Realistic Drum Samples

[dach]

EZ is cool IF you need their pre-defined patterns - mostly rock... drums are a little over processed for my taste... really good for modern pop... Jamstix is incredible IF you understand drumming, can navigate the interface, and don't need anything that really "pushes" the beat. Their expansion packs are good but not near as good as TT's stuff - their honorable mention is Brush Pack... which works well, although I've ditched in favor of TT's and re-done the drums several times... DFHS is excellent. drummers love it... C&V - "I" love it!

I like when people are happy and when people want to pay me. Personally I like C&V the best as far as sound... that usually means me programming/playing on keys or e-kit.... whatever gets the job done....

MUCH easier than constantly dealing with drummers and drum kits....

[brandondrury]

MUCH easier than constantly dealing with drummers and drum kits....

DEFINITELY! I've ran into a few cases where I had trouble programming what I wanted musically, but that's just because of my lack of experience / skill in programming.

I've ran into many more situations where the drummer couldn't do what I wanted musically.

Also, don't forget that you don't have to deal with the room you are tracking in either!

I've ditched in favor of TT's

I tried a few google searches for "TT drum" or "TT midi". Could you point us in the right direction, Dach?

Brandon

[richiebee]

Originally Posted by brandondrury

I tried a few google searches for "TT drum" or "TT midi". Could you point us in the right direction, Dach?

ToonTrack perhaps?

[dach]

ToonTrack.

I'd also mention that Jamstix is definitely worth purchasing. The brain is really incredible. I don't use it much but I would if I did more "standard" type music.

[brandondrury]

The brain is really incredible. I don't use it much

You should try using your brain. You may like it, for a chance.

In all seriousness, I'll have to look into this Jamstix thing a little more. If it can get me where I want to go a little quicker, it will be money well spent!

TT

I don't quite have the midi lingo down yet. I didn't even consider Toontrack. Now I get it.

Brandon

[Charlie_M]

I'm pretty new to all of this but so far I've been happy with my reason drum sounds. The ones that come with reason itself were only "OK" I felt, but drum refill pack has some great sounds. You can go crazy building up your own kit or just use predefined kits. You can also go pretty deep into using diferent mics, or just use the "mix" option in which someone else has already decided what combination of mics sounds good for that particular drum or kit and done that part of the work already. I just go the simple route using "mix" and predefined kits and I've been pretty happy with those sounds. Also I have discovered that I have no ability when it comes to entering drums real time via keyboard so I jsut use the built in drum sequencer in "redrum" (the drum device in reason).

[Charlie_M]

I saw BFD demo'd at a seminar one time and was pretty blown away by the sound and adjustability of the drums. Sound, features, ease of use seemed really great.

I'm pretty happy with the drum sounds and sequencer in Reason 3 ever since I added their drum refill pack about 2 months ago.

[robgb]

I have BFD but hardly ever use it. I find myself using Jamstix as well. It can trigger BFD, but if you get the additional drum kits for Jamstix, the sound is great and you get a lot of control with this thing. Or, if you want, you can program it to jam along with you.

And to be honest, I have a hard time telling Jamstix from the real thing. And the price is low. Something I like...

[Harry D]

Great news on the drum sample front: The Larry Seyer team is re-releasing their library in a GVI-powered stand-alone/VSTi plugin. Larry himself was at Summer NAMM showing it off. From what I understand, they're selling 10 kits in a volume for $79 with multiple, additive volumes. He also said something about the convolution reverb being embedded into the samples making it really CPU-friendly.

See/listen for yourself at their website LarrySeyerDigital.com

[krissy longfella]

i was really impressed with the drums sound quality on dfh. but unless i just have a basic package which is possible, there wasnt much in the way of editing facilities so i spent a numborious day copy every drum from the library on a midi channel then converted it to an audio mixdown, re imported it as the coorect wav file (the dfh wav is not compatable as far as i know with battery) i then sliced up each drum sound and exported it to a sample folder, after opening battery i set myself up a selction of drum but had the extra editing facilities that battery has to offer. one hell of a boring day but battery has never been the same since.