Which drum software?

Sean Baumann · #1 09-20-2006, 09:09 AM

Which would you buy for your home recording adventure? Mostly jazz (modern), rock, and funk type music. I'm using a PC., presonus firebox, and cubase LE. Vote and post your reasoning.

mactac · #2 09-20-2006, 10:35 AM

acoustica beatcraft.... only because i did a lot of the drum sounds for them, including a drum kit of "body sounds"

hunta · #3 09-20-2006, 06:17 PM

Native Instruments Battery is pretty good stuff

Shelly · #4 09-25-2006, 03:21 AM

I grabbed Drums From Hell Superior...so far, so good. I thought the demos at their site sounded better than the BFD demos.

Battery is also nice, but a different animal from DFH and BFD, which are meant to sound like a mic'd drum kit (mic bleed of all the drums, etc.).

xolin · #5 09-25-2006, 05:57 AM

Ha, I was about to ask a similar question!

I play extreme metal (death, etc) so I'll need to program really complicated fast stuff in odd time signatures...what would be best? And maybe a tutorial somewhere?

Thanks!
I have crappy pc, with Cubase Sx3 and Reason w/ drumagog so far.

keb · #6 09-25-2006, 07:57 AM

Toontrack EZdrummer

Excellent sound, easy to use as the name would imply, cheaper than BFD or DKFH Superior, also easier on your RAM and processor.

It's a little more limited in that there are less drum pieces and cymbals to choose from, but that's about the only drawback. Also, the samples recieved a little post-processing and EQ whereas BFD and DKFH Superior are raw, but they're not "overcooked" to the point where you can't do your own sound designing with them.

Sean Baumann · #7 09-25-2006, 01:34 PM

And the winner is.... DKFH Superior. I used a coupon I had, and it brought it down to a "reasonable" for me price. I only hope that it isn't too complicated for me, I basically have no idea what I am getting in to (except the quality samples).

xolin · #8 09-25-2006, 04:32 PM

The trouble I'm having is that some of the songs I create need pretty much consistently changing drums, so it takes forever to make the beats. I need something that sounds realistic but that I can easily enter beats in with maybe my microphone (triggering like Drumagog, but faster) or something.

Ideas?

Sean Baumann · #9 09-25-2006, 04:40 PM

why not use midi? Like a keyboard midi controller or even v-drums or something (or whatever you call those electronic drum things).

xolin · #10 09-25-2006, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Sean Baumann

why not use midi? Like a keyboard midi controller or even v-drums or something (or whatever you call those electronic drum things).

Money mostly. I dont have midi port either.

jb64 · #11 09-29-2006, 07:45 PM

I got DFHS about a month ago and I love it! Very nice drum sounds!

keb · #12 10-01-2006, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by xolin

Money mostly. I dont have midi port either.

Most (if not all) MIDI controller keyboards made these days can use a USB port on your computer as a MIDI port.

I use a MIDI keyboard to create my drum tracks. I try to play as much of it "live" as possible so I don't sacrifice feel (ie, I don't want to play a couple bars and then just copy/paste them in loops.) I'll go back and punch in fills and correct/quantize glaring timing problems later on.

It takes a little practice (as with anything else) to become a semi-proficient keyboard-drummer but it's worth it to me. I'll practice drums like anything else: start a metronome and start playing some grooves.

I think just about everyone has seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3a28-izAFU <-- he's my keyboard drummer hero.

chardin · #13 10-01-2006, 12:37 PM

Jamstix by Rayzoon

Simply amazing. Priced right at US $99 but the Jamboree bundle at US $139 is a steal.

xolin · #14 10-03-2006, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by chardin

Jamstix by Rayzoon

Simply amazing. Priced right at US $99 but the Jamboree bundle at US $139 is a steal.

sounds awesome, but I'm really skeptical about its abilities in the death metal world :/

Sean Baumann · #15 10-03-2006, 04:48 PM

... now I just need to learn to program drum parts in Cubase LE!!!

chardin · #16 10-04-2006, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by xolin

sounds awesome, but I'm really skeptical about its abilities in the death metal world :/

Try the Jamstix demo at http://www.rayzoon.com/jamstix_demo.html and see for yourself.

jeffery.addison · #17 10-04-2006, 09:41 PM

Toontrak will be issuing a Drum Kit From Hell add-on for Ez-drummer later this month. EZ-Drummer is a quality piece of software that makes laying drum tracks easy.

csholtmeier · #18 10-18-2006, 06:33 AM

xolin, DKFH2 is most likely the software you'll like best. It's Thomas Haake's (Meshuggah) drums, sampled. Pig Destroyer used it on both of thier albums. Meshuggah used it for the albums I and None. DKFH2 has extreme metal in its blood.

After Superior came out the price dropped to $65!

ryanl · #19 10-18-2006, 02:18 PM

hydrogen:

http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

I've used it and love it thus far. There are some different drum kits out there for it. The only downside is that it only comes stock with 1 drum set.

Sean Baumann · #20 10-18-2006, 02:23 PM

I already bought DKFHS, but now I just have to learn to program it well. I'm not so good at convincing drum patterns yet.