Deviant Drums: Beautifully Unhinged
Compared to mainstream “corporate” drum VSTs, there is a refreshing candour about Deviant Drums that hits you before you have even loaded the first kit. The manual is written entirely in the first person by a developer who openly admits he kept recording until Kontakt ran out of room, describes four of the keyswitch effects as “destructive, angry, edgy, and mean,” and named another simply “Punish.” This is unequivocally not a mainstream drum library. Yet behind the eccentric personality lies a genuinely serious piece of software — one that rewards close attention and repays the time invested in understanding its architecture. What’s in the box Deviant Drums is a Kontakt-format instrument from Chaos Tones that runs on the free Kontakt […]