Toontrack

The Rooms of Hansa SDX features drums produced by Grammy Award-winning recording/mixing engineer Michael Ilbert in one of the most iconic studios currently in existence: the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, Germany. With a broad and handpicked collection of drums captured in all four available rooms on the studio premises, this SDX showcases an incredible width in regard to both tonal range and ambience.

Welcome to a unique collection of drums, all touched by the inimitable soul of a studio whose legacy is forever etched in music history.

Since its inception in 1913, the magnificent building on Kothener Strabe No. 38 that houses Hansa Tonstudios and the iconic Meistersaal just a stone's throw away from Potsdamer Platz in Berlin's Kreuzberg district has served as a ballroom, a concert hall, a theatre and a place for the arts. However, what forever ingrained the spirit of this place in the fabric of culture was neither of those things it was the music immortalized between its four walls decades later. The Meistersaal was first converted to a studio in 1961, the same year as the Berlin Wall was erected just shy of 150 meters from the building. But in wasn't until the mid-'70s, when the Meisel brothers Tomas and Peter bought the building and restored it to fully meet the standards of a recording studio, that its true golden years under the Hansa Tonstudios moniker began. Since then, countless classic albums have been recorded and mixed inside the building many of which literally changed the course of music history.

Some of the notables recordings that have been made at Hansa studios are David Bowie's "Low" and "Heroes'" (1977), Iggy Pop's "The Idiot" and "Lust for Life" (1977), Marillion's "Misplaced Childhood" (1985), Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" (1986), U2's "Achtung Baby" (1991), and R.E.M.'s "Collaspe into Now" (2011).

For this SDX, Toontrack's ambition was to represent the entire sonic scope of natural ambiences that Hansa has to offer. As a result, they scoured the land for the best-suited drums, captured all four rooms in the building and felt compelled to also blend in some elements recorded in the famous Hansa staircase. Combined, the sonic possibilities are endless from tight, minimal and dry to big, reverberant and massive.

Features
• Six complete kits in addition to many optional configurations
• In total, 12 snares and 7 kicks as well as a broad collection of hi-hats and cymbals
• Produced by Grammy Award-winning recording/mixing engineer Michael Ilbert (Adele, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Pink, Muse, Ed Sheeran)
• Recorded at the legendary Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, Germany
• Features four individual room configurations including the iconic "Meistersaal"
• "Meistersaal" setup recorded in 5.1 surround with two additional height/ambience microphone pairs
• Also includes an extra stereo ambience captured in the famous Hansa staircase (available for select kits)
• Comes with a collection of drum MIDI grooves

System Requirements
• Approximately 122 GB of free hard drive space, plus an additional 122 GB required for the installation process
• 8 GB RAM (16 GB RAM or more recommended)
• A working Superior Drummer 3.1.7 (or above) installation