Steven Slate Drums 2.0: SIGNATURE DRUM KITS - Page 44

YellowMatter · 20th June 2008, 10:17 AM

Bang · 26th July 2008, 12:14 AM

Just checking in with some updates on the upcoming 2.5 update which will introduce a Standalone VSTi version, a BFD2 version, a Vdrums and eDrum version, NRG Recording room samples, and improved Midi performance. Also more velocites, more hits, same fat and punchy and 3D drums, same variety of 36 drumkits, and same great taste.

Check out the enhancements with two demos of the DEFTONES kit as played on VDrums by drummer and midi programmer Dan Kirk:

www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/KirkTone1.mp3

check out the snare action:
www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/KirkTone2.mp3

all kits will also have the raw and natrual NRG room A samples too

Jake 2.0 · 26th July 2008, 12:32 AM

Rocking!

Bang · 30th July 2008, 06:23 PM

thanks Jake. Our new 2.5 update will be HUGE, we'd call it 3.0 but we've already made the boxes

It will include all new room samples from the famous NRG RECORDING room A, one of the very best drum rooms I've ever heard. It will be unprocessed so you can compress and eq to your liking, a great compliment to the PREPROCESSED room sounds that ship with the current collection. The standalone version will also have some of the very best plug and play VDrums presets for all current Roland VDrum products (from TD3 to pro TD20) as well as presets for other eDrum systems.

There will also now be a standalone VSTi RTAS plugin that ships with the collection with custom graphics and features catered towards the unique Steven Slate Drums system.

However, BFD users will be happy to hear that we will ALSO have a BFD2 expansion pack with the same great features and two room sounds, but with the ability to use the drums in the amazing BFD2 environment that FXPansion has so carefully crafted over the years.

Whats more is the each midi system (standalone or BFD2) will include Drumagog GOG files and raw wav files to use for drum replacement. There will also be a new Paiste cymbal pack to add to the already hefty Zildian/Sabian pack, with ultra detailed hi hats that play and sound like none you've heard yet.

More demos coming soon. But eDrummers, midi programmers, and anyone who loves amazing sounding drums, start getting excited.

Purusha · 30th July 2008, 07:13 PM

Hey Steven, really nice work you are doing

One question, how do I use the samples from 2.0 in Contact?

Animus · 30th July 2008, 07:23 PM

Can't wait!

Bang · 1st August 2008, 05:32 PM

Purusha, once you get 2.0, there are presets drumkits that will work flawlessly in Kontakt 2 or 3.

We are quite excited about the new updates... MORE DEMOS SOON.

GPl · 2nd August 2008, 02:18 AM

Wow, this is gearing up to be quite the release. Can us old farts pre-order?

Jake 2.0 · 6th September 2008, 12:15 AM

Click Here for player
rock/pop band
2 songs are in the player, check it out and let me know what you think these songs are completed and mastered by the wonderful brad brad blackwood (highly recommend him for mastering.
(mixed,produced,engineered by me)
i blended ... kick 1, maple toms and birch blended, snare 10 Z2 and 8 z2 rooms blended in with my snare and my triggers of the drum set. they were a great help as my room is pretty dead and i wanted some natural reverb and added balls on the drums.
as always steven slate helps out my dead drum room! with his wonderful samples, btw bro congrats on getting picked by sweetwater i caught your product in thier huge mag. thanks for putting out a killer product i highly recommend it to everyone i know and yes i actually use them! they arent just another folder to look at on my computer

any questions feel free to leave a reply and i will do my best to answer, thanks guys!

J-

ryangeller · 9th September 2008, 05:30 PM

just loading in SSD, and although I see all of the samples in my folder in the finder, drumagog isn't recognizing about half of them.

I took the contents of V1 and V2 and combined them in a folder called SSD Snares (for example)... is it possible that Drumagog can't see files if there are too many in the folder?

I've restarted Logic and the computer, have copied the files from the DVDs 3 times, and have reassigned my gog folder...

Any ideas?

Bang · 9th September 2008, 07:57 PM

Drumagoag doesn't like all those files in one folder. You gotta just put the SSD GOG folders in the GOG FILES just as they are... in the various KICK, SNARE, and TOM folders. Then you'll be all set.

