Fake Drums

[baphomet1313]

I use ezdrummer and LOVE it! You can get expansions that will suit most styles. The cool thing though, is the ability to have each drum on a seperate DAW channel (you can add verb to the snare only, etc.) It really is a great product, very easy to use, and you can get some great results. Good luck!

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[PlatinumSamples]

You can check out our samples for BFD2 and BFD Eco:

https://www.platinumsamples.com/index.php

Rail

[baskervils]

Hang onto your REAL cymbals, especially the hi-hat. A mix of drum samples (Abbey Road NI and EZ Drummer) with real cymbals seems to be the most satisfying marriage.

[auralart]

Superior Drummer hands down the best out there imo and I've pretty much tried em all. Only thing I really dislike about SD is the presets. But other than that it's worth every penny and then some.

[Saudade]

IMO pretty much any drum library that came out after 2008 is very high quality, just depends whether your taste leans towards more processed (Slate etc) or raw (Superior etc) and how complex the amount of options you like to have. I have been getting drums libraries since Akai sampler days and my recent purchase is Abbey Road Modern Drummer and I would say the only thing holding a programmer back from a programmed drum performance that can fool drummers is your controller

[Pschelfh]

Having both EZDrummer and SD, I would say...XLN Addictive Drums! It's somewhere between the 2 Toontrack ones when it comes to sound and functionality. Also comes with lots of pre-programmed material.

If you program your own drums, just make sure you don't play unnatural hits, eg. a cymbal hit + a hi hat stroke at the same time with the left hand.

Peter.

[CJ1973]

Originally Posted by Pschelfh

Having both EZDrummer and SD, I would say...XLN Addictive Drums! It's somewhere between the 2 Toontrack ones when it comes to sound and functionality. Also comes with lots of pre-programmed material.

If you program your own drums, just make sure you don't play unnatural hits, eg. a cymbal hit + a hi hat stroke at the same time with the left hand.

Peter.

I actually use XLN drums myself and am searching for better. I even have some of their individual samples but for some reason, the sounds themselves feel thin. I usually convert it to audio and play with eq/compression to get a fatter sound, but still struggle.
Then I got used to doubling with other samples and its better but still not up there.

Any recommendations for the best live drum "one hit" type samples would be appreciated too!

[danly]

you can still play and record real drums and beef up the hits with samples. i really like drumagog 5 or slate trigger. sounds amazing mixed with a pair of stereo overheads.
sometimes ill swap out kick and snare for linn drum samples for an 80's sound.

[ivansc]

I have started layering Toontrack and Steven Slate kits for extra fatness and flavour.

It's all good and relatively cheap. too!

[CJ1973]

Originally Posted by ivansc

I have started layering Toontrack and Steven Slate kits for extra fatness and flavour.

It's all good and relatively cheap. too!

Do Slate drums come with individual sample hits that you could use independently or loops you can cut up etc? or is it off the player like XLN?

[Sotsirc]

Originally Posted by CJ1973

I actually use XLN drums myself and am searching for better. I even have some of their individual samples but for some reason, the sounds themselves feel thin. I usually convert it to audio and play with eq/compression to get a fatter sound, but still struggle.
Then I got used to doubling with other samples and its better but still not up there.

Any recommendations for the best live drum "one hit" type samples would be appreciated too!

Have you tried the Indie adpak? I agree about AD sounding thin, thinking that one might be better ...

[CJ1973]

Originally Posted by Sotsirc

Have you tried the Indie adpak? I agree about AD sounding thin, thinking that one might be better ...

Hi
Yeah I do have the Indie pack. Actually that's one of the first pieces I bought because it sounded slightly fatter but not phat as you know what..
I even purchased the new one off samples as well from AD.
Would love to get some options on how folks get really great fake drums.

I am taking also the approach of sequencing something on AD and then rendering it 'dry' to audio. Then using the same midi path, opening it with a drum sampler like battery, re-assigning a sampled sound from an old 70s record and rendering it again. Then trying to mix it with the AD audio mix. Problem at that point is anything from sporadic phase issues to absolute time waste and not focussing on the song.

I think the whole promo of "max martin" using AD is probably true, maybe for sequencing..lol

[nuthinupmysleeve]

Originally Posted by Pschelfh

Having both EZDrummer and SD, I would say...XLN Addictive Drums!

I don't have the others, but I settled on Addictive Drums as well. I found it to be the easiest way to get great sounding drums. It also ships with some great loops that are easily editable, and it also has great support for vdrums if you want to get a real drummer to play electronically and get great results.

I don't find them "thin"... I find them sounding pretty natural to me. YMMV of course.

[polaris20]

EZ Drummer has treated me very well for quite awhile. I've got the stock kit and the DKFH expansion.

[halcyo]

EZ Drummer is cool for getting a quick production up and moving forward, but if you are used to recording your own drums, you will probably be pretty unsatisfied unless you step up to Superior Drummer. Not being able to tune the pitches of drums, edit decays, etc are a deal breaker for serious productions. I have almost ALL of the EZ Drummer packs and I use them for quick demos and for some commercial/ad work as I can work fast with them. I just can't find a lot of use for them when I really wanna make something 'artistic' if that makes any sense!

[JeffSanders]

I love Addictive Drums. And I find the kits sound much beefier and have more attitude than Superior or EZ. imho.

[Sotsirc]

Originally Posted by CJ1973

Hi
Yeah I do have the Indie pack. Actually that's one of the first pieces I bought because it sounded slightly fatter but not phat as you know what..
I even purchased the new one off samples as well from AD.
Would love to get some options on how folks get really great fake drums.

I am taking also the approach of sequencing something on AD and then rendering it 'dry' to audio. Then using the same midi path, opening it with a drum sampler like battery, re-assigning a sampled sound from an old 70s record and rendering it again. Then trying to mix it with the AD audio mix. Problem at that point is anything from sporadic phase issues to absolute time waste and not focussing on the song.

I think the whole promo of "max martin" using AD is probably true, maybe for sequencing..lol

I hear you. And by the way, I think Max Martin funded the whole project so I guess he has to say that he's using it. He did use it on "Whataya want from me", but that was played by a drummer on a digital drum kit.