Drum machines/VST's

[Gandy]

any of the pros have a favourite? Im leaning toward NI's ABBEY ROAD | MODERN DRUMMER (http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... n-drummer/), have been really happy with Massive so im thinking they are probably on point with their drum VST?

as a follow on from my beginner post, the very basic/standard drum vst's i have been using are a little lacking, i dont mind saving up a bit of coin to drop some cash on a decent drum plugin that i wont need to replace

once again, cheers!

also hardware wise, should i be looking at adding a drum pad? i can fire up fl studio mobile as it has some basic drum pad functionality but its not very flexible, again, what do you pros use?

[ChevChelios]

I just use Ableton's drum rack, has everything I need. Something close to that would be NI's battery.

What are you after functionality wise?

[Gandy]

i dont need it to be anything over the top at the moment, i dont have any percussion experience, just the ones that come with FL studio are pretty basic.

probably just after a kit that has all the drum set would have in real life, maybe bundled with some samples/loops etc for idea's

[russell]

izotope's idrum.

comes with preset kits and of course you can save your own.

easy to use which makes it pretty quick to throw some patterns together.

this is the only drum vst i've used. Other than that I use abletons built in sounds.

check this...

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/the ... day-410653

[Gandy]

Cheers mate will check out tonight

[GREMM1S]

Ive always used actual samples for my percussion?

[Gandy]

Ive always used actual samples for my percussion?

I'm more into writing my own that way I can do what I want creativeness wise, also more flexibility

[wrxfiend]

Ive always used actual samples for my percussion?

I'm more into writing my own that way I can do what I want creativeness wise, also more flexibility

I think he means actual samples of each drum ie snare, kick etc

this is what i do too

Have never tried a drum vst, although my NI Maschine does come with quite a few

[overit]

NI battery always worked for me.

Although since ableton suite I use drum rack more.

Either works on a matrix arrangement visually so you can see all your sounds/samples and set individual envelopes etc then assign any pad or midi control to trigger that sample.

I dont do much since I had to sell my MPC2000 though

[wrxfiend]

I dont do much since I had to sell my MPC2000 though

that must have been a sad day!

[GREMM1S]

Ive always used actual samples for my percussion?

I'm more into writing my own that way I can do what I want creativeness wise, also more flexibility

I think he means actual samples of each drum ie snare, kick etc

this is what i do too

Have never tried a drum vst, although my NI Maschine does come with quite a few

Yeah exactly individual kick, snare, hi hat samples, plenty of quality in vengeance packs.

[Gandy]

just a quick update, went and checked out vengeance packs and they are boss. When internet kicks over on the 22nd ill be grabbing the essential dubstep vol.1 pack

here is there official demo for anyone interested

http://soundcloud.com/refxaudio/vengeance-samplepack-dubstep-1

[GREMM1S]

Yeah vengeance is boss, from memory you use Massive right? They have sick preset packs as well.

[Gandy]

yeah i use massive too, will have to check the presets out as well

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