Need Advice on Realistic Drum Sounds

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:24 am

I work with a Roland Handsonic drum trigger and I am into natural sounding drums. Impulse is fine for scratch tracks, but I am trying to find a VSTI or Rewire compatible program in which I can put in multisampled drum sounds. By "multisampled" I mean drum sounds that not only are velocity sensitive, but which change in timbre depending on how hard you hit them.

Most samples are the same sound and just change in volume -- unlike a real drum whose tonal characteristics change completely depending on how hard you hit them. I think "Multisample" is the right terminology for what I am looking for. I guess it boils down to having different samples triggered according to your velocity settings.

In a nutshell, I want to play drums in real time with my Handsonic and trigger the most realistic samples possible.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hatchets McGee · Post by **Hatchets McGee** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:27 am

native instruments BATTERY
or FXpansion GURU

get googling!

quandry · Post by **quandry** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:07 am

Kontakt is what I use--great sampler with the ability to fully do up custom kits with plenty of velocity layered samples. I like the sonic implants samples. There is also a good free multisampled kit (and a 50 pound full-blown version) here:

free: http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/ns_kit7free.html

pay: http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/shop/ind ... fd98ce8ce8

Basically, you want a solid sampler that can do velocity layering--the nnxt sampler in reason can also do decent velocity layering if you are using reason. battery, as previously mentioned, can do this too I think. You are on point though, the impulse is severly limited with only 8 sample slots and no velocity layering.

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:54 am

Thanks.

I have heard about Battery. I will look into Fxpansion Guru. I guess I was hoping to accomplish this without spending a fortune.

Hatchets McGee wrote:native instruments BATTERY
or FXpansion GURU

get googling!

Trevor · Post by **Trevor** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:59 am

Much obliged for the link. I'll snarf the kit.

Yea, reason is cool. I guess I am thinking learning curve and expense...Also there is so much overlap between Ableton and Reason. The only feature I want is the multisample velocity thing.

quandry wrote:Kontakt is what I use--great sampler with the ability to fully do up custom kits with plenty of velocity layered samples. I like the sonic implants samples. There is also a good free multisampled kit (and a 50 pound full-blown version) here:

free: http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/ns_kit7free.html

pay: http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/shop/ind ... fd98ce8ce8

Basically, you want a solid sampler that can do velocity layering--the nnxt sampler in reason can also do decent velocity layering if you are using reason. battery, as previously mentioned, can do this too I think. You are on point though, the impulse is severly limited with only 8 sample slots and no velocity layering.

Pandamonium · Post by **Pandamonium** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:10 am

If you want realistic drums and for whatever reason can't mic up a real kit you only need to know 3 letters - BFD from Fxpansion.

frisbeedisk · Post by **frisbeedisk** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:10 am

Look into BFD (big fucking drums) great sound, used them live and sound amazing through the PA...

http://www.fxpansion.com/product-bfd-main.php

EARLGREY · Post by **EARLGREY** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:37 pm

Also, check these out :

Drumkit From Hell Superior : www.toontrack.com
Scarbee Imperial Drums : www.scarbee.com
Larry Seyers Akoustic Drums : ( Giga only ) www.larryseyer.com

regards