GIGFILES AKAI XE-8 drumkits

The Akai XE-8 Drum module.  This soundbank is an enhanced version of this drum module from Akai. I have re-created the stereo , the panning, and used several custom made tools I made with the Creamware's development kit. It comes in two flavors that can be used together to create a wide range of different and ready to use drum kits.

The XE-8 is a 1 space rack mount module featuring 16 bit audio quality drum sounds. The stock unit features 16 ROM resident percussive sounds and two additional ROM cards. 32 memories remember such parameters as drum / kit assignments, note ranges, midi channel, tune sweeps, decay, reverse, etc.

The back panel features 8 individual outputs and a mix output, 2 external card slots, and midi in/out/thru. For the drummer who wants to play these sounds, the ME35T is a pad / trigger to midi interface (also 1 space rack mount) with 8 trigger inputs.

Eight parameter settings include midi channel sensitivity, capture time (0 - 20ms), on time (max 1 sec), midi note (0 -127), recovery time, and velocity curves. List price was $895

Features

• State of the art programming.

• Re-synthesized sound to re-create a wide stereo image.

• 4 levels of velocity and a rare level of expressivity.

• Both precise and large sound.

* Note : compression divides the original size by a factor of 2. We use Winrar 3. If you purchase a 100mb bank from our website, you'll have to download 50 mb.

Note : all our products are created with Gigastudio and converted to the following formats : Kontakt, Halion, Reaktor, Exs24, Soundfont. Drums are converted to the previous format plus Battery. Because of the technical limitations on some samplers some soundbanks may not work exactly the same as the original .GIG format.