In 1999, producers Fredrik Thordendal of heavy-metal band Meshuggah and Mattias Eklund of Toontrack Music decided to design a sample library for their own use. The Drumkit From Hell and Metal Foundry story Toontrack Music was originally started as a production company for composing game and movie soundtracks.

The Toontrack Metal Foundry SDX features presets by: ¢Devin Townsend (Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad, Steve Vai) ¢Daniel Bergstrand from Dug Out Studio (Meshuggah, In Flames, Dark Funeral, Behemoth) ¢Pelle Gunnerfeldt from Gr¶ndahl Studio (The Hives, Moneybrother, Fireside, The International Noise Conspiracy) ¢Pelle Henricsson, Eskil L¶vstrand and Magnus Lindberg from Tonteknik Studio (Refused, Meshuggah, Cult Of Luna, Khoma, Hell Is For Heroes) ¢Mattias Eklund from Toontrack (Nocturnal Rites, Naglfar, Guillotine, Galneryus, Lambretta) Jocke Skog (Clawfinger) ¢Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah) The Metal Foundry SDX features custom MIDI by: ¢Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, Testament) ¢Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork, Warrel Dane, Scarve, Aborted) MIDI is downloadable upon product registration.

The drum samples in this expansion pack were recorded and produced at Atlantis Studios in December 2008 by the original Drumkit From Hell recording team, Mattias Eklund (Toontrack Music), Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah), Daniel Bergstrand (Dug Out Studios), and Tomas Haake (Meshuggah). The Metal Foundry SDX celebrates the Toontrack Music Hard Rock and Heavy Metal legacy of the first Drumkit From Hell. The e-drum samples cover a wide variety of harder music, from the early blues-tinged sound of the late '60s classic rock to the fragmentation of today's heavier music, including power, thrash, death, and progressive metal. The Toontrack Metal Foundry SDX expansion pack for Superior Drummer 2.0 sample engine features the drumming of Meshuggah's Tomas Haake, and includes seven massive drum kits, spanning 300,000 sound files of raw, single-hit drum recordings in the vein of Drumkit From Hell and dfh Superior.

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