https://tkd-sound.booth.pm/
Looks like one drum kit, sampled with various amounts of detail, with the full-blown "extreme" version being 9 GB. Anybody wanna try at least the free version and report how good it is?
TK Drums - interesting looking samples, including a few hundred MB free
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- KVRAF
- 2211 posts since 20 Sep, 2013 from Poland
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2211 posts since 20 Sep, 2013 from Poland
Downloaded the free stuff... a lot of it like the "extreme samples" is a long rendered performance with each file being the same thing from a different mic perspective, which is interesting, but not really what I was expecting from drum samples, ha.
But the TDK G1-Basic is a solid free kit, not huge or super-detailed, a few hundred samples and over 100 MB as FLAC files so decent. No round robins but quite a few velocity layers, so it's probably better for getting an idea of what the paid versions sound like than it is for practical use. SFZ mapping doesn't seem to follow General MIDI so not the easiest drums to just drop into a track, but they sound nice. It's an USA Gretsch kit, and sounds pretty fat with the kick and toms tuned on the low side and everything pretty solidly muted, definitely more rock or funk than jazz.
So, the paid ones are probably really nice. The lack of round robins is gonna hold down the usefulness of the free one, though there are cases when it does't matter.
But the TDK G1-Basic is a solid free kit, not huge or super-detailed, a few hundred samples and over 100 MB as FLAC files so decent. No round robins but quite a few velocity layers, so it's probably better for getting an idea of what the paid versions sound like than it is for practical use. SFZ mapping doesn't seem to follow General MIDI so not the easiest drums to just drop into a track, but they sound nice. It's an USA Gretsch kit, and sounds pretty fat with the kick and toms tuned on the low side and everything pretty solidly muted, definitely more rock or funk than jazz.
So, the paid ones are probably really nice. The lack of round robins is gonna hold down the usefulness of the free one, though there are cases when it does't matter.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2211 posts since 20 Sep, 2013 from Poland
Kontakt versions of the Extreme TKD G1 and Raw Cowbell now available starting a few weeks ago, possibly also others to follow. More user-friendly than the no-GUI SFZ versions - I'm the local SFZ guy, but really, Sforzando is awkward for multi-out drums, and these were huge no-GUI patches, so Kontakt is a step up.