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EZDrummer 3
Expert drum sounds
This flagship drum library needed a sound to match the functionality and this is exactly what EZDrummer 3 boasts. Recorded by award-winning engineer Michael Ilbert (Coldplay, Adele, The Weeknd) at the world-famous Hansa Studios in Berlin, Germany, EZDrummer 3 is armed with 15GB of sounds to explore. Comprised of seven full handpicked kits, you can explore a huge palette of sounds covering everything from mellow and vintage to bright and heavy. A stunning collection of premium and boutique instruments is made up of 14 kicks, 24 snares, 30 toms, six hi-hats, six rides, 16 crashes, three splashes, two chinas and one clap stack from world-renown manufacturers.
Making use of all three live rooms within Hansa Studios EZDummer 3 includes kits recorded in all three rooms for maximum versatility and ambience. The main room is spacious but not overpowering, ideal for anything from laid-back singer-songwriter to modern pop. Two kits have been recorded in the main room including the Studio Kit and Singer-Songwriter Kit, offering transparent, detailed and elegant sounds ideal for a huge range of genres from pop, rock and funk.
The Bright room features marble walls contrasted by hardwood floorings, presenting a bright punch and ambience. Two kits were recorded in this room including the Modern Rock Kit and Vintage Rock kit. The added brightness and definition from the room ambience make these the perfect solution for powerful rock sounds.
Lastly, the Tight room is a highly-compact room, filled with sound-absorbing materials for a dry and precise sound. Three further kits were recorded in this room including the Tight and Punchy Kit, Classic Pop Kit and Hip-Hop/R&B kit. Fat and snappy, these kits have been recorded with a mix of tea towel shell coverings for that classic vintage and dry tone making them perfect for rhythm-based genres from R&B, jazz, Latin and much more.
In traditional Toontrack fashion, EZDrummer 3 comes loaded with a plethora of artist and signature presets for users of all abilities to explore the sonic landscapes possible or to dive into production-ready tones for your composition.
Got a riff? Let Bandmate do the rest
New for EZDrummer 3 is the Bandmate function, an AI-powered rhythm generator that crafts customised beats to your audio or MIDI files. The perfect starting point for writing your music, Bandmate allows you to input any melodic instrument from bass, keys or guitars and be presented with musically accurate drum grooves that fit your riff. Using smart analysis tools, Bandmate listens to transient information to match kick drum patterns, making it incredibly accurate to your audio or MIDI riff. Generating a plethora of matching grooves with a different feel, power hand and even genre, you can match virtually any style of guitar riff, bass groove or even key melody to find something that fits your composition in seconds.
Once you have found a groove that suits your track, you can customise it further using the three knobs to musically refine the number of snare hits, kick hits and the power hand. Ideal for adding everything from subtle snare ghost notes, extra kick drums for up-tempo rock or metal and more articulations on your power hand for extra flair. Alongside these, Bandmate provides global controls for velocity and swing, letting you change the intensity and groove of your track.
When working with MIDI files as your source, Bandmate will automatically provide a selection of sound banks from synths, keys, bass and guitars to give you an audio representation of how your AI-generated drum groove matches with your composition.
Transform your grooves into songs
The song Song Creator in EZDrummer 3 provides you with a selection of pre-made templates to craft a song from a groove in seconds. Simply drag a MIDI groove into your Song Creator and let EZDrummer 3 take care of the rest. Providing you with a selection of arrangements based on intelligent AI processing, you are presented with musically similar grooves and parts to craft full compositions. Each section within your structure can be swapped out for an alternative groove to better match your track and style with ease. Designed for songwriters, this is the perfect solution for quickly and easily getting your ideas recorded into full song structures to remain in the creative groove without getting bogged down by manual drum programming.
The MIDI library
Over 2,500+ MIDI files are included with Toontrack EZDrummer 3 spanning a huge range of genres and styles from soul, Latin, funk, metal, hip-hop, EDM and much more. Arranged in a song structure format with smart filtering abilities, the grooves onboard cover everything from the subtle to extreme to cover your musical needs. Whether you're crafting experimental prog rock and need a multitude of time signatures or classic EDM four-to-the-floor, EZDrummer 3 can accommodate your needs. Each MIDI file has been performed by a real drummer to ensure maximum authenticity and realism for your projects, meaning you won't need to spend any time editing micro-timing and velocity parameters and can instead dive into high-quality drum production.
