Jamcussion is a hand percussion add-on for Jamstix. It is the most complex Jamstix expansion developed so far. Not only does it add a wide range of percussive sounds and new style and player models but it also expands the interface of Jamstix to allow the simulation of three dedicated percussionists, complete with separate bar, song and kit editing.

• Expands the Jamstix interface and A.I. with 3 new percussionists
• Features its own kit editor, bar editor and brain elements
• 35 percussion instruments covering a wide range of styles and locales
• Adds 12 new instrument slots to the Jamstix kit concept
• 26 styles modeling West-African, Latin, Modern and even Middle-Eastern rhythms
• Two percussionist player models
• 11 percussion kits, including African, Latin, Darbuka and Udu kits
• Can be used with the Jamstix A.I., e-drumkits or traditionally via MIDI by the host

Unless you are using Jamstix exclusively with 3rd party libraries for sound, you absolutely will want to have this massive sound expansion.

The XL Pak infuses Jamstix with 1.2GB of new samples covering a wide range of genres. It includes a fusion kit, a rock kit, a rod-played kit, a brushed kit with sizzle cymbal for jazz, 11 additional snares and 104 electronic sounds.

• 15 snare drums
• 3 kicks drums
• 16 toms
• 4 hihats
• 8 crash cymbals
• 1 china cymbal
• 5 ride cymbals, including sizzle cymbal
• Includes complete brush kit
• Includes complete hot-rod kit
• 104 electronic drum kit and effect sounds

Do you remember the big fat sound from the master's kit in the 70s? Have you ever wondered what the 'John' model in Jamstix would sound like with such a kit? Well, wonder no more because BonzoPak adds it to your Jamstix sound palette!

This is a meticulously recorded Ludwig Maple kit with head selection and tuning based on the habits of the 'master'. We even included the kit played with mallets as well as snare wires off. A great part of the big sound is the 17' high recording room we used but, thanks to the controllable ambience, you can also dial it down to get a drier, tighter sound.

The Pak also includes several Jamstix styles based on famous rhythms. As always, you can combine styles, drummers and sounds any which way you want in Jamstix to achieve an enormous array of grooves and sounds.

• 10 new styles modeled after famous rhythms of the 70s
• Recorded in a 17' high room for massive but adjustable ambience
• Includes stick-played kits as well as a mallet-played kits

• 26"x14" Ludwig Maple Kick
• 14"x6.5" Ludwig Supraphonic Snare
• 14"x10" Ludwig Maple Tom
• 16"x16" Ludwig Maple Tom
• 18"x16" Ludwig Maple Tom
• 15" Paiste 2002 SoundEdge HiHat
• 24" Paiste 2002 Ride
• 16" Paiste 2002 Medium Crash
• 18" Paiste 2002 Medium Crash
• 20" Paiste 2002 Medium Crash
• 24" China
• LP Black Beauty Cowbell

If you are tired of hand-editing the complex kick patterns your metal songs require or want to go beyond static MIDI loops, this Pak covers you with five new drummer models that can sparkle with inventive accents and fills or nail down a tight metal groove from half-time to thrash metal double time.

The drummers are complemented by five new powerful metal style models that can create a huge range of dynamic grooves.

Gretsch Renown Maple drums and AA/AAX cymbals give you a tight, modern sound that is perfect for modern metals songs but can also fit many other production needs.

AIPak is an eclectic collection of styles and drummers for Jamstix. It greatly expands the expressive capabilities of the virtual drummer and is highly recommended to all Jamstix users, regardless of the major genres they may be working in. The flexibility of the Jamstix engine allows you to change, shape and merge any of these styles and drummers to achieve inventive grooves for any project.

Breakbeat is an eclectic collection of styles for Jamstix. It greatly expands the expressive capabilities of the virtual drummer and is highly recommend to all Jamstix users, regardless of the major genres they may be working in. The flexibility of the Jamstix engine allows you to change, shape and merge any of these styles and drummers to achieve inventive grooves for any project.

