I need to do a brief 4-bar military-style drum roll in a song (simple, not the crazy paradiddle stuff), looking for a good, don't-break-the-bank sample set that can do this with believable sound. Soniccouture looks good so far, anybody using it? Any collections, old or new, I should know about?
Thanks.
Good Drum Roll Samples?
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- KVRAF
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
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Reverend Rhythm Reverend Rhythm https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6041
- KVRAF
- 2859 posts since 21 Feb, 2003 from Woodstock, GA USA
Only two come to mind for me: Sonivox has an orchestral percussion soundfont with snare rolls ($30) and the Miro percussion refill. Both might be too expensive.
Hopefully someone will come up with a less expensive alternative.
Hopefully someone will come up with a less expensive alternative.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
No, no - $30 is fine. Soniccouture is around $100 CDN, so those are perfectly reasonable. Is the Miro for Reason?
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Reverend Rhythm Reverend Rhythm https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6041
- KVRAF
- 2859 posts since 21 Feb, 2003 from Woodstock, GA USA
miro is for reason. There is a vsti, but it's more. I have both. Let me open them up a take a listen.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
Thanks! This is for a rock song, so it doesn't need to be an orchestral-grade snare.
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Reverend Rhythm Reverend Rhythm https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6041
- KVRAF
- 2859 posts since 21 Feb, 2003 from Woodstock, GA USA
On the soniVox soundfont, there are 3 rolls (p, mf, and f) with snare hits as well. These would be orchestral snare hits, of course.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
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Reverend Rhythm Reverend Rhythm https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6041
- KVRAF
- 2859 posts since 21 Feb, 2003 from Woodstock, GA USA
The miro percussion refill seems have only one roll, but it is nice. there is also a flam or a ruff - not quite sure. miro is something like $80.00.
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
Here I'll save you some money:
Go here:
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesounde ... s/phrases/
Select percussion as your instrument group, snare drum as your instrument, roll as your articulation. It'll give you six files to choose from, with varying dynamics and the like.
MP3, but good quality recordings, so just convert to .wav and pretty it up some with clever post-processing. No one will ever know.
Free to use, no strings attached except you can't make sample libraries etc from them.
Go here:
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesounde ... s/phrases/
Select percussion as your instrument group, snare drum as your instrument, roll as your articulation. It'll give you six files to choose from, with varying dynamics and the like.
MP3, but good quality recordings, so just convert to .wav and pretty it up some with clever post-processing. No one will ever know.
Free to use, no strings attached except you can't make sample libraries etc from them.
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Reverend Rhythm Reverend Rhythm https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6041
- KVRAF
- 2859 posts since 21 Feb, 2003 from Woodstock, GA USA
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
Be sure to have a look around at the rest of the Philharmonia's sample library project while you are there. I mighty decent gesture on their part, and some really cool things available.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 19156 posts since 13 Feb, 2003 from Vancouver, Canada