Re: [LAU] Nice drums?

From: Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Jul 10 2010 - 21:29:13 EEST

On 07/10/2010 07:07 PM, hermann wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 10.07.2010, 12:25 +0100 schrieb James Stone:
>> 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
>
> kb6 is a real BIG resource of Free Drum Samples
>
> http://samples.kb6.de/downloads.php
>
> but I cant say anything about quality of the samples, you need to try it
> yourself, if you wone know it.
>
> hermann
>
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Hi Hermann,

Those are mainly kits from drum machines, practically no acoustic drums.
For those interested, I have a tarball with all the available kits from
KB6. Send me an off-list mail if you' re interested. All KB6 kits are
Public Domain btw.

Best,

Jeremy
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