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Rockfock · Post by **Rockfock** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:40 pm

I've been looking around the internet for some free drums but all i seem to find is some electronic sounding techno loops

Do any of you guys know where i can find some drums that is NOT looped and doesnt have that rave/techno kinda sound?!?

Kicks, Snares and Hihats not those keyboard drums

luCiPHer · Post by **luCiPHer** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:42 pm

check out www.modernbeats.com
get their free set, just a few, but great sounds.
and their pay-kits are fantastic

Rockfock · Post by **Rockfock** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:36 pm

Pretty damn corny site but yeah those drums are aight...

Anymore links?

Katanaman · Post by **Katanaman** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:45 pm

Try www.breakbeatsonly.com

Last time I checked, they had loads of good acoustic drum loops. Hip hop is mostly electronic drums, though... If you want ACTUAL drums for a real hip hop feel you should try sampling drum loops from songs.

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:01 pm

Rockfock wrote:I've been looking around the internet for some free drums but all i seem to find is some electronic sounding techno loops

Do any of you guys know where i can find some drums that is NOT looped and doesnt have that rave/techno kinda sound?!?

Kicks, Snares and Hihats not those keyboard drums

if you need HipHop Drums start diging in thrif stories for records sample all the hits you find snares and kicks are the jems it takes time but worth every minute as far as cymbals goes download them from the best cymbal maker on the planet if you dont want to take the time to sample records to harvest drums then you will only make rap music not hiphop take your self to the thrif store anyone that tells you different is not telling the truth or making pophop maby you lission to poprap 70% percent of non black U.S. does

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:02 pm

Did you check this thread´:
http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37272 ?

You should find some there.
Also, a good idea would perhaps be to download a few kits in SF2 format and extract the waves.

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:09 pm

[quote="Katanaman"]Try www.breakbeatsonly.com

Hip hop is mostly electronic drums, though... not true drum machines are used true but mostly the ones that can sample or load wave sounds the only electronic drums that are used are 808 kicks and 909 kicks with all the hi filtered out fore that bottom end that all the guys in trucks like

Rockfock · Post by **Rockfock** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:11 pm

wsaidah wrote:
Rockfock wrote:I've been looking around the internet for some free drums but all i seem to find is some electronic sounding techno loops

Do any of you guys know where i can find some drums that is NOT looped and doesnt have that rave/techno kinda sound?!?

Kicks, Snares and Hihats not those keyboard drums
if you need HipHop Drums start diging in thrif stories for records sample all the hits you find snares and kicks are the jems it takes time but worth every minute as far as cymbals goes download them from the best cymbal maker on the planet if you dont want to take the time to sample records to harvest drums then you will only make rap music not hiphop take your self to the thrif store anyone that tells you different is not telling the truth or making pophop maby you lission to poprap 70% percent of non black U.S. does

Yeah yeah i know crate digging would be the "hiphop" thing to do but im just lazy as hell...

Guess i gotta kick my lazy ass in the right direction towards the library and borrow a bunch of CD's to sample from...

BTW, What kind of music do you sample your drums from? Sampling sampled hiphop seems pretty ridiculous so what do you pick? Soul? Jazz? or what?

And no i dont really like that Crunk/hit-pop kinda rap and im not from the US

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:14 pm

i forgot the cymbal maker name Zildjian

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:29 pm

Rockfock wrote:
wsaidah wrote:
Rockfock wrote:I've been looking around the internet for some free drums but all i seem to find is some electronic sounding techno loops

Do any of you guys know where i can find some drums that is NOT looped and doesnt have that rave/techno kinda sound?!?

Kicks, Snares and Hihats not those keyboard drums
if you need HipHop Drums start diging in thrif stories for records sample all the hits you find snares and kicks are the jems it takes time but worth every minute as far as cymbals goes download them from the best cymbal maker on the planet if you dont want to take the time to sample records to harvest drums then you will only make rap music not hiphop take your self to the thrif store anyone that tells you different is not telling the truth or making pophop maby you lission to poprap 70% percent of non black U.S. does

Yeah yeah i know crate digging would be the "hiphop" thing to do but im just lazy as hell...

Guess i gotta kick my lazy ass in the right direction towards the library and borrow a bunch of CD's to sample from...

