Planning to expand my Drum Collection

[Garpocalypse]

Right now I am currently planning to pick up, or rather download, NI's Mashine. Can anyone tell me if they thought it was worth the 60 bucks? Are there any other libraries that I need to have? I only have Steven Slates Drums and Dimension Pro right now.

[Rozovian]

Do you want/need the hardware? If not, Battery (or the entire Komplete) might be a better option.

Depending on what exactly you wanna do with them, there's a range of other products, like those of Toontrack, XLN Audio, and FXpansion.

[Garpocalypse]

Thanks Roz, i'll be checking out your suggestions.

The only drums that I can use for non-rock mixes are what Dimension Pro can come up with. My impression of Dimension Pro's drums are not that great though it may just be that I'm using them incorrectly. More often than not I use parallel compression and right when I think that I get them sounding decent they get blasted on the forums. Though the OCR'ers might be referring to my crap patterns...

[zircon]

Where did you see Maschine for $60...?

[Charlie's Angel]

He might be talking about this: http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/powered-by-kontakt/maschine-drum-selection/

[LuIzA]

Right now I am currently planning to pick up, or rather download, NI's Mashine. Can anyone tell me if they thought it was worth the 60 bucks? Are there any other libraries that I need to have? I only have Steven Slates Drums and Dimension Pro right now.

Are you a SONAR user?

if so, you could try Session Drummer, it comes bundled with SONAR. it's not half bad for electronic drums, it has stuff like 909s and 808s, if that's what you're looking for.