With stunning drum sound, mix-ready right out of the box, Handy Drums are the most practical, professional virtual drum instruments for your recording project.
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GoranGrooves - Handy Drums STUDIO STANDARD
Meet the Handy Drums STUDIO STANDARD – the virtual drum instrument that will transform your music production! This best-selling VST instrument features the sought-after Yamaha Maple Custom drums, known for their warm and punchy sound that captures the essence of recording studio character.
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a beginner, the Studio Standard is an excellent kit for contemporary music styles. It’s an all-rounder that is suitable for any genre you’re working on. The sound of these drums is “close up” with crispy presence and short sustain, giving you a clear and focused sound that sits flawlessly in your mix.
The snare is snappy and deep with a real sizzly snare wire character that cuts through the mix. The kick is weighty, short, and punches through the speakers, providing you with a solid foundation for your beats. The toms have a clear note and a fast release, making them ideal for those big hits.
The hi-hats and cymbals are equally impressive, with plenty of presence, that blend seamlessly with the rest of the drums. With the Studio Standard, you’ll get an immaculate balance of sound, ensuring that your tracks sound polished and professional.
The Yamaha Maple Custom drums have become the industry standard over the last few decades, and for a good reason. We chose these drums specifically because of their warmth and punch.
If you’re looking for a “swiss army knife” kind of drum kit, then the STUDIO STANDARD, with its full suite of acoustic percussion, is an exceptional choice.
Type: Virtual Instruments
Size: 578MB
Producer:
Goran Rista
Format: VST/AU/AAX/Standalone
Genre: GENERAL, POP, ROCK, FUNK, JAZZ, BLUES, LATIN, BRAZILIAN, COUNTRY, R&B, HIP HOP
Platform:
(Win 7+) 
(MacOS 10.11+, dual binary)
PRE-MIXED, READY-TO-USE STUDIO DRUMS
No need to waste time getting a decent studio drum sound anymore. Instead, you can focus that time on your creativity elsewhere on your track.
Achieving a quality studio drum sound takes a significant amount of time, even when you are highly skilled for the task and have the best drum recording, to begin with.
We invested hours upon hours painstakingly editing and carefully mixing drums from multitrack recordings so you don’t have to.
Our studio drum set and all other handy drums are recorded with numerous microphones, including close mics, overhead mics, and room mics, and then they are expertly blended to recreate the true stereo image and ambiance as it was in the recording room. This immediately allows the drums to sit well inside your mix.
Every kit and percussion setup has a very balanced sound–not too hyped and not too dry.
– RECORDING MAGAZINE
Brilliantly recorded, mix-ready kits.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
Without exception, the kits sound really good; this is mix‑ready stuff with a minimum of fuss.
– SOUND ON SOUND
EASY TO USE AND MANIPULATE
Load the Handy Drums Studio Standard plugin, drop in your favorite MIDI drum beat, and you’re good to go! – On your way to a killer groove! We did the heavy lifting for you—an awesome drum sound right out of the box. You are free to focus on the musical aspects of the drum track.
You’re then free to make any tweaks using the intuitive interface.
Handy Drums reminds a bit of the Drummer VST baked into Apple Logic Pro. Namely, there is a similar simplicity and immediacy to the results.
– RECORDING MAGAZINE
I could easily imagine a Handy Drums instrument making a no‑fuss sound module, whether in the studio or live.
– SOUND ON SOUND
CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED DRUM SOUND
Drum sounds behind the hit drum machine are finally here for your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)!
Goran Rista, the producer of Handy Drums, used the same recording and production methods he did for BeatBuddy’s original drum sets, an award-winning, best-selling drum machine.
The revered drum sounds that have made the BeatBuddy such a hit with live performers are now available in their expanded versions for your production software.
UNBEATABLE VALUE
Handy Drums are priced to be affordable to anybody. We understand that creatives can sometimes be strapped for cash but they should not be disadvantaged when it comes to getting the best sound for their music. These virtual drum instruments are the best value you’ll find anywhere.
3RD PARTY SAMPLERS NOT REQUIRED
PERFECT COMPANIONS- HANDY GROOVES
Use them as they are or as a starting point for your own grooves.
Pair Handy Drums Studio Standard with one of our Handy Grooves, MIDI drum loop packages for an instant WOW. All of our midi drum loops have been produced by world-class drummer-producers and optimized to work with Handy Drums plugins.
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Handy Drums Studio Standard does not require a complicated manual to use. It’s super intuitive but behind the simple interface lies an elaborate design of over 50 samplers and smart algorithms power your seamless experience.
Access all of the essential functions intuitively.
Simple and immediate UI saves time.
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MULTIPLE DYNAMIC LEVELS
Each drum and cymbal was sampled at a number of dynamic levels to ensure the instrument’s fullest dynamic range when played back. Handy Drums Studio Standard contains up to 10 real recorded dynamic levels.
