Drum Kit Vault

Now with dedicated MPC Sample Edition!

Drum Kit Vault is our flagship hip hop drum kit library, built from over 1300 drum and percussion samples, featuring hundreds of ready-built kits and MIDI grooves for MPC & Akai Force.

Perfectly Curated Drum Kits

The expansion features 200 hip hop drum kits built from a core drum library of over 800 drum sounds. All kits feature perfectly matched kick, snare, closed hat, open hat, clap, shaker, cymbal and percussion, all with the same layout for easy mixing & matching with your sequences. The inspiration is distinctly boom bap & 90s Underground Hip Hop, but suitable for any beat-driven genre. Please note the melodic elements in the demos are not included in the expansion, it's purely drums!

Q-LINK Macros for Hands-On Sound Design

Each kit comes with 16 pre-mapped Q-Link macros that give you real time, hands-on control of your kit with adjustable noise layers (vinyl, tape, analog noise etc), lofi fx (bit rate, sample rate, clipping & distortion), compression, EQ, tuning and ambience.

Hip Hop MIDI Groove Library

The expansion features 200 hip hop drum patterns all extracted from live drum performances for authentic human feel and swing. Simply drop into your project and match with any of the 200 kits. All MIDI patterns fully compatible with our other MIDI groove libraries .

Split Samples For Creative Drum Layering

We’ve also taken all the kicks, snares and claps from the library and created an additional 500 ‘split’ samples using spectral editing techniques.

For kicks and snares you’ll find a ‘ Tonal’ layer which comprises of the body/bottom end of the sound, while all sounds are provided with a separate ‘ Transient’ layer which comprises of the main noise and ‘texture’ elements of the original drum sound.

Split sounds are great for drum layering as they allow far more creative options when mixing and matching textures and tones, minimising frequency clashing and muddiness.

We’ve also included a collection of noise samples, presented both as loops (for layering over entire songs and breaks) and as one shots (for individual drum layering).

Build Your Own Custom Kits

Prefer to roll your own kits? Drum Kit Vault can also be used as an extensive one-shot drum library; all individual drum samples are fully tagged using standard Akai file naming conventions so you can quickly and easily use the one shot drum library to build your own custom kits.

Maximum Compatibility

Drum Kit Vault is fully compatible with all modern standalone MPCs running both MPC2 and MPC3, the MPC Sample, the Akai Force, MPC Software & MPC Beats and even includes a ‘legacy MPC’ version optimised for MPC1000/2500/500/5000. Installation and usage instructions are all provided in the included User Guide .

Update 1.6: MPC Sample Compatibility: Drum Kit Vault now contains a dedicated version made specifically for the MPC Sample, with 200 projects each containing a kit and matching sequence. Load up the enture project or just load individuals kit to your own projects. We've also injcluded the full one shot sample library with layering tools, all organsied by sound type for quick custom kit building.

Key Features:

• 200 drum kits
• 16 Qlink macros per kit
• 816 fully tagged one-shot drum & percussion library.
• 500 ‘split’ claps, snare and kick samples. 64 noise samples.
• 200 MIDI drum grooves in MPC pattern format
• Compatible with any modern standalone MPC running firmware 2.13 or greater (standalone installer provided). Also fully compatible with MPC3.
• Dedicated MPC Sample version with 200 projects, each featuring a kit and matching beat sequence, plus the entire one shot drum and layers library
• Compatible with MPC Software and MPC Beats 2.13+ (XPN installer provided)
• Fully compatible with Akai Force (3.1+)
• Legacy version provided for MPC1000, 2500 , 5000, 500
• MIDI patterns and kits fully compatible with our MIDI pattern expansions