1.3.1 The Production Team

DrumX was brought to life by a production team with deep roots in music technology, sound design, and modern production.

A Doug Rogers, Producer

With over three decades of experience in the audio industry, founder and producer Doug Rogers is the recipient of many industry awards including “Recording Engineer of the Year.” “The Art of Digital Music” named him one of “56 Visionary Artists & Insiders” in the book of the same name.

In 1988 he founded EastWest, the most critically acclaimed virtual instrument developer in the world. Since then, EastWest has been the recipient of over 120 international industry awards. Rogers’ uncompromising approach to quality and innovative ideas has enabled EastWest to lead the industry for over 30 years. EastWest has won three NAMM TEC Awards in the past six years for Best Musical Instrument Software.

After forming EastWest, he produced the very first commercial drum samples collection, followed with a sequel co-produced with Bob Clearmountain, which was so successful a new industry was born. In 1991, Rogers released the first collection to include MIDI-driven drum loops, enabling users to adjust each loop’s tempo in their sequencer without adjusting pitch or decreasing quality.

B Eden Nagar, Producer

Eden Nagar is a rising star engineer/producer, having worked with many top artists in the Hip-Hop, R&B, Afrobeats, and Pop genres including IDK, MF Doom, Young Thug, Gunna, Musiq Soulchild, Burna Boy, Kaytranada, producer/engineer Mike Dean, and many more. With his finger on the pulse of today’s music, Nagar was tasked with taking these legendary drum machines and transforming them for the next generation of producers.

C Blake Rogers, Producer

A part of the EastWest production team since Hollywood Choirs, Blake Rogers has assisted producers Doug Rogers and Nick Phoenix as a project coordinator and contributed to the development of products such as Hollywood Choirs, Voices of the Empire, Voices of Soul, Voices of Opera, Hollywood Pop Brass, Hollywood Backup Singers, Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition, Forbidden Planet, String Machine, Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra, and Hollywood Strings 2, and co-produced ICONIC and LO-FI. For DrumX, he brought his extensive knowledge of music production history to help curate hundreds of kits and presets, shaping the instrument into a modern production powerhouse.