Ocean Way Drums Gold
40 Gigabytes of 24bit/48k audiophile samples on 6 Dual Layer DVDs

Ocean Way Drums Gold is a collection of 19 drum kits recorded in the legendary Ocean Way B Studio.  Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood California is the world's most awarded studio complex. Albums recorded at the studio have sold over 1 billion units.  chose Ocean Way for its phenomenal sounding rooms, customized equipment, and access to the music industry's most famous collection of vintage tube microphones.

Ocean Way Drums Gold Features:
-Recorded by Grammy Award winning engineer/producers Allen Sides and Steven Miller
-High Resolution audiophile samples at 24bit/48K and 24bit/96K
-Discrete multi microphone recording and mixing technique
-Up to 13 separate mono and stereo sound sources per drum - enormous sonic flexibility
-Each kit with 6 "album quality" mix presets in both snare on and snare off versions
-Drum Replacement : works with Drumagog to trigger from existing audio
-Most expressive map for the keyboard using Sonic Reality's I-Map™ technique
-Most expressive map for Roland V-Drums™ - responding to position sensors
-Left and right stick hits with more performance elements than other drum plug-in

Ocean Way Drums Gold was recorded in historic Studio B, considered to be the Taj Mahal of drum rooms. The legacy of this incredible sounding room includes classic recordings by Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole - and continues with current CD's by Radiohead, Green Day, Paul McCartney, Kanye West and Eric Clapton.  It is home to a one-of-a-kind recording console, considered to be the most clear board in existence. The use of this console, in tandem with highly modified classic gear from Neve, API, Ueri, Fairchild, and Allen Sides' pristine hand-selected microphones ensures that every sound on Ocean Way Drums is stunning.

Audiophile gurus, Allen Sides and Steven Miller developed a unique, discrete multi microphone recording and mixing technique. Utilizing up to 13 separate mono and stereo sound sources per insturment (including 3 sets of stereo room mics), this technique captures the sound of each instrument with startling audiophile clarity and enables the end user to independently adjust each drum and cymbal within the kit from tight and dry, all the way to wide and ambient.
 
Microphones used for recording Ocean Way Drums Gold were hand picked by Allen Sides from his personal collection.
Microphone Usage Chart:
-Kick  AKG D12, AKG D112, Neumann U47 Fet
-Snare Top  AKG C12A , Shure SM 57 (custom)
-Snare Bottom  Sony 55P
-Hi Hat  Sony 55P
-Toms  AKG C12A
-Overheads  AKG C12
-Rooms  Telefunken U47, Neumann M50, Telefunken Elam 251, Neumann KM 54

All audio was recorded through Studio B´s custom, one-of-a-kind console, considered to be the most astonishingly clear board in existence. Very little eq or compression was used, but when it was, highly modified classic gear from Neve, API, Ueri, Fairchild was utilized.

The drums were placed in the rear right corner of historic Studio B, considered by most producers and engineers to the "sweet spot" with the most low end punch. Because the wonderful acoustics, each instrument was able to be recorded at the optimal distance and angle and with the microphones that best captured the full frequency and dynamic range of that instrument. The multiple sets of stereo room mics picked up the room´s natural ambience at various distances from the drums. Each seperate room source presents its own unique sonic color, and when the various room sources are blended together, they present unlimited tonal options.

Allen Sides and Steven Miller created 6 "mix presets" per drum kit to instantly provide killer sounding, record quality mixes. Presets can be instantly changed either as an entire set, or, individually per instrument within a drum set. There are 6 seperate pre sets for both the mono snare drum (57) and the stereo snare drum (C12A).

Beyond the pre sets, adjustments can easily be made and saved to all of the individual sound sources within EACH instrument of EVERY drum kit. This, along with controll of ptch, pan, envelope, velocity and ballance of the stereo submasters, gives users total control of the mix and provides unlimited possiblilites.

Triggering Ocean Way Drums Gold from existing audio is best accomplished in conjunction with Wave Machine Labs' Drumagog. You can transform any drum performance recorded in a less than optimum environment into that "major label" sound. Step by step instructions for both Mac and PC users are included in the manual.

