The ultimate snare construction kit has arrived. Created by multi-award-winning artist Davide Carbone, DC Snares is designed to simplify your workflow and add serious impact to your productions. Whether you are exploring hundreds of custom-made onboard sounds, experimenting with the purpose-built synth engine, in-built randomiser or simply layering your own samples, this efficient plugin makes creating powerful snares easier and more intuitive than ever.
"DC Snares makes one shots drum layering fast, fun and intuitive. It’s not only for snares!"
Alexkid Alexkid. House / Techno DJ, Multi-instrumentalist, Sound Engineer and Producer from Paris, Alexkid is credited as an early protagonist of 90s Parisian underground culture.
" High-quality samples, extensive customization and user-friendly interface makes DC Snares stand out as an essential plugin for any modern producer"
24 Bit Electronic Music Production
"If you love crafting detailed drum sounds DC Snares may be the perfect fit. It’s a highly flexible tool that rewards creative exploration. What’s more, DC Snares definitely delivers value for money."
MusicTech Magazine
"What a great idea and executed brilliantly. You can customise snares like never before and a one stop shop for claps, hats and all percussion elements."
Jordan Tobias Progressive, melodic and uplifting techno producer/DJ and one half of Crowd+Ctrl alongside Trance legend Reorder signed to the worlds largest independent dance music label Armada Music.
What can DC Snares be used for?
Beat Creation
Create unique beats and percussive sounds to suit any genre, from hip-hop, trap and D&B, to EDM, rock and pop.
Sound Design and Audio Production
Artists and sound designers can craft custom percussive sounds, effects and textures that can be used across film scores, video games, commercials and podcasts.
Layer, Enhance, Create
Enhance any drum track by creating unique percussive elements to add complexity and depth to your music. Seamlessly generate a library of samples crafted by you.
Live Performance
Musicians can integrate DC Snares into their live setup, performing pitched snare rolls and manipulating percussive sounds in real time during performances.
Highlights
Snares Made Easy
Four Sound Slots
Real-Time Envelopes
Twelve Custom FX
Playable Performances
5 Modulation Sources
Drum and bass producers have become familiar with Davide Carbone’s revolutionary Drum and Bass Masterclass pack; call up sounds quickly, accentuate the rattle and wires of a snare, combine live and electronic sources, add a huge reverb with a gate. Now these methods and tools used by DC are combined into a refined workflow and dedicated plugin, creating the freedom to make unique snares for any genre.
Four customisable sound slots allow you to select from the 684 internal samples, drag and drop your own samples, load up a synth engine or auto-populate with the randomiser to layer sounds. Each sound slot has its own adjustable amp and pitch envelope, inviting producers to further customise their sounds.
Quickly reshape your sounds by altering the pitch or adjusting your audio envelopes, and see the waveform update in real time both for each sound slot, as well as overall. The waveform display updates in real-time when adding or adjusting the internal FX, allowing for complete visual control of your snare experimentation.
The custom-made FX are a big part of what makes DC Snares unique, replicating a typical FX chain used by Davide Carbone in his design process. The ‘Sizzler’ is a world first that replicates how a room responds to the rattle of a snare, while the ‘Resonator’ and ‘Transient Shaper’ are specifically made to suit snare creation. Any of these effects can be easily reordered for maximum impact.
DC Snares thrives as a live instrument. Utilising a MIDI controller or the internal keyboard, pitch snares up or down, and create powerful rolls using note divisions.
Four envelopes and a velocity curve—mappable to hundreds of parameters—provide total flexibility for endless possibilities in your sound design.
DC Snares Trailer and Workflow Videos
Features
- Over 750 internal sounds, each created by Davide Carbone and taken from his archive of classic drum machines and sonic layers, spanning his whole career, including Acoustic, Electronic, Classic, Chops, Layers, Cinematic, Rims, Cymbals, World, and Orchestral categories
- Hundreds of main presets showcasing the power of DC Snares, including Simple, Electronic, Bass, Booms & Baps, Sound Design, Acoustic, and Cinematic categories
- 4 Flexible Sound Slots including Sample Width, Pan, and Start Delay Control
- 4 Pitch and Amp Envelopes with adjustable start and end points and reverse
- Randomiser creates an infinite amount of usable snares with one click
- Simple and Advanced Modes for quick editing or deep customisation
- 12 Bespoke Insert and Master FX including Sizzler, Resonator, Transient, Saturator, Gate, Compressor, Limiter, and EQ
- Real-time waveform displays update instantly with any adjustment you make
- 6 Insert FX per Sound Slot and 4 Master FX chain you can insert, reorder, and bypass
- 2 Bus FX and 2 Master Sends for Reverb and Delay
- Play and perform pitch-able, division-based snare rolls
- 4 Assignable Modulation Envelopes and 1 Assignable Velocity Curve
- Output Limiter and adjustable Gain Controls
- Drag & Drop Audio to DAW
- Import User Folders and User Samples
System Requirements
macOS
- macOS 10.14 or higher.
- Natively compatible with Apple Silicon
- Plugin Formats: VST3, AU, AAX
- DAW’s Supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more
- Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only
Windows
- Windows 7 or higher
- Plugin formats: VST3, AAX
- DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more
- Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only
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