scott volthause wrote on Thu, 23 February 2006 13:06 |
oh yeah, if anyone has a recommendation for kit samples, I'd love to start building a library of sounds.
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Alright, so I better come clean since eventually I'll get busted anyway... I use a lot of sampled stuff for drums, bass, keys, etc.... whatever works, right? Wait, that's another forum.
Anyway... here's one kit I found recently that I really like. It was prepared by a guy for commercial release but the author couldn't find a way to make it happen. So he released it for free.
http://www.geocities.com/duro7878/gs_drums_start.htmlMost of the free kits out there are single velocity layers, and tiny... this one is multi layer, and 350MB. So it can sound pretty good in a mix, and would probably work well for sample replacement.
Here's a demo someone did playing the kit live with roland v-drums.
http://home.comcast.net/~gscw/gs-drums-on-v-drums.mp3One thing that's a little weird is the kick. Because this kit was sampled "as a whole" and pre-mixed combining close mics & overheads, you can actually hear the toms decaying after each kick hit. I guess that's more realistic, but it seems a bit boingy to me. So in my local copy, I've taken the kick samples and gated em... it's a little better, but still not great. At some point, I'll probably swap in another set of kick drums samples.
If you're working on a PC and can use VST plugins, you can use the free SFZ sampler. SFZ mappings for this and some other free kits are here:
http://www.drealm.org.uk/sfz/Other good free kits are NSKIT (very dry, unprocessed samples, might be your best bet for sample replacement)
http://www.naturalstudio.co.ukAnd Kingston drums (very lively kits... limited sampling though, like only one snare hit, not left & right hands).
http://kingstondrums.bombsquad.org/