Drum Sets For Kontakt

Fjordheim Drums is a sampled vintage drum set, performed by the drummer Børge Fjordheim.

This Kontakt drumset library doesn’t just capture notes; it captures every nuance, every creak, every ghost in the room. Coupled with a flexible mixing setup that lets you dial in the exact sound you need, it gives you the power to craft truly human, expressive drum performances that don’t just sit in a mix, but blend seamlessly into the very fabric of any musical story you’re trying to tell, adding a raw, fat sound that can’t be faked.

The drumkit he played on, was a Rogers Holiday drum set, from 1968.

Fjordheim Drums is crafted with a philosophy of organic realism and nuanced character. While it can certainly deliver impactful hits for powerful sections, its true strength lies in its ability to provide incredibly detailed, expressive, and human-sounding beats.  It’s a a beautifully recorded acoustic drum kit, making it ideal for both delicate ballads and driving rhythms.

No. We leave the programming up to you, The library includes only single hits, and nuanced sounds from every corner of the drumset.

These drum sets are celebrated for their craftsmanship, unique sound, and their place in drumming history.

Drum kits produced by Rogers Drums, particularly popular during the 1960s are known for a clear, resonant, and often “vintage” tone that made them favorites in various genres, from jazz to rock.

While the “Holiday” model name appeared across different periods, the most desirable vintage kits are generally from the 1960s, often identifiable by “Cleveland tags” (pre-1966) or “Dayton tags” (post-1966, after CBS acquired the company).

Fjordheim Drums is exceptionally versatile. Its organic and natural sound makes it an super alternative for cinematic scoring, especially for scenes requiring an authentic, unhyped drum sound. It’s also really really bunkers for folk, indie rock, singer-songwriter tracks, and any genre where a natural, “live” drum feel is desired. Its dynamic range allows it to sit comfortably in both sparse and dense mixes.

Achieving an organic feel is at the heart of this Kontakt drum library. The feeling of humanity and organicness will present itselves when you program a groove with one of the three included drumsets. 

Here’s a blog post we made about humanizing midi. 

Absolutely. Fjordheim Drums provides comprehensive mixing control. You have independent faders for close mics on each drum (kick, snare, toms), overheads, and multiple room microphone positions. This allows you to sculpt your drum sound with precision, from a tight, punchy close-up sound to a wide, expansive ambient feel, just as you would with a real drum recording.

The drums sound great straight out of the box, but if you want you can tweak mostly everything. 

Here’s an article we wrote about reverb on drums, if you feel like adding some. 

The core samples in Fjordheim Drums are captured with a focus on natural responsiveness, ideal drum-mics and mic positions and minimal processing. Our goal was to provide you with high-quality, “mix-ready” sounds that still offer plenty of headroom for your own creative processing. While they sound fantastic right out of the box, you have the flexibility to apply your favorite external EQs, compressors, and reverbs to perfectly tailor them to your mix. This approach ensures maximum versatility for different musical contexts.

The combination of a cool vintage drum-set, a great drummer, really good mics, pre-amps and acoustics, and overall aesthetics and taste, is what colors this library. Listen to the demos to hear the sound.  To our ears, it is the perfect drum library. 

It will take up 3.8 GB of free diskspace. Full Retail Version of Kontakt 6.4.2 [or later]

WAYS OF LOADING A KONTAKT PATCH :

• Using the Library Tab: If your library is compatible with the Kontakt Library tab, you can easily add it through the Native Access application and then load it directly from the Libraries tab within Kontakt.

• Using the Files Browser: Navigate through your computer’s file system within Kontakt to find and load individual Kontakt patches (.nki files). This method works for both libraries that are formatted for the Libraries tab and those that are not. 

• Click “Load…” from the Files menu in Kontakt

• Using the Quick Load Catalog: You can add your most commonly used instruments, multis, and banks to Kontakt’s Quick Load catalog for faster access. Right-click in the Kontakt window to access and manage your Quick Load settings.

• Dragging and Dropping: You can drag .nki files from your file explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) directly into Kontakt’s interface to load them.

•  

Here’s also a post on various ways of loading a Kontakt patch, into Kontakt.