TRIGGER is the industry’s go-to tool for achieving professional drum sounds in mixes. Known for its ease of use, TRIGGER lets you quickly replace or enhance kick, snare, and tom recordings with its expansive library of professional drum samples. The plugin’s phase-accurate, multi-layered triggering engine allows seamless triggering of up to 8 stereo samples at once, such as close mic samples, stereo overhead samples, and stereo room mic samples. Users can also mix multiple direct mic samples to create unique and customized drum tones. This multi-channel capability recreates the sound of natural drums using real multi-tracked samples. Each sample layer provides full customization, including velocity and dynamic control, attack, sustain, release, and independent level adjustments.
Industry Standard Drum Library: TRIGGER comes with a stock library of industry-standard drum samples crafted by Steven Slate. Top mixers like Chris Lord Alge, Ross Hogarth, Justin Neibank, Dave Way, Jeff Juliano, Jay Baumgardner, Ben Grosse, David Kahn, and Ryan Williams have trusted these samples to enhance their drum mixes. All samples are recorded on 2-inch tape and processed with both vintage and modern analog gear, delivering an authentic and high-quality sound. TRIGGER also supports expansion libraries such as Steven Slate Deluxe, Chris Lord Alge, Terry Date, Blackbird Studios, and David Bendeth, providing a vast array of options for drum sounds.
Layering Capabilities: TRIGGER allows you to layer up to eight multi-velocity samples in its sample mixer, enabling you to include various close mic, overhead, and room mic layers in a single sample instance. The eight-channel mixer facilitates the creation of hybrid sounds by combining different samples for a custom tone, giving you complete control over your drum sound.
Transient Driven Gate: TRIGGER’s transient-driven gate has received praise from audio engineers for its precise and clean track cleanup, ensuring high-quality results.
Leakage Suppression: The proprietary leakage suppression feature intelligently detects and ignores spill from other tracks, allowing for accurate, low-velocity sample replacement without mis-triggering.
MIDI Capabilities: TRIGGER includes a MIDI engine that allows triggering from MIDI input and also supports converting audio tracks into MIDI via drag and drop, making it an extremely versatile tool for drum production.
Key Features:
- Industry Standard Drum Library: Features high-quality drum samples used by elite mixers in the industry.
- Eight Layers of Samples: Layer up to eight multi-velocity samples for full tonal control and custom sound design.
- Transient Driven Gate: Ensures clean and precise track cleanup.
- Leakage Suppression: Intelligently ignores track leakage for accurate sample replacement.
- MIDI In and Out: Supports MIDI triggering and audio-to-MIDI conversion.
System Requirements
TRIGGER is compatible with both Mac and Windows systems, offering versatile plugin support for different DAWs.
Operating System:
- Windows: Windows 7
- Mac: Mac OS X 10.9 and later
Hardware:
- CPU: 2.2 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor (or equivalent)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
Plugins Supported:
- Mac: VST-2, AU, AAX
- Windows: VST-2, AAX
TRIGGER has been tested and is fully compatible with most major DAWs to ensure smooth performance and integration.