Expand your Sonar sound set with Andy Johns Kit 1 for Session Drummer 3 (Platinum Samples) -- a new expansion pack for Sonar 8.5 Producer and Sonar X1 Producer's exclusive Session Drummer 3.

The Andy Johns Kit1 features a hybrid kit with a Pork Pie bass drum, DW Toms, and Andy Johns' personal engraved Ludwig Black Beauty snare, as well as a hi-hat, 3 crash cymbals, 1 ride, a china, and a splash cymbal with up to 12 Velocity levels and 6 round robin variations. Also included are 120 MIDI grooves from the Platinum Samples Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) and Bobby Jarzombek (Halford) MIDI Groove libraries.

The new expansion kit was recorded by -- you guessed it -- engineer Andy Johns, who is known for his contributions to the modern rock drum sound that we know today.  His credits include Led Zeppelin II, III, IV & Physical Graffiti, The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street and Sticky Fingers, Van Halen For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Blind Faith, Eric Clapton, and more. According to Cakewalk, the albums that Andy Johns has engineered and produced have sold over 150 million copies.

Session Drummer 3 is a Sonar 8.5 Producer and Sonar X1 Producer exclusive and it allows you to create realistic sounding drum tracks. Check out the main features of Session Drummer 3:

• Photo-realistic drum kit page to load kits, programs, patterns, and tweak mappings
• Dedicated Mixer page for fine tuning kits (12 channels each) with control over volume, pan, width, and tuning controls
• Mix and match kit components: all kit pieces are broken down into individual components for flexibility in creating your drum sounds
• Drag-and-drop drum components: build kits by dragging any WAV or OGG file from the desktop onto a pad
• Comprehensive collection of presets and MIDI-based loop files
• Flexible MIDI pattern playback
• 12 pads / 12 outputs

The Andy Johns Kit 1 for Session Drummer 3 expansion pack is now available for download at the Cakewalk Store for $39.95. For more details, visit cakewalk.com.