how many drumkits do you have

Over the past two years i have gather up alot of them. I hate loading up a kit to only have alot of what i need and alot of what i dont need to only have to load up another kit and another kit. I now have created 5 super drum kits. All only having kick, snares, percussion sounds, no sugar or salt on the side. In my kits i have split up the 64 spaces (32 percussion sounds, 16 snares,16 kicks). Every kit uses the same percussion sounds but i have put a twiss on the snares and kicks so that they sound different from one another( alot of hard work). Im now making kits for stuff i need when i need it, like a kit called gunz. This kit has everything from gun shots i have collected from movies and the net to stuff blowing up and so on. Im starting to do this with all my kits,cause when i need something i now wha to go for. so over all i have about 10 kits of sounds but all are of a hight demand need, not just kits of alot of what you may use or not. How about yall.....

i cut up breakbeats so thats how i assemble my kit. i used to make big programs or have a ZIP full of drum sounds and match em to the sample. I also used mpceditor sometimes too.

this might not be the best way of doing things but i have records with one hit drum sounds, and i have a bunch of old school 45's with breaks on em. when i need drums i know right where my records are. then i sample, tweak, and that's it. it probably would be easier to chop em all up and put in one big program but im way too lazy to do all that.

I have about 500mb of drum sounds. I got them from records, here, and other sites. I have them all kitted up, but its still way to many kits to go through. I'm in the process of getting the best sound from each and using 2 mabey 3 drum kits at the most.

im startin to notice, that i can keep like 3 main kicks. Then just change up the snares, and sometimes hihats.....and obviously the patterns.

But I dont need a million kicks because i like them all the same-bangin!!!!!

SO ive been jsut getting lots of differant snares. ANd then also getting hihats that go with the snares. Mainly from vinyl, and some from this site! I like my hihats from the breakbeats on this site because they have that break feel to them. Then i can just find random snares and layer some kicks with the hihat sounds or whatever to get more of a break feel.

I like the sound of breaks the best......so sometimes chopping loops is a must, but i dont like the idea of someone recognizeing all those same sounds from the same loop. SO i try to mix and match.

I also never rule out anything. Sometimes that super bassy bangin kick, jsut wont work-and a weak ass kick that normally would suck on its own, works very well. So this is another reason i sometimes leave it up to the moment of the beat.

Some days ill go through and just make drum kits, and 1 or 2 patterns to go with them. then save them. LAter ill go to actually making the entire beat. But ill always have a few ready to go if i need.

also keep your kits organized in a consistant fashion. I.e. the snare always on pad a16, adn the kick always on a17. Or whatever.

Why? this way when you sequence your beats, you can have like 20 differant programed patterns. then just flip the kits and find a pattern that works with a kit.

SOmetimes drums sound differant with sequences meant for differant drums, and this can be good.

cyrus wrote:also keep your kits organized in a consistant fashion. I.e. the snare always on pad a16, adn the kick always on a17.

A17? Is that a Forat upgrade?

Definitely stick to a template for all your kits - be it GM or your own preferred layout - GM means you can interchange with sound module kits easily

couple of gigs..not all matched but shat loads...

greg

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Definitely stick to a template for all your kits - be it GM or your own preferred layout - GM means you can interchange with sound module kits easily

yeah i got the gm layout, but i got the kick where i want it, so for eg

from left to right
kick side stick, snare1, snare2, kick2, hat closed, pedal, open. but when i interchange, to a gm, module, it still plays the kit. took ages to do though
but enjoying the fruits of my labour.

A17? Is that a Forat upgrade?

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yeah that is great way to do things...unfortunatly my kits are sometimes too disparate....

greg

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A17? Is that a Forat upgrade?

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yeah it cost $15, plus shipping and handling......Its called the "battleship exb." LOL