The Organic Calfskin Kit (OCK) is an acoustic drum VST3i ROMpler plugin for both Mac and Windows. This is a robust and comprehensive easy-to-use solution to working with the thousands of multi-track/multi-velocity samples found on this site over here (not including the round-badge samples).
This plugin now (version 2.0+) features these samples as 7 drum kits each played with varying tools (sticks, brushes, mallets) making for a total of 18 unique drum kit selections within the plugin user interface.
Within the plugin you’ll find the following kits abbreviated as such:
Default Dry Brushes – OCK-DD-BRS
Default Dry Mallets – OCK-DD-MAL
Default Dry Sticks – OCK-DD-STX
Digital Brushes – OCK-DG-BRS
Digital Sticks – OCK-DG-STX
Default Open Brushes – OCK-DO-BRS
Default Open Mallets – OCK-DO-MAL
Default Open Sticks – OCK-DO-STX
FX Brushes – OCK-FX-BRS
FX Mallets – OCK-FX-MAL
FX Sticks – OCK-FX-STX
Jazzer Brushes – OCK-JZ-BRS
Jazzer Mallets – OCK-JZ-MAL
Jazzer Sticks – OCK-JZ-STX
Towels Sticks – OCK-TW-STX
Ugly Brushes – OCK-UG-BRS
Ugly Mallets – OCK-UG-MAL
Ugly Sticks – OCK-UG-STX
Techie Stuff & features:
-both Mac and Windows versions are VST3i and 64 bit.
-3 layer multi-velocity samples
-5 mic layout gain and pan settings as well as outputs for routing to aux tracks for more control
-hi hat openings by BPM
-cymbal choking
-global settings for gain, pitch bend, velocity curve, weirdness (LFO filter) amount, speed and shape
-panic button
Requirements:
-MAC version: OS X 10.13.6 and above (Catalina compatible, not yet tested with Big Sur)
-WIN version: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
-6.45GB Disk Space
-64-bit VSTI3 Host
Installation:
-This plugin does not come with an installer package. It must be installed manually. Put both the OCK.instruments folder (do not extract .mse files) and the OCK.vst3 file into your computer’s vst/vst3 folder. For Mac the path is typically: finder>go>option/library>audio>plug-ins>vst . . . For windows the common path is: c:>program files>common files>vst3
Change Log:
version 2.0
-all 18 kits added to plugin
-samples no longer licensed under the Creative Commons license, but instead licensed under the non-exclusive license listed in the termsversion 1.1
– resampled the audio files to 48kHz with SoX (best settings), which has greatly the reduced overall file size; the plugin now takes up 1.1GB instead of 2.2GB (414MB zipped!)
– sample rate now capped to 48kHz to match the samples; the volume spike problem should now be fixed
– fixed typo on GUIversion 1.0
– release
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