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Snare City

Snare City

The snare pack you never knew you needed. Snare City brings you a dozen sought-after snare drums, covering all bases from vintage to modern.

kontakt exs24 battery wav

Snare City is a 780MB download

  • KONTAKT MAPPINGS

    Stereo, and multi-out mappings.

  • EXS24 MAPPINGS

    Separate mappings for close mics or room mics.

  • BATTERY MAPPINGS

    Separate mappings for close mics or room mics.

  • 1456 ONE-SHOT AUDIO SAMPLES

    24bit, 44.1kHz unencrypted wav files.

Features

Snare City Manual
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    Standalone

    Snare City mappings can be used in standalone mode, or seamlessly integrated with RockStock or PopSticks.

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    Dynamic sampling

    Each drum is sampled at many dynamics for realistic and expressive performance.

  • mic

    2 Mic layers

    2 adjustable mic layers: Spot mics, Room mics.

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    Output routing

    Stereo and multi-channel output versions provided.

  • equalizer

    Sensitivity

    Adjust the sensitivity of the kit to suit more intimate performances or heavier tracks.

Sampling Details

Snares

Instrument Articulation Velocity layers
Gretsch ’70s 14″ x 6.5″ Maple Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Mapex 14″ x 8.5″ Brass Master Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Orange County 14″ x 5″ Vented Maple Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Pearl 14″ x 5″ Chad Smith Steel Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Pearl 14″ x 6.5″ Steve Ferrone Brass1 Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Pearl 14″ x 5″ Masters Custom Maple Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Pearl 12″ x 5″ Masters Custom Maple Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Pearl 14″ x 3.5″ Steel Piccolo Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Pearl 14″ 6.5″ Free Floating Brass Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Premier 10″ x 6″ Soprano Maple Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8
Slingerland ’60s 14″ x 5″ Radioking2 Center Hits x48*
Cross Stick x8

* legacy mappings have a reduced number of velocity layers, and separate keys for left/right/dynamic and hard hits

1 Steve Ferrone Brass snare is also supplied with RockStock

2 Slingerland RadioKing snare is also supplied with PopSticks

Snare City system requirements

Compatible software sampler: Native Instruments Kontakt Full Version (4 or greater), Slate Trigger, or Logic ESX24 (depending on the product, not all of these are supported).

Storage: Kingpin is a 1.45GB download (1.82GB unzipped), so you’ll need a minimum of 3.27GB free space to get started.

RAM: 1GB

Processor: 1GHz

OS: Windows Vista/7/8/10/11, Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Software compatibility

This product is 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 full version of Kontakt is required for use of the supplied Kontakt mappings.

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.

Snare City system requirements

Compatible software sampler: Native Instruments Kontakt Full Version (4 or greater), Slate Trigger, or Logic ESX24 (depending on the product, not all of these are supported).

Storage: Kingpin is a 1.45GB download (1.82GB unzipped), so you’ll need a minimum of 3.27GB free space to get started.

RAM: 1GB

Processor: 1GHz

OS: Windows Vista/7/8/10/11, Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Software compatibility

This product is 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 full version of Kontakt is required for use of the supplied Kontakt mappings.

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.