Everyone who has ordered SSD 2.0 as of August 1st gets a free upgrade to the amazing SSD 2.5 NRG EDITION...

new additions to 2.5:

-raw NRG RECORDING room samples from one of the very best drum rooms in the world

-new Paiste Cymbal pack, featuring some of the very best samples cymbals (all cymbals recorded to 2inch)

-new standalone Midi Player with tons of features and easy tweaking

-OPTIONAL BFD2 expansion pack (instead of standalone player)

-the very best VDrum and EDrum support

-new midi grooves played by top drummers

-new STEELY DAN modeled signature kit

-three new ELITE snares and kicks

-more stuff coming!

ryangeller · 9th September 2008, 08:10 PM

thanks-- will try that way

eddierodriguez · 9th September 2008, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bang

Drumagoag doesn't like all those files in one folder. You gotta just put the SSD GOG folders in the GOG FILES just as they are... in the various KICK, SNARE, and TOM folders. Then you'll be all set.

Everyone who has ordered SSD 2.0 as of August 1st gets a free upgrade to the amazing SSD 2.5 NRG EDITION...

new additions to 2.5:

-raw NRG RECORDING room samples from one of the very best drum rooms in the world

-new Paiste Cymbal pack, featuring some of the very best samples cymbals (all cymbals recorded to 2inch)

-new standalone Midi Player with tons of features and easy tweaking

-OPTIONAL BFD2 expansion pack (instead of standalone player)

-the very best VDrum and EDrum support

-new midi grooves played by top drummers

-new STEELY DAN modeled signature kit

-three new ELITE snares and kicks

-more stuff coming!

VERY nice to read. first i only wanted vol2 but then i bought the whole platinum end of august

-more stuff coming - tell us more!!!

cww2 · 9th September 2008, 08:27 PM

Sounds great Bang -

Did you abandon your drumagog tutorial? I can't seem to find any info about it on your site any longer.

Keep up the good work.

Chase

Animus · 11th September 2008, 08:12 PM

Can't wait!

jacko · 22nd September 2008, 01:08 AM

I'm still waiting for RATM samples! :)

Bang · 22nd September 2008, 05:38 PM

2.5 will have a snare called the SLATE snare (yes I named it after myself.. sue me)... its very RATM.... (rage against the machine)..

eddierodriguez · 22nd September 2008, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bang

2.5 will have a snare called the SLATE snare (yes I named it after myself.. sue me)... its very RATM.... (rage against the machine)..

where´s the BANG-Kick?

VitaEtMusica · 23rd September 2008, 08:25 PM

Seeing as SSD 2.5 is right around the corner (Second week of October?), I figured we should get pumped up about this release. It will probably warrant a new thread so we'll have to bid a fond farewell to this one. I'll get some samples up as soon I get my hands on the new stuff. In the meantime, here a few tunes finished this week with SSD v2.0. The first two songs are written by Mark Moore (ATFallen) and the string arrangements by me. We recorded strings at Dark Horse Recording in Nashville (Franklin). Mark uses SSDs exclusively.

I may post some of his harder stuff too...

http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/I_Belong.mp3

http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/Rebirth.mp3
(make sure you make it to the end of this one- glorious)

These two are my songs with the Dark Horse strings and SSDs:

http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/Saving_Sarah.mp3

http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing...ern_Lights.mp3

BigJunk · 26th September 2008, 12:03 AM

holy smokes!

these tunes and mixes are crazy good. please spill the beans about which of the Slate kits were used. It kinda sounds like on the first one, you are using the snare hards as the top velocity, so no rimshots? Whatever you did, it really fits well in the mix.

I've been programming 100% with Slate 2.0 and the first thing I get asked about my mixes is "where did you do your drums?". I use both the Z4 room samples and then I send the whole kit to Altiverb with a small room sample and no one can tell that it is sampled drums. SSDs and my Blue Skys are my two best studio investments EVER.

Steven is there a release date for 2.5? I couldn't find one on your site.

Junk

VitaEtMusica · 26th September 2008, 06:52 AM

Thanks, Junk. On my two tunes I'm pretty sure they'd both be kick10- my preferred kick. I'd have to check on the snares- most likely a combination of two SSD snares. I don't know which pieces Mark uses- he has a custom SSD kit he made that he uses on most of his stuff.

VitaEtMusica · 26th September 2008, 06:55 AM

So, I don't have the guts to start a new SSD V2.5 thread, nor do I think it's my place... so if it's alright I'll start to shed some 2.5 love on this thread.

This is:

New Snare 7, New GreenKick, and the new Paiste 16 and 18 inch cymbals.