Six close microphones were used to record the snare drum - two C12A´s about eighteen inches above the drum head, two custom 57´s two inches from the head, and two 55P´s five inches under the bottom head. Since there are numerous ways in which to utilize the six mics, Ocean Way Drums offers two Presets which represent the opposite ends of the sonic spectrum. The "C12A" versions utilize both C12A´s in stereo (panned hard left and right) along with both under snare mics in stereo (also panned hard left and right). The "57" versions utilize one or the other custom 57 in mono without under snare mics. Many of the Pre Sets for both the "C12A" and "57" versions do include some amount of "Thwack," which is a highly compressed mic signal to be added to your dry, uncompressed drums.

Snare On and Snare Off versions refer specifically to the sound of the Kick Drum and the Toms. Snare On means that the Kick and Toms include the rattle of the snare drum. Snare Off means that the snares were turned off during the striking of the Kick and Toms.

Ocean Way Drums Gold is a multi output virtual instrument. Every channel in the mixer can be routed to a seperate stereo or mono input in your DAW. Even though the default is stereo, you have custom controll over your output configuation and can make simple pre sets for any and all situations.

You can load the sounds of Ocean Way Drums either as individual instruments, or as entire drum kits.  Two types of patches are included: Instruments and Multis.  Instruments are individual drums (kick, snare, hat, toms, ride cymbal, crash cymbals.)  Multis are entire Drum Kits - a combination of individual drums The Instruments and Multis are broken up into two folders labeled IMAP ( for use with a MIDI keyboard) and V-Drum (for use with drum pads). Within these folders, you have a choice of Snare On" and Snare Off" as well as a choice between the snare 57 and snare C12A presets.

Building custom kit multies are a snap. You can make changes to an existing kit or put together a kit from scratch. It´s easy to "mix and match" instruments from one kit with instruments from another. The sheer number of different kicks, snares, toms, hats and cymbals provides many possibilites.  All drum kits and individual instruments come mapped for both MIDI keyboard and drum pads. Ocean Way Drums´ custom programming helps you perform realistic drum tracks - down to even the most subtle nuances of the groove.

I-MAP is a proprietary MIDI note mapping layout for the keyboard that provides more performance variations and articulations than any other drum product. Featuring a powerfull layout that places drums in their most intuitive position, I-MAP enables you to create increadibly expressive drum tracks that feel and sound like the real thing.
I-Map Features:
-Up to 32 dynamics per hit
-Left and right stick hits for every drum and cymbal - providing startling realism
-Dedicated keys for rolls, ghost notes, cymbal swells, alt hits, etc
-8 keys for the positions of the snare - from center to edge
-4 keys for the kicks
-9 different hi hat variations from foot and closed to open
-6 alternate hits per tom
-Efficient key switching for instantly changing pre sets

The V-Drum Map has been carefully programmed to work with Roland´s TD-20 V-Drums electronic drum kit. It offers a high level of real performance variations and a comfortable range of positions for each instument within the kit. It's loaded with a multitude of samples, whcih makes for great dynamics and serious playability.
-V-Drum Features:
-Wide dynamic range
-Alternating "round robin" hits - avoids the "machine gun effect"
-3 positions for the snare - center, edge and rim
-2 positions for the toms - center and edge
-9 positions for the hi hat - from foot and closed to open
-3 positions for the cymbals - center, edge and bell
-Key switching on the V-Drum brain - can change pre sets "on the fly" 

Ocean Way Drums Gold System Requirements:
To use Ocean Way Drums you will need a computer with at least these specifications:
-DVD drive
-At least 40GB of available hard drive space
-Mac
  -OS 10.4.x, G4 2gHz or higher
  -2GB RAM (for laptop use: samples must be on at least a 7200 RPM hard drive)
-PC
  -Windows XP SP2, 2gHz or higher
  -2GB RAM (for laptop use: samples must be on at least a 7200 RPM hard drive)

To get the most out of Ocean Way Drums, a faster processor will be beneficial, and more RAM will give you much better results. Ocean Way Drums also uses disk streaming technology so faster hard drives will also give you better performance.