Recommend me a multisampled drum kit?

[condra]

Hey.

Just wondering what multisampled drum kits people are liking these days?

I'm thinking of expanding my sample collection into more acoustic and "human" territory. A lot of the drum sample things seem really huge, which is cool and all but, I wonder if theres a product or service where one can download smaller collections of samples, or single drum kits that have "only" been sampled on say 8 layers instead of 72 .

I'd like to be able to download like a mini rompler that was dedicated to its own kit (under 100MMB), and have the choice of several of these that I could download pretty handy. Anyone know of such a product? Some of the things like BFD and Superior Drummer seem massive and fussy.

Thanks for any recommendations. By the way, I'm more into jazz/funk than rock.

Cheers

[ziland]

Hey.

Just wondering what multisampled drum kits people are liking these days?

I'm thinking of expanding my sample collection into more acoustic and "human" territory. A lot of the drum sample things seem really huge, which is cool and all but, I wonder if theres a product or service where one can download smaller collections of samples, or single drum kits that have "only" been sampled on say 8 layers instead of 72 .

I'd like to be able to download like a mini rompler that was dedicated to its own kit (under 100MMB), and have the choice of several of these that I could download pretty handy. Anyone know of such a product? Some of the things like BFD and Superior Drummer seem massive and fussy.

Thanks for any recommendations. By the way, I'm more into jazz/funk than rock.

Cheers

Several options available for this:

Smallest I can think of is Drums pack for Reason4.
About a 100 meg of Baseline drumhits. Excellent Samples, small size

Professional Sounding Kits would be in BFD2
Awesome VST for building realistic kits, slightly larger at 4gigs

Addictive Drums is a larger library still, professionally recorded like BFD2

Superior Drummer is also good but again, larger in size.

[blackboab]

purple kit from puremagnetik is pretty nice for HipHop/funk kinda drum sounds. Very human. One dedicated kit, plenty of tweakability ... the only thing I dislike about it is the snare sounds (but that is just personal preference) ... anyway, you can't go wrong for the measly few dollars that puremagnetik are charging for their packs (negative side for you is that even though it is only a single kit, it weighs in at a mighty 500MB):

http://puremagnetik.com/index.php?optio ... Itemid=161

[UnCL0NED]

I recently upgraded from Live 7 to the Live 8 Suite boxed version, which included the Session Drums. I have to say they're very good quality, and I love the way they appear in your drumrack. It's fits really perfect in my workflow, and you can tweak a lot under the hood. But it's really hands-on control with the Macrocontrols in combination with my M-Audio Trigger Finger, I'm cranking out beats like never before

[UKRuss]

a + 1. I favour session drums for the native compatability in Live...but you wouldnt say it is a small install...

[condra]

Thanks for all the suggestions lads.

I had completely forgotten about Purple Kit. Might check that out. I suppose I could also get one of those huge kits for Kontakt, and make my own "lite version" with a Drum Rack.

Sonivox do something like what I was looking for. Pretty interesting but pricey enough.
http://www.sonivoxmi.com/

Anyone know anything else similar to these Sonivox mini romplers.

[v00d00ppl]

a + 1. I favour session drums for the native compatability in Live...but you wouldnt say it is a small install...

yea, once i get my quad core built up with a big hard drive, i am getting the live suite box upgrade for this.....

don't get me wrong, i dig for samples through records, cds, and videogames......but sometimes i want to be able to replay that sample without getting sued and having a good multisampled drum kits is a great way to do so and groove extraction is a nice way to get similar timing techniques down quicker.

[dancerchris]

I would start out with Jamstix II. They have decent samples with velocity layers and you get a brain VST to go along with it for < $100. (At least when I bought it). You don't have to use the "brain" just run MIDI directly to it.

Then if you want the bee's knees go with BFD2 or S2. (I am not as impressed with Addictive Drums)

[glitchrock-buddha]

I haven't even looked at another realistic drum program or kit since getting addictive drums a couple years ago. I love it. And contrary to what someone said above, it is not a big library. It's under 2gb. Loads fast, doesn't take up much space and doesn't use a ton of resources. And it sounds great.