit Overview
Please note this is for quick reference of main content and is not meant to show accurate stereo positioning or extra kit pieces that may also be a part of the kit.
Kit Pieces:
Sonor Kick Drum: 22" x 18"
Sonor Snare: 14" x 5.5" (Maple)
Sonor 3 Rack Toms: 8" x 8" & 10" x 9" & 12" x 10"
Sonor 2 Floor Toms: 14" x 12" & 16" x 14"
Sabian 14" Hi Hats
Sabian Ride Cymbal 20”
Sabian 2 Crash Cymbals 19" 20"
Example Drum Masters "Multi" Drum Kit Screen Shot
Drum Masters Stereo Drum Kits:
Drum Masters Stereo Drum Kits are great for quick loading and efficient use of your computer's power. Instead of discrete mic channel mixing like Drum Masters Multi-track kits, with the Stereo Kits you have a "Ready to Go" mix of the mics preserved in less channels taking up less polyphony. You still have a individual control of the overall levels for each kit pieces like kick, snare, toms, hats and cymbals which offers a balance of speed and convenience without total sacrifice of sonic flexibility. Additionally most of the drum kits mixed without additional processing for a natural acoustic sound with the flexibility to get a wide variety of produced sounds within your DAW using your favorite effect plug-ins. The kit pieces are also easily interchangeable for creating an unlimited number of customized kits. Drum Masters kits can also be combined with authentic played audio grooves from the same session for building the ultimate drum track with realism.
Features:
• Diverse Range of Kits: Unique custom and vintage drum kits from legendary drummers and top drum brands.
• Signature Styles and Sounds: Authentic techniques and recording equipment used in the session to recreate drum sounds from iconic Classic Rock albums to Jazz, Soul, Blues, Hip Hop, World, Pop and other styles.
• Ready to Go Stereo Mixes! Stereo mixed kit pieces with overall level control of the kick, snare, toms, hats and cymbals. Stereo Kits load fast and are incredibly efficient on your computer power. It's ideal for laptops!
• Unprocessed Natural Acoustic Sound: Recorded naturally with no additional processing for maximum flexibility to produce, process and engineer within your DAW.
• GM and iMap Drum Maps: Both General Midi and Sonic Reality’s award-winning iMap™ drum layouts for the ultimate in compatibility and expressive realism when creating drum tracks.
• Left and Right Hand Alternate Hits! Drum Masters iMap kits have left and right stick alternate hits on separate keys for avoiding machine gun effect and simulating a drummer’s natural alternating two hand playing.
• Dynamic Velocities and Multiple Drum Positions! Drum Kits are mapped both with multiple velocities and a variety of positions of each drum from center to edge to rim.
• Ideal Material to Use with Effect Plug-ins: Process each mic channel separately or together through your favorite studio effects plug-ins and channel strip EQ in your DAW.
• Unlimited Custom Kits Can Be Made! Drum Master kits are flexible and customizable allowing the ability to swap out kit pieces between kits to create your own custom hybrid drum kits.
• Uses the Infinite Player Software: All Drum Masters Kits and Grooves are played from Sonic Reality’s Infinite Player* virtual instrument software powered by Kontakt™ which works stand alone for the Mac and PC and as a plug-in for major DAWS like ProTools, Cubase, Logic, Sonar, Digital Performer and more.
• Endlessly Expandable Collection! With the Infinite Player you can expand and add more Sonic Reality drum kits, grooves and other instrument sounds to your collection.
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IMAP and GM Mapping Formats
I-MAP
I-MAP™ is a proprietary MIDI note mapping/drum kit layout scheme developed by Sonic Reality that facilitates improved live performance of drum kits via MIDI keyboard. I-MAP places drums in their most flexible and intuitive position, allowing each of the fingers on both hands independent and coordinated control over the sampled kit. With little practice, it is possible to lay down complete drum grooves in a single take that have incredible feel and groove. I-Map has left and right stick positions per drum as well as a variety of positions from center to edge to rim. It includes additional performance articulations you don’t often get from other drum products such as left and right keys for snare rolls, separate ghost notes, hat foot open, chokes, crashing rides and more.
GM (General MIDI)
GM is the classic mapping format for standard midi files. Sonic Reality’s IMAP/GM remapping button works by putting selected IMAP notes remapped to GM notes instead. You can change an entire multi kit from IMAP to GM with one simple key switch. This offers the best of cutting edge expression without sacrificing universal compatibility with GM midi loops.
Drum Masters is part of the Studio ProFiles Series.
Sonic Reality’s Studio ProFiles series is focused on capturing the authentic sound of signature music styles, landmark studios, rare recording equipment, unique musical instruments and the unique sonic flavors of legendary producers, engineers, drummers and other musicians. While the Studio ProFiles series offers sound collections in a variety of formats such as BFD, Drum Core, Stylus RMX, Reason, SampleTank, Rex, Apple Loops and Wave, the main all-inclusive format for the Studio ProFiles series is SR’s own plug-in called “Infinite Player” which is powered by Native Instruments’ Kontakt.
About Sonic Reality's Infinite Player
 Drum Masters Kits and Grooves are played from the Infinite Player software which works stand alone for the Mac and PC or as a plug-in for all major DAW/Sequencers. It is a high resolution full-featured sample engine with disc streaming for playing larger sized instruments. This plug-in technology offers more control of the mixing, envelopes and other parameters than you normally find in a dedicated drum plug-in. With the Infinite Player software there is no need to own Kontakt or any other sampler just to play Drum Masters sounds.
As the name implies it is infinitely expandable with more downloadable sounds in the “Infinite Player” format. Grooves can be found under downloadable “Loop Packs” and kits can be found under downloadable “Instruments”. Note that in many cases there are also Multi-Track versions of Drum Masters Stereo Kits and this offers discrete control of the direct, overhead, room and other mics from the session for maximum flexibility and production power. These kits can also be found under the downloadable "Instruments" section of the site.
System & Product Use Requirements: Infinite Player software*, Mac or PC computer, 1.5+ GHz processor, minimum of 2GB RAM, Firewire, Sata or fast bus Hard Drive, ASIO compatible audio interface, Midi Interface and Midi Controller.
* Note: The Infinite Player must be purchased separately to use this product.
Click here to download Infinite Player.
All mention of John Blackwell, Sonor, Remo, and Sabian are for reference only. No official affiliation implied. Kontakt is a registred trademark of Native Instruments. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This downloadable product is part of the Infinite Player series
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