This collection is LAME. I picked it up for $60 during a sale (took TWO MONTHS to arrive btw from Soundsonline) and I feel it was a complete waste of money. There are maybe 2 sampled acoustic kits that are very generic, and all of the other electronic percussion is nothing new. In fact many of the samples of the drum machines are quite a bit worse than those in RMX etc. 75% of the samples are just the same sounds with various effects on top.. yawn. I can do that myself anyday. The processing isn't even creative. Most of the sounds are unusable, even for experimental music. Not to mention everything is in 24bit, and the 3 CDs included are just repeats of the same material (different formats). This is stuff I'd expect for free.
Skip this garbage. Get Doru Malaia's Superdrums 8000 if you want a REAL sample collection.
SampleLab Drum Fundamentals - thumbs down
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- KVRAF
- 4707 posts since 16 Mar, 2004 from Columbia, MD
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- Tunesmith
- 2889 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Toronto
eeek sorry to hear you made a bad purchase but maybe that's why it was on discount price? Do you have a link where I can see this thing?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4707 posts since 16 Mar, 2004 from Columbia, MD
For whatever reason, it's not even listed at Soundsonline anymore. It's actually a new product and it was discounted as part of the 35% off Christmas sale - I collect drum samples because I write a LOT of drum-centric music, and this seemed like a good pack at the time (over 2200 samples.. can't be too bad right?)
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- Tunesmith
- 2889 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Toronto
hmmm that's suspicious it's not for sale any more? maybe someone else is distributing it?
you're right about drum samples though, it's funny how people used to tell me that you only need about 40 of the classic samples and by using compression, eq and stuff you can make any drum tone but i've learned that you have to keep collecting the shiz until you die! every drum sound i have offers something different from each other. what kind of stuff is in Doru's 8000?
you're right about drum samples though, it's funny how people used to tell me that you only need about 40 of the classic samples and by using compression, eq and stuff you can make any drum tone but i've learned that you have to keep collecting the shiz until you die! every drum sound i have offers something different from each other. what kind of stuff is in Doru's 8000?
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- KVRian
- 1001 posts since 6 Sep, 2005 from london
well, if 2100 of them are shit, then :yes!zircon wrote:(over 2200 samples.. can't be too bad right?)
quality not quantity, people! creating original, fresh drum sounds is really hard work and takes a considerable amount of time.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4707 posts since 16 Mar, 2004 from Columbia, MD
No, I really don't think it is hard work - all you need is a decent microphone and stuff to record. There is no creativity involved as far as I'm concerned. I want recordings as raw as possible that I can layer/mangle/saturate (etc). Originality and freshness is not an issue, provided the sounds are well-recorded (this is in regards to ACOUSTIC kits anyway). I don't want processing, I don't care about different articulations even. I just want a massive amount of acoustic hits - that's it! There's no product on the market that has that, sadly. If there is, I don't I have it yet.
eLab Smoker's Delight is the closest thing I've found to what I want - while the portion of the disc devoted to oneshots is very very small (it's mostly loops), the oneshots there are almost entirely awesome and very usable.
eLab Smoker's Delight is the closest thing I've found to what I want - while the portion of the disc devoted to oneshots is very very small (it's mostly loops), the oneshots there are almost entirely awesome and very usable.
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- KVRian
- 1001 posts since 6 Sep, 2005 from london
oh, sorry, didn't realise you meant acoustic hits.
food for thought...
food for thought...
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- Banned
- 1842 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from just right here
Try sampling a kit yourself?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4707 posts since 16 Mar, 2004 from Columbia, MD
I'm not a drummer, nor do I make music w/ live parts - I have no mics, no preamps, no recording hardware, no pro sample editing software, etc.. I also don't have any drumkits to sample. I'm familiar with recording theory (it's what I'm studying at school) but really none of those resources are at my disposal currently.