Harking back to the golden era of R&B, Monotown nails old school funk, soul, and earthy rhythm and blues. And one more thing… it’s mono.
Monotown is a 1.7GB download
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Kontakt mappings
Stereo and multi-out mappings, with mixer interface.
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Trigger mappings
2 snare (with separate cross stick), 3 tom and 1 kick mappings.
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3695 one-shot audio samples
24bit, 44.1kHz unencrypted wav files.
Features
Dynamic sampling
Each drum is sampled at many dynamics for realistic and expressive performance.
5 Mic layers
Adjustable mic layers: Coles 1, Coles 2, RCA44, RE20, Room.
Sensitivity
Adjust the sensitivity of the kit to suit more intimate performances or heavier tracks.
Presets
Quickly select from a range of mix-ready sounds.
Mixer interface
Intuitively fine tune to your taste with volume, mic layer balance, pan and tuning controls.
Round-robin
6 randomised round-robin samples alternate to avoid the machine-gun effect.
Sampling Details
Kick
Instrument | Articulation | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
1970s Rogers “Big R” maple unported 20″ x 14″ | felt beater | x6 | x6 |
Snares
Instrument | Articulation | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
A: 1970s Rogers Dynasonic CoB 14″ x 5 1/2″ | center hits | x7 | x6 |
cross-stick | x4 | x6 | |
B: 1970s Ludwig Supraphonic 14″ x 5 1/2″ | center hits | x7 | x6 |
cross-stick | x4 | x6 |
Toms
Instrument | Articulation | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
1970s Rogers “Big R” maple 12″ | center hits | x6 | x6 |
1970s Rogers “Big R” maple 13″ | center hits | x6 | x6 |
1970s Rogers “Big R” maple 16″ | center hits | x6 | x6 |
Hihats
Instrument | Articulation | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
1960s Paiste 602 15″ hats | Tip Tight | x6 | x6 |
Edge Tight | x6 | x6 | |
Edge Closed | x6 | x6 | |
Edge Loose | x6 | x6 | |
Edge Semi-open | x6 | x6 | |
Edge Open | x6 | x6 | |
Pedal | x6 | x6 | |
Footsplash | x1 | x6 |
Crashes
Instrument | Articulation | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
1950s Zildjian 16″ Advedis Medium crash | Edge | x4 | x6 |
Bell | x4 | x6 | |
Choke | x3 | x6 | |
1970s Zildjian 18″ medium crash | Edge | x4 | x6 |
Bell | x4 | x6 | |
Choke | x3 | x6 |
Ride
Instrument | Articulation | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
1960s Paiste 602 22″ ride | Bow | x4 | x6 |
Bell | x4 | x6 |
Tambourines
Instrument | Articulation | Velocity layers | Round-robins |
A: Vintage open 10″ tambourine | Swing-left | x1 | x6 |
Swing-right | x1 | x6 | |
Accent | x1 | x6 | |
Trill | x1 | x6 | |
B: Skinned 8″ tambourine | Swing-left | x1 | x6 |
Swing-right | x1 | x6 | |
Accent | x1 | x6 | |
Trill | x1 | x6 |
Monotown system requirements
Compatible software sampler: Native Instruments Kontakt Full Version (4 or greater), Slate Trigger, or Logic ESX24 (depending on the product, not all of these are supported).
Storage: Kingpin is a 1.45GB download (1.82GB unzipped), so you’ll need a minimum of 3.27GB free space to get started.
RAM: 1GB
Processor: 1GHz
OS: Windows Vista/7/8/10/11, Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Software compatibility
This product is NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player. The kit will stop working after a 15 minute total time restriction imposed by Kontakt Player. The kit is NOT able to be activated for continued use in the Player. The full version of Kontakt is required for use of the supplied Kontakt mappings.
The wav format audio files supplied with this product can be utilized with many other sampler and sound replacement products, however no ‘mappings’ are provided or support is given for this.