I'm riding the NRG room fader about every 4 bars so you can hear it normal, then loud, then quiet, then normal again.

The NRG room is glorious. It adds so much depth without getting messy. Very, very inspiring. Also the hats and snare play much better velocity-wise; they're much more natural to play. A quick ditty:

http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/NRGFader.mp3

I should add that this is the kit coming out of kontakt without further processing besides the brickwall limiter on the master buss.

More to come...

Animus · 26th September 2008, 04:09 PM

those new tracks sound fantastic Vita. Can't wait to get my hands on 2.5!

Chris · 26th September 2008, 04:23 PM

Man do I need to buy this set.

Hope209 · 26th September 2008, 05:43 PM

Vita, are those songs for bands or commercials? 'cause "Northern Lights" has commercial success all over it--nice! what are you using for piano BTW if you dont mind me asking?

VitaEtMusica · 26th September 2008, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hope209

Vita, are those songs for bands or commercials? 'cause "Northern Lights" has commercial success all over it--nice! what are you using for piano BTW if you dont mind me asking?

Thanks, the songs are part of a new production music library that I'm creating. For use in commercials, trailers, promos, tv/film programming, etc.

The piano is NI Akoustik Piano through a UAD 1176. I believe it's the upright.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Animus

those new tracks sound fantastic Vita. Can't wait to get my hands on 2.5!

Thanks, I'm pretty confident you'll love it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris

Man do I need to buy this set.

Seriously. I don't work for SSD, but I certainly recommend them to everyone who wants real deal drum sounds in their productions. Also, everyone who's ordered SSD V2.0/2.1 since August 1st, 2008 gets a free upgrade to V2.5... so, maybe now's the time since there's nothing to gain by waiting.

I'll put up more stuff as I get time.

Scott

VitaEtMusica · 26th September 2008, 08:12 PM

Here are two examples utilizing the Funky Midi file I put in the MIDI section of the SSD Forum Steven Slate Drums • View topic - Funkalicious and Versatile . One is the NRG Room, one is the Slate Room. They go in 2 bar sections. 2 no room, 2 room at -6db, 2 room at 0db, and 2 room at +6db. These are automated moves on the room faders in Cubase. The NRG Room samples have no processing by Steven- they have been left raw without compression or eq. The Slate Room samples are processed by Steven. The following examples come out of Kontakt without any tweaking or anything on the master buss:

http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/NRGSlowFunk.mp3
http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/SlateSlowFunk.mp3

YellowMatter · 1st October 2008, 01:55 AM

sounds great! we'll have a lot of live video from AES showing off the new software as well. The NRG room rooooooocks!!!

zeljkom · 1st October 2008, 09:51 AM

Oh come on. Give it to us already!!!!

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20th June 2008, 10:17 AM	#1291
YellowMatter Gear maniac Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 198	We've got a ton of new demos (will be on website soon) showing off a few of our unique 36 drumkits... keep in mind all ambiences can be tweaked and customized: all done stereo out in Kontakt, no eq or compression added: Rock Beat 1 Radio Hit Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/RadioHitKit1.mp3 Greenday Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/Green.mp3 The 70s Classic Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/70sClassic.mp3 Rock Beat 2 Deep Rock Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/DeepRock.mp3 Red Hot Chili Peppers Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/ChiliKit.mp3 Rock Beat 3 Chunky Rock Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/ChunkyRockKit.mp3 Beefy Dry Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/BeefyDryKit.mp3 Meat and Potatos Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/MeatAndPotatoesKit.mp3 Shimmery Rock Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/ShimmeryRockKit.mp3 Ringy Radio Rock Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/RingyRadioRock.mp3 Rock Beat 4 Perfect Rock Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/PerfectRock.mp3 Dry Fatty Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/DryFattyKit.mp3 Crisp Rock Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/CrispRockKit.mp3 Deftones Kit "Tonedef" www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/ToneDef.mp3 Vintage Fatty Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/VintageFattyKit.mp3 Dynamic Rock Beat Deep Rock www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/DeepRockDynamic2.mp3 Nirvana www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/NirvanaDynamic.mp3 Vintage Dry Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/VintageDryDynamic.mp3 Heavy Metal Beat Pantera Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/PantyKit.mp3 Cracky Metal Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/CrackyMetalKit.mp3 Metallica Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/BlackKit.mp3 Tonedef Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/ToneDefMetal.mp3 Angry Hard Rock Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/AngryHardRockKit.mp3 Dry Metal Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/DryMetalKit.mp3 Metal Dream Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/MetalDream.mp3 Dream Theater Kit www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/DreamKit.mp3 BFD2 Compatibility, Standalone Version, NRG Recording Studio A Room samples, full Vdrum support coming SOON! Hope you like what you hear! Marty Yellow Matter Entertainment __________________ www.stevenslatedrums.com

