Modernbeats?

[beatprof]

That's cool someone mentioned modernbeats. I have their entire library and feel the variety is all there for the price I paid (well you get somewhat of a discount when you order everything with that Drumz Phatta Than Momma collection). The drums are phat and I use them on everything I create. I actually saw many differences in Neptunian Drumz 3 from the first two sets in that collection and there are no duplicate samples across the library (you will see some duplicates for layering purposes but those aren't the main sounds). If you load the presets as intended, every key range across the library is different - the programming is nice and the layout is easy to use as a "kit". I can't really say I have a favorite drum collection out of their product line since all samples are highly useable as grillo says. Also, if you're looking for good clap sounds, the Neptunian Drumz wont have many because modernbeats sells them in Klub Klapz, which is one of my favorite, most-useable collections. It's easy to layer those claps with your snares and get really cool effects. I do have to say I was highly impressed by the kicks in all of the sets, primarily the Neptunian, Dre-mendous, Timbalicious, and Da Vinyl sets... i just can't find such hard hitting kicks with that low end you can just jack the volume up and it feels good. The Telephone Filtered Drumz are very nice too if you need some filtered sounding drums and don't want to spend so much time creating them - it's opinion there but I've found some good use for them in more poppish stuff. I decided I will not purchase drums from elsewhere since modernbeats makes quality stuff, very useable. Even if you got single sets for $30 per kit it's still worth it if you make money with this career - pays itself off with the first client's beat easily and then some! overall I'd say modernbeats has a mix of nuskool and oldskool and they're what the top producers are using.

[mauseoleum]

What are those Modernboats ?

[Mr. Tunes]

Personally I would go for Neptunian Drumz 1 & 2, since 3 seems to be a selection of the same or very similar sounds from the first two treated slightly differently, filtered, eq'd etc.

when you say "from the first two" are you referring to Dre and Timba drums?

really, thanks everyone who posted here it has been really helpful. you all seem to stand by the products and that says something about the sounds. i really am looking for hard hits that i dont have to do much engineering on, and this seems like the type of stuff i could use. thanks.

oh yeah and question for beatprof and the gang; what library has the most hiphop sounds for doing "rare" triphop type grooves? not pop. sounds like e-lab smoking grooves

[defjamm]

That's cool someone mentioned modernbeats. I have their entire library and feel the variety is all there for the price I paid (well you get somewhat of a discount when you order everything with that Drumz Phatta Than Momma collection). The drums are phat and I use them on everything I create. I actually saw many differences in Neptunian Drumz 3 from the first two sets in that collection and there are no duplicate samples across the library (you will see some duplicates for layering purposes but those aren't the main sounds). If you load the presets as intended, every key range across the library is different - the programming is nice and the layout is easy to use as a "kit". I can't really say I have a favorite drum collection out of their product line since all samples are highly useable as grillo says. Also, if you're looking for good clap sounds, the Neptunian Drumz wont have many because modernbeats sells them in Klub Klapz, which is one of my favorite, most-useable collections. It's easy to layer those claps with your snares and get really cool effects. I do have to say I was highly impressed by the kicks in all of the sets, primarily the Neptunian, Dre-mendous, Timbalicious, and Da Vinyl sets... i just can't find such hard hitting kicks with that low end you can just jack the volume up and it feels good. The Telephone Filtered Drumz are very nice too if you need some filtered sounding drums and don't want to spend so much time creating them - it's opinion there but I've found some good use for them in more poppish stuff. I decided I will not purchase drums from elsewhere since modernbeats makes quality stuff, very useable. Even if you got single sets for $30 per kit it's still worth it if you make money with this career - pays itself off with the first client's beat easily and then some! overall I'd say modernbeats has a mix of nuskool and oldskool and they're what the top producers are using.

same here, i love them all!!!

[bitfreak8]

I got Klub Klapz 1 (Really Good), Neptunian Drumz 1 (very good) and Vinyl Scratchez 1 (Not that good).

I dont think they are too expensive, but i must admit that the buying process is a little bit strange. You have to call them over phone to verify your creditcard the first time you buy from them. I've never had to do that before, but it worked out well!

