Software to create drums?

[sirchick]

Hey guys,

After recently discovering that the cost and annoyance of setting up drums to microphones and making them sound good started to annoy me to the point that i decided not to bother. So i wondered if any one knows any softwares that you can create drum loops etc?

I want quite a professional software more than an amature type thing. So could you give me a list of names for me to browse for to point me in the right direction on what im looking for, as i dont know the exact name of these types of programs. But i been told they do exist.

[Megalodon]

The most extensively sampled acoustic instrument & HALion & Kontakt compatible (if you want pro quality, this is it):
http://www.naturalstudio.co.uk/sampled.html

[TimOBrien]

http://www.tweakheadz.com/software_samplers.htm

[Bops2000]

I have good results with Acid Pro, (or use acid studio at $40.00 USD).
Add descreet drums, learn how to chop samples up, add some midi charts to your other synths, you be good to go. It is a bit of an excersizeto get it all exact, but hey, face it drummers ain't all that exact anyhoots.

[passerby3141]

Whatever you do, don't bother with Fruityloops if you want realistic sounding drums. It may be fine for other stuff, but it didn't make the grade for me personnally when I was going for a "real drums" sound. My girlfriend absolutely hated whatever I played for her when useing this program, and she has excelent taste (better than mine, really).

[dcwave]

BFD

http://www.fxpansion.com/product-bfd-main.php

[tmon]

If you have the proper host:

http://www.rayzoon.com/

[Mikesch]

Toontrack: Drumkit from Hell
http://www.toontrack.com/index_samples.shtml

FXpansion: Big Fxcking Drums
http://www.fxpansion.com/products.php

DFH - I'd go either with 'Superior' or 'Custom & Vintage' samples...or even both!

If you're not much for programming, you can always try their 'EZdrummer' library as well.

BFD - Just check their products and all their expansions.

I'd go with DFH personally.

[sirchick]

Woah this is alot of feedback :P hehe good :D *saves all links in favourites* :) ill get all of these programs lol see what i can make out of it :D

[Megalodon]

Whatever you do, don't bother with Fruityloops if you want realistic sounding drums. It may be fine for other stuff, but it didn't make the grade for me personnally when I was going for a "real drums" sound. My girlfriend absolutely hated whatever I played for her when useing this program, and she has excelent taste (better than mine, really).

That totally depends; if you use FL's soundfont player and load the ns_kit7.sf2 into it, you can sound great. And I mean GREAT.

[devares2001]

A megalondon what do you mean bu the ns_kit7.sf2 into the soundfont player on fruityloops. I wanted to know for the longest how to get my drums sounding deeper and crisp and extending with my 808 drums but they sound short and distorted a lil bit when I drop the note down past c! so tell me how can I add some punch and thump to my drums and snares that are crisp i do have some halion and steinberg drumkits too but my presets don't match my likes. so do you know any presets for drums that would help and how to know when the drums sound right.

[Megalodon]

A megalondon what do you mean bu the ns_kit7.sf2 into the soundfont player on fruityloops. I wanted to know for the longest how to get my drums sounding deeper and crisp and extending with my 808 drums but they sound short and distorted a lil bit when I drop the note down past c! so tell me how can I add some punch and thump to my drums and snares that are crisp i do have some halion and steinberg drumkits too but my presets don't match my likes. so do you know any presets for drums that would help and how to know when the drums sound right.

I'm talking about accoustic drums; I'm not into dance/trance/hiphop, etc, and I therefore have not much experience with these kind of drums.

.sf2 = soundfont (do a Google search if you want to know more about it)

There's a free soundfont version of that ns_kit7. If I'm correct, FL Studio/Fruityloops has a soundfont player builtin as a demo from version 4 or so. You can load the ns_kit7 soundfont into that. If you play that with a velocity sensitive keyboard, you can make it sound as realistic as you want; just like the real thing. But beware: the .sf2 version may be free, but you must ask for permission to use it professionally. So that's why I bought the full ns_kit7 drum library; then you don't need to ask permission to sell songs, wich is what I want to do.

To give more punch to drums, you can use mastering tools, like a compressor/limiter. I use Kjaerhus free plugins for that:
http://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/classic-series.php

I have to mention that I use Cubase these days, because I also want to be able to record my guitar. When I used Fruityloops, it was a sequencer only, wich is not what I want.


So it really all depends on what kind of music you want to create, and you adjust your tools to that purpose.