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Tap, Tap..., Perfect Drums
Tap in the kind of drum groove you want and watch GrooveAI handle the rest. You'll see the top grooves that fit your song, and you can filter them by style to find exactly the right drum part your song needs.
Drag-in music,
Get Instant Drum Parts
Just drag an audio file of you song's bass line, guitar riff, or other rhythmic part and GrooveAI will automatically generate your song's unique beat pattern and list the best-fitting grooves in seconds.
Customize Your Groove
With GrooveAI, you're never limited to existing grooves. Tweak and Kick and Snare dials to make any pattern match your song even more precisely. Morph puts thousands of new custom drum patterns at your fingertips.
Build your song
Create custom drum parts for your entire song. When you're ready, drag and drop the entire arrangement over the edit window, and BAM- all your drums are done. GrooveAI makes building your song easier than ever before.
OUT NOW: Frank Zummo Drums
The sounds from the legendary drummer of the year can now be yours.
Exclusively for SSD and Trigger
SSD 5.5
- Drum Composition & Live Performance
- Get Every Pro Drum Sound Using MIDI
- Write, Perform, & Record With E-Drum Kits
- Includes 2,400 Multi-Genre MIDI Grooves For Inspiration
- Requires a DAW
Trigger 2
- Drum Post-Production Editing
- Take Any Existing Drum Recording and Replace with Pro Drums
- Analyzes Transients Instead of MIDI
- Replaces & Cleans Up Individual Instruments
- Requires a DAW
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Heard Everywhere.
Steven Slate's Drum samples have been the pro standard for one reason: Their sound and variety is unparalleled. You've heard them on countless hit records from the biggest artists.
Get Slate Drums
SSD 5.5
$119 $49
Includes:
- 15 GB of award-winning drums samples
- 153 pristinely-captured drums kits
- 112 Kicks, 135 Snares, 58 Toms, 11 Hi-Hats
- 14 Crashed, 6 Rides, 4 Splashes, 3 Chinas
- 9 Percussion, and 4 SFX
- 2,600 professional performed MIDI Grooves
- Groove AI personalized drummer
Trigger 2
$119 $49
Includes:
- Over 2 GB of award-winning drum samples
- 46 Snares, 33 Kicks, and 8 Sets of Toms
- Ability to create your own samples
- Ability to convert drums tracks to MIDI
- Drum Instrument Editor
What producers are saying
Jeff Juliano
John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band
I have tried a ton of sample libraries in the past few years and I have never been shocked by any of them till I got Steven Slate’s. Steven just gets it. Hands down. He’s a mixer and an engineer. He even tracked them…
J Scott G, Kevin
Madonna, Seal, OAR, Bowie
Stop whatever you are doing and just get these drums. It has been a long time since we have been blown away by anything like this. These have gone on everything, and I mean everything, we have done…
Ross Hogarth
Jonas Brothers, Motley Crue, Jewel
Recently, I started using the Steven Slate Drums. I am extremely pleased. The extra air and depth of the sounds is a fine upgrade to my drumagog library…
Jay Baumgardner
Evanescence, Papa Roach, Hoobastank
The Steven Slate Drum samples are the best sounding drum samples available. The variety is fantastic, I can find a drum sound for any given mix. All the samples have a great PUNCH…
Dave Way
Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow, Christina Aguilera
These samples are just what I need – a vast library with GREAT sounding drums that instantly and easily fit into a mix. Drum replacement can be a tricky thing. The samples need to be designed to work WITH the track…
Colin Richardson
Lamb of God, Slipknot, DevilDriver
The most realistic sounding drum samples I have ever heard. There is a snare or kick here to fit into any pop, rock or metal mix. These are the best on the market, the new industry standard…
David Kahne
Paul McCartney, Sublime, The Strokes
I’ve had the new Steven Slate samples for 2 weeks now, and when I open Drumagog and look for sounds, I haven’t opened any folders but the Slate folders. Great new additions, and an extremely broad range…
Ben Moody
Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Celion Dion
Steven Slate Drums have brought the songwriting/recording process to new horizons of fun and productivity. Having absolutely flawless drum sounds at your disposal virtually instantaneously…
Frank Zummo
The Frank Zummo Signature Expansion for Steven Slate Drums 5 and Trigger 2 is the ultimate, genre-bending drum library, delivering Zummo’s signature punch across modern pop, pop punk, rock, indie, and more. Engineered by Curtis Douglas, a Billboard-proven pro, features both raw and mix-ready samples with hyper-realistic articulations, including rare ride shank and stacked cymbals. With 11 snares, 8 kicks, 18 toms, and Zummo’s unique hybrid acoustic-electronic sound, this expansion is designed for seamless integration into any mix. The Frank Zummo Signature Expansion is the next evolution of drums—crafted for the modern producer looking for unrestrained versatility and power.
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CLA Drums
Chris recorded these drums using his signature processing chains which have been heard on countless hit records. He even recorded a sample layer of his famous Sony reverb unit for the kicks and snares. The Chris Lord-Alge Expansion Library for Steven Slate Drums may be the fattest, punchiest, mix-ready virtual drums you’ll ever work with. These polished, larger than life drum sounds have become the reference for mixers everywhere. And they’re ONLY available through Steven Slate.