We carefully analyzed a wealth of hip-hop beats as well as the original funk beats from the 60s and 70s, which were sampled so much during the 90s, to bring them to life within the Jamstix A.I. engine.

The result is a powerful new style for Jamstix that can emulate virtually any breakbeat you ever heard but also easily create new and original beats. We added a new drummer model 'Loopey' that provides groove feel and fill behavior fitting these styles.

Finally, we got down and dirty with all existing Jamstix sounds and created over twenty kits that provide typical breakbeat sounds, ranging from the tight 70s style to big fat ambient kits.

This MiniPak will make it easy for you to create original breakbeats as well as clones of famous grooves. Once you start playing with it, you won't be able to stop!

• 'Breakbeat' style with 24 presets
• 'Breakbeat 2Bar' style with 10 presets
• New drummer model "Loopey"
• 20 new kits (using existing sounds)

Linear drumming is a seemingly simple technique where the drummer hits only one kit piece at any point in time. In reality, drumming this way requires a lot of practice but can be very effective in making a complex groove mesh into the fabric of the song by minimizing the overlay of multiple drum sounds at the same time.

Of course, LinearFunk does not give you static linearized groove patterns but dynamic style models to generate such rhythms and even hybrid forms. But to top it all off, it gives you the sophisticated drummer model 'Gari', who can linearize any groove, even those you import via MIDI.

• "Gari" drummer model with 5 presets
• 13 new styles with 21 presets
• 4 new kits (using existing sounds)

This MiniPak gives Jamstix the ability to generate Euclidean rhythms for drum set as well as Jamcussion (hand percussion).

Euclidean rhythms were discovered in 2004 by Godfried Toussaint and found to create a wide range of world rhythms. The algorithm used can be simply described as: "Within a length of equal musical ticks, distribute a given number of hits as evenly as possible." This is just the kind of thing that Jamstix excels at: apply a rule-based algorithm dynamically. We have created several styles (with many presets) for this MiniPak that give you a quick entry into this field.

We encourage you to play a lot with the Euclidean controls as explained in the manual so you may discover entirely new combinations that will inspire your music in new ways.

• 4 new Jamstix styles with 23 presets
• 3 new Jamcussion styles with 8 presets

This MiniPak covers your need for complex grooves where the drummer uses the whole kit, creating 'drum fabrics' rather than just straight grooves.

In addition, it offers you 'Marcher', a new drummer that can add marching snare patterns to ANY of your styles and grooves. He can take over with strong snare patterns or you can tell him to just add ghost-like snare patterns where the style gives room.

We recommend you get acquainted with him by using his 'Gentle' preset on various styles to see how he can add sophistication to anything you throw at him.

• 7 new Jamstix styles with 38 presets
• New drummer 'Marcher' with 5 presets

This MiniPak enriches Jamstix with the sounds and rhythms of Flamenco dancers. You now have access to stomps, claps and castagnette sounds that can be used in Jamcussion as well as Jamstix.

Hand claps include a group clapping sound as well as distinct palmas sordas and palmas altas claps. Stomps come in a group sound as well as three distinct single stomps. The MiniPak is rounded off with castagnette and click-clack sounds.

When used in Jamcussion, you get various Flamenco styles as well as a new player model (Percy Dancer). We also added a Flamenco style for Jamstix so that you can have a combination of drums and Flamenco dancers performing the same rhythms.

Not a Flamenco musician? No problem, we have added 'stomp and clap' drum kits to this Pak that you can use with any Jamstix style to spice things up. Many genres of modern music now utilize stomps and claps and this Minipak will open up this approach for you.

• 1453 new samples:
  • Group stomp and clap sounds
  • 3 x single stomp sounds
  • 2 x Palmas Sordas sounds
  • 2 x Palmas Altas sounds
  • Castagnette sounds
  • Click-Clack sounds
• 5 new Jamcussion style models with 17 presets
• 1 new Jamstix style
• New player model 'Percy Dancer'
• 2 new Jamstix kits
• 2 new Jamcussion kits

Have you ever played an Udu Utar? You can close and release your palm over the top hole for a complex bass tone or do the same on the side hole for a similar but higher pitched sound. Close the top hole with one hand and hit the side hole again and there's another sound. Hit the top with your fingers and then with your hand for a great variety of nice clay sounds. Finally, slap the neck hard with your hand and you get a nice sharp crack. What a wonderfully expressive instrument!

