Extinction Level Event

No more compromising, massive mix ready drums and human feel.

Features

Full Bleed, mic spill across every channel for an organic, live-drum feel.
Presets for polished, heavy-hitting drum mixes right out of the gate.
Shape your sound with built-in EQ, compression, and more.
Dynamic, human-like drum hits free from “machine-gun” repetition.
Load in your own one-shot samples right into ELE.
MIDI groove player for quick and easy songwriting
Compatible with electronic drum kits

Extinction Level Event (ELE) is a cutting-edge drum library meticulously engineered for rock and metal producers who demand both bone crushing intensity and lifelike realism. At its core is the Full Bleed feature, which replicates authentic studio mic spill—so when you strike the snare, its sound naturally leaks into kick, overhead, and tom channels, just like in a real recording session. Coupled with extensive velocity layers and round-robin samples, ELE captures the raw, human feel of an actual drummer, eliminating the stiff, machine-gun effect so common in programmed drums.

One aspect that sets ELE apart is how quickly you can achieve professional results. Straight out of the box, the library includes mix-ready presets that deliver everything from gritty old-school heaviness to polished, modern punch, letting you plug in and start tracking without hours of tedious fine-tuning. If you crave deeper control, ELE’s onboard mixer and effects section empower you to sculpt each mic channel—tweaking EQ, compression, and even saturation—until you dial in that perfect drum tone for your specific project. This flexibility means it can handle anything from thrash and death metal to hard rock and even alternative genres, all while maintaining that cohesive “live band” vibe.

Above all, ELE makes life easier for producers and musicians at every skill level. Beginners can skip the learning curve of building realistic drums from scratch, and experienced engineers save countless hours normally spent imitating real-room dynamics with artificial reverbs and routing tricks. The library’s high-impact samples give your songs immediate credibility and bite, and its advanced scripting ensures each performance feels alive. By prioritizing authenticity, speed, and sonic firepower, Extinction Level Event stands out as the ultimate solution for anyone who wants uncompromising, human-sounding drums ready to slam into any rock or metal mix.

Unparalleled Realism

Imagine you’re in a real studio live room, recording a drum kit. When the snare is hit, the snare mic obviously picks up the main impact—but so do the microphones for the kick, the toms, even the overheads. That subtle “cross talk” is what makes a live drum recording feel organic, as each hit resonates throughout the entire kit.

Extinction Level Event replicates that exact phenomenon digitally through a feature we call “Full Bleed”. Whenever you trigger a snare hit, for example, you’ll also catch a faint trace of that snare within the kick mic channel, the overheads, or any other mic involved. As a result, each drum part interacts with the entire kit, creating a sense of depth and authenticity that purely isolated samples can’t match.

For instance, if you’re programming a fast section of hi-hat work alongside intermittent snare shots, you’ll hear the hat bleeding into the snare mic, shaping the overall tone and making the performance sound far less “robotic.” And if you decide you want a tighter, more modern sound, you can simply dial back or disable the bleed. That flexibility means you’re not locked into a single style—you can go from raw, loose, and roomy to clinically precise at any moment.

Because ELE also includes extensive velocity layers and round-robin samples, every single drum hit is slightly different and responds naturally to the rest of the kit. This attention to detail is what lets you program drums that feel truly alive, preserving the nuance and energy of a real drummer’s performance while giving you full control over how much bleed (and thus how much raw realism) you want to inject into your mix.

Comprehensive Built-In Mixer

One of the things that can be annoying is having to open up many plugins in various tracks when working with drums. We made it so that ELE is its own, complete package. You can change every aspect of the drum tone right within ELE itself.
With our new built-in mixer, you have everything you need:

Two EQ types
Saturation
1176-Style compression
Transient designer
ADSR controls
Two reverb sends (Non-Linear or Plate)

There is also a “Master” section on this new built-in mixer page where you can take your drum sound even further. Included here is:

Pultec-Style EQ
SSL-Style Bus Compression (with a parallel mix knob!)
Tape Saturation
Reverb controls

Instead of needing to load in extra plugins to tweak your sound, just use the massive, built-in mixer in ELE! You literally don’t need anything else to craft your perfect Metal drum sound.

Integrated MIDI Groove Player

It’s the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about, we get it. Programming drums can be a terribly long, boring, and unfulfilling process.

Instead of needing to get a degree in drum programming, we figured it easier to give you amazing, high quality, and totally usable MIDI grooves that were played by real drummers.

These grooves have the feel and dynamics of a real drummer; all you have to do is find the groove that works best for your song and bam, done!

After all, isn’t part of classic rock that incredible groove? We think so, too.

Extinction Level Event Drums includes a great selection of grooves to get anyone started but if you want a lot more grooves to pick from and work with, you can grab any number of MIDI groove packs that we have made for our virtual drum plugins that give you both realism and choice. All our Drum Grooves are performed by real drummers to ensure that it doesn’t just sound human, it IS human.

System Requirements

Hardware

Apple M1, Intel Core i5, AMD Ryzen or equivalent
6 GB of System RAM or more is recommended
Storage needed: 15 GB for Kontakt Player & ELE – Master Kit
An Internet connection for one-time activation
A graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1 or higher.

Software

Mac OS X 10.14 & above (64-bit only): Stand-alone, VST, AU, AAX
Windows 7 & above (64-bit only): Stand-alone, VST, AAX
Kontakt Player (Provided with purchase of Extinction Level Event) -or- Kontakt 8
Native Apple Silicon Support

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Extinction Level Event

No more compromising, massive mix ready drums and human feel.