
Sunset Riot
Gated snare, maximum hairspray.
- VST3
- Standalone
- Windows 64-bit
- HAIRSPRAY knob
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Sunset Riot
Gated snare, maximum hairspray.
- VST3
- Standalone
- Windows 64-bit
- HAIRSPRAY knob
Secure checkout by Polar. Instant download. No licence key, no activation. Or get all 9 kits in The Whole Menu.
What the plugin looks like

What it does
Hair rock drums for big choruses. A punchy kick, a bright, cracking snare and roomy toms, with a separate real room-mic layer underneath. Pick the snare you want from the variant menu: Classic Room, Crack, Big Gate, Raw, or Room Cymbals for longer crash tails. Then turn HAIRSPRAY. It adds a gated room blast, sparkle on top and more snare crack. The gate comes from the real room mics plus an envelope, not a canned reverb. Load it, pick a snare, play. Glam, arena rock, sleaze. Spandex optional.
Features
- HAIRSPRAY knob: gated room blast, sparkle and snare crack.
- 5 kit variants: Classic Room (default), Crack, Big Gate, Raw, Room Cymbals.
- 5 presets (Default, Raw / dry, Tight, Roomy, Big and loud) and a Tune knob (±3 semitones on kick/snare/toms).
- Optional mixer: Kick, Snare, Toms, Cymbals, Room, Master. MIDI map menu for common drum-map quirks.
- VST3 + standalone for Windows. Groove player for your own MIDI files. Credits inside the plugin.
A version of Sunset Riot is one of the 4 kits inside the free practice plugin, Backing Track Plus.
Hear it
Audio demo coming soon.
System requirements
- OS: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit [MINIMUM WINDOWS VERSION: tested on Windows 10 22H2 (build 19045) only]
- Host: A 64-bit VST3 host, or use the included standalone app. [TESTED DAWS]
- Disk: Download about 169 MB (
LHL_Sunset_Riot_1.0.0_Setup.exe); installed size [INSTALLED SIZE] - RAM / CPU: [RAM / CPU]
- Mac / Linux: Not available [MAC WORDING, see FAQ]
- Internet: Only to download. No activation.
Built from
Real acoustic drum recordings: MuldjordKit v3.0 (DrumGizmo, CC BY 4.0); CrocellKit v1.1 (DrumGizmo, CC BY 4.0). Drum samples provided by DrumGizmo.org. The original authors don't endorse Left Hand Labs Music or this product. Full credits.
What it does
Hair rock drums for big choruses. A punchy kick, a bright, cracking snare and roomy toms, with a separate real room-mic layer underneath. Pick the snare you want from the variant menu: Classic Room, Crack, Big Gate, Raw, or Room Cymbals for longer crash tails. Then turn HAIRSPRAY. It adds a gated room blast, sparkle on top and more snare crack. The gate comes from the real room mics plus an envelope, not a canned reverb. Load it, pick a snare, play. Glam, arena rock, sleaze. Spandex optional.
Features
- HAIRSPRAY knob: gated room blast, sparkle and snare crack.
- 5 kit variants: Classic Room (default), Crack, Big Gate, Raw, Room Cymbals.
- 5 presets (Default, Raw / dry, Tight, Roomy, Big and loud) and a Tune knob (±3 semitones on kick/snare/toms).
- Optional mixer: Kick, Snare, Toms, Cymbals, Room, Master. MIDI map menu for common drum-map quirks.
- VST3 + standalone for Windows. Groove player for your own MIDI files. Credits inside the plugin.
A version of Sunset Riot is one of the 4 kits inside the free practice plugin, Backing Track Plus.
Hear it
Audio demo coming soon.
System requirements
- OS: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit [MINIMUM WINDOWS VERSION: tested on Windows 10 22H2 (build 19045) only]
- Host: A 64-bit VST3 host, or use the included standalone app. [TESTED DAWS]
- Disk: Download about 169 MB (
LHL_Sunset_Riot_1.0.0_Setup.exe); installed size [INSTALLED SIZE] - RAM / CPU: [RAM / CPU]
- Mac / Linux: Not available [MAC WORDING, see FAQ]
- Internet: Only to download. No activation.
Built from
Real acoustic drum recordings: MuldjordKit v3.0 (DrumGizmo, CC BY 4.0); CrocellKit v1.1 (DrumGizmo, CC BY 4.0). Drum samples provided by DrumGizmo.org. The original authors don't endorse Left Hand Labs Music or this product. Full credits.