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Blackbird Studios
From Pearl Jam to Bruce Springsteen, Nashville’s Blackbird Studios is the go-to destination for the music industry’s top artists. Boasting a massive mic locker and eight rooms packed with the world’s most coveted gear, Blackbird stands alone in the pantheon of world class recording facilities. These legendary drum kits are perfect for any style, and will sit in your mix with little-to-no EQing.
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Terry Date Drums
Terry Date is the producer, recording engineer, and mixer behind bands like The Deftones, Pantera, Staind, Incubus, Soundgarden, and more. He’s known for his epic drum sounds, and you can now get ten drum kits recorded in the legendary Hensen Studio B, all captured and mixed by Date himself. These are some of the most mix-ready kits for rock and metal that you’ll ever work with.
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Patrick Carney
Elevate your arrangements with the fat, dirty sound of the Grammy-winning Black Keys drummer. You’ll dig this vintage-inflected expansion library’s drum selection, which includes a rare 1961 Round Badge Gretsch, edgy 1970s Ludwig Vistalite, and a whole lot more. In all, the Patrick Carney Expansion includes $24,000 worth of rare drums, one-of-a-kind microphones, and character-infused reverb plates. You get processed and raw samples to cover a vast range of sonic territory for unrivaled versatility. The Patrick Carney Expansion Pack is your one-way ticket to deliciously vintage drum sounds.
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David Bendeth Drums
David Bendeth is the producer, engineer, and mixer whose famously explosive rock drums are heard on top acts such as Paramore, Breaking Benjamin, and Underoath. With five ready-to-rock preset kits, all preprocessed by Bendeth himself, you can infuse your own tracks with endless punch, breadth, and realism. David even mixed in his own classic samples into the top velocities of the live sampled drums for even more impact. The sheer force of these drums will leave you speechless
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Trigger 2 Deluxe Expansion
Producers swear by Trigger 2 for drum replacement. Now, this deluxe library adds 16 snares, 14 kicks, and 19 toms– all unprocessed –to your Trigger drum library. These samples are recorded in impeccable detail to sit perfectly in any mix. You get everything from classic to modern drums, including contemporary Noble & Cooley samples, early ’60s Ludwigs, a Gretsch Jazz Cocktail kit, and more. Every drum has its own close mic, overhead, and room channel, and all snares contain bottom mic samples so that you can blend in the perfect amount of snare tone.
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Over 15 years of recorded drums sounds.
Modern Drums
Including the most famous drums kits like Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Green Day, and more.
FAQ
What’s the difference between SSD and Trigger?
SSD5 is a MIDI based sampler that offers the features of a live drum kit in a virtual instrument. It is meant for those who want to program realistic-sounding drum patterns through MIDI. It also works great with most electronic drum sets. It comes with 15 GB of drums, cymbals, and percussion samples.
Trigger 2 is a transient-based drum replacer, that is designed to work with audio tracks. It is meant for those who want to trigger samples from live drum recordings, either to reinforce or replace existing drum sounds. It comes with over 2 GB of samples of snares, kicks, and toms.
I don’t play drums. Which product should I get?
If you are new to building drum parts, start with SSD. Not only will you get hundreds of the world’s best drum sounds, you’ll also get 2,600 production-ready MIDI Grooves just waiting to drop into your track. These grooves are played by real drummers, so you’ll instantly get authentic, emotional performances to bring your songs to life.
You also get the all-new Groove AI, our intelligent drum assistant. Groove AI analyzes your song, finds the key transients, and instantly recommends a MIDI Groove that will work perfectly for your song. And the Morph knobs let you tweak your beat even more to make any pattern match the properties of your song even more precisely.
Trigger lets you easily replace individual drum instruments in a recorded kit with crystal-clean samples of the most legendary kits in all of recording history. It’s the perfect tool for quickly swapping-out drum sounds from an OK-sounding kit to an incredible-sounding kit.
So while you don’t need to play drums to use either SSD or Trigger, the right program depends on what you want to do– program and build drum parts using step sequence, MIDI grooves, and automation? (SSD!) Or replace recorded drum parts with incredible-sounding drum instruments? (Trigger!)
How exactly does Groove AI work?
Groove AI is our new intelligent drum assistant. Groove AI analyzes your song, finds the key transients, and instantly recommends a MIDI Groove that will work perfectly for your song. And the Morph knobs let you tweak your beat even more to make any pattern match the properties of your song even more precisely. Build your entire song, including intro, verses, choruses, and more, by just dragging & dropping each groove to the Build lane. When you’re ready, drag it over to your Arrange window. Bam– instant drum track.
What about Mac & PC compatibility?
If you’re on a Mac, our minimum requirements for SSD 5.5 is:
- Intel 2.2GHz Dual Core or higher (Apple Silicon support)
- 4 GB of RAM
If you’re on PC, minimum requirements are:
- 2.2GHz Intel Dual Core / AMD Processor or higher
- 4 GB of RAM minimum
Do I need iLok to use SSD?
You can activate your SSD license with Machine ID using the Pace License Manager. While you are free to use a physical iLok key if you want to, you do not need an iLok dongle.
How many installations of SSD do I get with my purchase?
You get 3 iLok licenses for each purchase of SSD 5.5.
What if I have questions about how to use SSD?
SSD is easy to use, and include built in manuals to help you get started. You can also join our incredible online community at the Steven Slate Audio Dojo where tons of fellow Slate Drums owners would be happy to share their tips and tricks with you!