The samples respond accordingly with a very realistic sound and response.
– RECORDING MAGAZINE
Throughout our tests, we never noticed any clipping or struggling to keep pace with our shifting tempo, even when aggressively swinging between extreme bpm and more leisurely paced plods.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
ROUND ROBIN
Up to 13 samples per dynamic level
Has it ever happened that you programmed a drum beat but it sounds exactly like that, programmed? For example, a human ear can intuitively tell the difference between the same snare sample repeated over and over again and a real drummer playing it. When a drummer strikes a drum, each sub-sequential stroke is ever so slightly different from the one before, no matter how consistently they are played.
To solve this, we sampled each drum and cymbal numerous times at every dynamic level. Then during playback, no sample is repeated sequentially, but a different sample is triggered.
This culminates in the impression of a drummer hitting each drum with minor variations each time. Something many other ‘realistic’ VIs never quite nail.
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24BIT SAMPLES
All Handy Drums samples are recorded in 24bit wav file format for the best resolution and sound quality.
IMMACULATELY-SAMPLED ACOUSTIC DRUMS
To achieve larger-than-life yet completely natural-sounding drums, every step of the sampling process is critical. Starting with the drum and skin selection and tuning, room and mic selection and placement, the instrument goes through a whole process before even a single note gets played.
All our instruments are captured using the highest-quality mics, preamps, and converters to preserve every tiniest detail.
UNPARALLELED REALISM FROM VIRTUAL DRUMS
Sound so natural; you can almost touch them.
Handy Drums sound like a real drum set being played right in front of you in a room instead of a bunch of individual drums sounding in their own isolated spaces.
We achieved realism by recording the full width of acoustic drums and their natural ambiance, then meticulously edited and mixed them in the post-production.
The sound is very much like you are listening to the drums within a beautifully treated, compact studio room.
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VARIETY OF FORMATS
Handy Drums are compatible with all DAWs that support virtual instrument plugins in either VST2, VST3, AU, AAX.
They are available in 64bit for both Windows and MacOS. They come in dual binary for MacOS and can be run natively on systems equipped with either Intel or Apple silicon chips.
INCLUDED DRUM ELEMENTS
kick
snare
synth snare
hats
tom 1
tom 2
tom 3
tom 4
ride
crashes
china
splashes
FULL GM PERCUSSION
bongos
congas
timbales
agogo
cabasa
maracas
whistle
guiro
clave
blocks
quica
castañets
snaps
claps
tamb.
cowbell
shaker
triangle
click
For full drum mapping, see Studio Standard Drum Map.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONALITIES
While the Handy Drums come naturally pre-leveled between components, you still have an option to tweak and automate individual drum components to suit your mix. More kick or snare? No problem.
ADJUSTABLE DRUM MAPPING
Handy Drums conform to GM drum mapping wherever possible. Drop-in any standard midi drum loop onto your DAW timeline to hear instant results. And if needed, it’s so easy to match the mapping of Handy Drums to any custom midi drum loop.
Use your favorite compressor, reverb, EQ, tape simulator, or other plugin effects to further manipulate Handy Drums’ individual components. Output each drum components to any of the available eight stereo subgroups and independently process them.
VARIABLE HI-HATS
An acoustic hi-hat is a complex instrument in its own right. Handy Drums’s variable hi-hats utilize the full range of sampled hats from tightly closed to closed, 25% open, 50% open, 75% open, and 100% open, for both tip and edge sounds.
Despite these 12 types of articulations, multiple dynamic ranges, and round robins, you can seamlessly switch from one to another using only TWO notes and a CC4 controller.
This approach streamlines something that was previously more of a time sink of assigning notes to each articulation.
– COMPUTER MUSIC
…the hi‑hat mapping is nicely done, providing plenty of control over the degree of closed/open status of the cymbals.
– SOUND ON SOUND
The variable Hi-hats alone contain over 700 samples!
In addition to variable hats, standard open/close/foot hats are also included for better compatibility with GM drum loops. As a bonus, included is foot splash hi-hat articulation on B1.
ADJUSTABLE CC4 CURVE (VARIABLE HATS FOOT CONTROLLER)
For drummers who plan to use Handy Drums with MIDI triggers or an electronic kit, you can adjust your hi-hat foot controller curve. The curve is particularly beneficial for drum modules that do not output the full value range from 1-127.
FULL PERCUSSION SECTION
A fantastic bonus is that all Handy Drums instruments contain the following percussion elements: handclaps, fingersnaps, tambourine, cowbell, shaker, triangle, and metronome sounds.
The STUDIO STANDARD goes several steps further to include an entire percussion section, covering the full GM mapping range.
They are provided with their own dedicated mixer tab for greater mix flexibility.
The percussion instruments are also well worth checking out, even if you are already covered for acoustic drum kit sounds.
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