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I'm starting to experiment with NI Studio Drummer, now I've got a new more powerful computer because my old computer used to struggle with it.
I also dabble with Jamstix 3
MT Power Drum Kit 2 is a good free one.
This is the video that impressed me, sorry I couldn't get it to work in my first post for some reason.
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This was made by recording guitar played on a Blackstar Fly 3 in to Music Memos via the iPhone mic, then exporting to Garageband to massage the drummer settings (changing intensity, switching to toms, claps etc). Ever since I've been dreaming of building a Hackintosh (allowing export to Logic), because frankly Macs have been a bit crap for a while now.
The nice thing about that workflow is that the drums follow the guitar's tempo and rhythm which is a really pleasant way to work.
On the PC side I've not dabbled much of late but I like Addictive Drums...EZ Drummer etc are pretty similar.
I use jamstix, have been for years.
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Funny thing is though that I've got more into very simple rhythm ideas so in reality I've been using NI's Battery and some really old skool samples. Big fan of the Linn samples or anything from that era.
I use an e-kit via midi.
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I also have NI Battery 3, for which I created my own kit from various samples I'd blagged over the years. I tend not to use it for new compositions, but I keep it for re-visiting older ones. However, every time I run it, I am impressed by how good it sounds - which is probably just down to the quality of the raw samples that I used to create my basic kit.
My approach is to use Kontakt to play the NS Kit sample library. FL Studio lets me build patterns, with each pattern being just one drum or any combination of drums. I can then play the patterns in any useful combination.
I don't generally use drum loops - there are one or two I like, but more commonly I'll sequence each beat in a few patterns, possibly with hats and cymbals in separate patterns from the kick, snare and toms.
Sometimes loops can be a starting point, but it's good to get inside them to tweak and personalise them. Even 'Four on the floor' type beats can benefit from a bit of sonic massaging - anything adding velocity information to swapping sounds. It's good to mess around.
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