• Installation & Overview (03:18) - Follow along as the download and installations steps are shown, then see how to connect the installed samples with the plug-in, and learn about the various instrument collections included with Steven Slate Drums 5.

• Settings (04:31) - Learn about the global settings that effect the operation of the overall instrument.

• Working with Kits (04:43) - See how to load, layer, save, navigate, and clear full kits and individual instruments.

• Working with Third Party Samples (03:15) - Learn how to import third party samples into SSD5, and layer them with existing instrument sounds.

• Volume, Tuning, & Dynamics (05:25) - Discover how to tune each instrument, control it's over all volume as well as the volume of individual articulations, flip the phase of all mics at once, and adjust the dynamic response to incoming MIDI note velocity values.

• Microphones & Envelopes (05:37) - Explore the flexible microphone combinations and amp envelope settings available for each instrument.

• Mixer (07:27) - See how routing works in SSD5, both to internal subgroups and room mics, as well as to individual outputs in your DAW.

• Mapping (05:02) - Learn how the Kit Mapping section is used to map your drum kit to certain notes and MIDI CC messages, and how the Input Converter is used to convert incoming MIDI notes and CC messages to trigger different MIDI notes and messages within Steven Slate Drums 5.

• Grooves (04:19) - Learn how to navigate and audition the factory library of MIDI drum grooves that ships with SSD5, and how to use them to create a simple drum part in your DAW.

• Steven Slate Drums 5 in Action (12:56) - Follow along as one of the factory kits is customized with layered electronic and acoustic sounds, third party samples are imported and re-mapped, a part is programmed from scratch, multi output routing is setup, and MixRack processing is applied to each output in the host DAW.