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Posted by Drik on Jun-26-2005 00:01:

What do you guys use for drums?

I'm considering what drum stuff to buy and I'm curious what you guys use and recommend!

What I'm looking at are these options:

Korg Electribe SX-1:
http://www.korg.com/gear/product_in...1&category_id=2

or a Elektron SPS-1 Machinedrum:
http://www.machinedrum.com/

I'm more included though towards the electribe since it uses vacuum tubes though. Looks uber cool and has a good bassy sound too

Posted by tonkproject on Jun-26-2005 00:20:

are you planing to use them live?

Posted by Drik on Jun-26-2005 00:33:

Nope, I'm going to use them in my studio.

Posted by itsamemario on Jun-26-2005 00:36:

i use me samples.. in fruity...

Posted by btm on Jun-26-2005 00:45:

Yeah i wouldnt bother buying hardware for drums, instead buy some proffesional sample cds.

Posted by Drik on Jun-26-2005 00:52:

I like hands on approach for step designing.

And the sound is a lot easier get _right_ with hardware.

Posted by btm on Jun-26-2005 00:54:

i use reason and its a pice of piss. just need the right samples

Posted by DigiNut on Jun-26-2005 01:05:

Even though I loathe NI with a passion that will echo through the ages, Kontakt and Battery are reasonably decent packages you can use to set up your own drumkits. Get yourself a good collection of drum samples, set up some drumkits, and you'll be better off than with any hardware.

This is one of the ONLY times you'll ever hear me say that software is better than hardware. Drums are all sampled anyway so you don't have to worry about synthesis issues, and the amount of processing required on drums won't really affect your CPU/memory (just need a couple of compressors/eq).

Posted by Drik on Jun-26-2005 01:07:

I do own both kontakt and battery.

Got any recommendation on good drumsamples?

Posted by btm on Jun-26-2005 01:10:

theres are some free samples

here

Posted by DigiNut on Jun-26-2005 01:20:

Well, if you own Kontakt then you can go the route of the annoying East West packages like Stormdrum or DFH - as long as you've registered the stupid sampler that they come with, you can actually load them into Kontakt and create your own kits.

But really, I think that's a waste of money. There are thousands upon thousands of good quality, free drum samples scattered across the 'net. One of my personal favourites is a big pack of samples from the TR-909 - I don't remember exactly where I got it but it wasn't hard to find, just google "TR-909 samples". And you can honestly create some pretty good drum loops with just those samples and a good kick.

There's no one-stop shop for samples, though, to be honest I think it just takes a bit of work and patience to get a nice collection (I've been gathering for some 3 years and I still think mine's incomplete). The best strategy I've found is to look for samples from all the various drum machines (TR-909, TR-808, Linn Drum, HR-16, and so on) - they're all available online if you look.

Posted by Monkey Mouse on Jun-26-2005 02:35:

You can't go wrong with using a soft sampler and high quality samples or using a drum emulator program. Hardware for drums almost doesn't make sense becuase it still doesn't sound exactly like real drums. If you want the real drum sound, mic a real drummer in a good studio and use that for beats.

Posted by fabio_trevez on Jun-26-2005 03:29:

for the kick i use samples (mostly), if i want something tribal i record it with real drums or a any decent sound module.

of those 2 i checked the electribe a while ago (all of them) and i didnt like it.

Posted by DC76 on Jun-26-2005 05:05:

Depends on the genre.

If I want to make Trance, House, Techno, or something in that range, I use software synths like the ES2 or EVL DigiDrum.

I use samples for D&B/Jungle, Hip-Hop, or anything where I want to superimpose a fast beat over a beat at half-speed.

And for Symphonic and Ambient stuff, I use SoundFonts.

Posted by qiushiming on Jun-26-2005 08:09:

i guess this is not really related to the topic...but anyone have this:

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_...inger-main.html

whats it like? looks kinda cool..ive seen the dj from linkin park use one of these i think...

Posted by itsamemario on Jun-26-2005 15:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Drik
I like hands on approach for step designing.

And the sound is a lot easier get _right_ with hardware.

use fruity for yor drum sequencing.. either export it to a wav or throw in the good ol' fruity vst in yur host prog.