The story
Hi everyone, Alessandro here. I’m a musician, drummer, teacher involved in many bands (past and present). I also work as a record/mix engineer and as a session drummer. The idea of capturing the sound of my instruments (drums and other gear) deals with a real need: I think that when you’re using drum samples (it’s not a common practice in my case but sometimes helps) would be better to use the same sounds as the instruments recorded. The Gretsch Catalina Ash is my go-to drumset cause its incredible versatility considering that it’s a very economic kit. I can guarantee it has a unique sound if you use the right skins and tune them correctly. So these are essentially my sounds, recorded in my studio.
In the preset you can find 3 knobs:
– mic (close mic)
– room (room mics)
– reverb
Wide variety of mics used for the recording: Takstar, Lewitt, Blue, Samson, Marantz.
Skins: Remo Emperor coated (batter on toms and Snare), Remo Ambassador clear (resonant side on toms), Remo Power Stroke 3 coated (kick, batter).
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What's there sounds great! But...
...where are the hihats?
There are most definitely hh-.wav and hh_.wav files in the samples folder, but they are not referenced in the .dspreset file.
Consequently, they don't work when played...
What's an easy fix for this?Thanks!
Fixed the hihats
Love the sound of this set and wrote code to put the hihats in. I uploaded the new code on my own profile. You're welcome to use that and delete my upload.
Sounds good! And has some potential!
This library has a nice sound with character!
What could be better:
- Hi-hats are not mapped to the keyboard:
The samples are there, but I don't know how to fix it myself. I hope there will be an update.- Velocity mapping is okay, but could be better. The softest layer needs more range, I think, for better playability.
- I would prefer fewer velocity layers but at least one additional round-robin layer. I would even make some velocity layers into round-robins where possible.
- there're no cymbals;
The room sound is very nice here but also quite unique, so it might be difficult to use cymbals from other libraries.- For me, it sounded better and deeper when room mics were delayed by 3ms. Maybe it's just me, or maybe the samples were aligned this way.
I'm saying all this only because this library is really good-sounding for such a small size and can be very useful. So thank you for your efforts! It would be great if you could update it with hi-hat mapping and maybe some round-robins.
