[Free] Introduction of Drum sound source Kitton 3 compatible with Fanan Team's GM arrangement (Win only)

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Introducing Fanan Team's Drum sound source Kitton 3 compatible with GM layout

Introducing Fanan Team's Drum sound source Kitton 3 compatible with GM layout

Today we would like to introduce Fanan Team's Drum sound source Kitton 3 that supports GM layout.

GM is a standard that matches specifications between MIDI devices.

Honestly, now that I hardly use hardware sound sources, I don't see much benefit.

However, when it comes to drums, if you have them, you can use the drum patterns as they are, so I would like each company to match them as much as possible.

For more details, I will quote Chat GPT's explanation.

The GM arrangement of MIDI (General MIDI System Level 1) is a specification introduced in 1991 to increase compatibility between MIDI devices. The basic idea of the GM array is to allow any GM-enabled device to play MIDI files in the same way. This allows composers to create MIDI music once and then play it back with the expected timbre and balance on equipment from different manufacturers.

The GM array includes basic standards such as:

tone map: GM defines 128 tones (program numbers 0 to 127). These cover the tones of a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. This expects any GM-enabled device to produce the same type of instrument sound for a given program number.

percussion instrument set: MIDI channel 10 is usually reserved for percussion instruments. GM defines a set of percussion sounds that can be used on this channel, with specific note numbers corresponding to specific percussion sounds.

multitimbality: GM devices can produce at least 16 channels simultaneously, allowing you to play different instrument tones at the same time. This allows you to simulate a full orchestra or band performance with a single MIDI device.

polyphony: GM devices must be capable of producing at least 24 notes simultaneously. This makes it possible to reproduce songs in which multiple instruments play complex chords.

control change message: GM defines the use of basic control change messages such as volume, pan (left/right balance), modulation, and sustain pedal.

The GM arrangement has since evolved into more advanced specifications such as GM2 (General MIDI Level 2), GS (Roland's proprietary extension), and XG (Yamaha's proprietary extension). These extensions enhance the expressiveness of MIDI music by providing more tones, finer tonal control, additional effects, and more. However, the GM array is an important foundation for ensuring basic compatibility of MIDI music.

The main GM drum arrangement is as follows.

35: Acoustic Bass Drum
36: Bass Drum 1
37: Side Stick
38: Acoustic Snare
39: Hand Clap
40: Electric Snare
41: Floor Tom (Low Floor Tom)
42: Closed Hi Hat
43: High Floor Tom
44: Pedal Hi-Hat
45: Low Tom
46: Open Hi-Hat
47: Low-Mid Tom
48: Hi Mid Tom
49: Crash Cymbal 1
50: High Tom
51: Ride Cymbal 1
52: Chinese Cymbal
53: Ride Bell
54: Tambourine
55: Splash Cymbal
56: Cowbell
57: Crash Cymbal 2
58: Vibraslap
59: Ride Cymbal 2
60: High Bongo
61: Low Bongo

Sound demo

I tried playing the kit.

It sounds good when you apply compression.

I don't think the compressor is free by Linda Audio.Sonicrusher.

Overview

Evolution continues. Now in its third generation, Kitton 3 features 3 drum kits that make GM-compatible drum MIDI files sound incredibly realistic. Also added is a new “LS” feature, which stands for “Layer Simulation”. This feature uses synthesis to simulate layers of 20 real sampled samples with just one sample, keeping the plug-in's footprint extremely small and realistic. Another new feature is the Strike section (per kit element), which allows you to soften the element's attack if needed.

Equipped kit

2 Standard kits.
2 Power kits.
2 Analog kits.
2 Modern kits.
2 Jazz kits.
2 Rock kits.
2 Pop kits.
2 hip hop kits.
2 Soul kits.
2 Room kits.

kit element

15 low kicks.
15 general kicks.
15 general snares.
15 secondary snares.
6sticks.
8 full tom sets.
12 rides (long, medium, short).
12 high crashes (long, medium, short).
12 general crashes (long, medium, short).
7 claps.

Edit drum elements individually

Kitton 2 allows you to easily edit all drum elements in your kit directly from the main channels. Easily set each element's gain and pitch, apply an innovative round-robin system or low-pass filter, control length, and even morph with other elements in the same category. Masu.

beautiful master effects

Spice up your drums with built-in EQ, saturators, unique Zelda filters, compressors, and beautiful hall reverb and delay.

Main functions

20 GM compatible drum kits
Drum element edit menu
Built-in 6 zero-latency effects including Zelda filter, Eq, saturation, compressor, reverb, delay, and stereo widener.
LS function (layer simulator)
Dedicated pitch shifter for each drum element
Innovative round robin.
High pass, low pass for each element
Morph elements with other elements within a category.
Midi learning for each important knob/button.
Separate volumes for each element
Adjust the pitch for each element.
Strike adjuster for softening each element.
Ver.3.1 update change history:

Fixed cymbal volume.
Improved CPU performance.

format

OS	32bit	64bit
mac	x	x
Win	x	VST2, VST3

Download

You can download it without registration.

Download it here

Go to the link above, scroll a little and click "Download Kitton 3"

Click "Download" to start downloading.

Installation

In the case of Win, when you unzip the downloaded file, you will find "Kitton 3 (64).vst3" inside, so put it in the folder below to complete the installation.

C: \ Program Files \ Common Files \ VST3