As part of their Sonic Drop initiative Avid have released the latest of their Sonic Drops of new content for Pro Tools - Eventide H9000 Drums.

Pro Tools Sonic Drop was announced as part of the Pro Tools 2023.3 release. At that time there were six ‘Drops’ of content. Pro Tools Sonic Drops are available to Pro Tools subscribers or perpetual licence holders with active update plans. This initiative was always presented as a rolling programme with monthly updates so the value grows over time.

What Is Eventide H9000 Drums?

The Eventide H9000 Drums comes packed with 60 drum loops and 120 individual one shots, all processed in ways that only the H9000 can. Minus the H90 Drums from last year, nothing sounds like these and the Eventide H9000 are far beyond a sequel standing uniquely on their own.

The H9000 is Eventide’s flagship FX processor, and essentially the most powerful FX processor money can buy. It comes loaded with 1600 algorithms and covers Eventide’s entire FX legacy with algorithms dating back to the legendary H3000 and nearly everything since. As far as FX processors go, it doesn’t get any better than this.

Last year Avid released the Sonic Drop H90 Drums, which was built with Eventide’s H90 FX processor. The H9000 goes deep in a way the H90 is not designed for, and consequently the FX chains put together for this release were significantly more complex. For one, there is a lot of pitch shifting in the Eventide H9000 Drums as well as unique reverbs and modulation constantly creating sounds that are hyperreal, expansive and often cinematic. The source sounds came from Elektron drum machines as well as field recordings. The H9000 took them far beyond their original sound.

The Sonic Drops available so far are:

• Eventide H9000 Drums

• Sonic Boom

• Yesterday's Relic

• Spectral Particles

• Analog Snarl - Sub Growl

• Loopcloud Selects Vol 1

• SynthCell Industries

• Tea Time Breaks

• Brutal Vegetables

• PurrCell

• Cinematic Selects

• Pummeled Piano

• Noise Engineering Modular Motifs

• Mike Avanaim Burnin’ Breaks

• Elektron Syntakt Beats

• Eventide H90 Drums

• Kitchen Kit

• Pumpkins

• Rob’s Basement Beats

• Ultra 808s

• Isorhythm

To find out more about how to get Sonic Boom check out the video above and to hear more about Sonic Drop listen to our podcast with Matt and Greg from Avid below. Eventide H9000 Drums is available to all Pro Tools users with active subscriptions or Update plans, Access Sonic Drop through Avid Link.