8DIO ZEUS

Produced by Troels Folmann

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INTRODUCTION
ZEUS is one of the most comprehensive drum kits ever sampled and contains over 38,000
samples.

ZEUS contains 10 individual microphone positions for ultimate mixing flexibility. You have
individual microphones for kick, snares, hi-hats, cymbals, toms and dedicated overhead,
room and custom distortion. The user-interface is highly intuitive and flexible, so both
beginners and experts can have fun from the get-go.

ZEUS is the first library to utilize our new flow-note technology. One of the challenges with
normal drum sampling is that elements like hats and cymbals artificially stack upon each
other. In reality a cymbal doesn’t stack. It is partially muted when it is hit again, while also
carrying some sound from the previous hit. We call this concept Flow Note.

ZEUS contains over 38,000 samples and 25,000 lines of custom code taking the
playability and realism to the next level.

ZEUS is powered by the powerful Kontakt engine allowing for ultimate flexibility and
effective streaming. ZEUS also contains features for advanced users, including ability to
choose individual FX per microphone position. The ability to send each channel to separate
outputs and remapping tools. The entire user-interface was designed in 3D and is
incredible intuitive to use.

But most importantly ZEUS just works. It sounds completely real out of the box and doesn’t
take a drum expert or pro engineer to operate. The flow-note technology just makes
everything connect. The mixer allows you to dial in your desired sound in seconds.

ZEUS is all about hyper-realistic sound, playability, and of course - ease of use.

Thanks

Troels
PATCH LIST
ZEUS contains several patches uniquely programmed to help you in getting started.

01 8DIO_ZEUS_Main_Kit:- This patch contains what we consider to be the perfect kit. With
real microphone bleed (limited RR), full close mics (full RR) and all ambient microphone
positions, this patch is the “GO-TO” patch in the library. We even carefully designed
several presets to help you get started.

02 8DIO_ZEUS_Main_Lite:- This “LITE” patch only contains the close mic samples and
reduced versions of the ambient mics. This allows you to use ZEUS while only taking up
half as much RAM. (we recommend you use the Main_Kit patch to use ZUES to its full effect)

03 8DIO_ZEUS_Bleed_Full:- The Bleed patch only contains the “bleed” samples. This means
there are no directly recorded sounds in this patch, only the sound heard through
neighbouring microphones. This is the full (10RR) set of samples, a smaller selection of
these samples (up to 5RR) can be found in our Main_Kit patch.

04 8DIO_ZEUS_Room_Full:- The Room patch contains the full set of samples (10RR) for the
ambient and auxiliary microphone positions. A limited selection of these samples (up to
5RR) can be found in our Main_Kit patch.

05 8DIO_ZEUS_Bonus: - Our bonus patch contains uniquely designed drum presets. These
presets are hard hitting, powerful and hand designed by myself.
THE INTERFACE
ZEUS has a highly intuitive front end, allowing you to do such simple tasks such as change
between our carefully designed presets, to individually tuning the drums to your personal
taste.

To adjust any drum or cymbal, simply click its image highlighting it. You will now see a
range of controls available for that drum or cymbal. These controls are as follows.

VOLUME:- Controls the gain of that particular drum across all microphone positions.

PAN:- Controls the panorama of that particular drum across all microphone positions.

TUNE:- Adjusts the tuning in semitones either up to +12, or down to -12.

FINE TUNE:- Adjusts the fine tuning up and down 1 semitone allowing you to fine tune the drum.

ATTACK:- Adds an artificial fade in to the sound allowing you to reduce the sharpness of the sound.

DECAY:- Controls the fade out of the sound upon the release of the key, allowing you to gate or
shorten tails.
SNARES:- ZEUS contains 3 separately recorded snares, allowing you to choose and shape
the most vital part of the kit to best fit your song. To select a different snare simply click its
icon towards the right of the interface.

PREVIEW:- If your are programming drums and need to check what particular drum you
have selected, simply click the PLAY icon located in the bottom menu to preview the drum
or cymbals you have selected.

PRESETS:- ZEUS contains several carefully crafted presets to help you get started. To select a
different preset, click the PRESETS drop down menu, this will bring up a list of all the
included presets for that particular patch.

MIXER:- To access the microphone mixer page, just click the mixer icon to the right of the
drum kit, this will bring up the mixer page.

RE-MAPPER:- ZEUS follows standard midi mapping guidelines, but for ease of use you can
bring up the RE-MAPPER by clicking the GEAR icon in the lower menu, allowing you to
re-map up to 12 drum sounds to whatever keys you prefer.
MIXER PAGE
ZEUS has a fully dedicated Mixer page, with all the controls you could ever want to
customise this kit.

VOLUME:- The faders allow you to alter each microphone positions volume.

PURGE:- PURGE allows you to remove samples from RAM, saving valuable system resources.

PAN:- The PAN dial controls the panning for each independent microphone position.

SEND:- Adjusts the amount of gain sent from each microphone to the customisable reverb send.

SOLO/MUTE:- SOLO and MUTE can be used to alter what channels you can hear at any one time.

L/R:- Allows you to completely flip the master stereo perspective from “PLAYER” to “AUDIENCE”.

MASTER:- Allows you to adjust the instruments main volume, also available via CC11 [Expression].
OUTPUT:- Each microphone channel in ZEUS has the option to route its
output to any channel in your system. Simply click the “+” icon in the
upmost corner of each channel and a drop down menu will appear.

EFFECTS:- Every microphone position has its own effects chain attached
to it, such as STEREO SPREAD, EQ, COMPRESSOR and LOFI. ZEUS
even has its own REVERB send with many custom designed
convolution reverbs.

CHANNEL SELECT:- To select a different microphone channel, simply click

on the microphone name. Channels are also be automatically
selected upon SOLOing that microphone position.

MAIN PAGE:- To return back to the main drum options, click “MAIN PAGE”.
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Thank you so much for purchasing the 8DIO ZEUS

The production of ZEUS is not only a product of our own vision, but also
a product of patience from friends and family - and a product of
countless discussions with great composers and producers.

A special thanks to Tawnia and Cam for keeping it together and dealing with
my mad brain. You guys are - once again - the true puppet masters.

If you have any questions, concerns, love-letters or hate mail feel free to
send it to: support@8dio.com

♥ Troels Folmann

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