I need a GM compatible drum kit in akai format

[KBKB]

Hi

Can anyone help?

I’m reading a book about programming drums, but need a GM drum kit so I can try programming some of the examples. Even if the quality of the samples are notso hotso. (I can’t seem to get my ones on my soundcard to work so I’ve scraped that idea.) And all the other drum kits I have are kind of randomly placed on the keyboard.

Is there a place where I can download a full GM drum set patch ? It would really help me understand the examples.

[C00kie]

Strange that the soundcard's GM kit does not work...

You can construct your own kit using your own samples, or samples you found elsewhere. I recall there are some nice GM soundfonts to be found at www.hammersound.net in the "collections" section. If you use SFZ as soundfont player inside TobyBears MiniHost, you should have a working setup. With Awave or the Chicken translator you can convert SF2 files to Akai format.

Here is a list of which notes are which instrument in the GM drumkit, maybe that helps:

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35	Acoustic Bass Drum
36 [C3]	Bass Drum 1       
37	Side Stick        
38	Acoustic Snare    
39	Hand Clap         
40	Electric Snare    
41	Low Floor Tom     
42	Closed Hi Hat     
43	High Floor Tom    
44	Pedal Hi-Hat      
45	Low Tom           
46	Open Hi-Hat       
47	Low-Mid Tom       
48 [C4]	Hi Mid Tom        
49	Crash Cymbal 1    
50	High Tom          
51	Ride Cymbal 1     
52	Chinese Cymbal    
53	Ride Bell         
54	Tambourine        
55	Splash Cymbal     
56	Cowbell           
57	Crash Cymbal 2    
58	Vibraslap       
59	Ride Cymbal 2
60 [C5]	Hi Bongo
61	Low Bongo
62	Mute Hi Conga
63	Open Hi Conga
64	Low Conga
65	High Timbale
66	Low Timbale
67	High Agogo
68	Low Agogo
69	Cabasa
70	Maracas
71	Short Whistle
72 [C6]	Long Whistle
73	Short Guiro
74	Long Guiro
75	Claves
76	Hi Wood Block
77	Low Wood Block
78	Mute Cuica
79	Open Cuica
80	Mute Triangle
81	Open Triangle