[beatprof]

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Yeah first time customers have to go through verification process and their bank called to make sure it's not fraud because they're an online business. Also beware that the products you get have your order information encoded in the .wav's and presets so if the product turned up somewhere and they got it, well ya know... lawsuits! I heard that they change something in both the physical wave and the binary data so resampling doesn't get rid of it! very cool!! And I wouldn't mess with modernbeats - they may have started out small but they're not small anymore. i'm hearing those samples on the charts ALOT

You didn't like the Scratchez?! are you loading them as presets or .wav's individually? Because they're cool layouts to use when makin flipped beats or just putting some scratch pickups her and there. Trying to use them as .wav's may be really tough and challenging so make sure to load the presets and practice the rhythms, then record the MIDI. If you bought the scratches you were probably needing real scratches, which they are, but it's a matter of taste. I am hearing alot more songs use scratches now than last year so retro methods are coming back (like synths started to last year) - maybe it's more in the upbeat hiphop or east coast style. Either way, try pitching the scratches lower and you might like that sound

mr tunes: i think he was referring to Neptunian 1 and 2 when he said "first two" but after listening to them with headphones, I can't identify any duplicates from the 3rd set, 2nd, or 1st.. each sample range has something different whether it's attack or timbre. Really cool stuff in the Neptunians - I use them more than anything really now that i think about it. Also if you want something out of the ordinary, their Intergalactic drums are really wild.. not like abstract hiphop, but more of some crazy space age sound. Very cool hats there that i like to use real quiet in the mix at certain times. modernbeats definitely has a unique sound that sits in front of the mix so you can put a wall of other instruments and the drums still pierce through. that's the biggest thing i noticed about these and it sets the difference between the other sound companies. It's almost like they mastered each individual sound but it's still very dynamic. hey anyone hear the music they did for Def Jam Vendetta: Fight 4 NY? It was all done with the sounds they offer (or are about to offer as future products). the beats are awesome!! they have another site: www.buyabeat.com (http://www.buyabeat.com) with more tracks using their sounds too. That's what got me interested, yeah, i'm a big fan hehe.

oh btw, modernbeats has plans to release a mastering tutorial cause the demos they show are slightly affected cause of mastering but I did ask if any extra processing was done to their drums... there is some layering of single samples here and there but for the most part the samples are unaffected. good stuff! waiting for the mastering tutorial and plugins now

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Wow. You seem clued up. And enthusiastic.

[Armadillo]

Wow. You seem clued up. And enthusiastic.

You also thought he works for Modernbeats

[Mr. Tunes]

what's Da Vinyl factory like?

[beatprof]

i wish i worked with them! I got nothin but time here... only takin 12 hours of college credits and livin by myself in apt. da vinyl has warm sounding drums with some crackle on them.

[Mr. Tunes]

so this thread is your first time posting on kvr?
welcome aboard! you definitely would be a good salesman for them.

edit: i'm adding that i downloaded the free sounds and that's a really good freebie back. i loaded them into ReDrum and pop they stuck out over all the other tracks, yet you can still control them of course.

i looked at intergalactic drums, not exactly what i went shopping for. man this shit is killing me i want the big moma funk pack or whatever they call it.

[beatprof]

so this thread is your first time posting on kvr?
welcome aboard! you definitely would be a good salesman for them.

edit: i'm adding that i downloaded the free sounds and that's a really good freebie back. i loaded them into ReDrum and pop they stuck out over all the other tracks, yet you can still control them of course.

i looked at intergalactic drums, not exactly what i went shopping for. man this shit is killing me i want the big moma funk pack or whatever they call it.

yeah when i saw modernbeats i had to say something - these drums are off the walls!

I use ReDrum too but you could try loading their .sxt preset files if you want something extra. They are intended for NNXT and map the sounds out as a kit and when i did that i noticed something else.. they did some really cool layering with snares and kicks - they have those extra sounds that are named "snap" "wack" "clap", etc, so they have up to 4 or 5 layered and panned sounds on the main sounds so they sound so much cooler that way then just loading the individual .wav's in ReDrum. Of course some ppl like to make their own layered sounds but NNXT is surely a cool way to do that and why not? they already did some layering. You can load the .SXT or the .SF2 files into NNXT and it's just so much faster than ReDrum that way. The free kit has those presets too.

[freestylant]

hey good to see that you guys are for the modernbeats samples; I have also Neptunian Drumz 1-3, hey do you gys have any dre-drumz packs or timabalicious packs, if you do could you help me out. We all tryingto get somewhere you know what I mean.Thanx!

[splattabreakz]

just so you know the neptunian, intergalactic and timba ones sound fairly processed already, dunno about the other packs. but as has been said they just have that magic nuskool sound that cuts through your mix.

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