DrumXchanger

The DrumXchanger replaces drum sounds. What's more surprising: based upon our proprietary Transient Designer technology, it can replace drum sounds irrespective of their level.

By inventing level-independent dynamic processing in the 1990's, we provided the foundation for all transient processing tools. Now we have once again resorted to this proven and tested technology to develop our latest software tool. The DrumXchanger works level-independent and replaces samples phase-accurately in the original signal.

DrumXchanger uses the Transient Designer technology for drum hit recognition rather than sound creation. Hence, all drum hits, including the faintest ghost notes, are faithfully recognized regardless of their dynamic level.
The samples can be mixed with the original sound and there is also a ducking function available, which only reduces the level of the original drum hit itself without affecting the ambience around it.

Besides the basic functions to process the original and sample signals, DrumXchanger includes two fully operational Transient Designer processors, as well as high-pass and low-pass filters for the original, sampled and output signals.

All samples can be pitch-shifted one octave above or below in real time, while a delay control allows precise sample replacement.

The DrumXchanger package includes a basic library with high-quality 24 bit/96 kHz samples. The library, created exclusively with SPL's preamps and processors, consists of three drum kits with one snare, one bass drum and four toms each. Every multisample is made up of up to 80 sounds in sixteen dynamic levels and five variations.

Furthermore, users have the possibility to load their own WAV samples; the creation and import of multisamples, as well as the implementation of MIDI (In/Out) capabilities, are in the planning.