Sid’s Reviews

  • Beautiful!

    This kit is so realistic, Close your eyes, and you think you are listening to a live drummer (with a good MIDI track). Great feel.

    My only issues are:
    1.the kick feels about 3% off center to the left (if you are looking for a kick right down the middle).
    2. the lower velocities are nearly inaudible (I'm considering normalizing the samples).
    3. some of the sample mapping is incorrect.
    4. it is mapped one octave above most drum sample packs

    5. the HiHat does not choke. To fix this, in the code where the hihat group is, change:
    group
    to
    group tags="hihat" silencedByTags="hihat" silencingMode="fast"

    The Superstar18 October 2024

  • Nice!

    I really never expected this to sound so beautiful. Right out of the box the DS version sounds like a Sci-Fi choir. Really nice! You will need 1.5.24 version of DS or later for some of the features.

    Spinning Pool Pump Hose25 August 2022

  • Nice Sounding Kit

    Works for the Garage rock, Indie, Shoegaze stuff I'm writing at the moment. As is often the case, the mapping doesn't match any of the other kits I have, so I may eventually dig in to remap it.

    Garage Sale Kit07 February 2024

  • Sound's great!

    The samples sound perfect. Dry drum samples are perfect since you can add whatever reverb you need to place the kit in the same room with the rest of the band. Since making the switch to DecentSampler, I'm a little spoiled about having a beautiful interface, but SFZ gets the job done. With a well written midi file, no-one will suspect it was samples and not a live drummer.

    Dry and Dirty Donut Stick20 November 2022

  • Creative Use of Decent Sampler

    I think most of us Pianobook users think of Decent Sampler as a light weight sample player. This instrument really shows how much functionality is built in for those with tenacity and creativity. Very useful both for the sounds and for the underlying code to study. Especially for anyone who feels they must turn to Kontakt to realize their vision. By the way, the instruction manual above is a must read.

    Drone Drone27 February 2022