Drum Circle: Kontakt Drum Instrument by Wavesfactory

The library is organized around four mic positions: kick, snare, overheads and room. Kick and snare are captured with dynamic mics on each drum. The overheads use pencil condensers in stereo above the kit, and the room is captured with two spaced large diaphragm condensers in the middle of the drum circle.

Each channel has its own load and purge switch, pan, volume, mute and solo controls, and a stereo width control that runs from full stereo to mono. An output selector lets you route the channels to separate tracks in your DAW, so you can mix the kit to taste.

Drum Circle includes an effects script that lets you place effects in any of eight slots per channel. The options include a high quality EQ, several compressor types, chorus, flanger and phaser modulation, distortion, saturation and tape effects, algorithmic and convolution reverbs with more than 40 custom impulse responses, and amp simulators.

The settings page covers round robin, velocity curve, remapping and envelopes. The instrument was sampled with six true round robin repetitions. You can choose how many to keep loaded, and the rest are purged from memory to reduce RAM usage. Remapping includes MIDI learn, and attack and decay can be set for each articulation.