![]() Mmmmm.not looking at it in front of me right now, but yeah, I'm 95% sure you can do a few different groupings in the SD mixer, just scroll to the right, and there's all kinds of additional bus/group channels.īecause of my SOP.I just keep the tracks all individual in SD and in the DAW. The trick to making it your own, is in the accents/fills and adjusting the groove to fit your song.rather than making the song just follow a canned groove.īy the time you do the third will start feeling pretty straightforward and you'll find yourself pulling off Neil Pert fills with ease. I mean.why program a typical 4/4 rock beat note-by-not when it's already been done for you, and you're not going to do it any differently anyway. ![]() ![]() There are like a gazillion ready-made MIDI grooves (you get a bunch with SD).so it's a lot easier to find the basic groove and then build on it. The simplest approach is to first find the tempo and basic Kick/Snare/Hat pattern to start things off, then based on your song arrangement, break it down to where the verses/choruses are, and adjust the groove as needed for those sections.then finally focus on adding in any accents/fills that support the arrangement. With the sequencer.you just need to hear the beats in your head, and then write them in.ĭon't try to get the whole groove from the start measure by measure. Definitely works better to have a drummer playing drums on your tracks! Even as a drummer who knows what to listen for groove-wise, they were pretty hard to get sounding decent. Ezdrummer midi note number kick snare Pc#Yeah I remember plonking out drumbeats on my Fantom with my BOSS BR1600 before I switched over to a PC based studio. Very specific genre-wise (think Nickelback and their ilk.or the big hair bands like Motley Crue and what not) but just fun, huge sounding drums. I recently got the "Rock Solid" EZX and it's an absolute blast. The Roots double SDX is positioned sort of as the defacto Jazz SDX but I think it's very versatile, especially the brushes and mallets half if you do softer, acoustic stuff. Like I said, the Custom & Vintage SDX is my favorite. Since you have Vol 2, I would put nearly every SDX ahead of it if/when you want to expand them a bit.depending on your musical style. The Black Beauty is a lot better recorded in Vol 2 as well, to my untrained ear, Vol 3 it just sounds kind of flat. As are the rest of the snares for me (the Nir Z snare in the default SD library is one of my favorites, his prototype in Vol 3 is decent at best.on either tuning). The standouts for me personally in Vol 3 are the Burned Edge Zebra snare (very funky, earthy tone) and the cymbals. Ezdrummer midi note number kick snare series#I would sort of position it as a marriage between the Custom & Vintage SDX (my favorite and go-to for 90% of my music) and the New York series of SDXs. Vol 3 is very similar to both the standard Avatar SD soundset and Vol 2. Just a great tool to add to the production options and to keep things going when the drummers are out banging the singer's girlfriend instead of drums! If you are decent at doing the grooves, man, I doubt anyone could tell them apart from tracking drums live. ![]() The current crop of drum samplers is just so much better and makes things easier while sounding great. I remember doing MIDI sequence drums back in the early '90s.and it was OK for that time, being able to do stuff like that.but I couldn't stay with it for long, as the quality and feel were still crude, so I went back to just tracking drums myself. Yeah.I'm also liking the EZ/SD stuff a lot, and will probably add a few more packs from both samplers besides the few I already have. I have Vol 2, but was wondering if Vol 3 adds that much more to the sample choices, since Vol 3 was done at Avatar, which is the same place where the samples were done for the basic SD package, though I do see that different drums were used for Vol 3 compared to the initial recordings at Avatar. Do you have both the NY Legacy Vol 2 and Vol 3.?
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