User guide

AS Drums Collection

Four acoustic drum kits in one bundle - rock, jazz, brushes and compact kits - for around 40% less than buying them separately.

acousticsamples.net/as-drums-collection November 2026

Overview

FOUR KITS, EVERY STYLE

The AS Drums Collection gathers our acoustic drum kits in one purchase: a full Tama kit for rock and pop, a Sonor jazz kit, a dedicated brush kit, and four compact kits for everything in between. The kits are recorded with up to three microphone positions, so you can take them from tight and close to open and roomy.

Save around 40%. All four kits cost barely more than two of them bought separately.

Included: StarDrums · DrumTasteJazz · DrumTasteBrush · SmallDrumKits

Features

StarDrums

A Tama Starclassic kit: 20" bass drum, 14" snare, three toms, Zildjian crash, splash and hi-hat and a 20" ride, all sampled from three microphone positions. The big, modern kit of the collection.

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DrumTasteJazz

A Sonor jazz kit: 18" bass drum, a Sonor snare and a 10" jungle snare, tamburim, two toms, two 22" rides and a Zildjian hi-hat, recorded from three microphone positions.

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DrumTasteBrush

A kit built for brushes: Yamaha Stage Custom bass drum and toms, a Pearl piccolo snare with circles, sweeps and strokes, two Istanbul rides and a Paiste hi-hat with five openness levels.

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SmallDrumKits

Four compact kits - three new ones plus the classic DrumysM - each with a bass drum, a snare, two toms, a ride and a hi-hat. Quick to load and easy to fit into a mix.

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Technical specifications

StarDrums

2.88Gb uncompressed, 1.4Gb compressed in lossless flac format, 2087 samples (for each version).

3 microphone positions for each drum that you can mix and/or disable from the interface.

up to 25 velocity layers per element.

8 round robins for snares, hihat and rides, 2 round robins for the other elements..

Custom mapping, you can assign every element to any key simply by pressing a key and assigning a sample.

Mappings presets: GM, V-DRUMS, IMAP, NSKIT (NDK) or default one.

Stereo and Multi-output versions to make the mixing possibilities even easier.

Raw and Processed versions to get two very different sounds.

Hihat with 5 levels on openess and triggering from one key depending on a controller value (any controller) and automatic closing sound.

Playable instrument, right hand and left hand mappings.

Detailed snares, 4 different hit positions for the 14' snare.

Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerfull interface and advanced features.

DrumTasteJazz

1.16Gb uncompressed, 640Mb compressed in lossless flac format, around 1818 samples.

3 microphone positions for each drum that you can mix and/or disable from the interface.

about 20 velocity layers.

4 round robins for snares, hihat and rides, 2 round robins for the other elements..

Custom mapping, you can assign every element to any key simply by pressing a key and assigning a sample.

Mappings presets: GM, V-DRUMS, IMAP, NSKIT (NDK) or default one.

Stereo and Multi-output versions to make the mixing possibilities even easier.

Hihat with 5 levels on openess and triggering from one key depending on a controller value (any controller) and automatic closing sound.

Playable instrument, right hand and left hand mappings.

Detailed snares, 6 different hit positions for the 14' snare and 4 for the 10' one.

Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerfull interface and advanced features.

Includes the demos midi files as well as about 100 midi loops recorded live on a V-Drums.

DrumTasteBrush

1.42Gb uncompressed, 709Mb compressed in lossless flac format, around 3382 samples.

3 microphone positions for each drum that you can mix and/or disable from the interface.

about 20 velocity layers X 4 round robins (so about 80 samples per drums per position) and only 6 vel layers for the two ride cymbals.

Custom mapping, you can assign every element to any key simply by pressing a key and assigning a sample.

Mappings presets: GM, V-DRUMS, IMAP, NSKIT (NDK) or default one.

Stereo and Multi-output versions to make the mixing possibilities even easier.

Hihat with 5 levels on openess and triggering from one key depending on a controller value (any controller) and automatic closing sound.

Playable instrument, right hand and left hand mappings.

Detailed snare, 6 different hit positions and multiple brush actions.

4 different brush actions and a script that allows an easy playability on a keyboard or on an e-drum.

Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerfull interface and advanced features.

Includes the demos midi files.

SmallDrumKits

kitA:149Mb (71Mb compressed) 331 samples, kitB 61Mb (33Mb compressed) 199 samples, kitC:295Mb (136Mb compressed) 288 samples, DrumysM:363Mb (208Mb compressed) 537 samples.

Round Robins (4 for Kit A,C and DrumysM and 2 for Kit B).

Up to 10 velocity layers depending on the kit.

Detailed instruments with the most common strokes, each one is easy to play.

Custom mapping, you can assign every element to any key from the interface in two different ways.You can even assign multiple elements to the same key.

Custom mix, you can change the volume of each element separately.

Mappings presets: GM, V-DRUMS, IMAP, NSKIT (NDK) or default one.

cc# controlled Hihat with different openess and automatic closing sound.

Advanced UVI scripting giving you access to a simple yet powerfull interface and advanced features.

Sample player

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AS Drums Collection plays in UVI Player (formerly UVI Workstation), UVI's free sample player. We provide it with every library you buy, so you don't need an expensive sampler to use our products. It works on Mac (macOS 10.14 or later, Intel or Apple silicon) and Windows (10 or later), standalone or as a plug-in (VST / VST3 / AU / AAX), in 64-bit only. More about it here.

Copy protection

We use the iLok system to protect our products and you can choose to register your license to your computer or to an iLok dongle. If you decide to use an iLok dongle, both V1 and V2 are compatible with our products. You can activate your license on up to 3 computers or iLok dongles at the same time and you can deactivate one and activate another as many times as you want.

Registration

Once your order is complete, you will be provided with a serial number. You will then be able to register it to your iLok account from our website on this page (you need to be logged in to access this page). The whole process is described in the FAQ (instructions + screencast).