| I'm into BFD2 and pretty much any cool drum sample program. So I am open to supporting it... only a matter of time and resources. In the case of Ocean Way Drums it is a little more difficult to do than normal because of the script mixes. What we did there was an extremely expensive part of the project. I had half my team out there programming the scripts sitting beside Steven Miller and Allen Sides for weeks on end doing mixes for EACH individual drum in every kit! There are 6 mixes from dry to ambient done for hundreds of kit elements and all done by those engineers in really great studio monitoring conditions (not just headphones). That is one of the things I thought would be even more valuable to most people than just offering the discrete mics for people to mix. It's also another thing that differentiates it from other drum products Sonic Reality manufactures. Ocean Way Drums is the only one with the Ocean Way sound from the acoustic space to the gear to the engineer's ears recording and mixing it for you... even if you are an engineer yourself (not all of our customers are) then using these mixes as starting points is efficient and useful.
So, the conversion programs deal with the main programming data like mapping, envelopes etc. A custom conversion would have to be made matching up what the scripts do (and it would have to be accurate so the mix stayed the same) and then we'd have to have Miller and Sides there to approve each one to make sure it matched up with the current version and all of this at Ocean Way again... and that's not even taking into the account that BFD2 probably sounds different than Kontakt so they'd want to tweak it more... it'd be expensive and take a long time! That time might be better spent on the next Ocean Way virtual instrument or on a stereo lite version or something else. Know what I mean?
Anyway, I think it really comes down to people's budgets and if they want this Ocean Way sounding drum material done the way it is being offered. If so then here it is! A plug-in for every popular DAW or stand alone.
By the way, the V-Drum mapping is just a starting point. Obviously it WILL work with various e-drum kits out there. In fact, we've been working on midi re-mapping scripts as updates that can have it do GM standard or any other e-drum kit. Again, just a matter of time and resources who is going to support what e-kit but it can be done. A lot of e-kits (most if not all) can also re-assign their pads to trigger the same notes as our V-Drum maps so it can be done from both sides. We chose the TD-20 kit as a starting point because it seemed to be the most popular and advanced. Roland claims to be the most popular drum manufacturer even over Pearl. But, it will work with pretty much all of the e-kits out there but just requires a little tweaking on the kit side or on the software side or both to get it just right. |