26th July 2008, 12:14 AM	#1292
Bang Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,247	Just checking in with some updates on the upcoming 2.5 update which will introduce a Standalone VSTi version, a BFD2 version, a Vdrums and eDrum version, NRG Recording room samples, and improved Midi performance. Also more velocites, more hits, same fat and punchy and 3D drums, same variety of 36 drumkits, and same great taste. Check out the enhancements with two demos of the DEFTONES kit as played on VDrums by drummer and midi programmer Dan Kirk: www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/KirkTone1.mp3 check out the snare action: www.stevenslatedrums.com/demo3/KirkTone2.mp3 all kits will also have the raw and natrual NRG room A samples too __________________ Steven Slate Hear drum samples used by today's top mixers and used on tons of top billboard hits at: www.stevenslatedrums.com 2.0 SIGNATURE DRUMKITS NOW SHIPPING!! DRUMS MODELED AFTER YOUR FAVORITE ALBUMS! www.slatestudios.com save america: www.ronpaul2008.com

26th July 2008, 12:32 AM	#1293
Jake 2.0 Gear addict Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Jersey Posts: 371	Rocking! __________________ http://www.Jantelis.com http://www.Myspace.com/Jantelis http://www.Myspace.com/Drumtrix http://www.Youtube.com/Jantelis http://www.Jantelis.Buzznet.com Best Drum Sample Library. http://www.stevenslatedrums.com

30th July 2008, 06:23 PM	#1294
Bang Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,247	thanks Jake. Our new 2.5 update will be HUGE, we'd call it 3.0 but we've already made the boxes It will include all new room samples from the famous NRG RECORDING room A, one of the very best drum rooms I've ever heard. It will be unprocessed so you can compress and eq to your liking, a great compliment to the PREPROCESSED room sounds that ship with the current collection. The standalone version will also have some of the very best plug and play VDrums presets for all current Roland VDrum products (from TD3 to pro TD20) as well as presets for other eDrum systems. There will also now be a standalone VSTi RTAS plugin that ships with the collection with custom graphics and features catered towards the unique Steven Slate Drums system. However, BFD users will be happy to hear that we will ALSO have a BFD2 expansion pack with the same great features and two room sounds, but with the ability to use the drums in the amazing BFD2 environment that FXPansion has so carefully crafted over the years. Whats more is the each midi system (standalone or BFD2) will include Drumagog GOG files and raw wav files to use for drum replacement. There will also be a new Paiste cymbal pack to add to the already hefty Zildian/Sabian pack, with ultra detailed hi hats that play and sound like none you've heard yet. More demos coming soon. But eDrummers, midi programmers, and anyone who loves amazing sounding drums, start getting excited. __________________ Steven Slate Hear drum samples used by today's top mixers and used on tons of top billboard hits at: www.stevenslatedrums.com 2.0 SIGNATURE DRUMKITS NOW SHIPPING!! DRUMS MODELED AFTER YOUR FAVORITE ALBUMS! www.slatestudios.com save america: www.ronpaul2008.com

30th July 2008, 07:13 PM	#1295
Purusha Gear addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Slovenia Posts: 335	Hey Steven, really nice work you are doing One question, how do I use the samples from 2.0 in Contact? __________________ Best regards, Purusha

30th July 2008, 07:23 PM	#1296
Animus Lives for gear Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Durham, NC USA Posts: 1,585	Can't wait!

