Topic: Drums

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  • December 20, 2010 at 02:45 #2470
    Gino Cortesi
    Participant

    Just curious what others have done for drums.

    I set up a free multi-sample player (Shortcircuit – http://vemberaudio.se/shortcircuit.php) to play my existing drum samples per note. I made this into a template called “Drums” and I’m pretty happy with it.

    But I wonder if there is a better way because I’m new to Podium.

    Best regards,

    Gino

    December 20, 2010 at 05:40 #20091
    Infinitoar
    Participant

    For drums look up EZDrummer or Drumcore Free. I use Drumcore Free and haven’t used any other drum VST yet. And of course both drum VST’s are free. Maybe in the distant future I will buy Addictive Drums but that’s about it.

    December 22, 2010 at 04:50 #20105
    Levendis
    Participant

    Welcome Gino,

    Please refer to the Drum/Note Map editor instructions. The bottom of that page shows a picture of the dialog you’ll want to access (right-click the piano keys or note names to activate).

    This Note Map Editor allows you to import/export any set of user defined key ranges and note names. Make these your templates for drum instruments as an alternative to track or project templates.

    With Shortcircuit, customissations will be saved to the project file. Multi-samples or regions will reliably load, unless you relocate referenced wav files. This means there is little reason to reconfigure note maps for every instance of Shortcircuit (unless you prefer to label everything in your track).

    Shortcircuit is my favourite free sample player but don’t neglect Podium’s ability to drag and drop wav files directly onto tracks.

    Happy Sequencing 🙂

    December 22, 2010 at 20:58 #20108
    Gino Cortesi
    Participant

    Thanks for the advice guys 😉


    @levendis
    I am using the Drum Map interface, and I agree Shortcircuit is cool.

    I was looking through the WIKI to make sure I couldn’t assign a wav directly to drum note. Might be a nice addition to consider (like the Drum Rack in Synapse Orion)

    Best regards,

    Gino

    February 24, 2011 at 01:54 #20353
    Gino Cortesi
    Participant

    Just wanted to pass this along…

    I checked out Addictive Drums, BFD, and Ezdrummer, and while those are really awesome, they are also a pretty penny.

    I stumbled upon Cakewalk Session Drummer 2 for $10, and it works great with Podium as a VSTi.

    http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=10-CPHH1.00-20E

    The sound fonts are velocity sensitive, and it sounds amazing (esp for $10!).

    Check out this video to hear how it sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VpzlysXQzE

    Best regards,

    Gino

    February 24, 2011 at 17:42 #20356
    kyran
    Participant

    I have used most drum samplers, but now I actually just drag and drop my drums onto seperate tracks in podium.
    I then group these together and use that to submix.

    The audio controls you have on the samples are all I need: level control, fade in/out (effectively making an envelope)
    I like this visual approach, and it makes editing older projects very simple: I see what goes where in a split second (no need to figure out how I routed stuff).

    I make electronic beats and don’t do rock tunes, so I’m not programming a realistic beat out of single hits. If I want a very realistic kit, I’ll just load one in kontakt.

    February 25, 2011 at 03:58 #20360
    pbattersby
    Participant

    I’ve used both of these for my drums:

    VSTi: GTG DPC 3

    Soundfont: FluidR3 GM

    March 11, 2011 at 20:03 #20438
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    I previously used Poise (advertisement: for which I made some skins ;)) with lots of free samples, but now I use Addictive Drums exclusively – especially the jazz kit expansion, as well as the electronic kits (yes, a sampled 909 is good enough for me 😛 ).

    March 14, 2011 at 09:35 #20467
    kyran
    Participant

    @thcilnnahoj wrote:

    I previously used Poise (advertisement: for which I made some skins ;)) with lots of free samples, but now I use Addictive Drums exclusively – especially the jazz kit expansion, as well as the electronic kits (yes, a sampled 909 is good enough for me 😛 ).

    From some of the videos you made, I remember I liked your drumsounds. Do you use effects (bitcrusher, saturator?) built in AD to get that crunchy sound or external?

    March 16, 2011 at 18:17 #20472
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    Gee, thanks. 😳 From what I remember, it’s just some gentle distortion (mda Overdrive) and sample rate reduction (tbt SampleReducer) applied to the whole kit. Otherwise I’ve sticked to using AD’s built-in channel strips so far.

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