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Polyphonic · Post by **Polyphonic** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:25 am

Hi,

It's my friend's birthday soon and he's receiving a Korg PadKontrol. I thought it'd be a nice idea to buy him some acoustic drum kit samples to go with it.

The problem is that my budget won't stretch to BFD or DFH. I only have around £25, €40 or $50 maximum.

I don't mind if they're wrapped up in a vst or if they're just samples (although VST would be nicer).

He has SFZ (so sfz kits or soundfonts would be nice) but, basically, whatever you can recommend!

What about DK+? Does that come with nice acoustic kits? I know I may be asking alot for cheap multisampled kits but hey, it's worth a try.

Anyway, thanks in advance guys!

/hopes his friend doesn't read KVR

soniccouture · Post by **soniccouture** » Fri May 12, 2006 11:40 am

well, its double your budget, but still cheap at twice the price. if you see what i mean...

http://www.soniccouture.com/pages/drums.htm

Polyphonic · Post by **Polyphonic** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:23 pm

Nothing like a bit of self promotion, eh?

Thanks for the reply, I'll look into and see what I can do money-wise

Killvehicle · Post by **Killvehicle** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:42 pm

I just dl'ed these and they are freaking phenomnal and free!!! There is also a set of .sfz files as well.

http://www.autodafe.net/samples.asp

Polyphonic · Post by **Polyphonic** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:49 pm

Thank you thank you thank you!

Downloading now!

birrbits · Post by **birrbits** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:06 pm

I recorded my friends kit & mapped it for DK+
http://www.studiobirr.com/samples/UCart_Frogrock_v3.rar
feel free to use the samples, let me know if you come up with a good mapping for another plug

Polyphonic · Post by **Polyphonic** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:28 pm

Thank you, will try it now

Just been playing with the GSCW kit on my padkontrol though and...WOW! Best kit I've ever heard! I know how my afternoon is going to be spent!

Killvehicle · Post by **Killvehicle** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:33 pm

Polyphonic wrote:Thank you, will try it now

Just been playing with the GSCW kit on my padkontrol though and...WOW! Best kit I've ever heard! I know how my afternoon is going to be spent!

Yeah I just got a hold of this yesterday and it is serious top-notch, its real clean which can be a bad thing at time (to me anyway), but everything I threw at it yesterday came out real authentic sounding, especially since I really think that each drum has a real convincing range of samples.. I dicked around with it all last night.

oddbods finger · Post by **oddbods finger** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:35 pm

Polyphonic wrote:Thank you, will try it now

Just been playing with the GSCW kit on my padkontrol though and...WOW! Best kit I've ever heard! I know how my afternoon is going to be spent!

none better at that price!

and few better at any price!

Polyphonic · Post by **Polyphonic** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:49 pm

You're not wrong, Mr Finger!

birrbits; just tried your kit and I like it. The cymbals especially, they're spot on

beej · Post by **beej** » Fri May 12, 2006 3:56 pm

This is a very nice kit indeed (GSCW)...

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:25 pm

Don't forget that NSKit still has a free version.

NSKit.com

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:44 pm

koolkeys wrote:Don't forget that NSKit still has a free version.

NSKit.com

And that there's a DK+ mapping for it, here: http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/

Click on Products > DK+ Virtual Drums > DK+ Users Page

DK+ also allows you to very easily load your own sample sets to create velocity-layered kits. Can't recommend it too highly.

You might also check out Odo's Dr. Fusion 2, which is free and rocks. I like to layer some of his kits in on top of another acoustic kit to give it extra tone.

For what it's worth, I really like the sounds of the DFHS Lite and the Korg UVI kits that came with my padKontrol. Lotsa good sounds in there.

You might also want to see if your friend will go halvesies with you on a copy of JamStix. It has some absolutely killer internal and add-on kits.

Take care,

GreyLion

birrbits · Post by **birrbits** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:25 pm

Polyphonic wrote: birrbits; just tried your kit and I like it. The cymbals especially, they're spot on

glad you like em, the sampling process was a definate learning experience for me.

Reverse Engineer · Post by **Reverse Engineer** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:38 pm

There's a couple of good freebies here http://www.pettinhouse.com/html/download.html

Cheap, good quality acoustic drum kits for a friend?