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ferez21 · Post by **ferez21** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:18 am

Hi,

I'm usually producing electronic music, but yesterday I wanted to add some rock drums to an acoustic piece, and it hit me that I barely found any drums to use in my sample collection.
I don't wanna spend a lot on that (free kits are also welcomed), but I think I need to own a couple of good solid rock\acoustic kits. I don't need it to be too fancy with thousands of velocity layers, but it have to have a nice selection of snares.
I own EZ Drummer lite which I was too lazy to install till now, does it have some nice kits in it?

Thanks

Turello · Post by **Turello** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:39 am

http://www.powerdrumkit.com/video.htm

http://www.maxsynths.com/vsti_free_drumkit1.html

http://www.bluenoiseplugins.com/plugins ... a-edition/

All Free!

DSmolken · Post by **DSmolken** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:01 am

Turello wrote:http://www.powerdrumkit.com/video.htm

Yup, that's a great one for people like me who aren't into rock, but somebody asks us for a rock drums sound sometimes. It seems to have a lot of pre-baked EQ and compression which makes the job much much easier. It won't give you a 1970s rock drums sound, but seems more post-2000 to me. It's only got one snare, though, I think.

In any case, the girls I know who are into rock really like the way it sounds, and pretty much asked me to replace all other drum kits with it when it was rereleased as a freebie.

Turello · Post by **Turello** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:17 am

@DSmolken: Excuse Me Sir, I think I not understand what You've writed... What mean the girls..? o.O

DSmolken · Post by **DSmolken** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:38 am

Hahaha, the girl who recorded the samples for the Growlybass library is in a rock band with two other girls. I've done some drum tracks for them.

So, yes, there really are college girls in Europe who are into rock and not EDM. The three I know really like the MT Power Drums better than the other free kits I have.

For a lighter, more retro sound I also like the Jazz Funk kit by Orange Tree. It's pretty much the opposite of the MT Power Drums which are very slick and "produced" - it even has kick samples with snare drum rattle included. But it also sounds very nice without needing a lot of post-processing.

ferez21 · Post by **ferez21** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:18 am

Do you guys usually prefer working with a framework that gathers whole kits and is programmed as a single instrument, or would you prefer working with single one shot samples.
I'm using FL Studio, and currently using one-shots and separate samples on different sample channels, although I use FPC at times if I want velocity layering.

DSmolken · Post by **DSmolken** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:46 am

For anything electronic I do separate one-shots in their own channels, but for rock drums I will use everything in one instrument, or occasionally two. With a lot of plugins you can have one instrument but send outputs to separate channels, if you want to have a huge 80s reverb on the snare or a specific compressor on the kick or whatever.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:27 pm

Premier Resonator acoustic kit as Live Drum Rack. Samples (24bit wav) included for non-Live users ...

$5 US

http://www.thecontrolcentre.com/resonator.htm

lobanov · Post by **lobanov** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:31 pm

http://analoguedrums.com/details-bm.php - It's free, there are others good drumkits, paid, but cheap.
http://de-de.sennheiser.com/drummica
http://www.drumdrops.com/drum-samples/y ... kit/bronze - Single Velocity Pack is 0.00
http://www.wavesfactory.com/oldtapedrums.php - Free, but you need full Kontakt. The other drums libraries are good.
http://pipelineaudio.net/products/kms-drums/
http://rytmenpinne.wordpress.com/salamander-drumkit/

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:00 pm

lobanov wrote:http://analoguedrums.com/details-bm.php - It's free, there are others good drumkits, paid, but cheap.

Beat me to it!

lobanov wrote:http://de-de.sennheiser.com/drummica

And I didn't know this was still available. For a crisp, tight sound, it's excellent.
Don't remember the others (I've far too many already, especially after Black Friday

).

ferez21 · Post by **ferez21** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:19 pm

Eventually i used some kit that iv'e found in my samples folder....very small kit, something like 15 one shot files, but i think it served me pretty well on this one:
https://soundcloud.com/ferezx/ed-sheera ... -drum-edit

I will sure download some more kits since iv'e really enjoyed working on this piece and i want to get to work more with realistic drum programming.

Turello · Post by **Turello** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:40 pm

Not bad, for example, I usually load the MT on FL Studio 9 and allow the multi out so after I can sculpt any single drum with various EQs, Comps, Reverbs etc etc, or routing them into a bus...

@DSmolken: LOL!!!

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