1st August 2008, 05:32 PM	#1297
Bang Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,247	Purusha, once you get 2.0, there are presets drumkits that will work flawlessly in Kontakt 2 or 3. We are quite excited about the new updates... MORE DEMOS SOON. __________________ Steven Slate Hear drum samples used by today's top mixers and used on tons of top billboard hits at: www.stevenslatedrums.com 2.0 SIGNATURE DRUMKITS NOW SHIPPING!! DRUMS MODELED AFTER YOUR FAVORITE ALBUMS! www.slatestudios.com save america: www.ronpaul2008.com

2nd August 2008, 02:18 AM	#1298
GPl Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ottawa Posts: 1,289	Wow, this is gearing up to be quite the release. Can us old farts pre-order? __________________ Michael Scott --------------------------------------------- "Two degrees in bebop, a PHD in swing, he's the master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king" -Lowell George-

6th September 2008, 12:15 AM	#1299
Jake 2.0 Gear addict Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Jersey Posts: 371	2 rock mixes with some slate samples helping out the natrual drums Click Here for player rock/pop band 2 songs are in the player, check it out and let me know what you think these songs are completed and mastered by the wonderful brad brad blackwood (highly recommend him for mastering. (mixed,produced,engineered by me) i blended ... kick 1, maple toms and birch blended, snare 10 Z2 and 8 z2 rooms blended in with my snare and my triggers of the drum set. they were a great help as my room is pretty dead and i wanted some natural reverb and added balls on the drums. as always steven slate helps out my dead drum room! with his wonderful samples, btw bro congrats on getting picked by sweetwater i caught your product in thier huge mag. thanks for putting out a killer product i highly recommend it to everyone i know and yes i actually use them! they arent just another folder to look at on my computer any questions feel free to leave a reply and i will do my best to answer, thanks guys! J- __________________ http://www.Jantelis.com http://www.Myspace.com/Jantelis http://www.Myspace.com/Drumtrix http://www.Youtube.com/Jantelis http://www.Jantelis.Buzznet.com Best Drum Sample Library. http://www.stevenslatedrums.com

9th September 2008, 05:30 PM	#1300
ryangeller Gear nut Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: nyc Posts: 124	just loading in SSD, and although I see all of the samples in my folder in the finder, drumagog isn't recognizing about half of them. I took the contents of V1 and V2 and combined them in a folder called SSD Snares (for example)... is it possible that Drumagog can't see files if there are too many in the folder? I've restarted Logic and the computer, have copied the files from the DVDs 3 times, and have reassigned my gog folder... Any ideas?

9th September 2008, 07:57 PM	#1301
Bang Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,247	Drumagoag doesn't like all those files in one folder. You gotta just put the SSD GOG folders in the GOG FILES just as they are... in the various KICK, SNARE, and TOM folders. Then you'll be all set. Everyone who has ordered SSD 2.0 as of August 1st gets a free upgrade to the amazing SSD 2.5 NRG EDITION... new additions to 2.5: -raw NRG RECORDING room samples from one of the very best drum rooms in the world -new Paiste Cymbal pack, featuring some of the very best samples cymbals (all cymbals recorded to 2inch) -new standalone Midi Player with tons of features and easy tweaking -OPTIONAL BFD2 expansion pack (instead of standalone player) -the very best VDrum and EDrum support -new midi grooves played by top drummers -new STEELY DAN modeled signature kit -three new ELITE snares and kicks -more stuff coming! __________________ Steven Slate Hear drum samples used by today's top mixers and used on tons of top billboard hits at: www.stevenslatedrums.com 2.0 SIGNATURE DRUMKITS NOW SHIPPING!! DRUMS MODELED AFTER YOUR FAVORITE ALBUMS! www.slatestudios.com save america: www.ronpaul2008.com

9th September 2008, 08:10 PM	#1302
ryangeller Gear nut Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: nyc Posts: 124	thanks-- will try that way

9th September 2008, 08:27 PM	#1304
cww2 Gear addict Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 389	Sounds great Bang - Did you abandon your drumagog tutorial? I can't seem to find any info about it on your site any longer. Keep up the good work. Chase

11th September 2008, 08:12 PM	#1305
Animus Lives for gear Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Durham, NC USA Posts: 1,585	Can't wait!

22nd September 2008, 01:08 AM	#1306
jacko Gear addict Join Date: May 2004 Location: London, Islington Posts: 353	I'm still waiting for RATM samples! :) __________________ www.milaszewski.com www.chimpstudio.com http://www.myspace.com/jacekmilaszewski

22nd September 2008, 05:38 PM	#1307
Bang Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,247	2.5 will have a snare called the SLATE snare (yes I named it after myself.. sue me)... its very RATM.... (rage against the machine).. __________________ Steven Slate Hear drum samples used by today's top mixers and used on tons of top billboard hits at: www.stevenslatedrums.com 2.0 SIGNATURE DRUMKITS NOW SHIPPING!! DRUMS MODELED AFTER YOUR FAVORITE ALBUMS! www.slatestudios.com save america: www.ronpaul2008.com

