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1st June 2011
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| Gear nut Joined: Sep 2010
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Thread Starter | Best analog drum synthesizer plug?
I am looking for an analog style drum machine/synthesizer for my DAW. Currently I am using Sylenth1 to make my cymbols and snares, and using samples for kicks. I have tried making kicks in sylenth, but they are not that great in my opinion. Can anyone advise me on a plug? Maybe a good TR emulation, or a plug specifically designed for percussion. I would rather go down the route of synthesis as opposed to samples in FXpansion or NI. |
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1st June 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: May 2011 Location: Cardiff
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1st June 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jul 2008 Location: Dublin , Ireland
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d16 drumazon (tr909) d16 nepheton (tr808) d16 nithonat (tr606) D16 Group Audio Software - Beyond Perfection - Home  |
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1st June 2011
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For synthesizing drums I like Waldorf Attack A. |
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1st June 2011
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| Gear addict  Joined: Jun 2007 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Favorites here are SonicCharge MicroTonic and Waldorf Attack.
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1st June 2011
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| Gear nut Joined: Sep 2010
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I have seen some people here mention Stylus by Spectrasonics. By the way they were talking about it, I presumed it was synthesis. But after looking at the website it just looks like a sampler. It says it comes with presets and a 7GB library. I tried to look for a trial version, but couldn't see one.
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1st June 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Mar 2007
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µTonic Sonic Charge - µTonic Great Synthesis based drum machine style plug-in. Endless possibilities for creating great sounding Drum/Perc. sounds. Punchy, Organic, and Unique. The only negative point is that it is not yet 64-bit for neither Mac OSX or PC-Windows 7.  Hopefully it will be upgraded in the near future to 64-bit !
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1st June 2011
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| Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2007 Location: N.Y.
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Rob Papen has a new drumsynth called Punch. |
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1st June 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Nov 2010 Location: Orlando
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Punch looks good. I'll have to check it out. In logic, ultrabeat is better than most 3rd party stuff I've tried. Starting with samples from existing machines and tweaking them can be a good way to go too. I'm getting great results now doing ultrabeat through rocket comp to get transients right, then nebula to process and get the color I want out of it... then resampling and loading into battery for triggering. |
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1st June 2011
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| Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2010 Location: Orlando
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What's the moog in your avatar? Is that an actual unit or a rendering for a plug? don't think I've seen that particular one. | |
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1st June 2011
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| Gear addict  Joined: Jul 2009 Location: Athens GR
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1st June 2011
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| Gear nut  Joined: Jul 2009 Location: Sherwood Forest
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Not the best, but check out Drumatic 3...it's free. ...makes a nice range of sounds, especially kick drums for certain types of music. |
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1st June 2011
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Punch is nice. |
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2nd June 2011
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| Gear nut Joined: Sep 2010
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I really want to trial Waldorf Attack, but I am finding it very difficult to find. On the Waldorf Gropu page you can download a MAC trial version - but this does not work for me. It has a '.sit' file extention, and when I open it on my macbook pro it just comes up as a load of coded text.
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2nd June 2011
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3rd June 2011
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3rd June 2011
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| Gear nut Joined: Sep 2010
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Downloaded Drumazon and Punch. I like drumazon however, not so much the sound of Punch. Is it just me, or does Rob Papens stuff sound a bit muffled/boxy - I also found this with Albino. A plug like drumazon but with the edit parameters of utonic or punch would be cool. |
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3rd June 2011
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| Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2010
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No, Punch sounds nice and punchy to me!  I haven't used d16s drum machines for a while so i'll have to give it a listen.
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4th June 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Dec 2007
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Reason 5 has a great new drum synth(s).
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4th June 2011
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| Gear nut Joined: Sep 2010
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I really like d16. Adding a bit of waves mpx tape sat and sound toys decapitator. Can have total control over the kit, and tune it to your mix.
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4th August 2011
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| Gear interested Joined: Aug 2011
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| Vengeance Metrum
Some say its over priced, got it for $129 that thing is a beast. Floor filling punches best ive ever heard and with the new V1.2 hardly any glitches. Def check it out.
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5th August 2011
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uTonic is on my to buy list... as well as Punch really great sounding drum synths. For now I use Nerve with different sample packs (ones bundled with Nerve, Wave Alchemy and Driven Machine Drums) but recently for some real drum machine feel I use the a 909 kontakt library (Sounds Outside the Lines) and it's fantastic to be able to have a 909 ITB. Really punchy and there's going to be a 808 out soon enough. I tried the D16 drum machines and the sound was good... but that interface (pattern programming) was a bit weird and didn't gel with them. Although I love Decimort on the drum bus and their other plugins are cool.. |
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5th August 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Aug 2009 Location: UK
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AudioRealisms ADM Drum Machine is good for the TR thing. Perhaps not the best all round software Drum Machine though.. But I like it, and got it in a deal with ABL2 (the soft 303 clone) AudioRealism Drum Machine |
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