BTW, What kind of music do you sample your drums from? Sampling sampled hiphop seems pretty ridiculous so what do you pick? Soul? Jazz? or what?

And no i dont really like that Crunk/hit-pop kinda rap and im not from the US

cds are ok just ok hiphop drums are a lofi thing i sample everything from blues to r&b 1980 is my cut off date if you got some zeppelin cds then look there hiphop producers has been looping breaks from the time the first samplers hit the market

jones-y · Post by **jones-y** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:42 pm

if you dont want to take the time to sample records to harvest drums then you will only make rap music not hiphop

JM2C, but it seems like everybody in Hip Hop wants to sound like everybody else. Just my opinion, but I think you'd be better off using your ears. Define your own sounds.

It just burns me up when people say "hip hop drums are supposed to sound like this or that." No offense, but that's partly why its dying as an artform. Sample yourself hitting the wall, or pots and pans, and then mangle the samples until you like them. Do you. Not Kanye West or whoever.

Having said that, I get my drums from all over, but I do find that a large portion of them come from free soundfonts. There are about a million of them around. I also have ModernBeats, and Xtreme Hip Hop, which are both excellent.

And contrary to what some say, hip hop drums are primarily composed of acoustic drums, heavily processed. Try taking some good acoustic samples; shorten their decay, and compress them to smithereens.

No offense is intended, and I hope none is taken, its just my two cents...

wsaidah · Post by **wsaidah** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:06 pm

mjones4th wrote:
if you dont want to take the time to sample records to harvest drums then you will only make rap music not hiphop
JM2C, but it seems like everybody in Hip Hop wants to sound like everybody else. Just my opinion, but I think you'd be better off using your ears. Define your own sounds.

It just burns me up when people say "hip hop drums are supposed to sound like this or that." No offense, but that's partly why its dying as an artform. Sample yourself hitting the wall, or pots and pans, and then mangle the samples until you like them. Do you. Not Kanye West or whoever.

Having said that, I get my drums from all over, but I do find that a large portion of them come from free soundfonts. There are about a million of them around. I also have ModernBeats, and Xtreme Hip Hop, which are both excellent.

And contrary to what some say, hip hop drums are primarily composed of acoustic drums, heavily processed. Try taking some good acoustic samples; shorten their decay, and compress them to smithereens.

No offense is intended, and I hope none is taken, its just my two cents...

what credits do you have i have catastrophie and afura to name two under my belt one point taken drums can come from any ware! the reason hiphop lost its main stream appeal is because of the likes of jay z and puffy sucking the life out of it but it does live in the clubs two to three times a weak every weak in la to ny have you been to france there hiphop fans for real type 1992

Rick1114 · Post by **Rick1114** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:15 pm

I've been looking for some decent hip-hop kits ever since I sold my Yamaha Motif. (I don't do hip-hop but I like the drums very much) That piece of kit had some nice hop-hop drums. I find most drum samplers lack something you get in some of the hardware romplers. If you go to a big music store you always hear Hip-Hop kids messin with the Motif or Triton spittin out real deep hard hittin beats. But when I tried some software drum-synths (they will remain nameless), they just either sounded brittle (woofer doesn't even move) or not responsive enough to play & record them MPC style (you know what I mean). The kicks always seem to be the main offenders. I tried modernbeats (and they have some good sounds for sure) but the kicks were a real let down. The best I found so-far were some E-lab samples that were very usable, but I'm suprised at the real lack of decent Hip-hop kits either in sound or 'playability' in the soft-world.

jones-y · Post by **jones-y** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:16 pm

what credits do you have

So to discredit my opinion, you question my credits. How constructive.

Hip hop has gained mainstream appeal, at least in the US. What it has lost is its heritage.

jones-y · Post by **jones-y** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:19 pm

mjones4th wrote:
what credits do you have
So to discredit my opinion, you question my credits. How constructive.

Hip hop has gained mainstream appeal, at least in the US. What it has lost is its heritage.

After re-reading your post, I must say, maybe it wasn't intended to discredit me

Anyhow, I don't have any credits to name. I've been close, but a couple of deals fell through, you know how it is.

HipHop Drums?!?