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Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:54 pm

Hello KVR,

After a few months of delays and general confusion, my completely free sampled drumkits and the site for them are done.

Welcome to
http://kingstondrums.bombsquad.org/

If your questions are not answered at the site, go to http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45724 It's a kind of FAQ for now.

A massive thank you to JMH, the webmaster and site designer.

Thanks to Spe3D and Angus_FX for help and providing the mirrors, too.

Cheers,

Mike

Jaeson Merrill · Post by **Jaeson Merrill** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 3:58 pm

nice work!

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:03 pm

Congrats on the official release, Mike.

And thanks again for the great kits.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:03 pm

Cool... and thanks to you, sir. :-) These will come in handy for me rather soon, I think.

Meffy

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:22 pm

Already used Ruffrider on a track, and it did a superb job.

Ironically, I didn't use the ride.

Greg

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:31 am

I just uploaded a slightly expanded RuffRider sfz format map: I uppitched the floor tom to cover low and mid (single vel layer). Works "well enough" for when you've got to have the extra toms. There should be _some_ velocity to pitch effect - I'll probably do that later.

http://www.drealm.org.uk/sfz/

(Oh, and I've put up a new track on SoundClick using RuffRider and it gratuitously uses the ride...)

Mikael Adle · Post by **Mikael Adle** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:42 am

wow ... thats an awesome snare on the ruffrider kit

the ride is very alive aswell

thanks so very much.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:45 pm

um this is weird, but many of these sound way off pitch in sfz... am i doing something wrong?

RonC

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:02 pm

Does sfz support 48kHz when your main project is at 44.1? That might be the reason.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:11 pm

im using an echo mia. i think it can only stay at one sample rate at a time... crap so that means i cant even use this?

RonC

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:18 pm

rpc9943 wrote:im using an echo mia. i think it can only stay at one sample rate at a time... crap so that means i cant even use this?

RonC

Batch convert the samples to 44.1 using Voxengo R8Brain.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:35 pm

Hm, I'm not even sure if the SF2 versions of the Kingston kits are using 48kHz.
And btw, it's not a matter of the soundcard being used but a matter of the project you're running.
Most sequencers (all?) only support one sample rate per project, so it's up to your sampler to convert other sample rates "on the fly".
The EXS is doing so fine. The only thing irritating is when you preview sounds at another samplerate than your project is in - those will be played back "wrong". But once they're loaded everything is fine.

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:49 pm

Sascha Franck wrote:so it's up to your sampler to convert other sample rates "on the fly".
The EXS is doing so fine.

Correctamundo S.F. but the repitching EXS24 and most other soft-samplers (besides SFZ) do sucks bigtime compared to R8Brain on Max quality - really obvious on cymbals IMO.

If you usually work at 44.1 save a copy of the 48kHz files if you like but convert the originals which your sampler will use to 44.1 kHz.

Regards,
Eg

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 7:17 pm

Hm, I may try to resample things then, egbert. Will see if it makes much of a difference.
So far the kits sound fine over here - at least to my ears.
Actually, I don't think anything is actually "resampled" - it's just that samplers are able to play back any sample rate while hosts aren't.
But I'm gonna give it a try anyways.

BJ · Post by BJ » Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:32 pm

thanks for these 2 free kits

they sound great

Kingston Drums released (official)