{"id":4976,"date":"2013-11-15T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2013-11-15T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T13:51:42","slug":"nick-mason-releases-drum-sample-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2013\/11\/nick-mason-releases-drum-sample-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mason releases drum sample library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/parsons-mason.jpg\"><\/a>Want to play drums like <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong>? Sorry, we can&#8217;t help you.<\/p>\n<p>But a new sample library from the Pink Floyd drummer can at least help you sound like him.<\/p>\n<p>Mason&#8217;s created a sample library of his custom Ludwig &#8220;Black Kit&#8221; that promises to deliver a virtual recreation of the kit to be played with any MIDI keyboard or e-drum setup.<\/p>\n<p>The sample library comes in FXPansion&#8217;s BFD2 format and includes mic channels that can be mixed for what&#8217;s being described by publisher\u00a0<strong>Sonic Reality <\/strong> as &#8220;full album quality, vintage &#8217;70s drums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recording sessions for the samples were produced by <strong>Alan Parsons<\/strong> (&#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221;) using the same EMI mixing console Floyd did in the &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esoundz.com\/details.php?ProductID=5224&amp;refcode=FBNM\">Nick Mason Drums online<\/a> for $69\/\u00a343.<\/p>\n<p>(Pictured, from left: Parsons, Sonic Reality&#8217;s <strong>Dave Kerzner<\/strong>, and Mason)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to play drums like Nick Mason? Sorry, we can&#8217;t help you. But a new sample library from the Pink Floyd drummer can at least help you sound like him. Mason&#8217;s created a sample library of his custom Ludwig &#8220;Black Kit&#8221; that promises to deliver a virtual recreation of the kit to be played with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-nick-mason","category-other","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}