Metal Legacy 2 is the heaviest expansion pack DW Soundworks has released, delivering high-fidelity drum samples and 18 custom presets designed specifically for metal, thrash and djent production.
Getting drums to sit right in a dense metal mix is notoriously tricky. Too much and the kit drowns everything out, too little and it disappears entirely. DW Soundworks’ Metal Legacy 2 is built around solving that, with the new expansion pack designed to cut through heavy, layered mixes without losing the low-end weight that makes the genre work.
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Metal Legacy 2 is the heaviest collection the DW Soundworks platform has put together to date. Eighteen custom presets lean hard into attack and punch, with bass drums that actually kick rather than just fill space in the low end. The samples are high-fidelity throughout, and the overall character sits somewhere between brutal and precise, exactly what thrash and djent production demands.
The DW Soundworks ecosystem is built for producers, drummers, multi-instrumentalists and engineers who want flexibility without spending half a session dialling in sounds. Metal Legacy 2 fits that brief, with a focus on getting the right sound quickly, with presets that are ready to drop into a track and do the work. Anyone who’s spent too long trying to make a stock drum library sound aggressive enough for heavy music will know that speed is important.
“With Metal Legacy 2, we aren’t just adding more sounds, we’re adding more impact,” said Mike Sutton, DWe Brand Manager. “This pack is for the people who need their drums to hit like a heavyweight.”
DW has been building drums since 1972 and joined the Roland family of brands in 2022, combining acoustic and electronic expertise under one roof. DW Soundworks is the natural extension of that, bringing the character of DW’s hardware into a virtual instrument platform. Metal Legacy 2 is available now as an expansion pack for DW Soundworks.
More information at dwdrums.com.