23rd September 2008, 08:25 PM	#1309
VitaEtMusica Gear maniac Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Utah Posts: 159	Seeing as SSD 2.5 is right around the corner (Second week of October?), I figured we should get pumped up about this release. It will probably warrant a new thread so we'll have to bid a fond farewell to this one. I'll get some samples up as soon I get my hands on the new stuff. In the meantime, here a few tunes finished this week with SSD v2.0. The first two songs are written by Mark Moore (ATFallen) and the string arrangements by me. We recorded strings at Dark Horse Recording in Nashville (Franklin). Mark uses SSDs exclusively. I may post some of his harder stuff too... http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/I_Belong.mp3 http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/Rebirth.mp3 (make sure you make it to the end of this one- glorious) These two are my songs with the Dark Horse strings and SSDs: http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/Saving_Sarah.mp3 http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing...ern_Lights.mp3

26th September 2008, 12:03 AM	#1310
BigJunk Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 211	holy smokes! these tunes and mixes are crazy good. please spill the beans about which of the Slate kits were used. It kinda sounds like on the first one, you are using the snare hards as the top velocity, so no rimshots? Whatever you did, it really fits well in the mix. I've been programming 100% with Slate 2.0 and the first thing I get asked about my mixes is "where did you do your drums?". I use both the Z4 room samples and then I send the whole kit to Altiverb with a small room sample and no one can tell that it is sampled drums. SSDs and my Blue Skys are my two best studio investments EVER. Steven is there a release date for 2.5? I couldn't find one on your site. Junk

26th September 2008, 06:52 AM	#1311
VitaEtMusica Gear maniac Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Utah Posts: 159	Thanks, Junk. On my two tunes I'm pretty sure they'd both be kick10- my preferred kick. I'd have to check on the snares- most likely a combination of two SSD snares. I don't know which pieces Mark uses- he has a custom SSD kit he made that he uses on most of his stuff.

26th September 2008, 06:55 AM	#1312
VitaEtMusica Gear maniac Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Utah Posts: 159	So, I don't have the guts to start a new SSD V2.5 thread, nor do I think it's my place... so if it's alright I'll start to shed some 2.5 love on this thread. This is: New Snare 7, New GreenKick, and the new Paiste 16 and 18 inch cymbals. I'm riding the NRG room fader about every 4 bars so you can hear it normal, then loud, then quiet, then normal again. The NRG room is glorious. It adds so much depth without getting messy. Very, very inspiring. Also the hats and snare play much better velocity-wise; they're much more natural to play. A quick ditty: http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/NRGFader.mp3 I should add that this is the kit coming out of kontakt without further processing besides the brickwall limiter on the master buss. More to come...

26th September 2008, 04:09 PM	#1313
Animus Lives for gear Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Durham, NC USA Posts: 1,585	those new tracks sound fantastic Vita. Can't wait to get my hands on 2.5!

26th September 2008, 04:23 PM	#1314
Chris Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Kent, WA Posts: 1,328	Man do I need to buy this set.

26th September 2008, 05:43 PM	#1315
Hope209 Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 592	Vita, are those songs for bands or commercials? 'cause "Northern Lights" has commercial success all over it--nice! what are you using for piano BTW if you dont mind me asking?

26th September 2008, 08:12 PM	#1317
VitaEtMusica Gear maniac Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Utah Posts: 159	Here are two examples utilizing the Funky Midi file I put in the MIDI section of the SSD Forum Steven Slate Drums • View topic - Funkalicious and Versatile . One is the NRG Room, one is the Slate Room. They go in 2 bar sections. 2 no room, 2 room at -6db, 2 room at 0db, and 2 room at +6db. These are automated moves on the room faders in Cubase. The NRG Room samples have no processing by Steven- they have been left raw without compression or eq. The Slate Room samples are processed by Steven. The following examples come out of Kontakt without any tweaking or anything on the master buss: http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/NRGSlowFunk.mp3 http://www.vitaetmusica.com/outgoing/SlateSlowFunk.mp3

1st October 2008, 01:55 AM	#1318
YellowMatter Gear maniac Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 198	sounds great! we'll have a lot of live video from AES showing off the new software as well. The NRG room rooooooocks!!! __________________ www.stevenslatedrums.com

1st October 2008, 09:51 AM	#1319
zeljkom Gear maniac Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Europe... Posts: 223	Oh come on. Give it to us already!!!!