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.
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Which drum software?
- Thread starter DrGroovenstein
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acoustica beatcraft.... only because i did a lot of the drum sounds for them, including a drum kit of "body sounds" 
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.).
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.).
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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).
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?
Ideas?
why not use midi? Like a keyboard midi controller or even v-drums or something (or whatever you call those electronic drum things).
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xolin said:
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: <-- he's my keyboard drummer hero.
Jamstix by Rayzoon
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Simply amazing. Invalid Link Removed at US $99 but the Jamboree bundle at US $139 is a steal.
chardin said:
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.xolin said:sounds awesome, but I'm really skeptical about its abilities in the death metal world :/
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.
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!
After Superior came out the price dropped to $65!
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.
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.
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.