Newly introduced in EZDrummer 3 is the Groove Parts menu. This allows you to customise, refine, slice and dice every file within the MIDI library. Combine individual instruments from each groove to create custom grooves without any tedious editing, simply drag and drop the parts you want into your Song Creator tab and make fresh and new beats perfectly fit your music.
EZX Sound Expansions
Action
A seamless dissolve between fiction and reality, classic and modern, organic and electronic. Welcome to a bottomless well of sound.
Alt Rock
Drums recorded by the man who helped shape the sound of alternative rock: Steve Albini.
Americana
Raw, untamed and no thrills. The sound that rose out of rebelling mainstream country.
Big Band
Two kits from the height of the golden swing and big band era.
Big Rock Drums
Drums like thunder. Five kits, all capturing the raw, thunderous tone of classic ‘70s hard rock.
Big Stage
The stage is yours. Four kits recorded in a massive mid-1800s theatre auditorium.
Classic Rock
Like rumbling thunder. Classic rock drum gold – the big, obnoxious and loud kind.
Claustrophobic
Organic drums for any contemporary hip-hop, pop, dance or R&B track.
Custom Shop
When drums are not enough. Some of the most rare, hard-to-come-by and unique handcrafted drums in the world.
Dance
Four on the dancefloor. 15 mix-ready kits tailored for modern electronic dance music.
Dark Matter
A bottomless pool of darkness. Complete and utter life-absorbing darkness, straight from the heart of Denmark.
Death Metal
The definition of brutality. Two drum kits, tailored for modern death metal production of the highest order.
Dream Pop
Sounds like a dream. Nature meets technology in a truly unique sonic panorama, tailored for modern music production.
Drumkit From Hell
The recording that set a new benchmark for sampled drums. A true legend and staple in any self-respecting metal head's arsenal of drums.
Drums of Destruction
Josh Wilbur and Chris Adler deliver a battery of drums, designed for complete and utter destruction.
Duality I
Mix-ready sounds tailored for dark, warm and organic-sounding hard rock and metal.
Duality II
Mix-ready sounds tailored for bright, metallic and progressive hard rock and metal.
Electronic
Classic machines, new ideas. A mind-blowing collection of classic, circuit bent and resampled electronic drum sounds.
Electronic Edge
A new level of edge. A massive body of sound for modern music production.
Funkmasters
Meet the drummers whose beats became the soundtrack of generations.
Gospel
A journey in gospel drums – from the ’40s through to today.
Hard Rock
Want Bob Rock’s drum mix on your next song? Here you go.
Hip-Hop!
The ultimate collection of acoustic drums, percussion and timeless machines.
In The Pocket
Organic drums for hyper-modern productions from one of the world’s premier human beat machines: Ash Soan.
Indie Folk
Drums with an incredible range. Three complete vintage kits sampled with both sticks and mallets, tailored for music where no given set of rules apply.
Into The Dark
Enter at your own risk. Mix-ready drums, tailored for post-punk, dark rock and goth.
Jazz
Handpicked and pristine vintage drums, recorded with unparalleled detail at one of the finest studios in the world.
Kicks & Snares
A massive collection of drums that zooms in on the two centrepieces in any mix: kicks and snares.
Latin Cuban Drums
Drums tailored for Latin-flavored rhythms.
Latin Cuban Percussion
The go-tos of Latin and Cuban percussion.
Latin Percussion
The most essential percussion for any Latin or contemporary track.
Made of Metal
Utter drum perfection from the father of the modern metal sound, Colin Richardson.
Metal Machine
An impressive collection of drums recorded by one of the most in demand metal producers of the last decade: Andy Sneap.
Metal!
As metal as it gets. This is what happens when you put a massive, all-new drum recording in the hands of three of modern metal's most in demand producers.
Metalheads
Bergstrand VS Haake. Two of metal's titans come head to head in this ultimate showdown of sound and groove brilliance.
Modern Metal
A lesson in aggression. A five-headed behemoth of an EZX, straight from the hands and mind of Will Putney.
Nashville
A library of round, warm and genuine sounds that takes the traditional country heart of Nashville but branches out into something far bigger.
