ToneSpot Drum Express
Best Drum Tone Spotted Easily
No more tweaking. Get inspired by the sound and explore some new colors. Across genres & styles, Immediately. Dirt cheap. Express delivers exactly the same sound quality and exactly the same amount of processing power, but with minimum controls so you can get the sweet spot of your tone super-fast. ToneSpot Drum Express is a preset-based plug-in that improves your tone in one click. Improves the tone of acoustic, electric or synth drums and percussion. Express is a little brother of the Pro version.
Drums can take a lot of processing. It’s because the drums get a lot of attention in the music and for some genres are really crucial. So it´s very important to get the drums sound just right. Drums can fight against busy arrangement with several layers of instruments. Or the recordings are sounding too sterile, thin or harsh. So you need the tone that can cut through. The drum tone has to be punchy and fat sounding, but it also needs to have a lot of clarity and tightness at the same time. But it’s not all! Even if the drums are heavily processed, sometimes they still also have to be very natural sounding at some point. And that's why you need ToneSpot Drum Express.
Drums can take a lot of processing. It’s because the drums get a lot of attention in the music and for some genres are really crucial. So it´s very important to get the drums sound just right. Drums can fight against busy arrangement with several layers of instruments. Or the recordings are sounding too sterile, thin or harsh. So you need the tone that can cut through. The drum tone has to be punchy and fat sounding, but it also needs to have a lot of clarity and tightness at the same time. But it’s not all! Even if the drums are heavily processed, sometimes they still also have to be very natural sounding at some point. And that's why you need ToneSpot Drum Express.
Let's Talk Engineering for a While, Shall We?
When a professional audio engineer is building that awesome tone in the studio, he is often running it through some heavy lifting. Blending several drum samples with massive filtering, heavy compression, equalization, saturation or even some multiband processing and maybe some other crazy stuff. And it is no secret that the top engineers often run the signal through their chains twice or three times in series until both the engineer and the artist are 100% satisfied with the result. So there is a lot of stuff to do when building a perfect drum tone.
There are very few products tailored for the drums post-processing, but most today’s engineers use very similar workflow.
When a professional audio engineer is building that awesome tone in the studio, he is often running it through some heavy lifting. Blending several drum samples with massive filtering, heavy compression, equalization, saturation or even some multiband processing and maybe some other crazy stuff. And it is no secret that the top engineers often run the signal through their chains twice or three times in series until both the engineer and the artist are 100% satisfied with the result. So there is a lot of stuff to do when building a perfect drum tone.
There are very few products tailored for the drums post-processing, but most today’s engineers use very similar workflow.
Standard Drums Processing Rigs
It’s not enough to run the drum tracks through a basic channel strip or to just use some fancy drum samples to get the standards we are hearing on today’s records. At the end of the day, we need a ton of plugins that eat a significant portion of CPU power.
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ToneSpot Solution
There is a simpler solution. Tone Spot is just one processor doing everything. One missing product you need for every drum track. It is a key to success full of tricks, extensive know-how and still with a lot of freedom.
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What Matters? Music or Sound?
Both. Great musical ideas need a great sound. Music industry changed over years. The quality of sound and sound aesthetics often determine the success of the music. It’s not enough to write good music anymore. You need breathtaking sound to get attention. And...
If you have an inspiring sound, you write and play better music. You have the ideas, we have the tool, so… Lets get inspired by the sound!
Both. Great musical ideas need a great sound. Music industry changed over years. The quality of sound and sound aesthetics often determine the success of the music. It’s not enough to write good music anymore. You need breathtaking sound to get attention. And...
If you have an inspiring sound, you write and play better music. You have the ideas, we have the tool, so… Lets get inspired by the sound!
Version Comparison
Feature |
Pro |
Express |
Usage |
Maximum Flexibility |
Quick results, "set & forget" |
Interface Zoom function |
Yes |
Yes |
Digital input/output meters |
Yes |
No |
Switchable analog meter |
No |
Yes |
Price |
$99 |
$49 |
iLok required |
No |
No |
Number of factory presets |
90 |
90 |
More factory presets in updates |
Yes |
Yes |
User presets |
Yes |
Yes |
Calibration |
Yes |
Yes |
AGC control |
Yes |
Yes |
Fully adjustable modules |
Yes |
No |
Demo Video
ToneSpot Drum Express Teaser
System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.9 - Mac OS X 10.14
AAX 32b, AAX 64b, AU 32b, AU 64b, VST2 32b, VST2 64b, VST3 32b, VST3 64b
Windows 7 - Windows 10
AAX 32b, AAX 64b, VST2 32b, VST2 64b, VST3 32b, VST3 64b
Mac OS X 10.9 - Mac OS X 10.14
AAX 32b, AAX 64b, AU 32b, AU 64b, VST2 32b, VST2 64b, VST3 32b, VST3 64b
Windows 7 - Windows 10
AAX 32b, AAX 64b, VST2 32b, VST2 64b, VST3 32b, VST3 64b