On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10 July 2010 18:07, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> James Stone wrote: >>> Listening to the drumkits in hydrogen - they seem nice, but not _that_ >>> nice. I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for giga drums >>> to work with linuxsampler. Ross Garfield 2 seem quite a reasonable >>> price: http://www.bigfishaudio.com/4DCGI/detail.html?589 However, I'm >>> not so sure how I would make use of the multi-layers or get them to >>> sound more humanised - maybe playing with a midi keyboard? >>> >>> Alternatively (better) - any good soundfonts or hydrogen kits for >>> realistic drum sounds? >>> >>> James >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-audio-user mailing list >>> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> >> Hello James, >> >> http://www.autodafe.net/gscw-drum-kit-for-hydrogen-drum-machine.html >> Especially GSCW2 is nice. >> >> http://linux.autostatic.com/hydrogen/BigMono.h2drumkit >> That's the Big Mono kit from Analogue Drums: >> http://www.analoguedrums.com/details-bm.php >> I got the personal approval from the owner of Analogue Drums to host a >> h2drumkit package of this kit. >> >> And then there's the infamous ns7kitfree package. Unfortunately it's not >> free anymore: http://www.naturaldrum.com/ >> However, there are Hydrogen xml files available and I have a h2drumkit >> package of it. Can't host it publicly though. >> >> AFAIK these are the best free/used-to-be-free acoustic drum kits >> available for Hydrogen. > > Gearslutz and Ultimate Metal [1] forums have drum sample stickies. No > licensing information for most of them. > > [1] http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/311618-drum-samples-meta.html > > In any way, the reason why you can't seem to be able to find "nice" > drum sounds is because not many of the freely available samples are > heavily and carefully layered. For a dynamic and "full" sound, LAYER A > LOT (minus bad reverb). > > Else, sit on the throne. But even then, you'd definitely want to add > transient triggers, and then we go back to "nice" samples yet again. > What a nice recursion! > Thanks for the pointers everyone. Lots to check out! Indeed, I did put together the soundfonts from the free MDK samples, but that kit, nice as it is, has the drawback of no tom samples.. James _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
