Boom Kits
Boom Kits
The Kit Selector menu gives you access to the 10 Speed switches
preset drum kits in Boom.
The Speed switches change Boom’s rhythmic re-
The available kits are as follows: lationship with the current tempo set in
Pro Tools.
Name Description
The switch on the left has three modes. In X1
Urban 1 R&B-style sounds: Fat kicks, mode, Boom’s sequencer plays at the same
cracking snares. tempo as the master tempo in Pro Tools. In X2
mode, Boom plays twice as fast. In X1/2 mode,
Urban 2 Variations of the above.
Boom plays half as fast.
Dance 1 Classic club-style drums: Fat,
The switch on the right enables Triplet mode. In
electronic, and punchy.
Triplet mode, Boom plays only the first 12 steps
Dance 2 As above, but more organic, in the sequence. The last 4 steps turn grey, indi-
loopy and percussive. cating that they will not be played.
Electro Electronic, noisy, distorted The 12 steps play in the same amount of time
sounds. Boom would normally play all 16, for the cre-
ation of triplet grooves.
Eight-O A classic analog drum machine
kit. Trying different combinations of Speed switch
settings on-the-fly can create interesting rhyth-
Nine-0 A classic analog/digital drum
mic variations.
machine kit.