Stylus RMX

[Smenelian]

Is this recommended for someone who likes to program their own drums? I understand there is some sort of 'kit mode', but I am unfamiliar with how it works.

[zircon]

If you're looking to sequence your own drums, no. It's basically a highly complex drum LOOP player with tons of effects, auto-variation, a massive, high-quality library with built in fills/variations/layers, editing features, and so on and so forth. Sure, it has menus of oneshot sounds, but you won't find 50-layer kick samples or auto-alternating L/R snares in it.

I do believe it to be nearly an essential plugin though. I use it ALL the time.

[Smenelian]

Well...that's slightly disappointing. It does look like an excellent plugin, but I've been looking for some high quality one-shots to add to my collection. Are there any sample sets that offer even remotely close to the variety RMX does but without the emphasis on loops?

[zircon]

Stylus RMX is extremely comprehensive. It has dirty hip hop stuff, acoustic stuff, breakbeat, strictly electronic, ethnic, filmscore, and so on. It's a swiss army knife, and very few collections match that kind of the versatility. The closest thing I can think of would be Drums Overkill;

http://www.bigfishaudio.com/4DCGI/detail.html?1352

[zylance]

Alternatively, you could go with Stormdrum, which has some desent drumkits (though mostly more ethnic drums) or NI Battery, which comes with a lot of nice samples.