EastWest Quantum Leap Stormdrum Reviews

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EastWest Quantum Leap Stormdrum Description
Quantum Leap Stormdrum sample library has thousands of original, organic drum grooves featuring some of the largest and most impressive drums on the planet, particularly targeted for use on soundtracks. Produced by award-winning Quantum Leap producer Nick Phoenix, with 6GB of loops and multisamples from 3 world-class percussionists, Tal Bergman, Richie Garcia, and Michito Sanchez. Multisampled virtual drum kits and percussion with up to 20-way velocity-switching, organic tech percussion, metal shop, and big hits. Recorded at the Record Plant, Studio A.

Actually you get 2 libraries when you purchase Stormdrum, as it includes both Intakt loops and Kompakt multisamples. These are 2 separate interfaces, so that each category includes all of the features needed. Kompakt has disk streaming and multitimbral capability, as well as a host of other multisample parameters like auto sample alternation. It's a perfect interface for the multisampled kits and percussion. Intakt is the ultimate loop manipulation tool, and syncs the loops to the tempo of your sequencer. It has realtime time compression, cool lo-fi effects, and lots of other amazing features like legato looping.

Everything has 10 to 24-way velocity switching with left- and right-hand samples. Quantum Leap has 32 GM drum kits with automatic alternation of left- and right-hand samples built into each kit (snare, hats, and toms). 88-key drum sets are user-customizable.

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Quality: 9
Very well put together program for drums of all shapes and shapes. Sounds amazing, wonderful release trails, the sounds have a real size to them. The percussion beds sound fantastic. Kompakt and Intakt are a little fiddly with small fonts and unwieldy menu dropdowns, but that's life.

Reliability: 9
East West's support has been awesome. I had trouble with some CDs from another library, I'd trust them with my kids.

Overall Rating: 9
The program attempts to be a soundtrack drum sample library. It succeeds with spades and hearts and a full hand of court cards. I don't have a lot of experience with sample libraries, so I don't know what to expect for 100 bucks, but I would have liked more sounds. More cymbals, more noises, and perhaps a bigger emphasis on ethnic sounds. There is a ton of GM kits here, and lots of great sounds, but DFHS and BFD are much more useful as a general drumkit sound.

You can't go past this for a soundtrack style drum library though. It has aged, but the quality hasn't dropped at all. I just can't recommend this enough.