Best Budget Drums - Steven Slate vs EZ vs KitCore

[mojobone]

Matter of fact, the Groove Monkee stuff is a great addition to AD, if their free samples are any indication-I believe there's a prefab keymap on the AD site for them, too. Yeah I love ghost notes and snare drags, they add a lot of character, and given a slider that controls balance between top and bottom snare mics, compression, two reverbs, multiple outputs-a tweaker can really go to town with this thing.

[jonathanm]

Got my addiction today . Haven't had a chance to install it yet, but lookin' forward to it, as I've been running the demo for a few months now.

[mojobone]

Correction: Groove Monkee includes templates for most major drum softwares. (including Addictive Drums) And their installation is slicker than snake snot-very tasty drumming, too. Gets cornfusin', since I been downloading included freebies from different companies-ended up having to buy and install EZPlayer Pro which includes a cool MIDI drum editor where you can split parts out, time shift 'em, layer 'em and build new MIDI loops outta stuff ya already own-pretty slick-and I'm finding out the programming possibilities with AD are jes' insane. I been listening to loops and presets for hours, some of it left me slack-jawed. ENVY ME! <chuckle>

[partyofone]

Elser,I'll 2nd mojo's opinion... I've bought and used the Rock ones and they have been a big boon to this guitarist-cum-drum programmer And a great value considering they supply alternate mappings for practically EVERY VSTi out there. I've been using them on my latest demo using SSD and I'll post on here soon (I hope).

[elser]

Patrick and Mojo, Thanks for the input. I went ahead and bought the Rock package. Kinda interesting, some of the files look they were played but some must have been programmed since they claim that nothing gets quantized, all the parts are spot on.I'm hoping to find more midi files that were actually played by great drummers. I ran across these last night, as soon as I can afford it I'm gonna spring em, they're midi drum files that were played by great drummers like Kenny Aranoff. I have some old ones by Sly Dunbar and there's just no substitute for that human feel from a great drummer.http://www.knockoutgrooves.com/

[partyofone]

No problem and thanks for the tip.. I'll look into their stuff although they don't have SSD versions yet.

[mojobone]

Most of the Kitcore grooves are actual drummers, IIRC.

[elser]

For anyone who bought Addictive Drums. I decided to buy the Kenny Aranoff Rock 1 collection from Knockout Grooves and they don't tell you till you check out, but everything is half off right now. So I decided to get the Danny Weston Pop collection which is really really good and the Kenny Aranoff Rock 1.....which is absolutely slammin! I mean if your a great drummer with a midi kit you don't need this. But if your not, it's well worth the money, this is stuff you just can't program even if you had the ability to think it up, which I don't. And it downloads really quick.Just thought you might like to know, Belcher

[partyofone]

As promised here is my first demo using the Steven Slate Drums. Honestly my mix doesn't quite do the samples justice yet but I'm going to tweak it some more. I really didn't do any mixing (EQ's compression) on the drums at all except an UAD 1176 on the buss to help glue it some.http://www.taximusic.com/stream/239645/seethroughme.mp3

[ibanez468]

Sounds GOOD Pat! I think that's probably your next step with the drums (EQ, compression). Sounds as though they could use a little brightening, to go along with everything else, IMHO. Otherwise, sounds pretty good for your first attempt at using the new package. ibanez468