Re: [LAU] Nice drums?

From: James Stone <jamesmstone@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Jul 10 2010 - 14:25:38 EEST

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On 10 July 2010 18:07, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> James Stone wrote:
>>> Listening to the drumkits in hydrogen - they seem nice, but not _that_
>>> nice. I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for giga drums
>>> to work with linuxsampler. Ross Garfield 2 seem quite a reasonable
>>> price: http://www.bigfishaudio.com/4DCGI/detail.html?589 However, I'm
>>> not so sure how I would make use of the multi-layers or get them to
>>> sound more humanised - maybe playing with a midi keyboard?
>>>
>>> Alternatively (better) - any good soundfonts or hydrogen kits for
>>> realistic drum sounds?
>>>
>>> James
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>>
>> Hello James,
>>
>> http://www.autodafe.net/gscw-drum-kit-for-hydrogen-drum-machine.html
>> Especially GSCW2 is nice.
>>
>> http://linux.autostatic.com/hydrogen/BigMono.h2drumkit
>> That's the Big Mono kit from Analogue Drums:
>> http://www.analoguedrums.com/details-bm.php
>> I got the personal approval from the owner of Analogue Drums to host a
>> h2drumkit package of this kit.
>>
>> And then there's the infamous ns7kitfree package. Unfortunately it's not
>> free anymore: http://www.naturaldrum.com/
>> However, there are Hydrogen xml files available and I have a h2drumkit
>> package of it. Can't host it publicly though.
>>
>> AFAIK these are the best free/used-to-be-free acoustic drum kits
>> available for Hydrogen.
>
> Gearslutz and Ultimate Metal [1] forums have drum sample stickies. No
> licensing information for most of them.
>
> [1] http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/311618-drum-samples-meta.html
>
> In any way, the reason why you can't seem to be able to find "nice"
> drum sounds is because not many of the freely available samples are
> heavily and carefully layered. For a dynamic and "full" sound, LAYER A
> LOT (minus bad reverb).
>
> Else, sit on the throne. But even then, you'd definitely want to add
> transient triggers, and then we go back to "nice" samples yet again.
> What a nice recursion!
>

Thanks for the pointers everyone. Lots to check out!

Indeed, I did put together the soundfonts from the free MDK samples,
but that kit, nice as it is, has the drawback of no tom samples..

James
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