Abbey Road and Native Instruments partnership

[Tringboy]

Originally Posted by Silver Sonya

Or '90s drums.
- c

You know what i would love it if they came out with some 90s Drums, BritPop sounding Oasis Blur kinda thing. Better yet Verve/radiohead

[Tringboy]

Originally Posted by everythinglouder

Does anyone know if putting the Abbey Road Drums library onto a solid state hard drive would improve the load times?

I'm a bit baffled as to why this library takes four minutes to load. Does it have a ton more samples than other virtual drum kits, or is it all the scripting that causes these exuberant load times?

If it's strictly based on the number of samples, then I reckon a SSD should greatly improve things.

Any thoughts?

I know 4 minutes is a nightmare. I think the kit is compressed and has to decompress it every time. SSD wound not change this.

[EddieTheRed]

I'd buy 80's drums! A nice Peter Gabriel/Phil Collins 'early 80's' kit and a big Bob Rock/Tommy Lee 'late 80's' kit? Yes please.

I'd go for some 90's Steve Albini drums or whatever too, but I'd be most excited by Abbey Road 2010 Drums.

Modern sounding kits like those in Superior, BFD, Ocean Way or Mixosaurus with the same superb recording and realism as the 60's and 70's kits.

The existing kits sound absolutely amazing, but I can't find much of a place for them in my modern rock, pop and metal recordings. Which is a real shame, IMHO!

They're great for certain kinds of acoustic stuff and indie, though.

[WindowSills]

According to the NI team's posts in their forum - there are plans to update the 60s drums with the mapping templates found in 70s. They said, in regards to the long loading times:

We are working on solutions to satisfy users who are experiencing these issues.

[n8tron]

Originally Posted by WindowSills

According to the NI team's posts in their forum - there are plans to update the 60s drums with the mapping templates found in 70s. They said, in regards to the long loading times:

that's fantastic

i use AD for all my demos and was wanting to replace a few with 60s drums to see how they sound. this would make it easy cheesy

[The Crow]

Originally Posted by Tringboy

Ok im too kind, this took me a few days, not all the parts are there im just doing the early 60s kick right now, but most of the other stuff is there. I was interested in using this to make a more modern indie sound.

I made my own custom kits too with eq but the mapping is changed for my Oxgen 8 so i haven't included those, anyone else have any separates like this do post them, im interested in EQ settings on the kick and snare hats.

Enjoy.

abbey road 60s.zip

Just downloaded the zip. Extremely useful - thanks thumbsup.

Did you finish the early 60's kick? Would love to have that one too.

[The Beatsmith]

I have BFD2 (which i basically don't use much...) and am thinking of getting the 60's drums as they sound great.

What does it mean that the drums 'support' bfd? Why would i bother using bfd plugin AND the 60's drums at the same time?

[grandaddy]

It just means that you can alter the MIDI mapping to match that of BFD2 or the others listed......If you have MIDI files you have created with BFD2, using the appropriate mapping they should play back correctly rather than the wrong notes being triggered.

[Bill Moriarty]

Hi all. I just bought the Abbey Road 60's samples and they're slowly downloading but something's wrong with NI's site and none of their emails showed up that have the link to download their necessary free Kontakt 4 player. Does anyone know the download link or somewhere else to download it? I've looked in my spam folder, tried several email addresses I have, and looked around the web for another download site... nothing.

thanks

[chrisso]

Seems to be nothing wrong from my location:
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : HOME | HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR MUSICIANS, PRODUCERS, DJS, GUITAR AND BASS PLAYERS

[Bill Moriarty]

Hy Chris,

Yeah I found that, clicked thru, submitted my email address and received no download link. Did you get emailed a download link from NI?

[The Beatsmith]

Originally Posted by grandaddy

It just means that you can alter the MIDI mapping to match that of BFD2 or the others listed......If you have MIDI files you have created with BFD2, using the appropriate mapping they should play back correctly rather than the wrong notes being triggered.

ah i see, so you can use the same midi sections but with the AR 60/70's drums. thank you!