The Black Oyster Drum Kit mixed by Darrell Thorp

Legendary Sound. Now Yours.

This Kit Was Built to ROCK.

Drumatica’s Black Oyster Kit is a new KONTAKT drum instrument mixed by long time Foo Fighters' engineer and 10×-Grammy award winner Darrell Thorp (Foo Fighters, Beck, Twenty One Pilots, White Stripes), delivering a massive library of radio-ready drum sounds with intuitive mix controls, custom reverbs, EQs and FX, and a built-in MIDI groove library with over 500 classic rock, hard rock, and nu metal grooves & variations played by a real L.A. session drummer. The Black Oyster carries the iconic pedigree of the legendary drum kit that Ringo Starr famously played on the Ed Sullivan Show, now enhanced with the signature “big, natural and ALIVE” drum sound that mix engineer Darrell Thorp is known for. This kit was built to ROCK.

Features

• Mixed by 10x Grammy winner Darrell Thorp
• Signature Darrell Thorp drum sound for radio-ready drums out of the box
• Intuitive Mixer and Submixer section makes dialing in the perfect mix easy
• 500+ Session drummer-performed MIDI grooves (70s-00s rock styles)
• Deep articulation mapping and MIDI control
• Generous assortment of add-on kicks, snares, cymbals and toms
• Anti-Machine-Gun switch prevents repetitive samples from playing
• One-shot sample layering editor - choose from Darrell's go-to samples or use your own
• Premium Reverbs, Custom IRs and FX
• Individual Mic balance and Room Ambience settings for each instrument
• SSL-modeled EQ & 1176-style Compression
• Exclusive Rim Blend feature adds controllable rim presence to snares
• Multiple velocity layers + round-robin samples for maximum realism
• Darrell Thorp Mix Presets for Classic Rock, Hard Rock and Alt-Rock styles

Tech Specs