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    Drumming in a remix?

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Mainly I use a MIDI keyboard to trigger the drum sounds from a VST within Cubase. It works pretty well if I do say so myself.

    It may not be as cool as recording the drums live, or even recording on an electronic drumkit, but playing the drums on a keyboard does give them a little bit of added flair and realism. I suggest you go that route rather than just clicking them in, I was without a keyboard for a while and believe me, being forced to click in each hit is a royal pain in the ass (though I've become a bit of a pro at that as well).

    LAST CALL for NS_Kit 7 Commercial (Drumkits)

    in Music Composition & Production

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    DFHS, DFHC&V and NSKit all have brush sweeps and everything else you could possibly need. I don't know about NSKit, but when you select "Brushes" as your drumsticks in DFHS, the entire kit you chose is loaded with brushed samples, snare, toms, hihat, ride and cymbals. Though you have to pick a set that actually has brushed samples (not all 20 snares have brushed samples).

    Also, if you want something truly different, look into Scarbee Imperial Drums. There's some really innovative programming in that library that integrates the modulation wheel to change positions of the player hand on the drums and all that.

    LAST CALL for NS_Kit 7 Commercial (Drumkits)

    in Music Composition & Production

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    I haven't owned either (yet) of course I'm getting ns_kit7 by October 20th hopefully. What I can do is post a review made by someone who has used many sample libraries. One thing I personally could probably tell you is that there's not a library that can compete with ns_kit7 congas. It sounds amazing in the demos.

    You should check it out and even buy it, it's for download for like 12GBP, but free for ns_kit7 owners: [link]

    here's the review: [link] The review mentions DFH.

    Oh, okay. So mikews99 knows more about professional sounding drums than the professionals do. You win!

    Think logically, NSkit is the same as DFHS, except, it's already mixed and someone use their own effecs on it. If I want an NSkit style library, I'll make my own using DFHS.

    LAST CALL for NS_Kit 7 Commercial (Drumkits)

    in Music Composition & Production

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    As far as samples go, NSKit has great sounding ones. But what I don't like is how the ambiance is all mixed in. I prefer DFHS because I can mix it however I want. NSkit is still a great product worth well over what they charge for it.

    If you want complete freedom of mixing the kit, get DFHS, if you want pre-mixed bleeding and ambience, go with NSKit.

    Also, DFHS comes with brushed hits, mallets, rods, three different drum beaters, snare wire on/off. And it comes with a complete hand percussion set, and a complete cocktail kit. There is nothing NSKit can do that DFHS can't do better, but it takes more work because DFHS is completely dry and completely unmixed.

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