Beat fuel. Beautiful.
A hybrid drum designer and kit builder that blends
acoustic and electronic drum sounds with custom IRs.
5/5 stars
“Not being mainstream makes this library so unique as you get new, original, individual kits...blend between entirely acoustic and synthetic elements and mix to taste...humanization and round-robin shifting assures the realism that hybrid perc needs...different convolution impulses to enlarge, sully and excite the drums.”
KONSTRUKTOR
Acoustic-Synthetic
I couldn't find a drum kit builder with enough dirt and character so I built one.
I wanted fresh, distinctive sounds so I experimented with all types of de/reconstructed acoustic objects. I constructed the instruments and developed playing techniques to find the most interesting articulations.
Some of these I mixed with pure tone waveforms, others I left untouched. Then I created around 200 synthetic percussion sounds to blend.
Taking It One Step Further
Yeah, hybrid drums are cool, but IR convolution is next level. I created around 400 custom impulses using vinyl/radio/tape/digital noise and static, granular effects, frequency modeling, mic effects, chorusing, and stereo imaging.
Some expand the depth and space around the drums, others create audio effects and interesting rhythms. And they add just the right amount of dirt and texture to the drum samples. It's set up with multi-out for routing to your own effects.
The result is a trio of fresh, original drum kit builders that have a unique, unmistakeable sound: Konstruktor, Fabrikator, and Rezonator.
Konstruktor comes packed with 108 drum kits. A percussion playground for songwriters, music producers, and film score composers.
True Hybrid Drums
Konstruktor is a hybrid drum designer and kit builder that blends acoustic sound sources with synthesized waveforms. Together with both fully acoustic and fully synthetic elements, this kit builder creates truly hybrid drums for designing rhythms with a unique, fresh new sound.
Convolution Colors
Model each kit slot with its own convolution plugin: nearly 400 custom impulses that color, shape, distort, and augment the drum samples. Thicken kick drums, smear and widen snares, turn hi-hats into mini rhythm engines. Glitchbomb, Drumrust, Echoglitz, Boomscope...
Robot Or Human?
Control the amount of randomization that is applied to velocity and quantization—separately for each kit slot. Make those snares and hi-hats extra trashy. And with 6 round-robin layers for every articulation, even fully synthetic kits can find a new groove. Let those kits run loose.
Performance Control
Adjustments to tuning, sample start points, decay envelopes, and sample width can also be used to control how different convolution impulses color an instrument. Konstruktor is multi-out capable: kit slots can be routed to separate output channels for automation control and 3rd party plugins.
Filter Control
Each of the 7 kit slots has three dedicated, independently selectable lowpass, bandpass, and highpass filters, each with dedicated cutoff and resonance knobs for on-the-fly switching. Filtering offers another way to control how the convolution impulse colors the sound.
Smart Randomization
A powerful kit-building tool, this feature preserves the kit's performance controls and offers three randomization modes: sample banks only, convo choices only, or both. With two temporary memory slots for comparing new combos, tailor settings then save a snapshot of your new kit.
The Klüsterkitt requires the full version of Kontakt 5.7.1 or later (the instrument cannot be used in the free Kontakt Player).
Kontakt 8 users: NI's user guide offers instructions for loading user snapshots.