The mission was as simple as it was bold; create a fusion between organic, electronic, high-tech and vintage - a sound library that covers classic sounds but carry them into the new decade, a collection a drums that would sit right away in any contemporary pop, dance, house or hip hop mix.

We ended up with Number 1 Hits, which is not only an EZX expansion for EZdrummer, it's a bonafide hit-machine in itself. When sound designer Niklas Flyckt played the finished product for us, even we were amazed at how organic, pumping and throbbing it sounded.

"All you have to do is take any of the included grooves, burn it on a disk and you'll have a club hit", was Toontrack's Mattias Eklund's first comment.

No wonder, Niklas has some 30 years' worth of experience, recorded and mixed artists like Britney Spears, Robyn, Kylie Minogue, Girls Aloud, Rachel Stevens, just to name a few, and obviously knows how to twist the knobs to get that million dollar sound.

CUTTING EDGE

Organic drums for any contemporary hip-hop, pop, dance or R&B track

The Claustrophobic EZX fuses conventional and organic drums with a selection of percussive elements, all recorded in a heavily dampened room and mixed through high-end chains of outboard. It includes several kit presets, a large selection of optional instruments as well as a comprehensive library of presets.

All in all, you'll have a highly versatile, tight and cutting edge percussive battery – tailored for any beat-driven hip-hop, modern pop, dance or R&B track.

ORGANIC ELECTRONIC.

Organic drums for hyper-modern productions from one of the world’s premier human beat machines: Ash Soan.

When the likes of Dua Lipa, Alicia Keys and Taylor Swift need organic-sounding but hyper-fresh beats for their songs, they call Ash Soan. But they don’t send him off to any fancy metropolitan studio to lay down his tracks, they have him record a stone’s throw from his front door. Welcome to The Windmill, 18th century mill-turned-drum room and arguably the smallest studio that has made the biggest dent in modern music history.

The classic sounds and MIDI groove content from the first generation of EZdrummer. Timeless drums spanning the whole range of pop and rock – captured in perfect sonic detail in one of the world's top studios!

FEATURE SPOTLIGHT• The classic EZdrummer sounds, optimized for EZdrummer 2