Number 1 Hits
The modern day drum machine. Timeless drum machine sounds remixed and boiled down to a unique blend of organic, electronic, high-tech and vintage.
Pop Punk
Drums by the man who in many ways defined the genre.
Pop!
Ten mixed and matched drum kits delicately intertwined with custom percussion pieces. A perfect blend of organic, unique and edgy sounds for any track you’d file under “popular music”.
Pop/Rock
The classic sounds and MIDI groove content from the first generation of EZdrummer. Timeless drums spanning the whole range of pop and rock – captured in perfect sonic detail in one of the world's top studios!
Post-Rock
Quality drums, tailored for post-rock, but reaching way beyond any genre.
Progressive
Richly textured drum sounds tailored for metal or heavy rock. Start writing!
Reggae
The unmistakable sound of reggae drums and percussion. Saturated, warm and rich tones that will fall seamlessly into any track you’re working on.
Rock Solid
Randy Staub delivers a collection of drums that add a new dimension to the word heavy.
Rock!
Four decades of engineering experience boiled down to eight tailor-made kits spanning the whole range of rock – from ambient to dry, vintage to modern!
Seventies Rock
An unprecedented palette of drums to help craft your ’70s-inspired rock for years to come.
Singer-Songwriter
A broad collection of drums – tailored for acoustic pop, Americana, folk and more.
Southern Soul
Welcome to Muscle Shoals, Alabama and FAME Studios.
The Blues
There's no fooling a blues lover. You know that it's all about the craft, the touch, the feel and the heart. That's why we're proud to bring you the real deal – the custom, the calf skinned, the road-worn.
The Classic
Slamming '70s rock or slim and tight contemporary pop? The Classic EZX merges the best of the past and the present to bring your music to the forefront of today.
Traditional Country
Before there was a Music City and a Music Row, there was the Quonset Hut. Welcome to the studio that helped shape the sound of country music as we know it.
Twisted Kit
Hub caps, trashcans and rusty bicycle frames. This is nothing short of what its title suggests – completely left field drum kits constructed by the most odd pieces to ever form a percussive unit.
UK Pop
An exploration of the iconic UK pop sound.
Vintage Rock
A cornerstone in rock through the ages and one of the most classic, timeless and famed drum kits ever: the legendary Ludwig Keystone.
Features
EZDrummer 3
- Newly-designed Bandmate function creates AI-generated drum grooves from imported audio or MIDI files
- Tap2Find lets you search through over 2,500+ onboard grooves and performances to find the right fit for your track
- Fully-functional Grid Editor lets you program beats from scratch faster than ever with control over micro-timing parameters
- New streamlined browser with integrated search filters allows you to navigate through the onboard MIDI grooves and files easily
- Comprehensive beat customisation with instrument-specific AI-based stylistic options for changing articulation, power-hand and alternative playing styles
- Includes staple set of percussion instruments to seamlessly add to your grooves with the click of a button
- Smart Song Creator hanesses a selection of song templates with intelligent, musically-related automatic arrangements based on your current groove or beat
- Slice, dice and re-arrange groove parts to create customised grooves for your projects
- Over 2,500 onboard MIDI files performed by real drummers with song structure format and a range of tempos and signatures
- Perfectly suited for all styles of music from jazz, blues, metal, hip-hop and EDM
- Seven full kits with over 15GB of files, recorded by award-winning producer/engineer Michael Ilbert
- Recorded in three different rooms at world-famous Hansa Studios in Berlin, Germany
- Comprised of 14 kicks, 24 snares, 30 toms, 6 hi-hats, 6 rides, 16 crashes, 3 splashes, 2 chinas and a clap stack
- Huge range of onboard presets including custom presets from head mixing engineer Michael Ilbert
- Immaculate integration with E-kits offers customisation of mapping, velocity curve, flexible hi-hat control and direct MIDI recording into EZDrummer 3
- Fully resizable and scalable interface fits all screen sizes
Specifications
- Operating system:
- Mac: 64-bit macOS 10.10 or higher, Intel or Apple silicon processor
- Windows: 64-bit Windows 7 or newer
- Format:
- Mac: VST3, AU, AAX, Standalone
- Windows: VST3, AAX, Standalone
- Disk space: 18GB
- RAM: 8GB or more recommended
- Product code: TT084