It's not easy to get a good sample library with all these different play styles properly sampled. It's even harder to find MIDI patterns that use all these sounds.

But now, using the AI power of Jamstix, you can add an Udu Utar to Jamstix and Jamcussion that includes all of the above sound types and does all the work for you. In fact, we even included Udu 'drum kits' that you can load into Jamstix and have ANY drumset-based style automatically translated to all six Udu sound types.

This MiniPak gives you limitless options to use the expressiveness of the Udu Utar in your percussion arrangements. Trust us, you'll be playing for hours checking out how this MiniPak can give you a whole new approach to many of your songs.

• 153 Udu Utar samples:
  • Top hole bass
  • Top finger hit
  • Top hand hit
  • Side hole bass/top open
  • Side hole bass/top closed
  • Side neck slap
• 2 new Jamcussion style models with 6 presets
• New drummer model 'Percy Udu'
• 3 Jamcussion kits + 1 Jamstix drumkit

One of the big challenges for any virtual drummer is to support odd time signatures, such as 5/4, 7/8 or 13/8 rhythms. Thanks to its advanced rule-based groove engine, Jamstix can do this without the need for dozens of pre-made static loops for every possible time signature.

The styles included with this MiniPak utilize the groove weights chosen for any given time signature to place kick, snare and hihat notes in a very musical way, allowing you to create a wide range of realistic drum performances for any time signature from 2/8 to 18/8 and 2/4 to 9/4.

New drummer 'Bill' excels at performing simple or complex grooves in any time signature for any genre, from rock to jazz. Lots of unique, controllable idiosyncrasies and unique fills with plenty of sixtuplet patterns round off this powerful drummer model.

Please note that the new styles and 'Bill' can create great drum performances even for standard 4/4 or 6/8 songs so don't overlook this MiniPak just because you don't use odd time signatures.

• New drummer 'Bill' with 14 presets
• 4 new styles with 29 presets

Many of you have asked us over the years to develop a drummer model and styles to cover some of the drumming in the 1960s.

'Neo 60' addresses this need with an amazing new drummer 'Star' that offers you many different ways to stamp his identity and idiosyncrasies onto the underlying style, no matter if it is rock, salsa, blues, jazz or reggae!

We also created a new rock style 'Sixties' that covers a wide range of prototypical drum grooves made famous in the 1960 as well as a new R&B style 'Neo Sixties' that is perfect for 60's based neo-pop/neo-soul performances.

Finally, we spent a considerable amount of time creating 12 new kits that capture the sound of the 60's as well as the wider sonic range and equipment for modern neo-soul/pop. Courtesy of the advanced Jamstix 4 audio engine, we were able to do this without the need for new samples.

• New drummer 'Star' with 9 presets
• 2 new styles with 16 presets
• 12 new kits using existing sounds

A famous album in the 1970's popularized a drum style marked by steady grooves with a straight ride pattern and big tom-heavy fills oozing triplets.

Drummer 'Nick' conjures up that style of drumming for you but with all the versatility and adaptibility that the Jamstix engine provides.

Combine him with any existing style for exciting new combinations or use the new styles of this MiniPak for authentic, yet innovative variations of the dark side paradigm.

These new styles cover shuffled 7/4, slow 6/8, slow 4/4 with 16th swing and even a trippy, creative tom style that will make you grab a Rototom library for sound.

This MiniPak also contains 12 new kits, which using existing sounds, create a sonic atmosphere that matches the spirit of the dark side and related famous past performances.

• New drummer 'Nick' with 11 presets
• 7 new styles with 20 presets
• 12 new kits using existing sounds