nousentre Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 I'm looking for a website or someone who may be able to help me with getting REAL acoustic drum sounds. NOT ELECTRONIC MIXED!!! Real samples of a real acoustic snare, kick, cymbals, etc from a REAL acoustic drum kit. Any advice as to where I can obtain these without purchasing a real drum kit would be greatly appreciated. I know it may seem a little slack, but i'm just running short on time. The person that was going to help me get these drum sounds from his kit is unavailable right now. Thank you in advance for anyone who can help. Quote
noTuX Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 Check here: http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/sampled.html The ns7 kit is the best acoustic drumset I've found so far. Quote
MaliceX Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 That, and RuffRider and this other one, can't remember who sampled those. Otherwise, you should consider trying to sample your own drums with a good mic and a good room to record in. Quote
nousentre Posted February 18, 2007 Author Posted February 18, 2007 Like I said before, I had someone that had a drum kit but is unable to help me out right now. I need to have wav files (or mp3) of acoustic sounds. I tried Natural Studio, but they said it sounded like it wasn't real. Although I thought it sounded pretty good he thought the drums sounded kind of electronic made. I'm trying ruffrider now as we speak. Anybody else with any other advice? Perhaps own samples of their drum set maybe? Thanks to everyone who has replied so far! Quote
Souliarc Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 The Maestro Soundfont Series has pretty great sound quality, but apparently as I just found out, the main host for the soundfonts is unavailable due to bandwidth limitations. If you can find a mirror somewhere, great, but I do have some of them at home. I just personally don't know of any temporary hosting options. Check out JigginJonT's remix "Voices Broken" as he used them there. Many reviewers took them to be a real drummer (which is not just due to the great quality of the samples, but also the great sequencing on Jon's part). I can't remember what mics he used, but they were multisampled, and were not mixed in with electronic kits. Quote
suzumebachi Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 I have a decent variety of free acoustic drum kit samples, including the maestro set. If you want, I can host them somewheres for you. Quote
Fishy Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 I would very much appreciate that also. I have the ns kit and I love it, but it's not really appropriate for some heavier styles. Great for jazzy stuff though. Quote
nousentre Posted February 19, 2007 Author Posted February 19, 2007 The Maestro Soundfont Series has pretty great sound quality, . .. Now I'm afraid that I'm not an expert at Soundfonts, but usually don't you have to have a synthesiser or something with MIDI control? I'm using a program called Sequbeat for making my own loops. For that I have to use .wav files. BTW, wow to all the responses! Thanks to whomever moved this to another forum! I will proabably setup a server to allow people to upload the files to it. But in the meantime, please keep sending recommendations for acoustic drum samples!!! Quote
Souliarc Posted February 20, 2007 Posted February 20, 2007 You do have to have a program to load soundfonts, but you don't have to have a MIDI controller to play them. With Sequbeat, it looks like you're SOL for any sample format. Though... if you really wanted to load them you could use SAVIHost in conjunction with sfz (links). I use Savihost to mess around with Synth1 on my computer at work If you want extract samples from a soundfont, try Xtrakk (link). Quote
SnappleMan Posted February 21, 2007 Posted February 21, 2007 As far as free stuff goes, NSkit is your best bet as far as I know. It has a level of dynamics that's a complete necessity for REAL AUTISTIC drum sounds. If you're willing to spend money, the no.1 best choice is Drumkit From Hell Superior. Quote
Legion303 Posted March 15, 2007 Posted March 15, 2007 As far as free stuff goes, NSkit is your best bet as far as I know. It has a level of dynamics that's a complete necessity for REAL AUTISTIC drum sounds.If you're willing to spend money, the no.1 best choice is Drumkit From Hell Superior. Agreed on NSKit7. Best free kit hands down. On the other hand, I've found BFD to be far better than DFH at making drum lines sound real, at least in VST form (sequenced through FL Studio). -steve Quote
SnappleMan Posted March 15, 2007 Posted March 15, 2007 Agreed on NSKit7. Best free kit hands down. On the other hand, I've found BFD to be far better than DFH at making drum lines sound real, at least in VST form (sequenced through FL Studio).-steve Hah, no way. BFD is great, but nowhere near what DFHS is capable of. It's not as easy as BFD, but when you learn it properly, it's the BEST thing out there. Quote
MaliceX Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 http://www.xlnaudio.com/ XLN Addictive Drums. VERY good. (there's a demo there) Quote
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