Favorite Drum Racks

[elementv]

I have live suite and have tried almost every drum rack. I still feel like I need more, I can't find just the right bass drum. Any suggestions for thrid party racks or samples?

[simpli.cissimus]

What kind of music

[mholloway]

the included kits with Drum Racks aren't that great, they cover small ground and are based on IMO weak samples from PureMagnetik. This is because (and I think rightly so) Drum Racks were not intended as a Preset Loader type instrument, but rather as a very useful and flexible tool for dropping in your own samples and building custom kits. So what you need isn't "new drum racks" but simply good samples that you can start loading into the drum racks and save your kits yourself. There are a zillion sites for samples...and many of them are free. Check the KB6 drum archive (do a search on KB6, sorry I dont' have URL).

If you're not interested in doing it that way (though I have a hard time imagining why not, it's the most flexible approach) then I'd simply recommend buying Battery, as it offers similar functionality but comes with a much more varied, interesting set of preset kits than you'll ever find with drum racks. Hell, you could just buy it for the samples and then load them in drum racks

-M

[JuanSOLO]

These days I am making my own kicks in operator/layering with samples and creating a new sample, only for my electronic kick sounds. HOWEVER, for acoustic sounds I think the puremagnetik TrapKit comes out on top of many others, especially in the realm of meticulously mutlisampled organic/human sounding drums. And I have compared/dissected other acoustic kits, such as Kits for Maschine, Battery, Kontakt, as well as Ableton's own Session Drums packs.

I learned a whole lot about how deep drumRacks can go by dissecting that beast and using the parts I wanted, mainly the snare hats and toms. They make great use of the Randomizer plus velocity to give it a very human sound. Also crazy ways to route notes and nest instruments. Sorry to sound like I am pushing a product, I have been genuinely amazed by it, especially after getting Session Drums from Ableton only to find it was lacking in comparison.

[simmerdown]

1600 kicks

http://www.mediafire.com/?xdsmtah1ntkw58u

[BlackMath]

1 drum rack...128's

[the0verclock]

...I think the puremagnetik TrapKit comes out on top of many others...

Thanks! I actually sampled several other snares but I had to leave them out to keep the overall size down. Maybe a sequel or add-on to come from that.

Also, if the original poster is looking for better (or more) kicks, check the Kickbank freebie -
http://www.puremagnetik.com/index.php?o ... Itemid=217

[eddiex]

deadmau5 xfer is pretty rad!!! but expensive.
i also dig goldbaby tape machines vol. 2.

both are one hit sample packs....i think they rule...(especially the xfer pack...its pretty nice)