Need a Good Drum Sample Library

Hello--

I'm a drummer and just bought a new midi drum contoller so I don't have to use loops any more.

Can anyone recommend a good rock drum library for kontakt 4? I don't want to spend over $100 US. I want to drums to sound current--not dated. More like alternative rock--Rise Against, etc.

Hey, thanks!

 

Studio Drummer is pretty sweet IMO. People like the Abbey Roads stuff too, especially the 60's kit. Outside of NI, man you gotta hear these kits right here: http://www.analoguedrums.com/products.php. Most kits under $30 and they sound sick!

 

Hey, thanks. I checked on analogue and they were all vintage sounding--whereas I'm looking for contemporary. I did go with EZDrummer after I looked around.

 

Ugh! I had to return EZDrummer as I record in 96 kHz and it took several minutes to load the samples everytime I made a change. Not to mention if you open the EZD interface, the host program would stop being able to play--had to reboot the computer.

Forget that. I am looking at Abbey Road and I see that it will play in the free version of kontakt 5 player, but does it have single shots if I want to use my midi drums as a controller? Do you know?

Thanks m8!

 

You should be able to get the individual samples out across the keyboard, I don't see why not. As for your load times, having enough RAM and a decent CPU as well as a drive running 7200rpm or better should be able to load up kits in a reasonable amount of time. Then again I never tried at as high sample rate as 96K. Unless I'm mistaken I think Abbey Roads and EZDrummer are both recorded at 44.1K 24 Bit. As most likely most drum samples in sample players.

 

I've got a quad core CPU, maxed out RAM and fast HDDs--I also have other sample libraries (including kontakt 4) that use samples recorded at 44.1 kHz and they don't take even half the time to load as EZD. I noticed on their forum after I bought it that a lot of users were complaining about that.

Regardless--it freezes my host--so it's all pretty academic anyway. I see there are YouTube vids on Abbey Road Modern Drummer--so I'm going to check those out regarding the mapping and midi triggering.

EZD was a fraction of the cost so I kind of deserve what I got. I am a pro songwriter so I can't deal with the low-end stuff if it doesn't perform.

Thanks again!

 

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Thank you. After returning EZ Drummer I ended up getting Abbey Road Modern Drummer.

 

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