Bad Drum Sound? Replace It!
Drumagog is an audio plug-in which automatically replaces acoustic drum tracks with your choice of other samples, while preserving the dynamics and feel of the original performance. It's incredibly easy to use - just insert it onto a drum track (snare for example), and pick a new sound! Every time your snare plays, Drumagog will play a new sample in its place. You can either blend with the original, or use it as-is. Drumagog offers the “secret weapons” top mix engineers use to give hit records polish and power. It is this exclusive combination of replacement and enhancement tools that has made Drumagog the industry standard for more than two decades.
“In a world like mine where drum sounds can be a real challenge, Drumagog really saves the day. There is no comparison.”
- Thom Russo (Multi Grammy Award-Winning Producer - Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Prince, Diana Ross, Babyface, Eric Clapton, Audioslave
Advanced Triggering Engine
Drumagog's already powerful triggering engine has been improved to precisely track the most demanding drum tracks. Complicated rolls and flams are no match for Drumagog 5's new triggering engine, which can even calculate and distinguish between right and left hand hits. What’s more, Drumagog 5 is the only replacer that can actually track hi-hats’ open, half-open, and closed articulations. And for helping isolate tracks from unwanted drum bleed, Drumagog 5 offers two different options. First, Automatic Bleed Reduction will prevent bleed from causing unwanted false triggers. Second, Drumagog is the only product that offers a full-featured trigger filter section, giving you high-pass, lowpass, band, and band-reject filters, each with adjustable frequency, level, and Q.
Full-Wave Alignment
When a drum hit and its replacement sample are aligned using the leading or peak transient, as in other replacers, phase issues within the body of the waveforms can cause comb filtering or other artifacts. To avoid this, only Drumagog 5 uses Full-Wave Alignment, a feature of its exclusive Auto-Align 2.0 algorithm. Developed by WaveMachine Labs in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute (one of the world’s leading audio research centers and developers of the MP3, ACC, and MPEG formats) this “smart” algorithm phase-aligns for overall sound rather than simply aligning transients. The result is phase coherence across all originally recorded drum hits and all samples, thereby retaining the original fidelity of both. When traditional transient alignment is needed, it is available by simply switching off the Auto-Align 2.0 button.
Matched Room & Overhead Samples From One Hit
Another Drumagog exclusive is its handling of multiple samples triggered from one drum hit, typically overhead and room samples. Instead of pairing direct samples with a generic room sample, as is typical, Drumagog 5 matches each direct sample with its exact room sample—the one recorded in the same room at the same time. The original timbre and dynamics are absolutely reproduced in the room sound, and because of Auto-Align 2.0, maintain perfect phase coherence as well.
Features
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Advanced Triggering catches all the hits in real-time, even fast rolls and flams. |
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Auto Align Developed by WaveMachine Labs in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute (one of the world’s leading audio research centers and developers of the MP3, ACC, and MPEG formats) this “smart” algorithm phase-aligns for overall sound rather than simply aligning transients. The result is phase coherence across all originally recorded drum hits and all samples |
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Multi-Sample Support with dynamic, random and articulation multisamples. Drumagog accurately and automatically chooses the right samples to match the original drum |
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Hi-Hat Tracking Drumagog is the only replacer that can actually track hi-hats’ open, half-open, and closed articulations and choose the appropriate replacement sample (Platinum only) |
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Visual triggering makes it easy to adjust the triggering parameters. Simply move the sensitivity line up and down until the hits are triggered. |
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Included 7GB Sample Library including drums from the new Smart Studio Drums, Supersonic Samples, Dan's House, Farview and MoReVoX collections. With hundreds of samples to choose from, the sonic possibilities are endless. |
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Stealth mode lets the original audio pass through until an adjustable trigger threshold is reached, allowing you to replace only the louder hits, or to allow leakage from the track through between the replaced hits. |
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Room Samples - An exclusive feature that allows multiple samples to be triggered from one drum hit (typically overhead and room samples). Instead of pairing direct samples with a generic room sample, Drumagog matches each direct sample with its exact room sample—the one recorded in the same room at the same time. |
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Morph|Engine Designed in collaboration with MoReVoX sound designer Sabino Cannone, Morph|Engine reshapes sound with every beat, creating unique effects that change based on the dynamics and tone of the original drum (Platinum only) |
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Bleed Reduction prevents bleed on other tracks from causing unwanted false triggers. This is especially useful when using Drumagog on live recordings, where bleed from cymbals and hi-hats are common |
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Plug-In Hosting allows Drumagog to host it's own VSTi plugins, giving you unmatched freedom to use other third party sound engines instead of Drumagog's own built-in drum samples (Platinum only) |
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Convolution Reverb adds depth and color to your drum sound. Includes a library of drum-centric IRs, and the ability to load your own IR samples (Platinum only) |
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MIDI In / Out allows you to trigger external sound sources, or to use Drumagog as an independent drum sound module |
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Favorites List allows storing of frequently used samples |
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Drum Synthesizer allows you to add extra tone or noise along with the triggered sample. As with any quality synth, the oscillator can generate sine, square or saw-tooth waves in a given frequency which can then be modified by attack and decay controls, a low-pass filter, and a true resonance filter. |
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Live Triggering Mode enables Drumagog to be used in live settings, where a DAWs automatic delay compensation can't be used |
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Pitch Control lets you fine-tune the pitch of the replacement sample |
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Auto-Ducking Mode allows you to "duck" or remove a drum hit from other tracks. This feature is useful for removing snare or bass drum hits from an overhead track, for example |
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Triggering Filter includes a full-featured filtering section, useful for filtering out unwanted drums, for example in a stereo mix track which contains both kick and snare drums. Features high-pass, lowpass, band, and band-reject filters, each with adjustable frequency, level, and Q |
Reviews
“I use Drumagog on every mix and Drumagog 5 gives me even more features and flexibility! Replacing drums or just adding color to a live kit, I can always depend on Drumagog!”
Bob Bullock - Producer / Engineer / Mixer (Shania Twain, George Strait, Travis Tritt, The Tubes, Art Garfunkel, Seals and Crofts, Chic Corea, REO Speedwagon)
“Drumagog gives me the control I always dreamt of for drum replacement. It makes other soundreplacer plugins seem like toys. If you are not using Drumagog to fix your drums, you are working way too hard.”
Pat Thrall - Producer / Engineer / Artist (Beyonce, Thalia, John Mayer, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Miles Davis)
Help and Tutorials
Plug-in Formats
Drumagog is available in VST, Audio Units and Pro Tools AAX formats for both PC and Mac systems