Hello friends! I’ve finally finished my sample pack of the Sonicware CyDrums, an awesome little wavetable synth with heaps of attitude that punches well above its weight.
The CyDrums from Tokyo-based SonicWare Inc is a little monster - a dual wavetable synth geared towards percussion sounds, with loads of potential for synth and bass, leads, chords and effects.
This sample pack is designed to offer a wide range of sounds for making entire tracks - all manner of basic stuff such as drum sounds, bass and synth tones and much more. There are also ‘Synth Plus’ sounds which are sounds recorded from the CyDrums processed through a number of effects - perfect for use in a sampler which doesn’t have great built-in effects, or for quick inspiration.
The pack contains 592 one-shot samples, with the voices organised into their respective folders: 64 Bass Drums, 64 Snares, 64 Percs, 64 Claps: 32 Closed Hats, 32 Open Hats, 64 Toms, 64 Bass sounds, 64 Synth sounds, 32 Synth Plus sounds, 32 Effects (FX): 64 Synth, 64 Synth Plus, 64 FX sounds and 16 Transients.
This pack contains 32 Oscillators, which are long one-shot waveform samples of the onboard synth voices designed to loop endlessly with minimal pops or clicks, regardless of how high or low they are played on the keyboard. These are presented in 24-bit/48kHz.
There are also 10 Sample Chains provided with the download, including .ot files designed for use with the Elektron Octatrack (pre-sliced sample chains). These sample chains are presented in 16-bit and 44.1khz sample rate.
This pack comes with several versatile Ableton Live instruments (compatible with Live Suite 12.1.5 and above). These are known as ‘Shaper Racks’ - instrument racks containing all the pack’s one-shots and oscillators, as well as a load of effects and controls mapped to 16 Macros, offering control of various parameters, as well as 16 Presets (or Snapshots in Ableton Live terminology).
Each individual sound has been carefully and respectfully tweaked to gently tame unpleasant resonance, remove super low-end where it’s not required and more or less unify the sample volume across the pack. This ensures the samples sound tight and juicy right out of the box, but allows enough headroom for further processing down the line.
This one was a lot of fun - the synth engines are surprisingly deep with loads of sweet spots. Let me know if there are any issues in the download and I will fix them ASAP. 
