The Metal Foundry SDX presents one of the most comprehensive recordings in the history of the company, featuring seven unique drum kits spanning 300,000 sound files of raw, single hit drum recordings. Welcome to the metal foundry, the ironworks where the most massive body of drums wait for you to be honed, harnessed and molded into shape.
The Metal Foundry SDX was recorded and produced at the noted Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, Sweden by drummer Tomas Haake (Meshuggah), Mattias Eklund (Toontrack), Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah) and Daniel Bergstrand (Dugout Studio). It covers drums and preset kits for anything from hard rock to metal. Find the early blues-tinged sound of the late 60s to the fragmentation of today’s music – power through thrash, death and progressive metal.
FEATURE SPOTLIGHT
• Seven (7) massive kits
• Included kit presets designed by some of the most interesting engineers and artists in today’s scene (Devin Townsend, Fredrik Thordendal, Daniel Bergstrand, Jocke Skog, Pelle Gunnerfeldt)
• A custom MIDI library covering classic hard rock to metal, performed by Gene Hoglan (Strapping Young Lad, Testament) and Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork) and session drummer Peter Tisell
I just checked and you're right: The Metal Foundry SDX has like only one Zildjian cymbal.
Also, I had incorrectly assumed that Metal Machine was an EZX version of SDX but just read that Andy Sneap produced that pack.
There goes $39.00 more dollars...
...Metal Drums Universal Metal Drums II READ CAREFULLY! You need the appropriate SDX / EZX library for each of the presets: CORE SDX The Metal Foundry SDX The Rock Foundry SDX New York Studios Vol.1 SDX (Avatar) Metal Machinery SDX The Progressive Foundry SDX Music City USA SDX Made of Metal EZX Metalheads EZX Metal Machine EZX Drums of Destruction EZX Metal! EZX
+1 I've only got the Decades and Metal Foundry SDX and quite a few EZX's but this one blows them out of the water as far as overall kit sound goes. Definitely the best one I've heard. Together with the percussion module makes this great value. It wasn't a difficult decision to purchase.