Private Reserve From Mars - About

Overview

Private Reserve is a stash of unique drum samples sourced from our in-house acoustic drum kit, hand percussion, and my own music sessions. Caution has been thrown to the wind, and the sounds have been re-sampled, mangled, heavily effected and pieced back together into an acoustic-electronic hybrid drum library unlike any drum pack we’ve ever made. 

WAV:

	•	(442) Samples at 24 bit 44.1 kHz 
	•	(10) 16x Hit Kits, and (11) Individual Hits instruments
	•	Kits folders each contain 16 hits, with no duplicate samples between folders. These samples also exist in the Individual Hits folder, but the volume has been fine tuned here so they play well together. 
	•	Normalization and gain changes have been been applied to balance the volumes between drum hits - to balance the Hi Hats to the Kick Drum, for instance. Loudest samples are peaking at -0.5dB.

Naming Conventions:

BD Circus Reserve 01

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BD - Drum Voice

Circus - Descriptor  

Reserve = Product Name

01 - Version within a group of related samples

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Ableton

This was built with Ableton 9.77, so that it works for Ableton 9 and Ableton 10 users. If you are an Ableton 10 user, you may need to click the small “upgrade” for certain devices if you wish to edit them further. 

	•	(1) Individual Hits Rack, and (10) 16x hit Drum Racks

	•	Macros are as follows:

	Individual Hits:

	⁃	Drum Type: Cycles through each group of samples, for the selected Drum Voice.
	⁃	Decay: A combination of Amp Decay and Amp Release
	⁃	Cutoff: Ableton’s filter - set to Low Pass for all hits
	⁃	Tune: Ableton’s pitch transpose, with max values of -48 to +48
	⁃	Reverb: Ableton’s reverb effect amount, with a saturator before the reverb device
	⁃	Reverb Decay: Ableton’s reverb time
	⁃	Drive: Controls Drive amount for a saturator, and the wet/dry mix of a Compressor, set to a 3:1 ratio 
	⁃	Volume: Mapped to Ableton’s Simpler/Sampler volume

	Kits:

	⁃	Tune: Ableton’s pitch transpose, with max values of -48 to +48
	⁃	Decay: A combination of Amp Decay and Amp Release
	⁃	Cutoff: Ableton’s filter - set to Low Pass for all hits
	⁃	Comp: Ableton’s Compressor - set to a 10:1 ratio, with the macro controlling the wet/dry mix for parallel compression
	⁃	Reverb: Ableton’s reverb effect amount, with a saturator before the reverb device
	⁃	Reverb Decay: Ableton’s reverb time
	⁃	Saturate: Controls the drive amount of Ableton’s Filter - Set to PRD, with utility gain reduction.
	⁃	Volume: Mapped to Ableton’s Simpler/Sampler volume

	•	If you have Sampler, you can right click, convert the simpler to sampler to further edit these presets.

Logic EXS, Kontakt, Reason NN-XT, and SFZ:

	•	Contain (11) Individual Hits presets, and (10) 16x hit Kits presets

Reason Kong, Maschine, Battery:

	•	Contain (10) 16x hit Kits as presets

FL Studio:

	•	Contain (11) Individual Hits as DWP instruments

	•	Contain all (10) 16x hit Kits as FPC drum presets

MPC 1000 & 2500:

	•	Contains 16 bit .WAV versions of all (10) 16x hit kits - separated into 3 .PGM drum programs. 

MPC Live & MPC X:

   •	Contains 24 bit .WAV versions of all (10) 16x hit kits - separated into 3 .XPM drum programs. 

Support
Contact info@samplesfrommars.com for support