Abbey Road | 60s Drums -- love 'em!

I just wanted to congratulate and thank all those involved in this project. You all did a terrific job. I couldn't be more pleased with my purchase. Even though I record my own drums 98% of the time, there's no way I could get close to these unique, genuine, timeless, iconic sounds. Working with these drums is a true inspiration. I also appreciate the work done on the documentation. Thank you.

 

I also can't wait to buy them ( I'm broke for a few weeks) . Please anyone post a demo that you have done with these drums. The more the better

 

I bought 'em last night, but can't get the free Kontakt 4 free player to show up in Sonar 8.5! Every time I run the VSTadapter, it hangs up on the player and gives me an error message. Stand alone version works, and never asked me for my serial # ! I've installed Kontakt 4 player three times.
Why is this such a pain in the ass? I've installed tons of stuff in the past and NEVER had this happen!
$119 for two drum kits I can't run in Sonar? I'm pissed. I even had to pay $30 for an unzipping program because I got an error with Winzip! Never had THAT happen before.
I'd love to start using my new investment someday soon. I hear the sounds are great. It would be nice of NI to recognize and help me with the problem.

 

I am SERIOUSLY in love with them. I've used them every day since I've got them! Congratulations to the team for a fantastic set of kits!

 

Question for someone who has the Abbey Road / 60s Drums:

Are the individual wav files accessible or are they locked in a NKI / NKM file? (In other words, can you see the WAV files when looking at the sample directory outside of Kontakt?)

 

They are locked.

 

What a showstopper !. And here I thought I was sold on this lib.

 

I'm getting severe phase issues when shrinking the stereo image of the room channel, while keeping the OH channel in full stereo.
I will investigate further tomorrow but if i remember correctly, the room channel has phase issues even on it's own.

 

Hi JetAirliner,

I responded to your other thread on this issue here:

http://www.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?p=637199#post637199

-Paul

 

Thanks.

 

anyone know the difference between the "lite" kit and the "full" kit? what exactly is missing?


these drums sound fantastic btw.

 

Usually lite version utilize less samples. The intent is to have lower CPU usage when doing other DAW recording or just auditioning kits. You would use your full kit when doing a final render mix down. Or if you have ample RAM.

 

I'm just curious of the specifics on what is missing from the lite version. If its just lessvelocities across the board, or if it's the re-triggers that are missing, or what...

 

+1 for the great sounding drum lib!
BUT one little problem, i'm missing the samples from midi D#0 up to F#0 (High Crash Choke, Ride-Choke etc.). This is missing in the early 60 kit and in the late 60 kit .
Do you have the same problem?
Thanks Andreas

 

Anyone know which snare is which? they give a list of 4 snares (2 per kit) that you can switch between. I'm assuming that two ludwig 66' are the two in the late 60s and the other two are the early 60s, but which is snare 1 and which is snare 2? Can't find that in the manual...

 

A Choke Midi note is used to stop a specific sound
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According to the pictures:

Early kit
Snare 1: Ludwig Jazz Festival
Snare 2: Ludwig Mahagony

Late Kit
Snare 1: Ludwig Supra Phonic 400
Snare 2: Radio King

To any real drummer, please correct me if I am false

 

Where is the manual under Mac, please ?

 

Thanks. yes, you're absolutely right. NI-Support told me the same some days ago.

 

Hey guys, I just got these wonderful drums but I'm having a brain meltdown or something regarding routing. I want to take the individual kit pieces and assign them to individual Sonar tracks for compression/eq/etc... But all I get on the Abbey GUI "mixer" is Default, st.1 and NONE. I can add ouput channels in the K4 mixer but they don't show up in the Abbey mixer. How do I pipe the individual kit pieces out to Sonar? And does this have something to do with Abbey being and "instrument" and not a "multi"?

 

+ 1 !