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Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:05 pm

At last I have the steel drum sampleset available for you to download...

http://www.phunkynutts.com/steeldrum.php

I've included several formats which have been kindly converted by Totc Productions, whose free sample conversion service was amazing. Also a big thanks to Rozzer who created the initial sample bank and sorted out my the wavs, without him It would probably have taken me till next Xmas to get this finished!!..

Anyway, if you like this samplebank then please use it and send me the song!.. I'm looking for a few demo songs to stick on the site.

Cheers
Ben

Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:06 pm

Also.. If anyone sees any problems with a bank then please tell me...

Ben

maximilians1 · Post by **maximilians1** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:12 pm

thanks!

freeztar · Post by **freeztar** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:35 pm

website down?

Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:46 pm

It's alright here?... might have just been a glitch?

z15 · Post by **z15** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:48 pm

glooper, really good work! i like it.

here's a short demo song i made for you: http://www.zion15.net/luvs/my-steel-oh.mp3

Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:40 pm

nice one zion... sounds nice...

Is it alright if I upload that onto my site? if so who do you want to be credited as?

Ben

z15 · Post by **z15** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:45 am

yep, feel free to put it up to the site... and use "vae" as the credited artist name, it's what i use mostly

thanks.

Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:33 am

thankyou.. I'll update the site tonight.

Ben

btocher · Post by **btocher** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:14 pm

zion15 wrote:yep, feel free to put it up to the site... and use "vae" as the credited artist name, it's what i use mostly

Yikes, I think I recognise you!

"Forward and Back", "Possible to Rue" etc?

If you are,

I like your music

Rajah · Post by **Rajah** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:23 pm

Glooper wrote:Also.. If anyone sees any problems with a bank then please tell me...

Ben

Thanks for the sample set. Hopefully we can get you a better quality steel drum (Pan) to sample from, as this one seems to lack that rich sound at the higher notes. Don't mean to be rude, but I guess that I would appreciate to hear comments on my work also if I were to dedicate time into it.
Thanks again.

Notice how the High notes boils your blood

http://www.ecaroh.com/pan/roots_the2ndtimearound.htm

z15 · Post by **z15** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:39 pm

yea the high notes in the set aren't that pure sounding... but IMO that brings nice rough vibe to it. i WOULD love to have some more smooth sounding pan stuff as samples too but this one definitely has its own good character that's not to be underestimated.

btocher, yea the same guy

nice to hear you like those songs!

One · Post by **One** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:50 pm

Thank You!!!

mckenic · Post by **mckenic** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:52 pm

Hi Ben!

Cool that you got these out - thanks so much

I'll try come up with a little demo tune over the next couple of days!

Thanks again,
Dave

Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:28 pm

Cheers for the comments people.

I kinda agree with the higher note sounds... however...the high notes on a steel drum are in the center of the steel drum... and the dented area is a lot smaller. This means that more of the pan resonates when they are hit and thus that higher notes are not as pure. This is an accurate representation and has the character of the steel drum I sampled, though could be missing some of the richness due to insufficient mics

. Ideally I'd be able to record other types of steel drums too, but unfortunetly I only had access to the one..

You could use EQ to try and remove some of the harshness if you wanted a more even sound. or just use a few of your favorite notes and map them to the whole of the keyboard.

sorry zion, I'm not going to be able to update the website tonight.. having to work late..

.. hopefully tomorrow

Mckenic.. that would be cool

Cheers

Ben

Free Steeldrum Sampleset (demo songs wanted!!!)