crack open Logic and check out the 'acoustic' kits in Ultrabeat. No access to the audio files but there's some good stuff in there that you have already

also the Paul G kits would be good for this iirc. The thread was still up on gearslutz last I checked

EDIT: did not realize Cryo's post was from 2008.

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Originally posted by Teezdalien One of my favourite sound libraries for this kind of stuff. If you can get the usb key edition, it's worth it. Apparently there's only 2 left in stock. https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/...library-usb-key I don't have Vincent's new library just yet but it also looks the business. https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-01

I had completely forgot about these

Is there anything extra that comes with the USB key? I know Ultimae stuff is always packaged nicely.

I've found over the years that the best way of doing this is grabbing one of the cheaper acoustic drum samplers (e.g., EZ Drummer, FXpansion BFD Eco, Addictive Drums), plus a handful of expansion libraries and some groovy MIDI loops (e.g., from Groove Monkee, OddGrooves). Just go nuts with saturation, distortion, filtering, compression, etc.

That said, I have a few older libraries that I found after posting this that I keep coming back to. The problem with them is that you're paying for a huge amount of useless (to me) filler crap, sample formats, instrument loops, construction kits, etc. that I have no use for. But, they all have some very nice one-shot chillout drum samples:

Big Fish 101 Below

Smokers Relight Deux

Sunrise Sessions

One really nice and cheap one is the Bluezone Downtempo Box. Again, lots of useless filler IMO, but the one shots alone are worth the cost, especially if you wait for one of their sales. (I think I paid less than $10 during a sale a few years ago).

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Originally posted by cryophonik I've found over the years that the best way of doing this is grabbing one of the cheaper acoustic drum samplers (e.g., EZ Drummer, FXpansion BFD Eco, Addictive Drums), plus a handful of expansion libraries and some groovy MIDI loops (e.g., from Groove Monkee, OddGrooves). Just go nuts with saturation, distortion, filtering, compression, etc. That said, I have a few older libraries that I found after posting this that I keep coming back to. The problem with them is that you're paying for a huge amount of useless (to me) filler crap, sample formats, instrument loops, construction kits, etc. that I have no use for. But, they all have some very nice one-shot chillout drum samples: Big Fish 101 Below Smokers Relight Deux Sunrise Sessions One really nice and cheap one is the Bluezone Downtempo Box. Again, lots of useless filler IMO, but the one shots alone are worth the cost, especially if you wait for one of their sales. (I think I paid less than $10 during a sale a few years ago).

Thanks! Hadn't considered grabbing an MIDI groove loops, seems like a good option to get inspired with and more flexible than WAV loops. Any of them in particular you would recommend? Looking at the Groove Monkee Electronic one currently.

I do have some normal drum samples that came with Battery / Kontakt that I could run through filtering / Saturn and maybe get some decent bang for the buck.

Went ahead and picked up Aethers 01, like what I am hearing so far. Really the types of sounds I am looking for are closer to ambient than downtempo, lounge, chillout etc so it was perfect for me personally.

The Producer Pack is good, and it includes the Electronic, plus funk, hip-hop, and world grooves. Actually, depending on the style of chillout that you're making, the funk and hip-hop grooves can work very well at slow tempos - I actually use them far more than the electronic pack. The great thing about the MIDI grooves is that they're really easy to tweak, mix/match parts, ad fills, copy paste (e.g., to replace just the hi-hats from one groove with another), etc.

The Breakbeats pack is also good.

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After doing quite a few tracks with the chillout/downtempo drum style it really does all come down to filtering, saturation/bitcrushing/distorting, and compressing the hell out of various sounds to get that "crunchy" downtempo drum texture. Good advice Cryo

Got familiar with most of the kits/samples in Battery 4 and there are quite a few good samples I have been using as the starting point for things.

Ironically I ended up using the Groove Monkey stuff more for dance than I did downtempo... I made a custom Lemur/Reaktor interface for sequencing drum samples where I can quickly test and see different placements and timings and build a nice groove quickly via a touch based sequencer... if anyone would like it I can send it your way via PM.