Overview
Royale is a vintage jazz kit played with mallets. Based around a mint ’70s Rogers kit with select vintage Paiste and Zildjian cymbals, Rogers Dynasonic, Ludwig and Gretsch snares. Royale delivers a toneful foundation for jazz and other genres, and is versatile enough to go from delicate to raucous. The mix of the kit can be taken from crisp and intimate through to roomy and spacious with a few fader adjustments.
Three snares, two separate pairs of toms (high tension and open, medium tension and controlled), two kick drums with open and dampened options, two pairs of hihats, and two rides give you plenty of options to fit the kit into your track.
Demos
Features
Mic layers
Individually controllable mic layers - Close mics, Overheads, Room mics, Smash mic, Kick Sub, and Snare-Bottom.
eKit mode
Switch to ‘eKit’ mode when using a Roland V-Drum kit, or leave set to ‘Keyboard mode’ for direct MIDI sequencing. The layout is General MIDI (GM) compatible.
Output routing
Stereo and multi-channel output versions provided.
Round-robin
Each and every hit has 6 unique round-robin samples to avoid the mechanical machine-gun effect.
Switchable instruments
Easily switch between included drums
Package contents
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Formats
Kontakt, Trigger, Wav
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3984 sample files
in unencrypted 24bit, 44.1khz .wav format
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User manual
AD41-Royale-Manual (PDF)
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Total package size
3 GB download
3.9 GB unzipped
Sampling Details
The kit was sampled at The Manor through a selection of fine vintage and modern recording pieces.
Kicks
| Instrument | Articulations | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers ’70s Maple 20″ x 16″ | open | x6 | x6 |
| dampened | x6 | x6 | |
| Rogers ’70s Maple 22″ x 16″ | open | x6 | x6 |
| dampened | x6 | x6 |
Snares
| Instrument | Articulations | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers Dynasonic 14″ x 5.5″ CoB | center hits | x7 | x6 |
| Ludwig Super-Sensitive 14″ x 6.5″ | center hits | x7 | x6 |
| Gretsch Maple 14″ x 6.5″ | center hits | x7 | x6 |
Toms
| Instrument | Articulations | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers ’70s Maple 12″ (high tension) | center hits | x7 | x6 |
| Rogers ’70s Maple 15″ (high tension) | center hits | x7 | x6 |
| Rogers ’70s Maple 13″ (medium tension) | center hits | x7 | x6 |
| Rogers ’70s Maple 16″ (medium tension) | center hits | x7 | x6 |
Hihats
| Instrument | Articulations | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zildjian Constantinople 14″ Hihat | Top Tight | x3 | x6 |
| Top Closed | x3 | x6 | |
| Top Loose | x3 | x6 | |
| Top Semi-open | x3 | x6 | |
| Top Open | x3 | x6 | |
| Pedal | x3 | x6 | |
| Footsplash | x1 | x6 | |
| Paiste Formula 602 Vintage 15″ Hihat | Top Tight | x3 | x6 |
| Top Closed | x3 | x6 | |
| Top Loose | x3 | x6 | |
| Top Semi-open | x3 | x6 | |
| Top Open | x3 | x6 | |
| Pedal | x3 | x6 | |
| Footsplash | x1 | x6 |
Crashes
| Instrument | Articulations | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zildjian Constantinople 16″ Crash | Edge | x4 | x6 |
| Bell | x3 | x6 | |
| Choke | x3 | x6 | |
| Swells | x9 | x1 | |
| Zildjian Constantinople 18″ Crash | Edge | x4 | x6 |
| Bell | x3 | x6 | |
| Choke | x3 | x6 | |
| Swells | x7 | x1 |
Rides
| Instrument | Articulations | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zildjian Constantinople 20″ Medium Thin Low Ride | Bow | x4 | x6 |
| Bell | x3 | x6 | |
| Paiste Formula 602 Vintage 22″ Ride | Bow | x4 | x6 |
| Bell | x3 | x6 |
FX Cymbals
| Instrument | Articulations | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zildjian K 10″ Splash | Edge | x3 | x6 |
| Choke | x2 | x6 |
System Requirements
- Compatable software sampler: Native Instruments Kontakt Full version version 4 or greater
- Hard drive: free storage space available (to download and then unzip)
- RAM: 1GB
- Processor: 1GHz
- OS: Windows Vista/7/8/10, Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Compatability notes
- NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player. The kit will stop working after a 15 minute total time restriction imposed by Kontakt Player. The kit is NOT able to be activated for continued use in the Player.
- The wav format audio files supplied with this product can be utilized with many other sampler and sound replacement products, however no ‘mappings’ are provided or support is given for this.