Boutique Drums: Jolene

Jolene is the second release in our Boutique Drums Series. While Ruby celebrate the heavy, Jolene is all about vibe -- great for indie, alternative, country and pop.

As per usual, we've included a collection of "baked-in" mix presets that cater to a variety of musical contexts. From the pillow-y, intimate punchiness of 'Sunshine' to the portly, attitudinal 'Lola' preset, we've got you covered.

We've included five different hi-hat states of multisamples and live eighth-note grooves that automatically lock to your DAW's tempo: tight, normal, slight-open, mid-open and all-open; grooves recorded at 90/120/140 BPM.

Crossfadeable hi-hat grooves with release triggers? Yup. With the modwheel down, it'll play the loop at it's tightest hi-hat state. As you push the modwheel up, the hi-hat opens up. It's dope.

Happy composing!

Boutique Drums Jolene Quick Guide

Auditioning: You can also audition the drum/preset by clicking the drum icon (except for the double-eighth note groove icon).

Mix Preset Selection: You can switch between mix presets in three different ways: Click one of the global mix presets (this assigns the selected preset mix to all six drum groups), the provided left/right arrows or by selecting the preset via the dropdown menu (which is activated when you click the preset name under the drum icon).

Humanization: For those who like to quantize, this is a useful feature to help randomize the playback of your MIDI. There are three settings to cycle through: Tight (randomizes MIDI up to 15 milliseconds), Natural (up to 30 milliseconds) and Loose (up to 45 milliseconds). The live hi-hat grooves are deliberately unaffected by any of these settings.

Live Hi-Hat Grooves: We recorded eighth-note hi-hat patterns for five different hi-hat states at three different tempos. Each tempo group is mapped to a specific octave: First octave contains the grooves recorded at 90 BPM, the second octave at 120 BPM and third octave at 140 BPM.

Crossfade-able Hi-Hat Grooves: The 'C' of each of the three mapped octaves plays back the crossfade-able grooves.

Groove Speed: This is to broadly control the tempo of the live hi-hat groove samples. The settings provided are: Half, Normal (default) and Double.

Assignable Outputs: Right under the vertical volume faders are assignable Kontakt outputs for further mixing.

Boutique Drums Jolene - Trigger Presets

The Trigger files (.tci) are for use with Slate Digital’s Trigger 2. Included are all eight presets (Sunshine, Workhorse, Zipline, Rebel, Spring, 8Ball, Lola, Tightrope) with multiple velocity layers and variations of the one shot samples for Kick, Snare, and Toms. All samples are in 48hz/24bit format.