Aaron M. Smith aka Paega has released Paega’s Nord Drum Kit, a free collection of drum samples which were synthesized using the Clavia Nord Drum Synth virtual analog drum machine and processed with analog gear.
The collection was originally released as two separate drum kits, however Paega has agreed to re-release these hits as a single drum pack which is now available for free download via BPB.
If you’re interested in downloading this free drum kit, please pay a visit to Paega’s official website (paegamusic.com) and his SoundCloud page (soundcloud.com/paegamusic). Here’s what Paega has to say about this free drum sample pack:
Dear Internet and loyal BPB followers,
Paega here with a couple free drum kits for you! Inside you will find two kits. Both kits were sourced from a Clavia Nord Drum 1 drum module, which is a virtual analog drum module. This module may be off many people’s radar as it is really intended as live performance tool for drummers. However, the fantastic sound engine and well designed interface make it a great studio tool as well.
The first kit is a punchy, electronic drum kit with a little love from an FMR Really Nice Compressor. It includes your familiar kick, snares and hats as well as some hand drums and a short gong. The second kit is pretty far from standard fair—for this kit I’ve run the Nord Drum directly into an OTO Biscuit then into the FMR RNC (Google/YouTube the OTO Biscuit, one of my favorite boxes!). I’ve used a combination of the Biscuit’s 8-bit bit reduction circuits plus its waveshapping distortion. This kit includes some kicks, snares, a disco style laser and some hits I’ve simply labeled Noize 1-3 (note the hip misspelling). Both kits hit my SoundCraft mixing board for some very gentle frequency attenuation then were recorded through MOTU preamps.
Go out and make some noise! If you come up with any tracks using these drums samples, please feel free to submit them to me at paegamusic at gmail dot com, I’m looking for some tracks using these samples to feature on my website. Streaming only, please.
Many thanks to Paega for sharing this cool drum kit for free with BPB readers. Being a huge fan of quirky electronic drum hits such as these, I would recommend this freebie kit to anyone who enjoys using drum samples which have been dirtied up with analog gear.
If you make any tunes with these samples, get in touch with Aaron (paegamusic.com/contact) because he’s looking for finished tracks which would be featured on his website. Have fun with the freebie drum samples and make some cool tunes with them!
Audio Demo
Check out the Paega’s Nord Drum Kit audio demo:
Download
Paega’s Nord Drum Kit is available for free download right here on BPB (1.27 MB download size, ZIP archive, contains 18 drum samples in 24-bit WAV format).
Last Updated on August 4, 2014 by Tomislav Zlatic.
